Starting from 1372, the conferring envoys of China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties took * * * as the only way to the Ryukyu Sea.
As early as 1403, the book With the Wind about China's sea routes recorded the Diaoyu Islands.
17 19, Xu Baoguang, an envoy of the Qing Dynasty who went to Ryukyu, pointed out in the biography of Zhongshan that his sea route was: from Min 'an Town, he went out of Wumen, took Jilongtou, passed through Huabaoyu, Pengjiashan, Diaoyutai, Huangweiyu and chiwei yu, and took Gumishan and Maji Island to enter Naha Port of Ryukyu.
19711February, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China issued a statement saying: "* * *, Huangweiyu, chiwei yu, South Island and North Island are affiliated islands of Taiwan Province Province.
Like Taiwan Province Province, they have been an inseparable part of the territory of China since ancient times. "
The late Japanese historian Kiyoshi Inoue pointed out before his death that "islands such as * * * have been the territory of China since the Ming Dynasty at the latest.
This fact is recognized not only by China people, but also by Ryukyu people and Japanese people.
1708, Cheng Shunze, a Ryukyu scholar, clearly recorded Diaoyutai, Huangweiyu and chiwei yu in his book Introduction, and called Gumi Mountain (Kumi Island) "the town mountain on the southwest border of Ryukyu", which is equivalent to acknowledging that * * * and its affiliated islands belong to China.
Japanese Kogoro also pointed out that China took the names of islands such as * * * first. Among them, the inherent island names such as Huangweiyu and chiwei yu are undoubtedly the names of China, which are the same as those of Huapingyu, Mianhuayu and Pengjiayu, which are affiliated islands of Taiwan Province Province, but the Japanese did not use the island names of "Yuyu".
Japan claims that * * * belongs to Okinawa Prefecture.
But before Okinawa was annexed by Japan, Ryukyu Kingdom had 36 islands, not including * * * at all.
1785, Japanese Lin shiping attached a map of the 36 islands of Ryukyu in his Introduction to the History of the Three Kingdoms, marking Diaoyutai, Huangwei Mountain (Huangwei Island) and Chiwei Mountain (chiwei yu) with different colors.
1805 The Japanese Map of the Thirty-six Islands of Ryukyu also circled the thirty-six islands one by one, while the * *, Huangweishan and Chiwei Mountains in Taiwan Province Province of China were drawn side by side with the Vase Mountain and Pengjiashan, and a small circle was specially drawn on the top to show the difference with the thirty-six islands of Ryukyu.
According to the research of China scholars' house, around 1838,
Due to the Ryukyu people who were in charge of receiving the Qing Dynasty's conferring envoys, they mistakenly applied the names of "Jiuchangdao" and "Jiumichi Island" in the "Qingliangjian Islands" on the west coast of Naha to Huangweiyu and chiwei yu, which not only misled the Qing Dynasty's conferring envoys at that time, but also was used by the Japanese Meiji * * * in 1885.
If they belong to the same place, it is obvious that they are not only known by Ambassador Zhongshan of Qing Dynasty, but also have their own names as the target of Ryukyu navigation.
Therefore, whether it is the same as this Dadong Island, there are still doubts about the bid during the inspection. "
Because the Japanese verb comes after the object, * * * was changed to "Diaoyu Island" by Japan, but some official documents and maps in Japan still use the names of China islands such as Huangweiyu and chiwei yu after World War II.
Japan renamed the * * * Islands as "Senkaku Islands", which was first translated into "Senkaku Islands" in the Land and Water Map of the British Navy, and was called "Senkaku Islands" in 1900.
This is at least 500 years later than the naming of China!
20/kloc-in April, 2003, when Shintaro Ishihara, the former governor of Tokyo, tried to raise donations for the purchase of * * *, about 654.38+04 billion yen (about 80.72 million yuan) was used as a fund and lost its use value.
20 16 the governor of Tokyo suggested that Japan * * * build * *.
Ancient records
China first discovered and developed * * *, and obtained * * * through preemptive strike.
* * * and its adjacent waters have been places for China people to fish, collect herbs, take shelter from the wind and rest since ancient times.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the people of China discovered, used and named it.
China's ancient books, such as "Geng Xu Shu" and "Farewell with the Wind", completely recorded the routes of China fishermen in this sea area.
In the five centuries before 1895, China had been successfully exercising these rights.
Ryukyu was originally a vassal state in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and paid tribute to them. In Ming and Qing Dynasties, envoys were sent to confer titles on the Ryukyu King.
