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The earliest communication time between China and Japan.
During the China Three Kingdoms period, an evil Mattel kingdom appeared in the Japanese archipelago, which ruled over more than 30 small countries. This country is ruled by the queen, and politics and religion are one. During the reign of Empress Jimeizi, there were frequent diplomatic exchanges between the Xiematai Kingdom and the Cao Wei regime in China, and the earliest historical book that systematically recorded this event was The Biography of Three Kingdoms Shu Wei Japanese.

◎ Historical Value of Biographies of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Wei and Japanese

Among the official records of ancient China, The History of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou, a historian in the Western Jin Dynasty, is the first book to record the ancient Japanese history. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, which reflects the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was written in the Southern Dynasties, about 150 years later than the History of the Three Kingdoms, and its basic contents were copied from the History of the Three Kingdoms. Since then, China's official biographies of Japan and Japan are basically based on the History of the Three Kingdoms, and then some additions and deletions are made according to the situation at that time. At the same time, early Japanese history books, such as National History of Japan and National History of Great Japan, also quoted a lot of records in Biography of the Three Kingdoms and Japanese. Therefore, The Biography of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Wei and the Japanese is actually an important raw material for China and Japan to study and write ancient Japanese history.

◎ Ancient Japan in Wei and Jin Dynasties

According to the records in The Story of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Wei and the Japanese, we have a basic understanding of ancient Japan in the eyes of China people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties: Japan (that is, ancient Japan) is an island country, located in the southeast sea of Fang Jun (set by Gongsun Kang at the end of Han Dynasty) on the Korean peninsula; From Chinese mainland's point of view, "it should be in Huijidong and Dongye". Before Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were more than 100 small countries that paid tribute to the Han Dynasty. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were 30 countries, all under the rule of the evil queen Matai.

From today's perspective, the Japanese Biography's record of Japan's position is obviously not accurate enough. As for Japan, there are 30 countries. Scholars generally believe that these 30 countries are not all countries in the Japanese archipelago during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but only some countries under the jurisdiction of Xiematai, a big country with the earliest transportation with Chinese mainland. But in the eyes of Wei and Jin Dynasties, Japan was mainly the evil Mattel Kingdom and its 30 subordinate countries. Although Japanese biographies also say that there is a dog slave country south of the evil Matai kingdom, it "does not belong to the queen", but it has not been specifically introduced.

The Biography of Japanese introduced the official system, geographical location, climate and environment, agricultural products and customs of Xiematai and its 30 countries one by one. Especially the evil Mattel Kingdom is recorded in the most detailed way, from which we know that in the 3rd century, an evil Mattel Kingdom ruled 30 small countries appeared on the Japanese archipelago. The biggest feature of the evil Mattel Kingdom is that it is ruled by the Queen through the "ghost road", so it is a country ruled by a queen who combines politics and religion.