In 1981, a peasant woman in Jiangsu Province accidentally found a gold seal while working in the field and handed it over to the Nanjing Museum. After identification, the gold seal belongs to Liu Jing, the king of Guangling in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the book is written: Guangling Wang Seal.
The discovery of the Guangling Royal Seal did not cause much of a stir in China, because at that time, there were too many major archaeological discoveries in China, each of which was enough to cover up the light of the Guangling Royal Seal. However, in Japan, which is far away from the ocean, this gold seal has caused a great sensation -
The Guangling Royal Seal undoubtedly slapped a loud slap on the wrist for Japan, which had strong cultural self-confidence at that time. For Japanese historians, this slap is nothing less than two atomic bombs dropped by the United States in Japan. What is even more humiliating is that such a slap has been smoked for the third time in 200 years.
As the saying goes, there is only repetition, not repetition. Whenever certain Japanese scholars feel that they are economically "strong" and want to get rid of the dominance of ancient China in the East Asian cultural circles, "some" archaeological discoveries in the two countries always remind them that in ancient times, Japan was only a vassal state of China.
This matter must be returned to Japan 200 years ago.
In 1784, two Japanese farmers were working in the fields when they stumbled upon a gold seal with Chinese characters and handed it over to their landlord. The landlord, who was also a cultural man, was very confused when he saw the words on the gold seal, and sent it to the daimyo overnight and asked him to identify it.
After identification, the golden seal found by the two farmers reads: King Han Weinu.
The word wei nu means a slave, which translates to a low slave, and this word is obviously insulting. For a strong man, there is no need to take the initiative to "insult" a weak country. The golden seal was given to them only nominally to determine the clan relationship. This seal is clearly recorded in the Book of Han:
"In the second year of the Jianwu Dynasty, the Uighur Kingdom paid tribute to the pilgrimage, making people call themselves the Doctor, and the southern boundary of the Uighur Kingdom was also given the seal of the Guangwu Dynasty."
However, There is no record of japan, but why is this?
During the Tang Dynasty, the King of Japan sent envoys to Tang to request Tang Taizong to ban the "slave state" and adopt the name "Japan". At that time, the two countries had good relations, and Emperor Taizong considered himself to be the "Heavenly Khan", and all the people in the world were his subjects; if the subjects had this request, why could they not agree?
As a result, in the official exchanges between the two countries, the Slave State was gradually replaced by Japan.
Although Japan is divided, there is a surprising agreement between the various regions on the issue of "national names", in the words of ancient China: "Brothers stare at the wall and resist their humiliation!" This "foreign humiliation" is naturally the "humiliation" given to them by foreign China.
In order to "ward off its humiliation," Japanese historians even smeared and distorted or even deleted all the histories related to the Slaves.
It is always the economy that determines the strength or weakness of culture, the economy is not good, and the culture of strong clothing is the paper tiger! For example, India, which is also one of the four ancient civilizations, has now mixed up what virtues?
Japan did everything possible to cover up the fact that "Wunu" were" and, in the Ming Dynasty, even did not hesitate to harass China's maritime frontiers by force to prove that it was no longer the "Wuxia Awu" of the past. However, after Being thwarted by Qi Jiguang again and again, the Ming Dynasty gave them a more insulting name, Wukou.
However, in Japan, it is the "Ren'er East, West, South, and North Wind", and regardless of how the Ming Kingdom calls them, he insists internally that he has always been the name of the Japanese state.
Until the discovery of the golden seal of the "King of Han Weinu" in 1784, Japan still did not believe in this fact. In Japan, many cultural scholars even believe that this gold seal is simply fake, it is a fake deliberately fabricated by some Japanese businessmen in order to tie the Qing Dynasty, otherwise, why is there no relevant record in Japan?
At that time, there was no "double evidence method" (the consistency of excavated cultural relics and written records), otherwise, the Japanese cultural circles must have "confirmed" their views with this method.
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's national strength was booming, and the authenticity of the seal of the "Han Weinu King" was once again questioned. Under the dual influence of Japan's official interference and the awakening of national self-confidence, the title of "Uighur Country" completely faded out of sight, and the golden seal of "Han Weinu King" was also used as evidence of the Qing Dynasty smearing Japan.
Later, the Sino-Japanese War, the September 18 Incident, the July 7 Incident and other wars of aggression, China's continuous defeat, made the Japanese "scorn" China. Some Japanese people who have been influenced by militarism believe that such a China is only worthy of "slavery" to the Japanese!
On the other hand, the Japanese wantonly destroyed cultural relics in the Occupied Areas of China and destroyed evidence of negative impacts on Japan. An attempt was made to erase the word "Wunu" from Chinese historical records.
In November 1956, with the rapid recovery of Japan's post-war economy, the "pain" brought to them by the two atomic bombs was about to be forgotten, and in Yunnan, China, archaeology unearthed the "Seal of the King of Dian" gold seal.
The peculiarity of the Seal of the King of Dian is that it is almost identical to the "Golden Seal of Han Wei Nu" unearthed in Japan in terms of shape, size, material, font, and function, and even some experts believe that the two gold seals are from the same person!
At this point, it was the turn of the Japanese historians to panic.
Why?
From the Tang Dynasty to the discovery of the Golden Seal of the Han Dynasty, japan has been denying the history of "Wunu" for more than 1,000 years; from 1784 to the discovery of the Seal of the King of Dian, more than 170 years of history, Japan has continued to deny this period of "black history" with strong economic strength. Because in addition to the unilateral records of Chinese history books, there is no more archaeological evidence to support it, and the authenticity of the golden seal of the Han Dynasty king has not been officially recognized by the Japanese government.
The discovery of the Seal of the King of Dian was undoubtedly a bombshell and caused great shaking to the self-confidence of the Japanese nation.
However, at that time, the world pattern was in the Cold War, and China and Japan were in a state of severed diplomatic relations, and some experts in the Field of Japanese Historiography still held a skeptical attitude toward the authenticity of this gold seal -- isolated and unproven, do you have the ability to find another one?
Therefore, in 1981, China really found another golden seal (Guangling Wang Seal), and like the seal of the King of Dian, the shape, size, material, font, and function of the Guangling Wang Seal were no different from the golden seal of the Han Weinu King. The three gold seals may all be from the same person.
This time, Japanese historians had nothing more to say.
First, China's comprehensive national strength has become stronger, and it is one of the five permanents, and Japan is no longer qualified to strategically despise China; second, the same type of gold seal has been found twice, once an official archaeological excavation, and once an unintentional discovery by the people, which directly disillusioned with "isolation and undocumentation".
At this point, Japanese historians have to admit that before 2,000 years ago, Japan was indeed a vassal state of China. Of course, the fundamental reason for the submission of Japanese historians is that China continues to become stronger and more confident.