"The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the characters of the ages are flowing." To the west of the old fortress, humanity is, three kingdoms Zhou Lang Chibi. ——Su Shi, "Chibi Huaigu"
After thousands of years, China has already undergone earth-shaking changes. In the long course of history, we have accumulated profound cultural heritage and made our country more prosperous. In the past dynasties, basically with Confucian culture as the center, Confucius, as the founder of Confucianism, once wrote many famous sayings for us in the "Analects", so that Confucian culture has a long history and has always influenced the Chinese people.
Confucianism has also spread in Southeast Asia and has subtly influenced many countries. At the same time, some countries were once our vassals, and Chinese characters and costumes were related to us, but today, in order to break up relations with China, one country abolished Chinese characters and changed the name of the capital, and now it even wants to change the name of the country.
Since ancient times, China's influence in Southeast Asia has been great, and many small countries around it have been influenced by us, among which South Korea and Japan, whether cultural or economic, have learned a lot from China. In ancient times, the Korean peninsula has always been subordinate to the Central Plains and ruled by the Central Plains, but they also have a high degree of autonomy.
This relationship can be traced back to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who once established the four counties of Lelang, Xuanju, Zhenfan, and Lintun in order to expand the territory and destroy Manchuria. At the same time, the northeast of our country was the origin of Goguryeo, until the division of the Central Plains, Goguryeo expanded to the middle of the peninsula, and when defeated by the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the various regimes of Goguryeo began to fall apart, and eventually Goguryeo ruled the Korean Peninsula.
In the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo began to arrogantly want to attack Daming, at this time Li Chenggui overthrew the Goryeo regime and submitted to the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would give it a new national name, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with Li Chenggui's behavior, and gave Goryeo the name of Joseon, and then gave them the clothes of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Korea practiced the Ming system in all aspects, and the Ming Dynasty took good care of Korea. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Central Plains implemented the policy of shaving hair and wore Manchu clothes, but due to the special geographical location of North Korea, they were not forced to shave their hair, which made the Customs of Korea slowly pass down.
However, North Korea was very loyal to the Ming Dynasty and considered the Qing Dynasty to be barbarians. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the Western powers arbitrarily opened the door to China, and at this time Japan experienced the Meiji Restoration and began to develop rapidly. It was not until after the Sino-Japanese War that Japan forcibly signed the "Treaty of Maguan" with the Qing government and made Korea its own "protectorate". At this time, Japan wanted to separate the relationship between Korea and China, but because North Korea had always used Chinese characters and people could read historical materials, Japan could not erase North Korea's memory of China.
After the U.S. and Soviet occupation of Korea, Korea got rid of a slave life and had independence and autonomy, at this time South Korea believed that it was a shame to follow the Central Plains culture for a long time, so it wanted to gain equal rights with China and wanted to erase that history. So in the 1960s, Koreans stopped using Chinese characters and changed their capital to Seoul. Today, few young Koreans know about the origins between South Korea and China.
At the same time, Koreans also did not like the current name of the country, they believed that the word was the carrier of Chinese characters, so they tried to change the name of the country. Thus. South Korea no longer wants to acknowledge its relationship with China, and even considers the past a "black history." At the same time, South Korea's "Yhyonndo" newspaper has also said that South Korea's name no longer fits the modern meaning.
In the long history, there have been too many stories, just like the relationship between South Korea and China, but over time, a lot of history has been slowly forgotten. Today, most South Koreans want to try to erase the fact that they were once vassals of the Central Plains. However, history is not something that a country can tamper with. Every country has its own history of development, and our country has also been invaded, but we do not regard it as a black history, do not want to erase it, but take this history as our driving force for moving forward.
"Rise and fall through the ages, prosperous dreams, poetry eyes tired of the end of the world." KongLin trees, Wugong vines, Chu Temple Jackdaws. ——Zhang Kejiu, "The Full Moon of Man and the Book of the Mountains"
A country can face up to its own history and dare to learn lessons from it in order to develop better, and pretending to sleep cannot erase the memory of the past. True wise men are often able to face history squarely. Instead of pretending to be deaf and dumb and trying to erase the past, it is better to regard it as a necessity for your own struggle and make yourself work hard. Looking back at past history, China has shed blood and tears, but we will learn from history and forge ahead.
Resources:
Su Shi", "Chibi Huaigu"
Zhang Kejiu, "The Full Moon of Man and the Book of the Mountains"