Japan's tribute to China, a "tribute" makes people laugh, Japanese netizens: strange shame and great humiliation!
Many dynasties in ancient China developed economically, in the world called one of the four major civilizations of ancient countries, since it is a large empire, the surrounding small countries will take the initiative to pay tribute, there will be many vassal states, but there are fewer land, fewer people, the economy is not developed, not to mention, some of the vassal countries are barbarian land, there is no writing Only the boss's level has decent houses and clothes, many are similar to the wildlings, hungry to go out hunting, sleepy to find a place to sleep.
It can be said that in ancient times, in order to obtain advanced systems, the Japanese sent envoys to China many times to learn the civilization and etiquette of the Central Plains, and voluntarily became a vassal state of our country and regarded China as the suzerainty. For China, the rulers of our country have also adopted a policy of gentleness, in line with the principle of "thin and thick exchanges", giving a large number of rewards to the tribute, and its value far exceeds the tribute items paid by the tribute. In the past, ancient Japan was always willing to pay tribute to China, but after all, At that time, Japan was a small uncivilized country, and there were no rare treasures when goods were scarce. Later, in order to pay tribute to China, ancient Japan actually paid a special "tribute", which really embarrassed the Chinese rulers!
At this time, it was also a tribute brought to the eyes of Japan at that time: small dried fish and animal skins, seeing these is not too shabby, in fact, at that time, can not all blame them, at that time Japan was still a barbarian land, culture or something, this thing does not need to be said to learn, it is estimated that I have not heard of it, is unable to understand what the so-called "tribute" is what kind of concept.
However, at that time, Emperor Eguang Wu saw that they were very sincere and did not think too much about this matter. And at the same time, Emperor Guangwu of Han ordered people to create a gold seal engraved with the "Seal of the King of Han Wunu" and let the Accompanying Japanese emissaries bring it back to China, so that Japan became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. This gold seal has now been unearthed in Japan and is enshrined in Japan as the "Treasure of the Town".
For the first time, Japan learned that on the other side of the sea west of its own territory, there was a powerful empire called Han. Later, when Emperor Guangwu of Han guangwu arrived, Japan sent emissaries across the ocean and traveled thousands of miles to Luoyang to meet the emperor, just so that Han Tianzi could give his country a name.
This exchange can be said to be Japan's first tribute to China, because Japan also brought some gifts specially prepared by itself, but in the eyes of the Han Dynasty, it was some fish and animal skins that could not be more shabby. A vassal state paid tribute to the upper kingdom with such a simple so-called "gift", and the courtiers of the Han Dynasty could not help but laugh.
After that, Japan also paid tribute to things during the Three Kingdoms period, when it was in a state of warlord division, a queen named Beimihu wanted to find help from the Great Han, but at that time the Han Dynasty had been divided into three, and Beimihu chose the Wei State at that time, and gave Wei Guojin four men and six women and some cloth, we said that sending women was also counted, but what was this sending men for? It was a little confusing, but Emperor Wei saw the sincerity of Beimihu and still praised Himihu. And I used to give back a lot of things.
With the first experience, Japan sent 160 beautiful women to the emperor of the Han Dynasty for the second time, which made the emperor cry and laugh. In fact, the Japanese did not do less such things, and the tribute of the Japanese during the Three Kingdoms period was very strange, Japan was in the era of warlord division at that time, a queen named Beimihu, wanted to get the help of the imperial court, so she paid tribute to many beautiful women and men for the State of Wei!
Emperor Wei was also very surprised to see it, but When Emperor Wei saw the beautiful woman who had been sent by Beimi, he praised her greatly and gave her a rich gift. Emperor Wei's approach made them think that the Chinese emperor was very fond of beautiful women, and the subsequent tributes were all beautiful women. In order to get more valuable materials from China, this is also one of their purposes
By the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Uighur kingdom was no longer as shabby as before, and had also learned to learn various cultural knowledge from China, and finally got rid of its original pitiful appearance. After learning about these histories, many Japanese netizens sighed: "It turns out that our country was so poor", "Why did our country send women to China", "This is the national shame of our country!" ”