In this world, South Korea is definitely a weird country. Because in their national concept, all excellent culture and outstanding elite talents in human history belong to them, South Korea. For example, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Confucius, Qu Yuan, Li Bai, etc., all belong to them in Korea. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine. In the end, it boils down to one sentence to describe Korea: We invented the universe.
Since South Korea is so great and excellent, how do they view the history of their country? Looking through Korean history textbooks, they are full of concepts of confrontation with Chinese history, trying to fundamentally get rid of the long-standing influence of China's long history on them. For example, the well-known and internationally recognized historical fact of Jizi Korea, in the eyes of Koreans , this historical figure from China's Shang Dynasty, although he is their ancestor, in order to eliminate the relationship with China, they can completely disown this ancestor.
Jizi Korea was a regime established by Jizi, the uncle of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty, who brought 5,000 people to the Korean Peninsula. However, Koreans insist that this academic view is actually the conjecture of Chinese experts. Experts imagined it based on the historical legends of the ancestors of Qin and Han Dynasties. For this reason, Koreans imagined their ancestors. They said that their ancestors were Hwanung, the son of the sun god Hwanin. The Sun God Hwanyin chose Samwei and Taebaek and gave Hwanung three immortal talismans as symbols of the gods in the sky. Hwanung led 3,000 people to descend directly from the sky and established the glorious Tangun Joseon Dynasty. The time is 2333 BC, and it is written directly in the textbook, so there is no such thing as Jizi, let alone Jizi Korea.
There are also some Koreans who recognize the existence of Jizi Korea, but in their eyes, the truth of the matter is this: During the Xia Dynasty, some Koreans migrated to China, and they were called "Dongyi people" " Later, when they saw that the rulers of the Xia Dynasty were ignorant and unprincipled, those led by Shang Tang rose up, proclaimed themselves kings, overthrew the Xia Dynasty, and established the Shang Dynasty. Later, after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, Jizi, as a member of the Shang Dynasty royal family, did not want to live an ignoble existence under the rule of the Zhou Dynasty, so he returned to his hometown in order to return to his roots.
In the geographical cognition of Koreans, ancient Korea has always been centered on Changbai Mountain and ruled a vast area from the Liao River Basin to northern Korea. The small country "Fuyu State" in China at that time was South Korea's A branch of China. Later, during the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty united with Silla in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula to conquer Baekje and Goguryeo, thus beginning the period when Silla unified Korea. Koreans recognize this as the heyday of its history, and that's it.
What is even more shameless is that in the Korean drama "Morning of the Empire", this is the history: Goguryeo was invincible, and the Tang Dynasty became its younger brother. The Goguryeo army easily broke through Chang'an City, the capital of Tang Dynasty. On the battlefield, Li Shimin was blinded in one eye by the Goguryeo general Yang Wanchun, and then captured Li Shimin alive. Li Shimin hoped that Goguryeo would let him go. Not only was he willing to bow to Goguryeo, he would even cede most of the country to Goguryeo.
But history is history. Baseless fabrication and falsehoods will only make Koreans happy for themselves. As outsiders, such irresponsible historical rumors are nothing more than after-dinner gossip. Just talk. When Koreans are amusing themselves, we must remind ourselves that the Chinese civilization is already great enough, and there are too many things in it that are worth exploring and inheriting. We must not be like the Koreans and indulge in certain glories that do not exist. , and then become the laughing stock of others.