Sino represents China in three aspects: the first one, from Qin, has similar pronunciation; Second, it refers to the ancient Mongolian tribe Rongdi (barbarian Rongdi is the collective name of ancient ethnic minorities in China, with Rongdi in the west and Di in the north. Sino is a transliteration of the land of China, meaning wolf; The third kind, silk from China, sounds very similar.

But the word "sino" in English can only be used as a prefix and cannot be used alone. Western society sometimes uses "Sino-" to mean "China", but "Sino" is a conjunction and is not used to mean "China" alone, such as China and the United States; China-Japan and China-EU relations. China and Japan: China-Europe.

The origin of China

There are two theories about the origin of China. The first is China's "China", which evolved from the ancient Sanskrit pronunciation of Qin. Although the Qin Dynasty was short-lived, it occupied an important position in history. The Qin Dynasty changed from enfeoffment to centralization, which influenced China for more than 2,000 years until the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

China invented porcelain in the Han Dynasty, and then the porcelain-making technology became more and more advanced. With the development of trade, porcelain was exported to western countries. Westerners have never seen such beautiful porcelain, so they named it after China's name "China".

Another way of saying this is that there was porcelain "China" before the Song Dynasty, Jingdezhen was called Changnan Town. In the first year of Jingdezhen in Song Zhenzong, due to the exquisite blue and white porcelain, Song Zhenzong changed Changnan Town to Jingdezhen. In the Tang Dynasty, exquisite porcelain could be fired. When foreigners saw that this kind of porcelain was so exquisite, they called it "Changnan" and "Changnan". After transliteration, English became "China" and "China". Slowly, China was also called "China" by westerners.