The Korean Peninsula has been closely linked to China since ancient times, and it can even be said that the Korean Peninsula is part of the history of the migration of Chinese expatriates.
The first regime to emerge on the Korean Peninsula was the "Jizi Joseon" from the 12th century BC to the 2nd century BC, and China at the same time was at the end of the Shang Dynasty. Jizi (箕子) was the younger brother of Emperor Yi of the late Shang Dynasty and the uncle of the King of Shang, and was given the same name as Weizi and Bigan, and was called "Yin Late Sanren". Therefore, what is the relationship between ancient Korea and China, everyone can also see at a glance.
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After Zhou Tianzi established the Zhou Dynasty, he rewarded the former Yin merchant nobles, and King Wu of Zhou invited Jizi to come to the Zhou Dynasty as an official, but Jizi refused, so according to the sub-feudal system, he divided the Korean Peninsula to Jizi. However, during the Han Dynasty, Ban Gu believed that Jizi had begun to break away from the administration of the Shang Dynasty at the end of the Shang Dynasty, and led a part of the Yin Merchant people to move to Korea, and the later Zhou Tianzi sealed Korea only because of the limited management at that time.
After leading his people to the Korean Peninsula, Miko developed them by citing the advanced productive forces brought from the Central Plains (which were relatively advanced at the time) and formulated eight simple laws as constraints. In 194 BC, the former Warring States period Yan general Wei Man defected to the Yan state into Jizi Korea, and finally launched a mutiny to seize the royal power, at this point, the Korean Peninsula entered the Wei Joseon period.
Miko Joseon during the Warring States period
In 108 BC, Wei Joseon openly killed the Liaodong governor of the Western Han Dynasty, and soon after Emperor Wu of Han invaded Korea, the King of the Right Canal of Joseon was killed, and the Wei Dynasty of Korea ended. Not only that, Emperor Wu of han also established the four counties of Han on the Korean Peninsula to administer the Korean Peninsula. In 313 BC, local governments in Korea began to emerge, and the ancient Joseon Era ended. Goguryeo annexed the last of the four han counties, Lelang County, and the Korean Peninsula entered the period of the establishment of the three kingdoms of Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje.
The four counties of Han established by Emperor Wu of han
With the decline of the Han Dynasty, the influence of the Central Plains gradually decreased, and it was not until the Great Unification Dynasty of the Sui and Tang Dynasties that this situation was broken. In 668, the Tang Dynasty joined forces with Silla to destroy Baekje and Goguryeo, and the homeland of Goguryeo came under the administration of the Tang, and soon after, Silla and The Tang went to war, due to the decline of the central power of the Tang and the Korean Peninsula, which was still in a remote area at the time, Silla finally unified the Korean Peninsula. At the end of the ninth century, after more than two hundred years of division of the Silla Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula entered the post-Three Kingdoms era and the Goryeo Dynasty era.
In fact, since the unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin, successive Dynasties in China have all been subject to the Central Plains Dynasty and the central Plains Dynasty in dealing with the relations between ethnic minorities and political power in the frontier, and the Central Plains Dynasty has recognized the tributary canonization system. After the Korean Peninsula entered the Goryeo Dynasty, Goryeo and the Song Dynasty still retained the traditional tributary relationship, but as the Zhao and Song dynasties weakened, the Goryeo Dynasty gradually turned to pay tribute to ethnic minorities such as the Liao and Jin.
The Goryeo Dynasty during the Liao-Song confrontation
After the reunification of the Yuan Dynasty, the relationship between the Korean Peninsula and China's vassals was officially confirmed in a document. In 1392, the Goryeo vassal Lee Sung-gyu deposed king Gongjang, the last king of Goryeo, and established himself as king, with the capital at Seoul. In order to gain the support of the Central Plains Dynasty and consolidate its rule, Li Chenggui specially prepared two national names, "Joseon" and "Hening", and asked Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming emperor, to help him choose.
Zhu Yuanzhang's response to North Korea was: Dongyi is the name of The Name of The North, but the name of North Korea is beautiful, and it has come from afar, and it can be ancestors in its own name. Tiantian herdsman, heir of Yongchang. It means that Korea began a period of submission to the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years, and at the same time, Ming Taizu also gave the Lee Joseon a costume, which had a profound impact on the formation of Korean costumes.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang had a profound influence on Lee's Joseon Dynasty
After the Qing army entered the customs, the Central Plains Dynasty gradually lost contact with Korea, and after the Qing unified the country, Korea recognized the status of the Qing Dynasty and turned to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, the incompetence of the Qing court made it difficult for china to enter a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and it was more difficult for the Qing Dynasty to maintain the traditional tributary relationship when it was difficult to protect itself.
In the mid-to-late 19th century, the British and French countries all conquered Korea, while the Qing court was threatened by Western countries, but still did not give up its vassalage, and the Korean side has always avoided dealing with its countries.
Sino-Japanese War
With the passage of time, after the Meiji Restoration, Japan's national strength soared, and in 1875 it sent warships to invade Korea, and in February 1876, it signed Korea's first unequal treaty, the Treaty of Ganghwa. Since then, the Weakness of the Qing Dynasty has become irreparable, and Li Hongzhang has been sent to regulate various affairs in Korea, but many times without success.
In 1894, the Korean "Dongxue Party Uprising", the Qing Dynasty at the request of the Dprk to suppress, and Japan also on the grounds of the Qing court to send troops to intervene, followed by the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, after the defeat of the Qing court, the China-centered tributary system completely collapsed. In August 1910, Japan and Korea signed the Treaty of Annexation between Japan and Korea, and a few days later, the last emperor of Joseon, Chunjong, abdicated and Lee's Korea collapsed. Since then, the Korean Peninsula has completely become a Japanese colony.
Japanese troops enter Korea
After the end of World War II, the Korean Peninsula finally ushered in a new life, but at the same time fell into a new quagmire, and in June 1950, the Korean War broke out. Just as north Korean forces were about to unify the Korean Peninsula, the United States announced its intervention and nearly destroyed North Korea at the Inchon landings. On October 25, 1950, the Chinese Volunteer Army entered the Korean War and quickly reversed the situation. Since then, the volunteer army and the coalition army have attacked and defended each other, and the front has stabilized near the 38th parallel north latitude, and the current division of the Korean Peninsula has been formed.
Korean War
The Korean Peninsula has always been an important strategic place for China, and it is deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and it can even be said that it has the same origin, for China, the strategic point of the Korean Peninsula cannot be lost, for North Korea, it will only fall into the puppet of Western countries without China, and today's South Korea is also a good example.