Archaeology of Place Names in "Dragon King of Shendu"

Two countries are mentioned in "Dragon King of Shendu", one is Fuyu country and the other is Dongdao country. Perhaps most audiences are not interested in Fuyu Kingdom, and it just flashed in their minds as an ancient country name; and Dongdao Kingdom, because of its name and speech similar to Japanese, is also regarded as ancient Japan. Well, not at all, the story is far from that simple. First of all, Fuyu is an ancient country with historical existence. There is still a county in my country named after Fuyu (because it is located in the ancient land of Fuyu), and the author happens to be from Fuyu County. However, the Fuyu Kingdom in the film is not the old city of the author's hometown. There are at least two points that can be explained: First, according to historical records, the Fuyu Kingdom Park was established in the 2nd century before the state, and was destroyed by Goguryeo in 494 AD, while Di Renjie lived from 630 AD to 630 AD. In 700 AD, that is to say, in the era of Di Renjie, the Fuyu country had been destroyed for more than 100 years; secondly, in the film, the Tang Empire's expedition to the Fuyu country obviously needed to cross the sea. The south is connected with Koguryo, the east is connected with Yilou, the west is connected with Xianbei, and the north is weak water", that is, the northeastern region from the north of Liaoning to the south of Heilongjiang. It can be seen that ancient Fuyu is a landlocked country. To sum up the above two points, it is enough to show that the Fuyu country in the "Dragon King of Shendu" is not the ancient Fuyu country. So where is this country of Fuyu, let's check the historical records first: During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the Korean peninsula was divided into three kingdoms: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. In the sixth year of Yonghui (AD 655, when Di Renjie was in his 20s), Goguryeo and Baekje joined forces to attack Silla, Silla sent envoys to beg for aid in Tang, and Gaozong then sent troops to attack Goguryeo and Baekje. That is to say, the only two enemy countries that the Tang Dynasty fought against in this era of the film, Goguryeo and Baekje, and both of them are located on the Korean peninsula. The Buyeo Kingdom can only be one of them. When checking the materials of Baekje, it was found that: In 538 AD, the Holy King moved the capital of Sitao (Buyu County), and re-consolidated the imperial power and rebuilt his kingdom into a powerful regime. Since then, the country's name has been changed to Nam Buyeo (because Baekje regards Buyeo as their birthplace). Therefore, in 655 AD, the country of Fuyu that was attacked by the navy of the Tang Dynasty was this southern Fuyu-Baekje, which is now the western part of South Korea and a small part of the southwestern part of North Korea.
Let's verify it again through the clues in the film. When Di Renjie asked about Yin Ruiji's surname, he said it was not the surname of the Central Plains, and then Yin Ruiji revealed that he was from Fuyu. If the Fuyu country of the Tang Dynasty was the contemporary Korea, then the surname "Yin" should still be left in today's Korea (although the ancestors of Korea and North Korea had not yet created characters in the Tang Dynasty, they had their own language, and they spoke Speak "Korean" with handwritten Chinese characters, so most of the ancient sounds are preserved in modern Korean). There is a "Yin" surname in Korean. The Korean pronunciation of "Yin" is 윤 (yoon), which is the eighth largest surname in South Korea, but when translated into Chinese, it is translated into a Chinese surname "Yin", such as the familiar Korean star. Yoon Eun Hye. Eun Rui Hee's Korean name and pronunciation is 윤예지, which further confirms that the country of Buyeo mentioned in "Dragon King of God" is Baekje, which is now the west coast of South Korea. Next comes the second question, is the East Island country in the film Japan? It can still be overturned with two reasons: First, it is clearly mentioned in the film that the Dongdao Kingdom is between the Datang Empire and the Fuyu Kingdom. Because their wars were implicated, they took revenge on the Tang Empire. If the East Island country is Japan, Japan is to the east of Fuyu Kingdom, and the Tang Empire is to the west of Fuyu Kingdom. Japan is not between the two countries at all, and will not be implicated by this war because of its geographical location; secondly, returning to history again, AD In 645, the Dahua reform of Japan completed the unification of the whole of Japan, and the country was officially named Japan. "New Book of Tang·Japanese Biography" records: In the first year of Xianheng (670), the Japanese country sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty. At this time, the Japanese country had "learned the language of Xia, hated the Japanese name, and changed the name to Japan." If in 670 AD, Japan sent a special People came to tell the Tang Dynasty that "the Japanese name is evil, and it is renamed Japan", indicating that before this, the Tang Dynasty still called Japan "Japanese" instead of Dongdao. In addition, the ancient Chinese names for Japan also include "East Ying" and "Fusang", but they have never been called East Island. To sum up the two points, this East Island country is by no means Japan. We are going back to positive thinking again, locking in from the front, and then using evidence to prove that since the information given to us in the film is a small island between Dongdao Country in the middle of Datang and Fuyu, after checking on the map, the largest one that meets this geographical condition is found. The island is Jeju Island. After some inquiries, it was found that the ancient names of Jeju include Doi, Dongyingzhou, Shera, Tammura, Toro, etc. Among these names, except for "Eastern Yingzhou", they are all "island countries". It means that it is located in the eastern waters of the Tang Dynasty, so it is very likely to be called the East Island Country at that time. The second point is that the people of the island in the middle of the film have excellent water skills. Di Renjie also mentioned that they rely on fishing all day long. Jeju Island is also very suitable for this point. Jeju Island is an island formed by volcanic activity 1.2 million years ago. Lava stone and very little arable land, so most of the aboriginal inhabitants make a living by fishing. Therefore, the East Island country mentioned in the film should be today's Jeju Island. You may still have a question. If the East Island country is Jeju Island, why is it that the people of the East Island country in the film speak Japanese rather than Korean? First of all, Jeju Island belonged to the Korean Peninsula regime in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, so Jeju in the Tang Dynasty The island is not greatly influenced by the countries of the Korean peninsula. In addition, in fact, ancient Japanese and ancient Korean have the same root and the same origin. The language of the Buyeo people gradually evolved into Goguryeo, Baekje and ancient Japanese with the separation of regions. American scholar Christopher found that Goguryeo is similar to Japanese in terms of grammar and word formation. He proposed that the common origin of the ancient Japanese (Japanese) and Goguryeo people may be the Yiya people in the western Liaoning region of China facing the Bohai Sea. The Dongyuehai arrived in Japan, and after a few hundred years another branch migrated to the northeast, forming the Goguryeo people. Therefore, it is not unusual for the East Island country to speak old Japanese.
After some argumentation, we found that "Dragon King of Shendu" is about China (the Tang Dynasty) fighting Korea (Goguryeo) and the west half of South Korea (South Buyeo) in order to save the eastern half of South Korea (Silla), and then was attacked by Jeju Island ( East Island Country) story of revenge.

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