Some time ago, I read a book in which I made some discussion of the "Wo" thing, but when I carefully tasted it, I had a feeling that I was still unfinished, and I thought about it and thought that it was necessary to further explain this problem on its basis.
The word "倭"
First, the word "倭" has no praise or depreciation
According to the Analects, Wu is one of the Nine Yi. The character "倭" has no pejorative meaning, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the Uighurs repeatedly invaded the southeast coast of China, which was hated. Since modern times, with the militarization of Japan, the people who launched the war of aggression have reached the extreme in their dislike of the "Bo people."
2. Not all of the "倭" recorded in the history books refers to Japan
1. The "Wo" mentioned in ancient history books is not necessarily japan today. The earliest mention of "倭" is the "Shan Hai Jing Hai Hai Nei Bei Jing": Gai Guo is in the south of Juyan, the north of Wu. It is a genus of swallows.
The State of Gai in question was a state recorded in the pre-Qin writings, when it was located in the north of the present-day Korean Peninsula.
In China, there have been excavations of the inscription "Wang Fa Gai Hou Zhou Gong Plotting Birds Blessing Birds and Swelling King Yi Jin Baifu Poultry with Zha Bao Yi", which records that when King Zhou Cheng, Gai Guo did not submit to Zhou Tianzi and rebelled many times, and as a result, King Zhou Cheng sent troops to fight, and Gai Guo and his nobles were pacified by King Zhou Cheng in one fell swoop.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Northern Classic of Hai Nei only records that the Uighur Kingdom was in the south of the Yan Kingdom, but the author Rujin did not mention how to reach this "Uighur Kingdom", thus leaving room for the imagination of the reader of history, and some people even believe that the "Uighur State" mentioned here is not today's Japan, but a tribal country near the sea in the northeast of the Korean Peninsula.
Since the historical information confirmed by archaeological excavations coincides with this record of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Northern Classic of Hai Nei, it can be assumed that the name "倭" already existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and that there must have been some degree of communication between the Zhou and the Uighurs.
If the "Wo" is identified as today's Japan, it is difficult to imagine that modern people have a perception of the level of productivity in the Western Zhou Dynasty, because there is still a vast ocean between the Zhou and the Uighurs to overcome.
2. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the King of Japan sent envoys to pay tribute to the court, willing to pay tribute to the vassals, and asked the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to give him a name, so he gave the name "Wo".
It is clearly recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, The Tale of Dongyi, and the Wu Dynasty clearly records that in the second year of the Jianwu Dynasty, the Uighur Kingdom paid tribute to the pilgrimage, making people call themselves dafu, and the southern boundary of the Uighur Kingdom was also the extreme. Guangwu gave it a seal.
In the first year of Emperor An's reign, King Shuai of Wu was promoted to the rank of one hundred and sixty people, and he would like to see him.
The Uighurs came to Han
This historical event tells that in the second year of the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, in 57 AD, there was a Wuguo doctor who went to Luoyang to contribute to the pilgrimage. Emperor Guangwu presented a seal to the King of the Uighur Kingdom.
King of Han Dynasty "Golden Seal."
Half a century later, in the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty's Han Dynasty, that is, in 107 AD, another King of the Kingdom of Wu, named Shuai Sheng, sent emissaries to China and presented one hundred and sixty people to Emperor An of Han as a gift.
In 1784, in the fourth year of Emperor Hikari's reign in the Edo period, on Shiga Island in Hakata Bay, in the Kitakyushu region of Japan, two sharecroppers named Hideharu and Kihei stumbled upon a gold seal engraved with the words "King Han Nuo" while digging a ditch.
The gold seal is cast in pure gold, the print body is square, 2.3 cm in length and width, and 2 cm in height, snake button, and engraved seal characters. After the gold seal was unearthed, it took a hundred years until 1979 when their family's descendants donated it to the Fukuoka City Museum in Japan. It is generally believed that this golden seal is the seal given to the King of Wu by Emperor Guangwu of Han. During the Han Dynasty, the words "commission" and "倭" were common.
3. The height of the Uighurs recorded in the history books
As for the specific reason for the use of the word "倭", we do not know, but we may be able to see clues from ancient books.
"Later Han Shu Dongyi Liechuan Wu": From the queen's kingdom of dongdu sea for more than a thousand miles, to the slave country, although they are all of the Wu species, they do not belong to the queen. From the south of the Queen's Kingdom to the Kingdom of Zhu Ru, the length of the people is three or four feet. From the southeast of Zhu Ru for a year, to the naked country, the black tooth country, so that the station is transmitted, the extreme is here.
Book of the Later Han Dynasty
Referring to the above records, coupled with the fact that Fan Ye, the author of the Book of later Han, was a Southern Dynasty person, one foot was equal to about 25 .8cm during the Southern Dynasty, and it was easier to calculate the height of the people in that area.
4. Judging by the location of the Uighur Kingdom, it is Japan
There are many records of the "Wo" incident in the history of our country, but they are all considered to be inconsistent with Japan at that time, and the first time it can be determined that it is a record of ancient Japan, which appears in the "Book of Han and Geography", which has a short record: "There are Uighurs in the Sea of Lelang, divided into more than a hundred countries, and they come to see the clouds at the age of the year." ”
Lelang was a county established by the Han Dynasty in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, the Uighurs first crossed the sea to Lelang before going to China to pay tribute.
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records that the Kingdom of Wu was "in the southeast sea" of the Korean Peninsula, "inhabited by mountain islands", and "more than 100 countries", and that "its land was larger than that of Huiji Dongye". Among them, Huiji Dongye is an ancient place name, and the seat of governance is in today's Fuzhou, Fujian.
Combining the above information, it is possible to lock the geographical location of the Uighur Kingdom on today's Japanese island.
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5. After the Uighurs called themselves Tabor
The story of "Tabor Ben Wu" is widely circulated. Taibo was the eldest son of the father of the Zhou tribe, gu gong, because he and his younger brother Zhongyong gave the kingdom to his younger brother Ji Li, who was the father of King Wen of Zhou.
Taibo and Zhongyong waded through the mountains to Jingman, which is now suzhou. The destination that Tabor arrived at was across the sea from Japan, which also led scholars to speculate endlessly whether it was possible for people in the ancient Jingbaran land to reach the Japanese island by boat, and it was definitely not a minority.
It is said that in a lost ancient book, "Wei Luo", it is recorded that Cao Pi, the king of Wei in the Three Kingdoms period, sent envoys to the Kingdom of Wei and found that the local "men, young and old, all of them were tattooed and tattooed, smelled their old language, and called themselves Taibo." ”
Chen Shou had referenced Wei Luo when he composed the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but only quoted "men, young and old, are tattooed", but abandoned the more critical "smell its old language, calling himself after Taibo" ”
Chen Shou is a rigorous historian, and there is reason to believe that he must have seriously examined this before omitting that sentence, but when he wrote the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi, Karasuma Xianbei Dongyi Biography and Wu", before explaining the customs of the Uighurs, he first confessed that the Xia Hou Shaokang Feng Shuzi had no spare time, which made people curious.
Three kingdoms
"Historical Ni Theory" believes that from the synthesis of many pieces of information, it can be seen that the ancestors of our country went to sea to the Uighurs very early, and they were already familiar with the Uighurs, the Uighurs, and the Uighurs, and they were well known before they were recorded.