What Did "China" Originally Mean?

This city in central China, And the center of China geographically is called 中國（Zhōngguó）. So 中國（Zhōngguó）itself originally is not a concept of a nation or country. It's just an area, more specifically, the biggest city in the central geographic area of China, that big part of the continent. It's not the contemporary nation or country, that kind of concept. And people who had civilization, had cities. The biggest cities were located in the central part of China. This is like a map of China. Look at it here. It's human. Why？ A civilized human, right? You separate the arms from the legs. You have clothes on top and also a skirt, separating that kind of social status. Different social statuses wore different kinds of clothes and skirts. Fashion-wise and color-wise, they could not be mixed in ancient China. So those people were called the Central Land people, 中國人（Zhōngguó rén）, because they were in the center and built cities. To help you understand more about that, So in the east of China, there were people, kind of minorities, smaller groups living in the east, near the sea, near the ocean, near the Pacific Ocean. It's on this side. They were good at using the bow and arrow. They were good at hunting, so they were called 夷（yí）. That's the name of that group of people in the east. And the people located in the west, where there were grasslands, survived by raising and taming hundreds and thousands of lamb. They ate lamb, and they used the fur from lamb to make clothes. So these people were called 羌（Qiāng）. So you see, it's a lamb's head symbol, the lamb's head. Okay? They were in the west. 羌（Qiāng） over here, and 夷（yí） over here. In the south, in southern China, there were more and more insects, especially many kinds of snakes. So those people were called 蠻（mán）. You see there. Originally, this character was pronounced 蟲（chóng）. It's not a simplified form. Later on, because usually these insects stay in groups, with many of them, especially small insects, it became like this. But at the very beginning, it was just one. One piece. That's not a simplification. That's the original form. But the most dangerous and most scary insect 蟲（chóng） is a snake. So using this character, pronounced as 蠻（mán）, symbolizes the people, the minority groups living in the south. Right over here. And the people living in the north, they were also good at hunting, but somehow, in very ancient times, those groups of people tamed and trained a lot of dogs. So you have a dog as a 部首（bù shǒu）, as 偏旁（piān páng）, as a 部首（bù shǒu） as a radical and they were more primitive. They still maintained the very ancient method of generating fire with a fire stick. So these people are here, 狄（dí）. So only the central people, the people in central China, were more civilized, so they looked more like civilized people. So that's a little bit, from today's perspective or point of view, a little bit of discrimination, a little bit, okay? That's the situation. So that's how this 夏（xià）. Then, because it was the most civilized group in the center, they built cities in the center. Originally, this character, as I told you before, originally this was just a city, right? with all the big walls around it. Inside the city, Somebody uses a weapon, or arms, to safeguard this area. based on certain kinds of principles. It's a big city, that's 國（guó）. This city in central China, And the center of China geographically is called 中國（Zhōngguó）. So 中國（Zhōngguó） itself is not actually, originally, a concept of a nation or country. It's just an area, more specifically, the biggest city in the central geographic area of China, that big part of the continent. It's not the contemporary nation or country, that kind of concept.