To say that There are many nicknames in China, such as the pronouns they use, such as Huaxia, Zhonghua, Zhongyuan, Shenzhou, Kyushu and so on. Foreign countries have also given China a lot of nicknames, like ancient Greece and Rome once called China the silk country, the place where silk came. The name is obviously because of silk, and for a long time, China was the only country in the world that could make silk. Exported a large amount of silk to the Western countries, which was their luxury, and China was called a silk country.
There are also porcelain countries, Qing countries, Tang countries, etc., as a neighbor, India has not given China a nickname. It has long been believed that the pejorative term of China is not a Japanese name for China, but originated in India. And at that time, there was no pejorative meaning, it was a normal title, according to research, Qin and India had contacts very early. The word Chi Na is most likely a transliteration of Qin, and the Japanese kept sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty during the Tang Dynasty, and they also learned of this title in succession.
It became a derogatory term later, to be precise, after the Meiji Restoration, the Battle of Ko-1 was defeated. The Japanese have long revered China as a superior country, and this fiasco shocked them, because they were not angry with our China, so they made China pejorative. India's name for China is also called Aurora, which is a word used by ancient Indians to show respect, and Mr. Lu Xun is also quite proud of this title. These two titles appear more often in historical records, and China calls India more.
The first time India appeared in Chinese historical records should be in the history of history, "History. The Biography of DaWan Lie records that there is a poisoned country in the southeast of (Bactria). At that time, it was called body poison, and this title should have begun in the pre-Qin period. The scope mainly refers to India and the river basin, because of the historical development of phonetics, the spread of language, why it is so called a dispute. In addition to this, there are 20 kinds of titles, as follows: Shen Poison, Xintou, Xindu, Body, India, Tiandou, Xintu, Xiandou, Tianzhu, Tiandu, Tiandu, Yudu, Qianyu, Donation Reading, Xintou, Xindu, Suspense, Xianxin, Yindu.
Tianzhu should be the most familiar to people, yes, this is the western region in the novel. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it changed its name to poison and turned its head to call it Tianzhu, which was still a big country at that time. Li Shimin asked the monk to go to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures, and only after Xuanzang returned did he call it India according to the pronunciation. Most of these nicknames are transliteration errors, changed several times, which is why there are so many nicknames. Observation can be found that there are several nicknames that are very close to the current name, such as Indo and Yindu.
It is worth noting that these strange names are not malicious, on the contrary, in history, there have been many commercial exchanges between the two sides. Until the Ming Dynasty, the two sides had good relations, zheng he seven voyages to the west, of which the Indian state of Kerala was an important transit point for his fleet. As a result, they also made several visits to ancient Indian countries, especially the second time, in 1403, when Chengzu Zhudi also sent Yin Qing to reward the kingdoms of Kochi (present-day Cochin) and Guri (present-day Calicut).
The Qing Dynasty closed the country to the outside world, not only stopped paying tribute, but also abolished trade, so the relationship gradually faded.