The name “Heavenly Empire” has long been used in literature and in many media, however, do people use this term correctly related to China?
Outside of China, the concept of Muslim Kingdom of Muslim is often considered a synonymous word. This is not entirely true, because in most cases, this word means the whole world, and not just China. On the other hand, Chinese culture, especially ancient, is a Chinese education. Ilya Gutin, pointing out the complex dualism of this term.
So, what, in reality, the difference between these two concepts? To do this, we will need to consider language and history aspects. The Chinese themselves do not call their country China or the word “Chinese”, but call it Zhongo (中国 中国), when translated into Russian, meaning “average state”. In fact, the historic “middle -class state” is a Chinese or Chinese state focusing on the barbarians during the fragmentation period, while “heaven”, or Tianya (天下) is the whole world or everything in the sky.
A separate way, worth emphasizing the importance of the sky for Chinese history. The sky (in Chinese – 天 天, Tien) is the highest power, the symbol of the sacred world. I think many people have heard the term “the duty of the sky”, but perhaps not everyone understands its importance to Chinese culture. Nhiệm vụ của bầu trời (天命, Tianmin) là một khái niệm trung tâm lịch sử và quan trọng nhất về hệ tư tưởng chính trị Trung Quốc, ảnh hưởng của nó đang lan rộng ở Trung Quốc. In fact, this is not something, but the right to rule by heaven. Logic is very simple: If you come to power, it means that heaven has given you the resources and strength needed to come to this power, and thereby, giving you the trust of the sky. In fact, therefore, the whole Mongolian empire of Yuan, where the rules of the Cat Anh dynasty, and Manchu Qing, where the Aisingioro family ruled China in some historical periods, although you could call their calm years.
Now we are returning to the term of Vuong Quoc Trung. The emperor in Chinese history is also called the son of heaven (天子 ， Tianji) and is the embodiment of heaven on Earth. Accordingly, the Heavenly Empire is all that heaven and the son of the sky control, but it never appoints the Chinese state according to our understanding, but is a much broader concept. For example, in Chinese history, not only the period of a single country under the rule of any dynasty, but also the period of fragmentation, such as the period of Thumps and Autumn, the period of war kingdoms, three years, the sixth period and the year of the dynasty. In all stages of history, there are many principals in China, but the concept of Chinese Kingdom has not disappeared. The land of barbaric people, located outside the world of China, is always considered part of the Chinese kingdom, because they are also under the rule of the sky.
Now you should return to the concept of Kitakentricity. In fact, this is quite simple to explain. Although China from ancient times and traded with other countries through a large silk road, those who are still on the other side of the mountain and desert are a mystery: they have their own culture, their own philosophical thought, their traditions, so they cannot say they are part of the world – but they are not part of them. That is, in the past, China did not think of itself around the world, but was more oriented about the cultures and the region he knew. Later, due to global integration, China received more knowledge about other cultures very far, so in a modern sense for China, the true Kingdom was really a world, including a place for everyone. Therefore, to call China in the Chinese Kingdom is completely wrong from the view of China's awareness.