As we all know, we all like to call Russians "fighting people", which is not an empty story, but for a certain reason.
First of all, the daily life of the Russian people is very "hardcore", because russia has a cold climate all year round, many times of the year are in the cold, everyone is not willing to stay outside, for a long time, let the Russians develop a straightforward personality, dare to think and dare to do the characteristics, anyway, no matter what to do, it is finished.
Of course, we don't call Russians a "fighting people" just because of their personality. There are also deeper historical reasons. For example, in World War II, within a few days of the start of World War II, the Soviet Union suffered huge losses, such as the loss of more than 650,000 people in the Battle of Kiev, such a loss on any European country can basically declare the end of the war, but the heroic Soviets did not give in, but insisted on resisting, until 1945 finally attacked and achieved a brilliant victory, which is really admirable!
Today's Russia still has such a style, and today, under the leadership of the rather tough Emperor Pu, Russia is not as strong as the United States in terms of overall strength, and its total economic output is only about one-twentieth of that of the United States. But there are still many times to avoid falling behind, and sometimes to make the powerful United States suffer, precisely because Russia has an admirable "bright sword spirit".
Therefore, we all call Russians a fighting people, and this title is really well-deserved for them.
So when we call the Russians a fighting people, what do they call us?
Everyone knows that in English foreigners call us "China", which means porcelain, because in ancient times through the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road, our porcelain can be said to be famous all over the world, especially in Europe is very popular, so Europe uses "China" to refer to its place of origin.
However, in Russian, the Chinese speech is "Китай", which means "Khitan", so why is China "Khitan" in Russian?
Speaking of this, we have to mention a nation that was once astonished, the Khitan people, when the Khitan people established a powerful Liao state in the north, and had a very large area in the north and south of the desert, which was prominent for a while.
However, the good times did not last long, after the Liao Emperor Tianzuo, the Liao state disappeared into the long river of history. However, at this time, a fierce man appeared in the Liao kingdom, he was Yelü Dashi, who led tens of thousands of people all the way to the west and established the Western Liao in central Asia.
The country dominated the western region for more than a hundred years, and repeatedly defeated the powerful Seljuk Empire, and its influence was so great that even distant Russia knew the country's name.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Russians, there is only Khitan and they do not know that there is a Southern Song Dynasty, so they all refer to Khitan as a reference, and this title has been passed down to this day.