China's five thousand years of history, is one of the world's four major ancient civilizations, as early as the time of Genghis Khan, the territory is the world's largest, naturally there are many subordinate countries, the general domain of the country name is given by the Heavenly Dynasty, such as Korea, Burma, Bhutan and other countries, the name of the country is China's canonization, has been used to this day.
There's another country today, we have to say. His name was also given by China, but unlike countries such as North Korea, which is now very powerful. This country is Japan.
In ancient times, we all called the Japanese "Wokou", why do we have such a name, "Kou" means thief, because the Japanese in the fourteenth century to the sixteenth century, often harass the Coast of China, piracy is very rampant, and the reason why they call them "Wo" is because they are short and ugly, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, Japan was called the Uighur Kingdom, was given the name by the Han Guang Emperor Liu Xiu, the Japanese are also grateful to Dade, willing to submit to China, but later the Japanese envoys learned about Chinese culture, only to find "倭" Meaning ugly and short, he repeatedly requested a name change, but the Chinese rulers did not agree.
In the Qin Dynasty, Japan has always been called "Dongyi", full of irony, the Qin Dynasty did not regard them as people at all, after the Han Dynasty, the Japanese envoys came to China, expressed their willingness to pay tribute to China and were willing to be called vassals, so Liu Xiu gave their king the title of "Wu King", because "Wu" had a single person next to him, the Japanese envoys thought that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty could finally see them as people, and they were very happy to accept this title, until the Tang Dynasty, Japan was called "Wu Guo". After the Tang Dynasty, Japanese envoys came to the Central Plains to study more and have closer contacts, and they felt that their national name was very inappropriate, so they asked for a name change. But it was not heeded until the period of Wu Zetian's rule, the Japanese emissaries came again to beg for a name change, Wu Zetian did not agree at first, and then once Wu Zetian was drunk, it happened that the Japanese emissaries came to plead again, and Wu Zetian nodded impatiently in agreement. The Japanese envoys on the side shouted long live. Zhang Shoujie's "History of Justice" records: "After the Wu Dynasty, Japan was known, and the name of the Uighur Kingdom was determined by Japan. ”
The appearance of Chinese characters in Japanese characters is during the Tang Dynasty. When Wu Zetian was in power, there were fifty or sixty countries and regions with close contacts with China, including Japan.
The Japanese naturally like to follow the strong, in modern times, China's Qing Dynasty declined, they changed their ways to follow the Western powers, together to invade China, killed a lot of innocent Chinese, but also became the most hated country in the Chinese, from the subservient little brother to the opponent of the dog, this change is also unexpected. Today's Japan is very reluctant to admit this history, because it is obviously racially racist, but this is a fact after all, whether it is documented or excavated cultural relics are solid evidence, they are powerless to refute.
At that time, there was a scholar named Zhang Shoujie in the Tang Dynasty, who once annotated Sima Qian's famous book "Shi Ji" and named it "Shi Ji Zhengyi". In this book, he quotes a geographical work written by Li Tai, Xiao Deyan, and others of the Tang Dynasty, "The Chronicle of The Lands". There is a passage in it that says, "... Empress Wu changed her name to Japan, and the country was in Baijinan, across the sea and lived on an island."
Therefore, Japan is only called Japan since the Tang Dynasty, or by the name of Wu Zetian drunkenness, now has been more than 1300 years, although Japan's economy has developed rapidly, but have to admit that some of the Japanese quality is still problematic, always regard China as an imaginary enemy, everything is against us, but they were created by Chinese immigrants, they were once China's vassals, they have caused heinous harm to China, these histories will not change!