More than one China in the world? I think many people will wonder, how can there be more than one China in the world? Obviously, it's one. In fact, it is like this, there is really more than one China in the world, there is another place called "China", and coincidentally, this place is in Japan.
Located near the Japanese island of Honshu, japan, this place called "China" is the combined name of the two areas of Sanyo Province and Yamanami in the western part of Honshu Island, Including Tottori Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture, Okayama Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Yamaguchi Prefecture and other 5 prefectures; with a total area of 31,917 square kilometers and a population of more than 7.7 million people. People here are watching "China News", taking the "China" bus, even the bank is "Chinese", everything is "China", and the way of life and living customs here are exactly the same as those in China.
Many people will definitely wonder, it must be that they worship China, they worship too much, so they change it to China and follow the Chinese model, is this actually the case? Not. So, what exactly did the "China" place in Japan appear? It's been there for a long time.
Around the tenth century, according to the provisions of the Yanki-style law, with the capital kyoto at that time as the center, the current region was Near country, the Kyushu region and the East Japan region were far countries, and the current China place was in the middle of the near country and the far country, so the name China place was passed down. The Yanki-shi (延喜式) was a rule of implementation of the law in the middle of the Heian period of Japan, and was the basic law of legal politics at that time.
This statement is more in line with the habits of the ancients, of course, there is a more ancient version. According to the Ancient Chronicle, the place where the gods lived was called Gao Tianyuan, and the dead went to the land of Huangquan. Among them is the current Japanese archipelago, which is called the "Naka no Kuni".
Therefore, China means "a kingdom between the High Heavenly Plains and the Yellow Springs." Later, the Japanese god Amaterasu pacified all the places and brought the kingdoms of Takatenhara, the Kingdom of Huangquan, and the Kingdom of Nakano all under his jurisdiction.
But there is another theory, which comes from China. This goes back to the Tang Dynasty, as we all know, the Tang Dynasty, especially in the early Tang Dynasty, was politically clear, culturally prosperous, and economically developed, creating a brilliant civilization, while Japan, which is across the water, was still very backward, so Japan sent Tang envoys to China many times to study.
At that time, Japan greatly admired Chinese culture, and they directly took the advanced culture they learned to Japan and used it. At that time, Japan imitated the Chinese Tang Dynasty method and divided the whole country into 68 countries in the Five Qi Seven Provinces. These "countries" are divided into four categories according to the number of populations: "great country", "upper country", "China" and "lower country"; at the same time, with the capital Kyoto (the capital at that time was Kyoto) as the core, according to the distance of the station and Gyeonggi, they are classified as "near country", "China" and "far country". Over time, people and things have changed in many places, but the name has been passed down.
In any case, in the Middle Ages of Japanese history, the "Chinese" place became the most developed area of culture and art in Japan at that time, except for Kyoto, and there were many beautiful women.
There is no doubt about that.
It is also because there is a place in Japan called China, which has led to their great clamor. In 1949, after the founding of New China, China became the name of our country, and controversy arose.
Chinese felt that the name of that place in Japan needed to be renamed, after all, it was inappropriate for a country and a region to have the same name, but Japan said that it firmly disagreed with the name change, explaining that the ancient Chinese name had always been named after the dynasty, and China was not an official country name, and they stressed that they called this name first, the name belonged to them, and said that nothing would be changed. The two sides did not talk about it, so up to now, there are two places called "China" in the world, one is the country and the other is Japan.
Friends, welcome to pay attention!