Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, with the development of navigation technology, Japan and China have carried out friendly exchanges and learned from China's advanced culture. Today, there are still many Han and Tang cultures in Japan. There are many Kanji in even Japanese. The Japanese are very courteous and courteous, which makes people feel that the Japanese are particularly friendly. Is this true?
In fact, in history we can know the answer. Japan is a very combative country. It would want to invade China whenever it had the chance, suggesting that the Japanese still had wolf ambitions. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Japan began to show its ambitions. Of course, because Japan and China are across the sea, Japan often uses Korea as a springboard to invade Korea first and then China.
In 663 AD, Japan attempted to invade the Tang allies in Korea and fought at sea with the Tang fleet, the Battle of Baekjeongkou. As a result, Japan lost four wars and was defeated by the Tang Dynasty. Japan saw the gap between the Tang Dynasty and its own military and admired China completely. Japan continued to send Tang envoys to China to study and submit to the Tang Dynasty. Even the name "Japan" was taken by the rulers of the Tang Dynasty. For hundreds of years, the Battle of Baijiangkou caused the Japanese to lose interest in China. But the ambition in my bones cannot be changed.
During the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan sent two expeditionary forces to conquer Japan. Thanks to two typhoons and improved Japanese weapons, Japan successfully defeated the Yuan Dynasty's army. Since then, Japan has no longer looked up to China, but wants to be equal with it. However, at that time, Japan invaded the Yuan Dynasty, so the two sides were in a state of peace.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Japan entered the Warring States period, and all kinds of samurai ronin and merchants were not bound. They began to harass and plunder China's coastal areas, causing great trouble for the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, the grandfather of the Ming Dynasty, wrote to Japan, asking the Japanese side to restrain samurai and merchants. But the Japanese ignored it, and these Japanese samurai found that The Chinese products were much better than their own countries, and many of them came to the coastal areas to commit adultery, but the Japanese government could not control these people.
In the 19th century, Japan's Meiji Restoration successfully absorbed advanced Western technology and became a powerful country. At that time, China was under the rule of the Qing Dynasty and closed to the outside world, which led to China's backwardness. Japan took the opportunity to launch the Sino-Japanese War and brutally slaughtered the Qing Dynasty to make itself stronger. However, this is not enough for Japan.
At the beginning of the 20th century, due to the change of dynasties and warlord wars, China's national strength could not be compared with Japan's. Japan launched a war of aggression against China in an attempt to invade China. Finally, with the help of China's tenacious struggle and allies, it successfully repelled Japan. Historically, why did Japan want to invade China at the first opportunity? In fact, Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty saw through all this. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to send troops to attack Japan, but was stopped by Liu Bowen. Liu Bowen explained to Zhu Yuanzhang that the poor people of Japan would come to China to harass them, and Japan was like a barefoot person who was not afraid to wear shoes, and liked to gamble with others.
Therefore, this is the reason why Japan has been invading China, Japan's land is barren, 85% is mountainous, and earthquakes are frequent, which fuels Japan's ambitions to invade other countries. In fact, Japan is like those gamblers. As long as they have capital, they want to fight, and if they win, they can get rich, and if they lose, they can run back, and no one looks at the Japanese land anyway.