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Seoul in South Korea, also known as Seoul, Seoul is the name of South Korea itself later changed, this metropolis, in the comprehensive strength ranking, ranked in the world's top ten, is also an important financial city in Asia.
But why did the Koreans have to change the name of Seoul, which was once famous and well-known? This is not the product of their whim, so it is necessary to talk about seoul's "past and present lives".
Seoul is located in the Han River basin in northwestern Korea. In 1122 BC, King Wu of Zhou won a military victory against the merchants, and the newly established Great Zhou also included the "milli" in the northern region, which is today's Korean Peninsula. Later, the Shang Dynasty nobleman Jizi traveled to the Korean Peninsula and established the "Jizi Joseon".
After the "Mizi Joseon", at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Wei Man, who was once a descendant of the Yan royal family, led thousands of people to the Korean Peninsula, and soon after, he overthrew the "Jizi Joseon" with his own armed forces and established the "Wei Dynasty Korea" in 194 BC.
Shi Zaiwei's Korea:
"Thousands of miles in all directions, occupying the land of the five kingdoms of Zhenfan, Lintun, Wofeng and Fuyu."
After wei Korea, several regimes appeared on the Korean Peninsula, such as Baekje, Goryeo and Silla, which we know as baekje, Goryeo and Silla during the Tang Dynasty.
In 1392, the Goryeo general Lee Sung-gyu of the Joseon Dynasty established the Lee Dynasty, and he felt that the capital city of Wangjing at that time, that is, today's Kaesong, Korea, had long been defeated and no longer had the royal spirit, so at the suggestion of his courtiers, he chose Hanyang north of the Han River and began to build a new capital here.
Two years later, after the new capital was successfully built, Li Chenggui moved the capital from Wangjing to Hanyang, and then he renamed Hanyang "Hancheng", and since then, Seoul has been almost always the capital of the Lee Dynasty.
However, in the 1980s, when China and South Korea were negotiating the establishment of diplomatic relations, the South Korean side suddenly threw out a question: they asked the Chinese side, hoping that the Chinese side would not call the name "Seoul" in the future.
It turns out that the name of Seoul, in the minds of Koreans, is the name of ancient China, is the name of the Lee Dynasty imitating Han culture, which makes them feel very awkward, feel unaccustomed, no matter when this name is mentioned, it will always remind them of the past that was a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty in history, so they are reluctant to let us be called Seoul again.
South Korea's proposal made the Chinese negotiators cry and laugh. After all, the name of Seoul, which has been followed for hundreds of years, has been a conventional name, with history and culture, connotation and vicissitudes, and it is a historical city when you hear it, but South Korea does not agree with our interpretation.
So in the future, the development of things will be logical. In order to avoid the name of Seoul in China, at the beginning of this century, they simply changed the name of seoul Chinese to "Seoul", and strangely, they only changed it to the Chinese side, that is, the Chinese "Seoul" does not exist, but in english, Japanese and other language systems, the term "Seoul" is still used. It was only for Chinese changed to "Seoul".
But what makes historians even more amused is that in fact, the name of the city "Seoul" is also a name in ancient China, and the name of Seoul before the Lee Dynasty was Chinese "Suwu". Suwu and Seoul, doesn't it sound a bit harmonious?
Well, today's sharing ends here, and we'll see you next time