Myanmar, as China's southwest neighbor, has always had close contacts with our country, and in the past two years, more and more people from China have traveled to Myanmar, which has driven the development of Myanmar's tourism industry to a certain extent, but friends who have been to Myanmar may know that when they go to Myanmar, they call Chinese called "Deyou", and unlike us, we call tourists from foreign countries, generally directly call foreigners, and Burmese people call China "Deyou", why should they call it so?
First of all, to clarify this problem, we must first understand the history of Myanmar, historically Myanmar has always been a neighbor of China, the two peoples have close contacts, and the history of Myanmar is also very long, dating back to 4800 years ago, when the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar began to be settled, after thousands of years of development, as a neighboring Chinese people's name for Myanmar, in history has undergone many changes.
At first, Chinese called Burma the Kingdom of The Horse, which comes from 200 BC, when a nation rose rapidly in the Inowady River Valley, and this nation quickly controlled the trade route between China and India, thus often hindering the commercial exchanges between China and India on this road, and at this time, the Chinese called this nation "Hui People", and called the country established by this nation the State of Qi, as for the meaning of the name "Hui People"? History is no longer possible.
With the development of history, in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, another country rose in Burma, Chinese called this country "Shan State", the southern part of shan country is close to the state of Shan, and the north is adjacent to the Han Dynasty, the state of Shan is very afraid of being attacked by two countries, so it chooses to make peace with the Han Dynasty, during this period, the State of Shan has sent emissaries to the Han Dynasty many times, the Han Dynasty has given a return gift, and the exchanges recorded in the history books alone are as high as a dozen times, it is conceivable that from the Han Dynasty period, the diplomatic exchanges between China and Burma are extremely frequent.
Later, in 849 AD, another kingdom was established in burma, a country we call the Bagan Kingdom, according to historical records, the founding emperor of the Bagan Kingdom, Piyinbia, and the country experienced 15 generations of emperors. At that time, the country was famous far and wide, and the reason why it was famous was because it was a sacred place for Buddhism, and there were many Pali texts, as well as a large number of monks and laymen, and the number of craftsmen was as high as tens of thousands. At that time, there was a man named An arhat who came to the kingdom of Bagan, who was very highly accomplished in Buddhism, very loved by the king, and worshipped him as a national teacher, where he preached religion and reformed religion, which made Buddhism develop more deeply in the kingdom of Bagan. In addition, there were many craftsmen in the Bagan Kingdom, who attached great importance to the use of craftsmen, who changed their names to many utensils and handicrafts, which promoted the local economic development, and the Bagan Kingdom quickly became stronger, destroying the Kingdom of Bagan and other small countries in one fell swoop, and achieving the first unification of Burma.
Today, we call Burma "Myanmar", this title originated from the Bagan Kingdom, but it was called Burma during the Northern Song Dynasty in China, because at that time the envoys of the Bagan Kingdom followed the envoys of the Dali State to meet the Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the capital of the Bagan Kingdom was far away from the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the envoys of the two countries had to cross the mountains and mountains, the road was difficult and the mountains and rivers were obstructed, so they were called "Burma", because the meaning of "Burma" had the meaning of a distant frontier. Then there is that the country of Myanmar is in the valley, there is a large lawn in the middle, the Burmese people live here, the ancients in order to express more accurately, and highlight the local characteristics, they used the word "Dian" to represent, so it became what we call "Myanmar" today.
After saying that we call the Burmese, let's talk about the Burmese calling us "Deyou", because the Burmese people first saw Chinese, felt that Chinese and their appearance is no different, they used the word "Deyou" to call Chinese, "Deyou" in the Burmese language, means "the same thing", so this title has been passed down to this day.
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