Did China name the Japanese country, or did you name it yourself? What do the Japanese think?

Since the Tang Dynasty's eastward expedition to unify Korea, Baekje and Silla on the Korean Peninsula, Japan has been very obedient to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty to inquire about politics. Japanese scholars' discussion on the change of national title from Japan to Japan, that is, the history of the formation of the country, is basically based on the records of China's historical books such as The History of the Three Kingdoms and Old Tang Books. That is to say, there were many countries on the Japanese archipelago at first, which merged with each other and eventually formed Japan.

The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty says that "Japan hated its indecent name and changed it to Japan".

The earlier Tang Li (written by Liu Fang, a historian of the Tang Dynasty) also clearly stated that Japan was another name for Japan. However, when heian period (8th-12th century) read the Book of Japanese Records in the imperial court, people often questioned: Was this country named by Japan itself or by the Tang Dynasty? The doctor flatly dispelled doubts: because it was on the sunrise side, the Tang Dynasty was named Japan. During the Edo period (mid-17th-19th century), a Shintoist was very dissatisfied, saying that the name of Japan was given by the Tang people, which indicated that it belonged to the Tang Dynasty. Why Japan? Xuan Chang, a Chinese scholar who wrote Biography of Ancient Stories, also believes that it has nothing to do with the belief in the sun god, but takes the meaning of geographical location. It has been the view of China people since ancient times that Japan is at the extreme of spreading to the East. "Look east only at the sun" (Wang Weishi), the Japanese origin of the envoy to Sui Dynasty, and the Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty are all based on China's concept. As for Japan's writing about the origin of the Japanese emperor, there is no place for the Japanese emperor, which annoyed Emperor Yangdi. I am afraid it is because there is only one emperor, and where is Japan, of course, it is necessary to teach the Emperor Sui to splash Zhu all over his face. The wonderful thing is that some people say that only by standing on the Korean peninsula can you watch the sunrise in the east and the sunset in the west.

According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, in the first year of Xianheng in Tang Gaozong (67), the Japanese sent envoys to congratulate the conquest of Korea. After learning Chinese a little, I hated the name of Japan and changed it to Japan. It was the eighth time that Japanese sent Tang Dynasty to China in 72 AD. According to the Japanese history book "Continuing the Japanese History", when the ship landed, the local people raised their voices and asked: Where did you come from? A: From Japan. In Japanese books, it is a witness that the title of Japanese history books has changed from Japan to Japan. But China left material evidence for them, which is the epitaph of the Tang Dynasty.

At this time of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian abolished the son emperor Ruizong, and went to the summit in person, changing his son's surname and Tang Dynasty to Zhou Dynasty. Supposedly, she should be very concerned about changing the name of the country, but the Japanese people come all the way to pay tribute and call them whatever they like, taking their names from their masters. In 73, Wu Zetian hosted a banquet in the Linde Hall of Daming Palace for the envoys. The emperor drew a circle, accepted and recognized the new country name, and it became "Wu Hou changed Japan to Japan" in the courtiers' pen, which was normal for the Tang Dynasty, which thought it was the boss.

In p>24, a stone tablet was found in Xi 'an, bearing the words "Japan" impressively, which provided material evidence for the name of Japan. This is a Japanese student who died in China in 734, the 22nd year of Tang Kaiyuan. Named Jing Chengzhen, it may have been a compound surname, but in China it is simply a single surname. He was "tireless in learning" and regretted "asking questions". He died at a young age and was "thirty-six in the Spring and Autumn Period". Buried in a different land, the soul returns to its hometown. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty also mourned, and this emperor was Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. He also wrote poems such as "It's getting worse every day, and Wang Huayuan shows his face" to the envoys to the Tang Dynasty.

In a word, the relationship between the Tang Empire and the small Japanese country in Dongyi at that time was one of submission. It is not surprising that its country name was recorded in Old Tang Shu and New Tang Shu. We should know that all the Chinese used in Japan 2 years ago, Confucianism and Buddhism were also inherited from China. 15 years ago, Okinawa, the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, was also a vassal of the former Qing government. To this day, senior intellectuals in Japan are proud of writing Chinese brush. It is not surprising that temples and ancient streets are also expressed in Chinese.