During the Tang Dynasty, what was the significance of Wu Zetian giving the two pandas to Japan?

I hope that Japan and the Tang Dynasty will be reunited like pandas, and pandas are national treasures in ancient times, and their status is so noble.

Wu Zetian sent two pandas to the Japanese at that time just to show peace. Don't let the Japanese invade China.

It is the friendship between the two countries, and the Japanese name is Wu Zetian, and then the panda is sent to prove that the two countries are friendly.

Wu Zetian's relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Japan was still very good at that time, and he gave it to Japan in the hope that Japan could maintain good relations with the Tang Dynasty.

Because is the panda a rare animal in China? Wu Zetian sent two pandas to Japan, hoping that Japan could also get China's treasures.

It shows that the panda was already a national treasure at that time, and the gifts given by the exchanges between countries were relatively rare and precious!

Japan's name was given by Wu Zetian, and sending two pandas to Japan is a normal diplomatic gift.

This is the same as today's diplomacy with other countries, we send you something, other countries also send us something, just normal etiquette.

In 685 A.D., Wu Zaoshan was the first to give giant pandas to Japan.

Nowadays, the giant panda plays an important role as a national gift to convey feelings. In fact, as long as you trace history, you can find that the giant panda as a diplomatic gift began in 685 AD, when the Tang Dynasty empress Wu Zetian presented two giant pandas as a national gift to Emperor Tenmu of Japan, and the Japanese imperial yearbook also made a similar record. As a special messenger, the giant panda conveys the friendly feelings of the Chinese people to their friendly neighbors, and its name goes down in history.

China and Japan are separated by a strip of water, and there were close exchanges as early as the Han Dynasty. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the economy, politics, and culture had reached a stage of unprecedented prosperity. In 630 (the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan), Japan sent Tang envoys to the Tang Dynasty for the first time, including ambassadors, deputy envoys, foreign students, scholars, translators, etc., to conduct in-depth research and study in various fields and express friendship.

The Tang Dynasty's legal system, academic culture, science and technology, religious beliefs, and even certain customs and habits were successively transmitted to Japan.

The vertical arch (December 688 of the first month of 685) is the year name of Lu Zeli Dan of Tang Ruizong, but in fact, Wu Zetian manipulated the government and Ruizong had no real power, so the vertical arch is generally counted as the year name of Wu Zetian.

In 685 A.D., on September 18 of the first year of the vertical arch (this day is very coincidental: on this day of the solar calendar in 1931, Japan launched the 918 Incident), at the moment (9 o'clock in the morning), the Chang'an palace guards and two animal tamers surrounded two spacious and tall, red and flowered animal cages, and rode the post express train, starting from Chang'an and speeding eastward. The group went to Yangzhou, boarded a sea ship, and accompanied the Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and sailed across the ocean to Japan.

This time, Wu Zetian presented two "white bears" and 70 furs to Emperor Tenmu of Japan. The "white bear" is actually the giant panda.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the panda became a great gift to New China's diplomacy. In modern friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries, when the giant pandas visited as a national gift arrived in the country, they were treated "like heads of state". In September 1972, China and Japan established diplomatic relations, and China decided to give away two giant pandas.

As soon as the planes carrying the pandas "Lan Lan" and "Kangkang" entered Japanese airspace, a formation of fighters escorted them. On November 4, 1972, a grand ceremony was held in Ueno Park in Tokyo. The person in charge of the Japanese side said at the ceremony:

This pair of pandas is the best gift from the Chinese people to the Japanese people, and November 4 is a symbol of friendship between the Japanese and Chinese peoples. ”

In 1994, the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base was shipped to a giant panda couple "Meimei" and "Yongming" in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, which opened the prelude to the cooperative research of giant pandas abroad. According to the agreement signed between China and Japan on the "10-year giant panda breeding plan", "Meimei" and "Yongming" will not only be available for human viewing, but will also receive research on their behavior and reproduction by experts from both countries. Japan will pay $1 million a year to China for its work on the construction of wild habitats for giant pandas.

The giant pandas have traveled east to Japan many times, reflecting the friendship between the Chinese and Japanese peoples, and also witnessing the thousand-year-long history of friendly exchanges between China and Japan.