Questions about Ryukyu

1 The earliest Ryukyu people, whether kings, nobles or ordinary people, had no surnames, only first names. Influenced by Japan and China, Tang Harmony came into being, and Fujian immigrants have 36 surnames. Later, after the merger of Ryukyu and Japan, the surname was changed to Japanese, and when the Amami Islands were invaded by Samoans, the surname was changed to a single word.

Qiu, a celebrity in Ryukyu, was named by China people when they went to Ryukyu. In fact, Yizhou, which arrived in the Three Kingdoms period, was Ryukyu, not Taiwan Province Province. In the Ming Dynasty, with the support of China, Ryukyu began to be unified into a Ryukyu country.

Taiwan Province Province, Ryukyu and Fujian have considerable homology in maternal blood. In the past, navigation was underdeveloped, so the Ryukyu Islands were confused with the islands of Taiwan Province Province. Later, the big Ryukyu refers to the Ryukyu Islands, and the small Ryukyu refers to the island of Taiwan Province Province, hence the name Ryukyu Township.