The history of exchanges between China and Japan can be described as long-standing, and careful calculation can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. At that time, Japan had not yet been unified, and it was called the Uighurs by our country, and some of the island countries in Japan at that time were bent on establishing tributary relations with China, so from time to time they would send some envoys to the land of the Central Plains.
However, because Japan at that time was too poor and had no valuable things to hand, it could only send some female slaves, which seemed both shabby and embarrassing.
Because there was no writing in ancient Japan, if they wanted to study ancient history, they could only refer to Chinese documents. In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, it is the first time that China has written about the Uighur Kingdom. At that time, the Han Dynasty established the Han Four Counties on the Korean Peninsula, which had a direct connection with the Uighurs, and what surprised the people of the Han Dynasty was that there were no other property resources in the Uighurs, but only this woman was as numerous as cattle hair. Almost all uighur countries are polygamous, with seven or eight rich people, and even the poor having two or three wives.
This is not nothing, what makes the Han Dynasty people feel even more incredible is that all the women of the Uighur Kingdom are virtuous and virtuous people, and there is a world of difference between them and the women of their own country. Although several of them served a husband together, their relationship was very harmonious, they never competed for this, and they obeyed her husband's words. At that time, according to the unwritten rules of the Uighur Kingdom, the wife was equivalent to personal property. If you accidentally commit a crime, or if you owe someone money, you can make up for it with your own wife. In the homes of the rich in those uighur countries, the number of female slaves was as large as cattle hair, and hundreds or thousands of them were very common.
During the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was the first time that the Uighurs visited China, perhaps because they had just arrived, so they did not know much about the number of rituals, and went empty-handed. Fortunately, it was not easy for emperor Guangwu to watch the people of the Uighurs come and go, even if there was no merit, but this pious heart was still there. So he ordered someone to make a gold seal with the inscription "Seal of the King of Han Weinu", and then gave it to the King of Wu. It was not until two thousand years later that the gold seal was discovered on Shikoku Island and became a national treasure of Japan.
After Emperor An of Han succeeded to the throne, the Uighurs once again paid tribute, and with the experience of the last time, the Uighurs decided to offer some specialties to China. So they were like the Han Dynasty who sacrificed one hundred and sixty female slaves, you know, this was not a small number at that time. As far as the Uighurs are concerned, I am afraid that their specialty is only women, and they cannot take out other valuable products. During the Huan and Ling years of the Han Dynasty, there was a serious riot in the Uighur kingdom, and a country called The Evil Horse Terrace suddenly appeared in people's field of vision, and it is worth mentioning that the leader of their country was a woman, that is, the famous Queen Beimihu. She was a witch, or to preserve that mystery, she never married, and she hardly saw men. At that time, the evil Matai state and the neighboring dog slave state had never been in harmony for a long time, so Beimihu specially sent envoys to Cao Wei, hoping to get China's support.
After coming to Cao Wei, the envoys of Beimihu brought six female slaves to offer to Emperor Ming of Wei. That scene was really embarrassing, and Emperor Wei Ming was also kind-hearted, watching the old boat and car of the Wu people travel far and wide, remembering their hardships, and rewarding them richly. Zero and Zero have always been rewarded with many rare treasures, and these objects, in the eyes of the Uighurs, are treasures that have never been seen before. I am afraid that only in the Great Heavenly Dynasty can we get such a rich reward.
When the envoy returned, Beimihu was stunned to see these rewards, and then felt that this was a very good thing, so Beimihu paid tribute every three to five minutes. The most she brought each time was a slave girl, and sometimes she would bring some cloth that the uighurs had woven themselves. Because the State of Wei always adhered to the principle of courtesy and reciprocity, but when the Uighurs came to pay tribute, they would not be allowed to return empty-handed. Moreover, every time the reward given to them was regarded as a treasure by Beimihu and others, after the death of Beimihu, the Uighurs remembered her merits and specially built a tomb for her, and the number of female slaves who accompanied her was as high as hundreds.
Since then, the Uighurs have gradually abandoned the name, because they also feel that the name is not too good. Later, with the permission of the rulers of the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Japan. But even then, Japan's population was still more female than male, and polygamy was still popular. It is true that Japan has always maintained the habit of sending envoys to the Central Plains, but now it is not as shabby as before, and there is no longer such a thing as sending female slaves. When Japanese netizens knew the previous history of their country, they not only sighed: "It turned out that our country was so poor before", "This is the national shame of our country!" "It's unimaginable.