Although the history of Thailand is not long, it is still very long, with a history of more than 700 years. It was called Siam in ancient times, and the first unified dynasty established in history was Sukhothai Dynasty? At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty in the Central Plains was at odds with the Yuan and Jin Dynasties, and took the opportunity to annex small tribes and grew rapidly.
Later, after the Yuan Dynasty unified China, in order to protect themselves, the rulers of Sukhothai Dynasty surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty and accepted the conferment of the Grand Court. With the Yuan Dynasty as its backer, the domestic situation was relatively stable, and the Sukhothai dynasty once reached its peak.
But after the peak, it is decline. With the passage of time, the domestic contradictions of Sukhothai dynasty became more and more acute. At this time, King Wu Tong stood up and announced that he would break away from Sukhothai Dynasty and stand on his own feet to compete with Sukhothai Dynasty. Later, Sukhothai Kingdom was directly annexed.
In order to gain recognition, it voluntarily surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains at that time, and was finally named King of Siam by the Ming Dynasty. At this time, it officially replaced the status of Su Huoyi Dynasty, which was called Ayutthaya Dynasty in history.
1752, the strongest and largest feudal dynasty in the history of Myanmar was born. After its establishment, it began to expand everywhere, and even the Qing Dynasty suffered greatly.
Thailand will naturally not be its opponent. Indeed, in 1767, the Burmese army erased the Ayutthaya dynasty from the map.
At this time, Thailand had to turn to our country for help. Because Thailand paid tribute to China every year, Myanmar even infiltrated forces near Yunnan, China, and the Qing Dynasty at that time gave Thailand some help.
At this time, Zheng Xin, a Chaoshan native of China, also stood up. He quickly assembled an army in Thailand. With this army, he finally drove away the Burmese army, swept away separatist forces all over the country and recovered Thailand. He was also elected as the leader of Thailand and was deeply loved by the Thai people. Now he has set up one in the middle of Thailand Square? Huang Zheng Daxin Monument? This is his worship.
Later, Zheng Xin's Ministry killed General Chakuri and established a new dynasty. Because the capital moved to Bangkok, it was called Bangkok dynasty, and he was honored as Rama I.
However, at that time, the Qing Dynasty only recognized Zheng Xin as the king. After all, he is Han Chinese and related by blood. Rama, I know that, too If the Qing dynasty accuses it, its small country Thailand will suffer. After all, the Qing Dynasty was in its heyday and few countries in the world opposed it.
So he had to find a way to explain to the Qing dynasty. So he claimed to be the son of Zheng Xin, fooled the Qing Dynasty, and was officially recognized by the Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, it doesn't violate the meaning of Qing dynasty, on the other hand, it is logical for you to do it yourself. Inherit the throne? This can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
In order to make the story more true, Rama I gave himself a Chinese name, called, and gave Zheng's Chinese name to the descendants of the dynasty. Later, this practice became a habit and has been passed down to this day.
Today's king of Thailand is the tenth king of Bangkok dynasty, and he is called Rama X. Naturally, he has a Chinese name and surname.