Now when you think of China, you think of a big country in the East. The word ancient China is actually an adjective, and it does not mean the abbreviation of a country. At that time, The meaning of China actually represented the central place, that is, the region in the center of a region. When our country was founded, we will find that what was announced at that time was the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the word China gradually became "
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The first time the People's Republic of China put it forward was in the 1940s, when our great leader put it forward in the "On New Democracy." Therefore, in the classical classics of ancient dynasties, China was not an official name. We now call our country ""
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In fact, it is like the Han Dynasty named its own country name at that time."
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Therefore, in the past, Han was our Chinese title. When we look at some of the more historical books, we will find that when We mention China, it is not about our country. China also did not gradually become a short name for the Republic of China until after the Xinhai Revolution. Later, the People's Republic of China was founded, and it was only then that China truly represented an abbreviation for our country today.
First, other countries are abbreviations, and the same is true of Japan
Although China is the abbreviation of our country, and we have indeed always referred to our country as China, we must not forget that the full name of our country is the People's Republic of China. Like our country, many other countries, we actually call it short names, rather than using those too long full names to call them. For example, the United States, in fact, its full name is the United States of America. The full name of the United Kingdom is actually the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So naturally we think of another country, what is its full name? This country is Japan.
It may be easy to think of Japan as the full name of the country, but that is not the case. In the pre-Tang Dynasty era, Japan's national name was actually called the Uighur Kingdom. The title of Wuguo was actually given to liu xiu, the guangwu emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time, because at that time Japan sent emissaries to China to request that the then emperor Liu Xiu seal their country.
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The meaning is to describe a person who is ugly, short and thin, but the Japanese emperor and the Japanese at that time did not know what this Chinese character meant, so they accepted the title.
Second, Japan has repeatedly wanted to change the name of the country, and finally Wu Zetian gave it
Later, during the Sui Dynasty, Japan sent a delegation to China to change the former Uighur kingdom into Japan. At that time, the Sui Emperor thought that Japan wanted to live with the title of Son of Heaven, so he did not accede to the request of Japan, which was still a Uighur state at that time. Later, when it came to the tang dynasty, the Japanese gradually learned about it."
The clear meaning of the word. Therefore, Japan sent a delegation to get Emperor Gaozong of Tang to give Japan a new name.
But in fact, it was not until the time of Wu Zetian that Japan was really given the name of Japan. Later, as Japan's power grew stronger, they called themselves the Empire of Great Japan. It was not until after the defeat in World War II that Japan really determined the title of its own country, named Japan.
Therefore, Japan is the full name of Japan, and this title is actually the shortest national name in the world today.
When this answer is said, don't believe it, think that "Japan" sounds quite strange and awkward. But in fact, that's it.
In the past, Japan wanted to take Japan as its national name, but in fact, it stemmed from their belief that Japan represented a place closer to the sun, which actually referred to the place where the sun rose. So they want to use this name as a place where they can bring hope and light to the world. But we know that when the Japanese army invaded China, although it represented their military strength, the light they brought was the light that made a country miserable, and this light was not allowed to exist in the world, and just like the sun will eventually set, the Japanese army will eventually fail.
In fact, we are a little confused that the japanese national land area is very small, but they dare to think of themselves as the place where the sun rises, which shows that they are actually very confident in their country. But on the other hand, we can see that the Japanese army and their residents actually have a very inferior psychology.
Because they call themselves the place where the sun rises, but they are constantly invading other countries and wanting to expand their own national land, which is actually a kind of dissatisfaction with their own country, and a subconscious fear that their country is actually very weak, so in history they are so eager to invade other countries.