History
Since 1372, the Chinese envoys of the Ming and Qing dynasties have used *** as a sign of the necessary sea route to the Ryukyus.
Diaoyu Island was recorded in the book "Shunfeng Xiangsheng" (Sending with the wind), a book about China's sea routes, as early as 1403.
In 1719, Xu Baoguang, the envoy of the Qing Dynasty to the Ryukyus, pointed out in Zhongshan Chuanxinlu that the sea route was: from Min'an Town, out of Wuhumen, to take the head of the chicken cage, through the vase island, Pangjiashan, Diaoyutai, Huangwei Island, Chibei Island, to take the Gumisan, Matejima, and into the Ryukyu Naha port.
In December 1971, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying, " *** The islands of ***, Yellow Tail Island, Red Tail Island, South Kojima, and North Kojima are dependent islands of Taiwan.
Like Taiwan, they have been an inseparable part of Chinese territory since ancient times."
During his lifetime, the late Japanese historian Kiyoshi Inoue noted that " *** and other islands have been Chinese territory since the Ming Dynasty at the latest.
This fact is indeed recognized not only by the Chinese, but also by the Ryukyuans and the Japanese."
In 1708, the Ryukyu scholar Ching Shun-tse clearly recorded Diaoyutai, Huangwei and Chihwei Islands in his book, Guan Guangyi, and referred to Gumi Mountain (Kume Island) as "the mountain in the southwestern boundary of the Ryukyus", which was tantamount to recognizing that *** and its affiliated islands belonged to China.
The Japanese Takahashi Shogoro also pointed out that the names of the islands were taken by China first, among which the inherent names of Huangwei and Chiwei are undoubtedly Chinese names, which are the same as Taiwan's dependent islands, such as Vase, Cotton, and Pangjia, while Japan does not use the name of the islands "屿". " for island names.
Japan *** calls *** part of Okinawa Prefecture.
However, the Ryukyu Kingdom *** before Okinawa was annexed by Japan had 36 islands, which did not include *** at all.
In 1785, the Japanese Hayashi Zihei included a map of the 36 islands of the Ryukyus in his Illustrated Guide to the Three Kingdoms, with Diaoyutai, Huangwei Mountain (Yellow Tail Island), and Chiao-Yu Mountain (Red Tail Island) marked in different colors.
In 1805, the Japanese "map of the 36 islands of the Ryukyus" also delineated the 36 islands of the Ryukyus in a circle one by one, and the *** of Taiwan Province of China, Mount Huangwei, Mount Chimei, and Mount Vase, Mount Pangia, and purposely painted a small circle on the upper end of each to show that there is a difference with the 36 islands of the Ryukyus.
According to the Chinese scholar Ju Deyuan, around 1838,
Because the Ryukyus were responsible for receiving the Qing Dynasty envoys to the offshore west of Naha, "Keiranuma Islands" in the "Kubo Island" and "Kumechi Island" by mistake.
If it is the same place, it is obvious that not only has it been known to the Qing Dynasty envoys, but also has been attached to the name as the target of Ryukyu voyage.
Therefore, it is still doubtful whether it is the same as this Daidong Island, which was marked at the time of the survey".
Because the Japanese verb after the object, so *** by Japan to "fish fishing island", but until after the Second World War, some Japanese official documents and maps are still used in some of the Chinese island names, such as Huangwei Island, Chibi Island and so on.
Japan renamed the *** Islands as the "Senkaku Islands", first translating "Pinnacle Islands" in the charts of the British Navy's Land and Water Records as "Senkaku Islands", and then in 1900 as "Senkaku Islands".
This is at least 500 years after the Chinese naming!
In April 2013, when former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara tried to raise donations for the "purchase" of the ***, about 1.4 billion yen (Rs. 80.72 million) of the donations went unused and were used as a fund, depriving them of their usefulness.
In 2016, the governor of Tokyo suggested that Japan *** build ***.
Ancient records
China was the first to discover, develop *** and acquire *** through prior occupation.
The *** and its neighboring waters have been used by the Chinese people since ancient times for fishing, medicine, sheltering from the wind, and resting.
As late as the Ming Dynasty, it was discovered, utilized and named by the Chinese people.
Ancient Chinese books such as "The Book of Changlu" and "Shunfeng Xiangsheng" have complete records of the routes taken by Chinese fishermen in these waters.
For five centuries until 1895, China exercised these rights smoothly.
The Ryukyus was originally a vassal state of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which paid tribute to them and sent envoys to enthrone the kings of the Ryukyus.
Official documents such as the Record of Envoys to the Ryukyus recorded in detail the experience of sailing to the Ryukyus through ***, Huangwei Island, and Chimei Island, and repeatedly confirmed the border between China and the Ryukyus, which showed that *** did not belong to the Ryukyus.
