I believe that everyone is very familiar with Japan, as a neighbor of China, Japan's geographical location is very similar to China. China was once at the top of the world and one of the largest countries in the world.
Many neighboring countries are china's vassals, and they all need to pay tribute to China and submit to China. Today, what we call the "Chinese Dream of Great Rejuvenation" is to return to the prosperity of the past and once again make China a great power in the East that has come to celebrate the dynasty.
In ancient times, Japan was only a small island country adjacent to the mainland, known as the Uighur Kingdom in ancient times, and its identity was a vassal state of China, and many of the major events decided by the Uighur State had to be approved by China. Later, Japan, which experienced the Meiji Restoration, gradually became rich and strong, and began to provoke China, but at that time, China was still full of national strength, and Japan did not gain much benefit.
Later, Japan became a world power and began hegemonism, but Japan has always refused to recognize that it was once a vassal of China. Until the unearthing of a gold seal, this gold seal is engraved with five Chinese characters, Japanese experts feel too humiliated after deciphering, so which five characters are engraved on this gold seal.
I. The Origins of China and Japan
The origins of China and Japan begin more than 2,000 years ago, when China was at its peak and was a superpower that dominated the world, with Chinese territory in Asia, Africa and other places. Japan, which is across the sea from China, is also under China's jurisdiction, and many countries in the world want to lean on the big tree of China.
The earliest record of Japan in mainland history appears in the Han Dynasty, when Japan was known as the Uighur Kingdom and was a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Han Dynasty had completed the unification of the world, and the Korean Peninsula was also China's territory.
At that time, Japan was still in a state of division, and many small countries were established in a small land, and these countries did not give in to each other, and all wanted to become the king of this land of Japan. In order to facilitate jurisdiction, the Han Dynasty collectively referred to these small countries as the Uighur State, which was in internal chaos and national turmoil at that time, and it was their honor to have such a superpower as the Han Dynasty as their backing.
Under the protection of the Han Dynasty, the Uighurs avoided many disputes, and the Han Dynasty required the Uighurs to send a certain number of tributes every year, which was a kind of relationship between the yangyang large countries and the small dependent countries, and the uighurs also abided by the agreement, sending emissaries to pay tribute every year.
By the Tang Dynasty, China's development reached another new height, especially during the reign of Li Shimin, the Tang Dynasty reached an unprecedented peak. At that time, the Uighurs sent emissaries to China many times to study, and China's medical, educational, industrial and agricultural technologies were all transmitted to the Uighurs.
At that time, the Uighurs had friendly relations with China, and the Tang Dynasty also respected the Uighurs and gave them sufficient autonomy. Therefore, the historical relationship between China and Japan is very harmonious, and both sides respect each other, which is the best way to get along as neighbors.
2. Excavation of the Golden Seal
During the Sui Dynasty, the national strength of the Uighur state gradually became stronger, and with the reform of the domestic system, the Uighur state slowly developed and grew. At this time, the wolf ambitions of the Uighurs were gradually exposed, and they began to provoke disputes with China.
But At that time, China was not backward, and we were also a big country in the East for thousands of years, so the Uighurs did not get any advantage. Realizing the disparity in power between the two countries, Japan did not dare to recreate it, but they also wanted more power and did not want to be controlled by China.
Later, the Uighurs felt that the word "倭" was not decent enough, which was contempt for them, so they asked China to change the name of the country. The Uighurs felt that they were the land of the sunrise, so they could be named Japan, and since then the Uighur kingdom has been renamed Japan.
But the name Uighur was still very influential, even in the Ming Dynasty, Japan was still called Wokou, and even Japanese pirates were called Wokou. In the late Qing Dynasty, China gradually declined, while Japan began to rise with a series of reform policies, and in the late Qing Dynasty, the closed country policy deprived China of the opportunity to learn about advanced technology.
In order to expand its territory, Japan launched a war of aggression against China, which brought countless disasters to China and committed heinous crimes against the Chinese people. Today, Japan has become a powerful and advanced capitalist state, and they never consider themselves to have been vassals of China.
Until the unearthing of a gold seal made the Japanese have to admit this fact. In the eighteenth century, when Japan was still in the Edo period, a farmer found a large stone in the field while farming, so he called in a few people to try to clear the big stone.
Several people pushed the boulder open and found a strange gold seal underneath, with various patterns on it, and five foreign characters. This surprised the farmer, who felt that he had dug up antiques, and soon the news spread in Fukuoka City, and many people came to see the golden seal. A Japanese expert on classical Chinese literature was keenly aware that the golden seal might be related to China, so he wrote to the farmer and wanted to buy it at a great price.
3. The text on the gold seal
The farmer was shocked when he received the letter from the expert, he did not expect this thing to be so valuable, and the money given by the expert was enough to cost them for generations. The farmer realized that what he had dug up was not an ordinary thing, so he gave it to the local lord Kuroda.
Kuroda retained the gold seal for a long time thereafter, and in the late twentieth century, Kuroda donated the gold seal to the museum, and it was not until modern times that the golden seal began to be studied by experts.
After translation, Japanese experts found that the five characters on this gold seal are the Chinese characters "Han Wei Nu King", and in the Chinese characters, "Wei" is "倭", and the two words have the same meaning. That is to say, this golden seal was given to the Uighurs by the Han Dynasty, and Chinese history also records the events when the Han Emperor gave the Golden Seal to the Uighurs. In the face of the facts in front of them, Japanese experts have called it too humiliating to admit that they have a vassal relationship with China. But with real evidence in front of them, they had to admit it.
summary
The main reason why the Japanese do not recognize Japan as a former vassal state of China is the word "commission" on the gold seal, and some Japanese people believe that this "word" has the meaning of entrustment and delegation. That is to say, Japan at that time already had a very high status, and the word "commission" showed that the Han Dynasty respected Japan, that is to say, Japan would not be a vassal of China. The word "倭" has a derogatory and despised meaning, but in Chinese history, "Wei" and "倭" have the same meaning.
History proves that Japan was once a vassal of China, and historical facts will not deceive people. At the time of China's decline, Japan invaded China's land for the sake of its hegemonism, and they even wanted to assimilate Chinese and completely turn China into Japanese territory.
But what they don't know is that Chinese never give in to the face of power, and it is not so easy to bully Chinese. Today, many people know that ancient Japan was a vassal state of China, and as Japanese, they should accept this reality.