Due to differences in language and script, the name of a country will be called differently in different language countries. The specific name can be roughly divided into three kinds, one is to use transliteration, with their own country pronunciation similar to the word to translate the foreign language, this kind of text used for transliteration no longer has its own original meaning, only retain its phonetic and writing form. China for most of the world's countries are the way to transliterate the name of the country, such as English, France, the United States, Germany, etc., referred to as Britain, France, the United States and Germany.
The second way is to transliterate the name of the country, which means to translate according to the original meaning of the country name, such as Iceland, South Africa and other countries, the Chinese country name follows the original meaning of the name of these countries. The third way, following the historical name, is mainly the Chinese character cultural circle countries, such as Japan, Vietnam, have been called this for thousands of years, and the names of these two countries still have a deep relationship with us.
Japan has always been called the Kingdom of Wu before the Tang Dynasty, during the Tang Dynasty, pacifying Goguryeo, Japanese envoys came to the pilgrimage, because the emissaries knew Chinese, felt that the name of the Kingdom of Wu was too ugly, so they asked the Tang Dynasty to give the name, so Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi gave the name japan. This matter was recorded in the "New Book of Tang Dynasty Japanese Biography", and the later excavation of the Epitaph of the Japanese Envoys to the Tang Dynasty in China also confirmed that the name of the Japanese country did indeed come from the tang emperor's canonization.
The name of Vietnam appeared in the Qing Dynasty, when Nguyen Phuc Anh established the Nguyen Dynasty, sent envoys to China to request the name of the "South Vietnamese", but the historical State of South Vietnam also included the south China region of China, so the Jia Khanh Emperor felt that Vietnam's motives were not pure, and he had the intention of coveting Chinese land, so he refused to give the name South Vietnam and changed it to Vietnam. This is where the name Vietnam comes from.
The above three names basically cover most of the foreign names of our country, in fact, the same is true of foreign countries, and the names of other countries are nothing more than these models. For example, foreign countries call china, the same is true, the Chinese character cultural circle country, called China is also China, this is because Chinese characters are a "super-linguistic" ideograph, as a medium of Chinese character culture circle countries, in the other side of the national name and place name and other exclusive nouns do not need transliteration or paraphrase, but can be directly pronounced through the Chinese pronunciation of the corresponding Chinese characters, such as Our country in Japan is also China, pronounced as (chyugoku), in South Korea for 중국, pronounced (zungguk).
And other European and American countries, most of them call our country China, according to relevant research, this name originates from the transliteration of China's Qin Dynasty, Qin is pronounced chin in foreign countries, and later the Portuguese added the letter a after Chin to represent the region, which became China. This statement is supported by many scholars, including the French sinologist Bo Xihe, a well-known sinologist in the West, who also supports this view, believing that Qin was China's first unified dynasty, and ancient foreigners did use "Qin" to refer to people from China.
In addition, china also has two special titles, one is ancient India, calling our country Aurora, such as Wang Bo's poem: "Jiaotai Mirage, the ruins of the Russian Aurora; the moon is starry, sitting in the country of evil." The name derives from sanskrit transliterations. The Old Book of Tang also records this, saying that the Tang Tai Sect sent people to India, and the king of a certain Indian state, Shi Luoyi, was so surprised that he asked the people of various countries: "Since ancient times, there has been an aurora that has brought people to our country?" Everyone knows: "There is no such thing." "From the Tang Dynasty onwards, the name Aurora began to circulate, and later some overseas Chinese also used Aurora to call the motherland.
The second special title is called "Tangshan", which is the older generation of Chinese often call the motherland, tangshan here does not refer to Tangshan City in Hebei Province, but the older generation of Chinese overseas Chinese to the motherland's hometown habitual name. Tangshan here originally referred to "Tang Dynasty", the Tang Dynasty is one of the most influential dynasties in China's history, especially in the world, even beyond the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, some people say that China comes from Qin, and the name of Tangshan comes from Tang.
During the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was at its peak, the capital Chang'an even became a world-famous metropolis, merchants and envoys from all over the world gathered, and people of all races and colors could be seen everywhere, which demonstrated the great influence of the Tang Dynasty. So from the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Chinese began to be called Tang people overseas, Chinese merchant ships were called Tang ships, Chinese dialect was called Tang language, with the development of history, the Chinese settlements in overseas cities were called "Chinatown", and the Chinese called the motherland "Tangshan", that is, "Tang Jiangshan".
Bruce Lee has a movie called "Big Brother Tangshan" that is taken from its righteousness. Tangshan's real name is Zheng Chao'an, he is from Tangshan, that is, China, because of the resistance to local bullies, to protect the safety of overseas Chinese, so the Chinese overseas Chinese honor him as Tangshan big brother, which means the big brother of China. Therefore, it is precisely based on the great influence of the Tang Dynasty that the Chinese people call the motherland Tangshan, which also represents a beautiful meaning of the older generation of Chinese and overseas Chinese who hope for the rejuvenation of the motherland.