concept

The concept of "Emperor" in Chūka shisō.
Maybe，it is little different with the concept of "Emperor" of the West.
　
A person who created the concept of emperor.
It's "Zheng" of king of the Qin.
(and he become the first emperor of China.)
 　
A long time, China was the Warring States period.
There were kings on various place of China at that time.
Zheng was also one of those people.
(and the Qin was also one of those kingdoms.)

He destroyed them.
221 BC，he unified China for the first time in history of China.

He founded the Qin dynasty.


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Chinese character of king is 王.
Japanese pronunciation of the current of this word is "ō" or "ou".
(and maybe，王 is also little different with the concept of "King" of the West.)　

"Kings.
They were the ruler of the local government of China to the end.

However，I’m only ruler of China.
I’m not equal rank with them.

Therefore，I use the name of king as it is.
It's impossible.
It is necessary to make appropriate new word for me."　

Zheng ordered so.

And the word ”皇帝” was made.
Japanese pronunciation of the current of this word is "kōtei" or "koutei".
　
Of course，translations of this word is "the emperor".


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Although its existence has not been confirmed yet.
Xia dynasty was established as the first dynasty of China.

Then，about 3700 years ago，the Yin dynasty destroyed the Xia dynasty.
(Existence of this dynasty has confirmed.)　
　
And about 3100 years ago，the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Yin dynasty.
After from this time，history become history clearly.
(Percentage of legend is reduced.)


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The time of the Zhou dynasty founding，Zhou gave the fief to retainers.
They had a territory as to surround the territories of Zhou itself.

Of course，this would have had meaning of home country defense from different ethnic groups.
At the same time，they have also advanced the development of undeveloped region.

By the way，"China" of until the time of the Zhou dynasty founding.
It seems to have been middle area of the Yellow River yet. 　
Admit those as unified dynasty of China.
There was a little unreasonable it.

But expansion of Range of China begun by it.　

Note:This "China"  think as "Chūka".
It might be better.