Regarding the name of the Yuan Dynasty, it actually comes from Kublai Khan's good friend Liu Bingzhong 's suggestion. According to "History of Yuan Dynasty: Biography of Liu Bingzhong" to "8th year of Yuan Dynasty, the founding of the country was reported as the Great Yuan Dynasty". Kublai Khan adopted it, which is the origin of the naming of the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty was called "Great Mongolia" or "Great Dynasty". With the severance of the remnant Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the first national regime in Chinese history to be dominated by non-Han ethnic groups, got its own name.
Liu Bingzhong
Note: Liu Bingzhong (1216-1274), whose first name was Kan, whose courtesy name was Zhonghui, and his pseudonym was Zangchun Sanren. He changed his name to Zicong because of his belief in Buddhism. After becoming an official, he changed his name to Bingzhong. In the political arena of the Yuan Dynasty, he played a significant role in the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty's political system and the rules and regulations of .
Why do you need the founding of the country?
As for why you want to establish a country, it must start with the "Decree of a Country" issued by Kublai Khan.
The first reason mentioned in "The Founding of the Country" is to correct the name and use "beautiful name" to continue the orthodox of the Central Plains dynasties in all dynasties. The establishment of the Great Yuan Kingdom name shows that the Mongolian Khan regime accepted the "ancient system" - an aspect of Han culture, and its political and cultural attempts to win the orthodox Central Plains by adopting the Han-style national name.
The second reason is that the country's names in the past were all banned from the previous dynasties. For example, Qin initially occupied the Shaanxi-Gansu area, and later unified Liuhe, and then called Qin. The Han Dynasty was originally just the fiefdom of Liu Bang , but later unified the whole country, and should not be called Han Dynasty. These are all backdoor listings, which is wrong.
So when the Yuan Dynasty was founded, the former Mongolia should not be used. That is inappropriate, and the name should be changed. This is a magnificent saying: "We have not obtained the qualification to invest in the Central Plains dynasty before, so we cannot go public through a backdoor listing. However, this is not important. What is important is that we are the last and only winners, so we have the final say on what name and how to explain it."
The third reason is the decline of the "Five Virtues End and End". Ouyang Xiu , Zhu Xi and others criticized the "Five Virtues End and End" theory, which made him unable to recover after the Song and Jin dynasties. The Yuan Dynasty changed to inherit the tradition of the three ancient dynasties, "justified and named", taking the meaning of "Qianyuan" in the Book of Changes, and founded the country as Dayuan. This shows that Kublai Khan can talk and laugh with the Book of Changes, and is many times more skillful than the emperors in ancient China. It also proves that the Yuan Dynasty is actually different from the dynasties in China. It is said that Kublai Khan and his good friend Liu Bingzhong sang a song "We Are Different" at the press conference on Dingguo.
Kublaik
The fourth reason is that Kublaik is also a scheming bitch. The first four generations of Mongolian leaders split Mongolia's territory into several major khanates. In name, these khanates were of course obeying the leadership of the central government. But Kublai Khan could not affirm the loyalty of these relatives and nobles, so he had to set the country name. Anyone who followed the name of the Yuan Dynasty was his own family. Those who did not need to set the country name Kublai Khan had bad intentions and must be eliminated. As for whether the country name is Dayuan or Xiaoyuan, who care?
Yuan Dynasty territory
Why use "Dayuan"?
As for why "Da Yuan" is used, it is because Yuan takes Qian from the Qian hexagram in the Book of Changes, Yuan Henry Zhen . "Yuan" is the first of the four virtues of "Yuan Henry Zhen" in the Qian hexagram. The growth of all things begins with "Yuan", and Yuan is the largest. Of course, big also means big, it is the ultimate treasure that has been greatly enhanced. That is to say, I, Kublai Khan, built a big country. It seems that the people of "Great Britain" are more arrogant than the British in later generations. Their country is called "Great Britain", which means "Great Britain", which is only one big, which is much less than my yuan.
