China and Japan have deep historical ties, and rumors about Japan began as early as the Qin and Han dynasties. After the unification of the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang had further plans, that is, to explore the mysterious East.
I am full of interest in places such as PenglaiXian Island, and in addition to this, I am also eager to live forever.
So he ordered Xu Fu to take 500 virgin boys and 500 virgins to ask for immortals and medicine, and Xu Fu led the group to an island in the east.
Later stories must have been heard by everyone, Xu Fu did not bring back the immortal medicine, and Yin Zheng also carried out a "book burning pit Confucianism" in China, eliminating all these warlocks who deceived him.
These 500 boys and 500 virgins multiplied on the island, which is a legend about the origin of Japan.
The Central Plains Dynasty was renewed and iterated, and this small country in the East was also struggling to survive, they had no culture, no writing, and were extremely backward.
The Central Plains Dynasty, however, became the premier Tang Empire during the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, in addition to attachment, they also actively sent emissaries to study in order to change the predicament at home.
And Datang accepted them with a broad and open mind, so that they could learn from Datang and learn advanced culture and traditions.
Therefore, even today, Japan's pursuit of its origin and development in some customs and habits can still be found at a certain period in Chinese history.
Because they are remote and have long been dependent on the Central Plains Dynasty, for this country, most of the Chinese feudal dynasties choose to ignore it, as long as they do not make trouble, the tribute is not as much as feedback, it is remote, the cost of attack is too high, so it is also listed by Zhu Yuanzhang as a country without conquest.
However, Japan began with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and a unified Japan gradually had the idea of invading other countries. In the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese army had many wars with Korea, and Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Wu general in China's history, was also famous for resisting the Wokou.
The Qing Dynasty was China's last feudal dynasty, and although it once governed a "Kangqian prosperous era", it soon fell behind other countries due to the closed national policy.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty's rule, the Guangxu Emperor wanted to turn the tide and launched a campaign to change the law and become stronger, and the Penghu Reform Law only lasted during the day when cixi and other conservatives suppressed it, and the Guangxu Emperor was also put under house arrest.
The rule of the Qing Dynasty has become increasingly weak. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's national strength increased rapidly, and it became one of the most advanced countries in Asia.
There is a saying that the poor are more crazy than the rich when they have money, and the powerful Japan has the idea of conquering Asia and dominating the world.
The victory in the Sino-Japanese War made their confidence extremely inflated, and the aggression of the Great Qing Dynasty was already on the agenda.
After that, Japan began to encroach on the northeast region of our country, constantly creating friction on the border, and Russia at that time also wanted to do something in the northeast region, so the competition between Japan and Russia was also quite fierce.
Japan took advantage of Russia's inability to pull out of the European battlefield, and then after the September 18 Incident, it occupied the northeast region in one fell swoop.
After several years of development in the northeast region, on July 7, 1937, the Japanese army launched an attack on the Lugou Bridge on the grounds that a soldier was missing, and our 29th Army launched a desperate resistance.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, which places fell
This was obviously a long-planned war, and the Japanese army had vainly attempted to occupy our country within a few months, and it was arrogant to a certain extent.
Their initial offensive was indeed very fierce, and with their strong individual combat capabilities and advanced weapons, they occupied Beiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shandong, and Nanjing one after another after capturing the three northeastern provinces.
In particular, the occupation of Nanjing made their arrogance reach the extreme. Although the Battle of Changsha inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese army to a certain extent, it was still unable to resist the iron hooves of the Japanese army.
Even so, the enthusiasm of the Chinese military and people for the war of resistance is still high, even if it is the occupied area, the resistance has not stopped, with the increase of the area they occupied, coupled with the investment of a large number of troops in the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese army began to show fatigue, the War of Resistance Against Japan ushered in an inflection point, turned into a stalemate.
Until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1949, there were 8 provinces that had never been set foot by the Japanese army, namely Tibet, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and one called Xikang, which was later renamed and merged into Sichuan and Tibet.
Geographically, these areas belong to the western region and are remote. The Japanese army focused all its energy on the big cities along the coast of our country, and for these areas in the west, the priority was not as high as that of the coastal cities in the east.
In addition, these areas are sparsely populated, and they will pay a greater price to fight in this land. Naturally not high in terms of value for money.
Therefore, Japan's own land and resources have limited its development, our country is vast, although Japan occupies a large number of areas, but the resistance in the occupied areas has never stopped, so they have to stay in the rear to guard a large number of troops.
Coupled with their constant opening up of the battlefield, they eventually showed fatigue.