Why is Chinatown called Chinatown?

The area where China people live in other cities is called Chinatown because the Tang Dynasty had a great influence on overseas. By the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had become synonymous with China in southeast overseas countries. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, foreign countries called China or something related to China the Tang Dynasty. Not only the Tang Dynasty was regarded as the land of China, but also China people were called Tang people. ? China people have a deep historical complex. The Tang Dynasty was a powerful dynasty in the history of China. Overseas Chinese often call themselves "Tangren", and the place where they live together is conveniently called "Chinatown". Chinatown was originally named "Datang Street".

During the Tang Dynasty, foreign envoys brought back a large number of cultural books of the Tang Dynasty. Their understanding of China's culture is that of the Tang Dynasty, so that during the Japanese invasion of Korea by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, China called it "Tang State" and didn't know it was "Ming".

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1673, Nalan Xingde wrote a miscellaneous note on the Green Water Pavilion: "In Japan, people began to go in the Tang Dynasty, and the residents called it' Datang Street', which is ten miles long today." 1875, Zhang Deyi called Chinatown "Tang Dynasty City" in Travel Notes Around Europe and America, which was called Chinatown in English. The history of Chinatown is centuries earlier than the English name Chinatown.

Throughout the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, all over the world, especially in Southeast Asia, anything related to China or China is always called the Tang Dynasty. Not only the Tang Dynasty is regarded as the representative of China, but also China people are all called Tang people, and China's surname is Tang. China's clothes are all Tang clothes, China's merchant ships are all Tang ships or Tang ships, and China goods transshipped by seagoing ships are all called Tang goods. ? Even the modern customary name "Chinese" was called "Tang dialect" by overseas countries in the Song Dynasty.

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