Japan and South Korea are China's neighbors, because the distance between our three countries is relatively close, so the exchanges between the three countries are still very frequent. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Ziya's relatives brought a bunch of people to establish princely states, and later slowly merged with the locals, which was the earliest period of China-Korea exchanges.
At the same time, during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the mainland had exchanges with Japan, presumably everyone had heard that Qin Shi Huang wanted to live forever, so let Xu Fu go to the sea to seek immortal medicine. The last place Xu Fu arrived was most likely Japan, so we can see that we actually had exchanges with these two countries very early on.
Later, in various dynasties, China had close ties with these two countries, until the Qing Dynasty, and the long-accumulated grievances and contradictions could not be suppressed. Just like the Sino-Japanese War that broke out during the Qing Dynasty, the mainland lost miserably, and we, who were once the kings of the Central Plains, were defeated and lost on too much self-confidence.
Once North Korea was only our vassal state, but later when we saw that we had lost so badly, naturally we were unwilling to be a vassal state for us, and directly established our own country, which is the South Korea that we are now familiar with.
We can also see from these places that the three countries of China, Japan and South Korea have been exchanging very frequently since ancient times, whether good or bad, so in the eyes of those foreigners, how do they view the history of our three countries?
In fact, an American media introduced our three countries to people in their countries in the form of popular science fragments, and the three short films were "7 minutes to interpret the Chinese dynasties", "8 minutes to interpret the history of Japan", and "5 minutes to interpret the history of the Korean kingdom".
The three short films were played 690,000 times in China, 110,000 times in Japan and 510,000 times in South Korea, and the foreigners later had a heated discussion about the history of several of our countries.
Foreigners say this about Chinese history, they feel that there are only two countries in the world whose names have been used for more than five thousand years, namely China and Egypt. Some people like the Tang Dynasty, and some people like the Ming Dynasty, and they think the Ming Dynasty is the best period in China. Some people feel that China has existed for a very long time, and in the development of history, many countries have disappeared, and only China has survived thousands of years.
And they say that Japan's agriculture is all from China, and they say that Japan does not actually have those cultural eras, but they are made up by their archaeologists. And Koreans admit that they have used Chinese characters, but rebuttal Chinese characters are the first words they use, saying that they have their own words a long time ago, and the comments of foreign netizens below these short videos are really wonderful!
It can also be seen from these comments that foreigners in Europe and the United States seem to be more intelligent and wise, and can understand what kind of attachment relationship these three countries have had from ancient times to the present. Of course, China may not be as strong now as it was hundreds or thousands of years ago, but this is also a matter of time.