There is no doubt that the weight of the two words China in the hearts of the Chinese people can be described as quite sacred and inviolable. As a name that has existed in China for thousands of years since ancient times, China is not only two Chinese characters, but also represents the land and identity of the Chinese people. If they are wantonly stigmatized by foreign nationalities, our people will absolutely not tolerate it.
However, in modern times, Japan, which has committed numerous crimes against our country, has a place name called "China", the bank here is called bank of China, the power company is called China Electric Power, and even the government department is called a certain branch of China. It sounds really confusing, and even the first time chinese tourists who go here will sigh, does our country also have colonies in Japan?
This China in Japan, whose full name is "China Region", is a relatively large administrative region in the Japanese region, and the concept of Tokyo is the same. Located in the western part of Honshu Island, it covers an area of about 32,000 square kilometers, about the size of five Shanghais. With a population of about 7.718 million people, it is divided into five prefectures: Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, and Yamaguchi.
According to the Japanese historical document TaipingJi, the name of the Chinese region existed as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties of Japan, but in the "Ancient Chronicles" and "Nihon Shoki", which describe Japanese mythology and the imperial system, the early Izumo region is called Reed China, which may also be the reason for the name of the Chinese region. But there is no exact statement as to which year the name began.
Some people have also suggested that this is a place name specially set up by Japan to imitate the Tang Dynasty. After all, they would even imitate the cultural and political system of our Tang Dynasty, and it is not strange to call out a Chinese region.
But no matter what kind of origin theory, it can be corroborated by the fact that Japan has had this place in China as early as the feudal era. However, when China called itself China in ancient times, there were not many people who called themselves China, and they all called themselves dynasties, such as the Tang Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Ming Dynasty, and the Great Qing Dynasty, although they all knew that they were Chinese sons and daughters, but they did not hang on their lips.
This gave Japan the capital to exploit loopholes, and in 1912 the Xinhai Revolution was successful, the Qing Dynasty collapsed, the Republic of China was established, and the Chinese theory was first moved to the table. In order to prevent diplomatic misunderstandings, the Nationalist government at that time made a special proposal to Japan to change the name of the Chinese region. However, it was sternly rejected by the Japanese government.
After all, at that time, the Republic of China government had just been established, the country was still in decline, and Japan had long been playing China's calculations, so naturally it would not take the proposal of the Republic of China government into account. Moreover, the Japanese government also threatened that Japan had a Chinese region as early as a thousand years ago, and that you China had always called itself a dynasty until now. We called early and will never change our name.
The government of the Republic of China also had no choice but to let Japan go. Until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the founding of New China, the use rate of Chinese names became higher and higher, and its international status became higher and higher. When China is mentioned internationally, it basically refers to China, and few people think of the Chinese region of Japan. On the contrary, the Japanese government could not open its hands on many things because of the repetition of place names, so it began to take the initiative to change its name. Today, the Chinese region of Japan is called the San'in Sanyo region, and China no longer exists in Japan.
It is not difficult to see from this incident that weak countries have no diplomacy, and only when the country is strong can it take the initiative in diplomacy. Therefore, striving to build the motherland into a more prosperous, civilized and strong country is the best way for Chinese to gain respect in the world.