Hello friends! Today, Xiaobian will talk to you about the story in the map of China. Hearing this, everyone may be a little confused, what story will there be in the map? In fact, the story that the editor wants to tell is about the difference between the map of China drawn by Westerners and the ones we have drawn ourselves, and it involves many ancient dynasties. Come and listen to the story carefully prepared by Xiaobian for everyone!
Speaking of Chinese culture, each of our Chinese is full of pride and pride, because it has a long history. Well, in fact, in different dynasties, the territory of our country is also different, which I believe everyone has learned in middle school. In fact, in the case of maps, the map of China drawn by Westerners is really not much different from the map of China drawn by ourselves! Specifically, where there is a discrepancy, and listen to the editor slowly.
After reading the data, I learned that in fact, Westerners began to describe our maps from the Shang Dynasty, because they believed that our Xia Dynasty only existed in the data records, and there was no actual thing to prove it, so they thought that it did not exist. The reason why they acknowledged the existence of the Shang Dynasty was also because there were bronzes, which made Xiaobian feel a little difficult to understand. Then, in the maps of the Shang Dynasty drawn by Westerners, they did not include some areas in the southwest and Jiangxi, which is different from the real Shang Dynasty.
Not only the Shang Dynasty, but also the map of the Han Dynasty. Although the map of the Han Dynasty they drew is relatively close to ours, it is also inappropriate that a small part of Vietnam and a small part of Xinjiang are not included. Because during the Han Dynasty, these two places were exchanged and communicated through war and Zhang Qian, respectively, and they were already included in the territory of our country.
After that, there is the Tang Dynasty, and the most important thing about the Territory of the Tang Dynasty they drew is that they did not distinguish the areas actually ruled by the Tang Dynasty. They mistakenly regarded those areas that were only subject to the Tang Dynasty as the actual areas of the Tang Dynasty, which was also wrong. In the Ming Dynasty, some areas were missed in the maps of Westerners. These are some of the northeast, northwest, and southwest. After consulting the historical data, I learned that in fact, Tibet in the southwest region was already in our territory as early as the Yuan Dynasty. As for the northeast and southwest regions, they were already under the rule of our country during the Ming Dynasty.
Finally, let's look at the Qing Dynasty, in the map of the Qing Dynasty, the Westerners did not include Sakhalin Island and Ladakh in our territory, but these two places belong to our territory.
Having said all this, everyone already knows a lot about the differences between China and the West on the map of China, right? After looking at the westerners and our own maps of the same period, we found that the gap is not generally large! In fact, Xiaobian feels that the communication between China and the West in ancient times was not as convenient as we are now, so it is understandable that there are certain discrepancies! Okay, that's all for today. We'll see you next time!