Foreigners refer to westerners in China's inherent concept. Westerners are the collective name of white people in Europe and America and black people in Africa. In particular, in the traditional concept of China people, the north of China is considered as uninhabited and extremely cold, and the north is not near the sea. People from the only country in the north, namely Russia, are also from the west. Their image and appearance are no different from those of westerners, so they are regarded as "westerners" together, so there is no such thing as "Beiyang people".
Ethnic characteristics:
1, Caucasian, blond, tall, with thick hair.
2。 Black, curly hair, wide nose, tall and slender.
Japanese
In today's Chinese, people from the East and Japan refer to the Japanese themselves. Orientals, the general term for people who live on oriental ocean islands.
But in the eyes of the Japanese, orientals refer to East Asians including China, South Korea, North Korea and other East Asian countries. This is related to the Japanese cultural concept. In their view, the East is mainly the difference between the West and Nanyang.
Ethnic characteristics:
Yellow people are shorter, everything else is the same.
Nanyang people
Nanyang people refer to people living in South Asian countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
Ethnic characteristics:
Yellow people are shorter, everything else is the same. 1. According to the Bible, there was a worldwide flood in prehistoric times. At that time, only eight members of Noah's family were rescued by God's instructions. (Refer to Noah's Ark) After the flood receded, God signed an eternal rainbow contract with Noah and took the initiative to promise never to exterminate mankind.
Noah had three sons, Shem the firstborn, Ham the second and Japheth the third.
The descendants of the eldest son Shem have survived to this day and become Asian Americans with yellow skin and black eyes.
The descendants of the second son, Han, have multiplied to this day and become a black group with dark skin and short curly hair.
The descendants of Japheth, the third son, have multiplied to this day, becoming the descendants of Europe, America and Australia, with fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes.
Therefore, the world is one. However, in ancient China, people subjectively thought that the land they owned was the center of the world, and those outside the land were uncivilized, and those outside the land were uncivilized people. Therefore, they treat any nation coming from the ocean with a contemptuous attitude and vision. It is not difficult to see that the original concept of "foreigner" is discriminatory, separate and unacceptable. Some people even call it a barbarian. Summary of complaint
Before the development of navigation, China was relatively calm, and there were no so-called foreigners. Until the14th century, with the development of navigation, all countries in the world were exploring unknown areas, so cultural exchanges and collisions began to occur, followed by grievances and frictions.
Toyo feud
Oriental people are foreigners who started to associate with China earlier. According to legend, Oriental people are descendants of 500 pairs of boys and girls sent by Qin Shihuang to seek elixir of life during the Qin Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese sent "envoys of the Tang Dynasty" to China many times to study Chinese civilization. Today, many relics of the Tang Dynasty in China are preserved in Japan, including costumes, tea culture, calligraphy and painting, writing and so on.
On the other hand, with the development of navigation, Japanese pirates appeared in the East China Sea of China, harassing and looting coastal areas and people.
It was not until the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in the late Qing Dynasty that Japanese aggression against China caused deep emotional trauma to the people of China.
Since World War II, the Chinese and Japanese peoples have maintained friendly exchanges, but some Japanese militarists are still influencing the feelings of the two peoples.
Nanyang feud
The earliest contact with Nanyang people was from the third year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1405) to the eighth year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty (1433). During Zheng He's voyage to the Western Ocean, he led a huge fleet to sail seven times, reaching the east coast of Africa as far as possible, and had friendly and peaceful exchanges with more than 30 countries and regions in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.
After the Qing Dynasty, many China laborers went to Nanyang and laid a foundation there. Now many China people live in Nanyang.
On the other hand, due to the hard work of the Chinese in China, they started a career in Nanyang, which led to the dissatisfaction of the local people in Nanyang, and many anti-China and anti-Chinese incidents occurred. 1998 The anti-China massacre (Indonesian massacre in China) is still fresh in people's memory.
Western feud
Westerners first entered China through the Silk Road. We have established friendly trade relations with China, because it is a long way and there are not too many contradictions and conflicts. The Travels of Marco Polo makes westerners yearn for China.
With the establishment of Christian faith in European and American countries and the great development of navigation, European and American countries have stepped out of the backward situation, surpassed China's culture and technology and become big countries. Facing the closed-door policy of the Qing Dynasty, western countries sent missionaries to China to establish friendly relations and served as officials of the Qing Dynasty, spreading Christian beliefs and bringing advanced technology. Today's lunar calendar system, early accurate astronomy, timing technology and so on are all obtained from westerners. There was even a "Westernization Movement" to revive the Qing Dynasty, but all ended in the failure of the Sino-Japanese War. The failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, on the one hand, saw China's backwardness in science and technology, and more clearly reflected the corruption and wrong ideas of the Qing government.
On the other hand, faced with the refusal, non-acceptance and non-opening of the Qing Dynasty, the western powers, out of their inflated possessiveness, finally embarked on the means of military aggression to break the door of China. The plundering and killing of the people of China and the Japanese people have caused profound national harm to the people of China, which has penetrated into all levels of social life, dealt a great blow to China people's usual ideology of a big country on the spiritual level, and forced China people to bow their heads to reflect on their own shortcomings and admit their backwardness and ignorance.
In the Second World War of last century, the aid of westerners helped China defeat the Japanese aggression and freed China from colonial rule. Since then, he supported the national army because of his different system concepts, but because of the failure of Chiang Kai-shek's government, he made enemies with the Mao Zedong government. Until it deepened many times in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, it ended in failure.
After China's reform and opening up, foreigners' culture and technology have mushroomed in China, which has promoted the development of China in all aspects, and made China's growth and development surpass all previous eras in just 30 years, becoming a miracle in the 20th century and 2 1 century. China's attitude of reform and opening up has won the praise and recognition of people all over the world, and the political opinions of the China administration have become more and more important in the world. This is in line with the government's proposal to "unswervingly hold high the banner of peace, development and cooperation, as always, pursue an independent foreign policy of peaceful China, and adhere to friendly exchanges with all countries in the world on the basis of the Five Principles of Peace." Are inseparable. With the deepening of socialist construction in China, the people of China have become more and more open, peaceful and cooperative with people of all nationalities, thus winning the trust and welcome of all nationalities. Nowadays, the harmonious society advocated by China brings people of all countries and parties into close cooperation. Nowadays, foreigners from five continents and four oceans can be seen in every city in China, whether they are traveling, working, communicating or living in such a harmonious place. The concept of westernization towards foreigners reflects the positive and correct learning attitude of China people, and makes us feel that an open-minded nation will make continuous progress, while a proud nation will only slack off. Of course, some old injuries and certainly can't disappear at once. On the one hand, we need to be warned, on the other hand, we need to constantly seek truth.