China *** effectively ruled and administered *** and consolidated ***.
In 1171 (the seventh year of the Qian Dao of the Southern Song Dynasty), Wang Dayou, a general who defended Fujian, set up a military camp at Penghu, and dispatched his generals to the islands, so that Taiwan and its affiliated islands, including the ***, were militarily under the jurisdiction of Penghu, and administratively under the administration of Jinjiang of Quanzhou, Fujian.
The 1562 (Ming Dynasty) "Chihai Tuzhu" and the 1863 (Qing Dynasty) "Huang Qing Zhongguo Yi Tongyi Yizi Tu" are both clearly defined and labeled.
Japan wanted to occupy
In 1786, the Ryukyu Islands were listed in the "Complete Map of the Ryukyu Kingdom" in the "Illustrations of the Three Kingdoms" produced by Hayashi Zihei, a native of the Sendai Clan of Japan, and it was noted that this was the shipping route from China to the Ryukyus.
In 1884, Tatsushiro Koga, a native of Fukuoka, claimed to have "discovered" the *** and its
subsidiary islands and applied to the Japanese Ministry of the Interior for their inclusion in the Japanese national boundaries Japan's Secretary of the Interior, Aritomo Yamagata, sent a letter to the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sin Inoue, on the matter.
Inoue replied in 1885: "This island is close to the border of the Qing Dynasty, and it is smaller than Daidong Island, which has been surveyed before, and the Qing Dynasty has already named the island." In response to Inoue's suggestion, Yamagata replied to Okinawa, refusing to immediately establish a national standard in *** and emphasizing in his letter that the incident "should not be made known to the media".
In 1885, Japan realized that *** and its affiliated islands were rich in iron ore resources, and that they were "valuable islands", so they wanted to steal them.
Japanese occupation
1894 (Qing Guangxu 20 years) Sino-Japanese War broke out, at the end of the war, Japan on January 14, 1895, through the Cabinet meeting decision, claimed that *** for the "terra nullius", the establishment of the standard national standard in ***, formally included in the Japanese version of the map.
On April 17, Qing Minister Li Hongzhang signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, stating that "the whole island of Taiwan and all the islands attached thereto" would be ceded to Japan, and the treaty specified that the two countries would delimit their maritime boundaries in accordance with this provision, as well as a map of Taiwan that was attached to the treaty.
In chronological order, the occupation of *** and its dependencies was related to the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Sino-Japanese War, but the Japanese argued that *** was not ceded in the Treaty of Shimonoseki signed in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and that the two sides did not formally delineate a careful maritime boundary thereafter.
"Unified labeling"
"In order to strengthen the international community's "Japanese *** awareness" of disputed islands such as *** and Dokdo, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) reported on March 19, 2014, that it was "not only the Japanese, but also the Japanese, who have been working on this issue".
The Japanese Prime Minister's official residence argued that this confusing labeling "is not conducive to Japan *** declaring its **** of the islands in the international community".
For this reason, it was decided that a uniform English labeling would be carried out.
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that since the Tokyo Olympics will be held in 2020 and a large number of foreign tourists will come to Japan, it will urge private map publishers to follow the guidelines of *** and adopt Japan's *** unified labeling for the English labeling of the islands, including ***.
Economic significance
Oil resources
Japan covets the *** not only because of the strategic resources of the ***, but also because the Diaoyu Islands and their neighboring waters not only contain a large amount of oil resources, but also have great economic value in other aspects.
Japan's investigation of the East China Sea put a lot of resources, according to Japan's former Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism fan Chikage's statement, these waters are buried enough to Japan's consumption of manganese for 320 years, 1,300 years of cobalt, 100 years of nickel, 100 years of natural gas, as well as other mineral resources and fishery resources, access to these waters, will make Japan from a small country of resources to become a large country of resources in East Asia.
The oil and gas reserves of the East Sea are about 7.7 billion tons, which is enough for Japan to use for nearly a century.
Fishery resources
*** is China's East China Sea Jing fish farms, with rich fishery resources, the Pacific Ocean Kuroshio flow through, bringing a large number of fish, China's Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan and other places of the fishermen are often to this area to fish.
This harbor is also rich in flying fish, Taiwan Province of Keelung, Su'ao fishermen, often rely on this fishing area to survive.
The main fishing species are: greenfin horseface triggerfish, yellowfin horseface triggerfish, short-tailed bigeye snapper, mackerel, horseface fish, horse mackerel, horse mackerel, horse mackerel, mackerel, blue anvil fish, redfish, Chinese alligatorfish, skipjack tuna, sharks and so on, and mackerel, redshirt, splake, skipjack, skate, big and small yellowfin, and banded fish, etc., which is also abundant, and the annual allowable catch reaches 150,000 tons.