“中国”这名称何时始有?答曰“周朝”,但最初“中国”并不指国家,而指国都。 “中”字本来的写法,就像一根棍子插在一个方形或圆形的平面上,这根棍子是旗杆。为什么某一方圆之地插上一根棍杆便成了“中”呢?原来,远古时氏族中凡有大事,便把画着族徽的旌旗插在旷野上,这在古时叫“建中”,族人望见,便得从四方围拢过来, When did the name “China” begin? It was said “Zhou Dynasty,” but at first “China” did not refer to the state but to the capital. “Zhong” was originally written in the form of a stick stuck in a square or circular plane, the stick is the flagpole. Why a certain radius into a stick has become a “middle”? It turned out that ancient clan where there are major events, they put the banner of the ethnic emblem inserted in the wilderness, which in ancient times called “build In ”people see, we have to come from the Quartet surrounded,