Scholars talk about the South China Sea: China's ownership of the South China Sea Islands is indisputable.

Recently, due to the Philippine South China Sea arbitration case, the South China Sea issue in China has once again become the focus of public opinion. China's "No One Can Be Less" Weibo and WeChat have been screened, and netizens are defending the territorial integrity of the motherland in their own way. On this issue, the reporter recently interviewed An Wenfeng, a scholar who has studied the history of the Ming Dynasty (pen name "Observation History of Eastern Shandong"), and analyzed China's ownership of the South China Sea Islands from a historical perspective.

An Wenfeng introduced that during the Ming Dynasty, Sulu in the Philippine Islands was a member of the tribute system in China. At that time, China implemented the tributary system, and Sulu went to the Ming Dynasty in 14 17, and was received by the Yongle Emperor Judy. At that time, the rest of the Philippine Islands were wild places, and most of the residents were uncivilized. At that time, the general idea was that "the world is not a king's land." Emperor China believed that the areas within the tributary system were naturally members of China. In his view, from 1405 to 1433, Zheng He's seven voyages to the Western Ocean were essentially a kind of southern tour, that is, he was not an emperor but visited his own territory, which naturally included the South China Sea region of China.

As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, our people had already started sailing and carrying out production activities in the South China Sea. In the Song Dynasty, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the South China Sea Islands and the South China Sea region have become the homes of our people's daily production and life. An Wenfeng said that the population was about 60 million in the early Ming Dynasty, but it increased to 654.38+0506- 152 1 year in Zhengde, so in the Ming Dynasty, a large number of people immigrated to Nanyang. A large number of fishermen from Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan also went fishing in the South China Sea to make a living.

According to the Economic Daily, Plough Record is a navigation manual used by fishermen in the South China Sea since the Ming Dynasty. It not only records the voyage and course to a certain area, but also records the names and accurate positions of islands, islets and reefs in the South China Sea in detail. After being used orally for many years, Geng Lu Shu began to have a manuscript. From the Ming Dynasty, that is, before Zheng He's voyage to the West, at the beginning of the15th century, The Book of Gengxu was circulated in different manuscripts for more than 600 years. This is a historical testimony of China people's experience in the South China Sea, and China has indisputable interests in the South China Sea.

It is reported that the Ming Dynasty also set up an inspector and Hainan Wei, and the Qing Dynasty set up the Yazhou Naval Battalion to patrol the South China Sea. In April of A.D. 1909, Governor Zhang of Guangdong ordered Guangdong Navy to inspect Xisha. Lee Joon led more than 65,438+070 officers, surveyors, chemists, engineers, doctors and workers. And led three warships, Fu Bo, Chen Hang and Guangjin, to patrol the Xisha Islands and the sea area, and named Xisha Islands 65 and 438+04 successively.

By the time of the Republic of China, China at that time had demarcated the South China Sea boundary of China, and the * * * of the South Island Reef had also been acquiesced by foreign countries. During World War II, the South China Sea and other islands were occupied by Japan. According to the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, China should take over the islands and reefs in the South China Sea from the defeated Japanese, and have the right to control the South China Sea.

Drawing lessons from China's immigration experience when the Qing Dynasty competed with Russia and Japan for the Northeast, An Wenfeng said: "China * * * did the right thing, building an island in the South China Sea, actually building an airport, and actually developing and utilizing islands and reefs."