The official documents recorded in "The Record of Ambassador to Ryukyu" recorded the sailing experience to Ryukyu via * * *, Huangweiyu and chiwei yu in detail, and confirmed the boundary between China and Ryukyu many times. Historical facts show that * * * does not belong to Ryukyu.
China * * * effectively ruled and managed * * and consolidated * * *.
1 17 1 year (the seventh year of the Southern Song Dynasty), Wang Dayou, a general guarding Fujian, set up a military camp in Penghu and sent troops to various islands. Taiwan Province Province and its affiliated islands, including * * *, are under the military jurisdiction of Penghu and administratively managed by Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian.
1562 (Ming dynasty) and 1863 (Qing dynasty) are clearly defined and marked.
Japan wants to occupy
1786, The Complete Map of Ryukyu Kingdom, produced by Lin Shiping, a vassal of Sendai, Japan, listed the * * * islands and indicated that this was the waterway from China to Ryukyu.
1884, Japanese Fukuoka Koga Shiro claimed to have "discovered" * * * and it.
Japanese Interior Minister Yamagata Aritomo sent a letter to Japanese Foreign Minister Noue Kaoru on this matter.
Noue Kaoru replied on 1885: "This island is very close to the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Compared with the Dadong Island Fiona Fang, which was surveyed before, it is very small. The Qing Dynasty has named it." In response to Noue Kaoru's suggestion, Yamagata Aritomo replied to Okinawa, refusing to immediately establish a national standard in * * *, and stressed in the letter that the incident "should not be known to the media".
1885, Japan learned that the rich iron ore resources of * * * and its affiliated islands were "Treasure Island" and wanted to steal them.
Japanese occupation
The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894 broke out in 1894 (the 20th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty). At the end of the war, Japan passed a cabinet meeting decision on 1895+ 10/4, declaring * * * as "terra nullius", establishing national standards in * *, and formally drawing it into the territory of Japan.
/kloc-In April, 2007, Li Hongzhang, the minister of the Qing Dynasty, signed the treaty of shimonoseki with Japan, saying that "the whole island of Taiwan Province Province and all its affiliated islands" would be ceded to Japan. The treaty also stated that the two countries demarcated their maritime boundaries respectively according to this clause, and the map of Taiwan abided by the treaty.
In chronological order, the occupation of * * * and its affiliated islands was related to the treaty of shimonoseki and the Sino-Japanese War. However, the Japanese believe that judging from the treaty of shimonoseki signed during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, * * * has not been ceded, and China and Japan have never formally demarcated a detailed maritime boundary since then.
"unified labeling"
According to the report of Japan's Sankei Shimbun on March 19, 2065438, in order to strengthen the international community's "Japan's * * * awareness" of disputed islands such as * * * and Dokdo, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs began to uniformly mark the English names of these islands, and marked them on English maps issued by Japan.
The Japanese Prime Minister's official residence believes that this chaotic labeling "is not conducive to Japan's declaration of these islands to the international community."
Therefore, it was decided to make a unified English label.
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Tokyo Olympic Games will be held in 2020, when a large number of foreign tourists will come to Japan. Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will urge non-governmental map publishing institutions to follow the guiding principle of * * * and adopt the unified labeling of Japan * * in English labeling of islands such as * * *.
economic meaning
petroleum resources
Japan covets * * * not only because of its strategic resources, but also because Diaoyu Island and its adjacent waters not only contain a lot of oil resources, but also have great economic value in other aspects.
Japan has invested a lot of resources in the investigation of the East China Sea. According to Chikage Ogi, former Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan, these sea areas contain minerals and fishery resources such as manganese, cobalt, nickel, natural gas, which are enough for Japan to consume for 320 years. Obtaining these sea areas will turn Japan from a small resource country into a resource power in East Asia.
The oil and gas reserves in the East China Sea are about 7.7 billion tons, which is enough for Japan to use for nearly a hundred years.
fishery resources
* * * is a fishing ground in the East China Sea with rich fishery resources. The Kuroshio in the Pacific Ocean flows through it, bringing a lot of fish. Fishermen from Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces often fish in this area.
This harbor is also rich in flying fish, and fishermen in Keelung and Suao of Taiwan Province Province often rely on this fishing area for survival.
The main fishing species are: black mackerel with green fin, black mackerel with yellow fin, giant snapper with short tail, mackerel, horse mackerel, mackerel, black herring, green rootstock, red herring and silver carp.