The history of Diaoyu Island

The earliest record of Diaoyu Island can be traced back to the Sui Dynasty thousands of years ago.

At that time, Taiwan Province Province of China and Diaoyu Island were adjacent to another independent country called Ryukyu.

On one occasion, Zhu Kuan, an envoy, was sent to surrender, and Chen Ling and Zhou led an army to attack, passing through Diaoyu Island on the way.

China's earliest literature on the possession of Diaoyu Island,

At least it can be traced back to the first year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1403) and the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Zai, a native of China, first landed on Diaoyu Island in 1372.

In the meantime, the Ming people collected pearls, herbs and fish in the Diaoyu Islands under the jurisdiction of Taiwan Province Province.

In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang and others took Diaoyu Island as their strategic defense line when fighting against the Japanese pirates.

1602 Japan invaded Ryukyu and Ryukyu was supervised by the Japanese for more than 40 years.

1654, Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty conferred the title of King Ryukyu as King of Quality.

Pay tribute once every two years, calling China the father country and using the title of Qing Dynasty.

Many charts of Xinjiang in Ming and Qing Dynasties clearly indicate that Diaoyu Island is a part of China.

The lost text of Six Chapters of a Floating Life in Qing Dynasty is Notebook Beads written by Qian Yong, a scholar in Qing Dynasty.

It was his own manuscript that preserved the fifth volume of Shen Fu's Six Chapters of a Floating Life.

One of the reasons why Japan claims sovereignty over Diaoyu Island is that Japanese Kojiro Yamaguchi "discovered" the island in 1884.

Shen Fuyu discovered Diaoyu Island in 1808, 76 years earlier than the Japanese.

Scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait gathered in Nanjing to further research Qian Yong's manuscript The Story of the Sea. Professor Cai Genxiang of Taiwan Province Normal University, Xiao Xiangkai, former director of the Institute of Literature of Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences, and Peng Ling, the discoverer of ancient books, exclusively disclosed the behind-the-scenes twists and turns of cultural relics discovery and textual research to our reporter.

Notebook Beads found that in Qian Yong's works, there are many records of "conferring Ryukyu Kingdom" in the 13th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty.

A detailed record of Ryukyu scenery, Shen Fu's life experience and the titles of the volumes of Six Chapters of a Floating Life,

*** 18 pages, more than 6200 words.

In A.D. 1808, Shen Fu accompanied Qi Kun and Fei Xizhang to the sulfur ball.

Shen Fu's missionary experience in Six Chapters of a Floating Life is described in The Story of the Sea.

When the ship was sailing on the Sino-sulfur border, Shen used 55 words to record the sea sacrifice scene in the Diaoyu Islands:

"13th, I saw the Diaoyutai, shaped like a pen. I prayed for the black ditch from a distance, and suddenly I saw Bai Yan flying around the pond as big as a seagull. The wind changed during the day. On the morning of the 14th, I vaguely saw Aunt Mi Zhu enter the Ryukyu boundary. "