米国的由来（The origin of the U.S.）.docVIP

米国的由来（The origin of the U.S.） Learning Japanese, often with the opportunity to chat with Japanese colleagues to learn. The last time I saw a Japanese colleague, I asked him: Why do you call the USA the rice country? Why do you Japanese call USA rice country? Japanese colleagues looked at me, I do not know how to answer, then slyly asked: Why do you call the USA the beauty country? Why do you Chinese call USA the United States? In fact, why the United States is called America is also a lot of ordinary Japanese often confused problem. I saw in the online Japanese netizens asked: , and the form is to have a leak of America - was a woman of m in j u? The last woman or staple food and rice in China in the last two: CIECC of complete. The country was a woman of the M - J U. At last, after knowing in better teaching forms under the national sweet. (why is the America us - M? Is not the rice as a staple food of the country, how can be meters of the country? Who knows the answer, please enlighten me in any case.) To answer this question, we should start with the answer to why the Chinese call USA the United States, from the discovery of the American continent. 1492 Italy navigator Columbo (Cristoforo Colombo) in the king of Spain under the support of the emperor and China carries to India King credentials across the Atlantic, after more than 70 days of sailing and finally found the land, also think that this is the eastern part of the Asian continent. From 1499 to 1502 after another Italy navigator Amerigo Vespucci came here after the investigation confirmed the adventure, here is not known to the Asian continent, but an unknown to Europeans new continent. After returning from the voyage, Amerigo Vespucci made his discovery and conclusion public through two letters. In 1507, German geographer Martin Maitreya (Martin Waldseem Waldsee u ller) in the new world map published for the first time on the continent labeled America, is the name of Amerigo navigator negative declension