中国、朝鲜半岛和日本东亚的主要国家和地区之一。自古以来,三者之间就一直保持着密切的文化交流,这种交流最早可上溯到新石器时代中早期(朝鲜半岛发现有不少的石磨盘、磨棒以及褐陶器、石器、骨器等,与中国大陆华中、华北东部沿海地区的新石器时代中早期遗物非常相似。这方面日本学者曾做过较详细的研究)。到青铜时代,三者之间的文化交流达到了第一个高潮(唐宋时期为第二个高潮,明清时期 China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan, one of the major countries and regions in East Asia. Since ancient times, the three have maintained close cultural exchanges between the earliest dating back to the early Neolithic era (the Korean Peninsula found that there are many stone plates, grinding rods and brown pottery, stone, bone, etc. , Which is very similar to the early Neolithic relics in central China and the eastern part of North China. In this respect, Japanese scholars have done more detailed studies.) To the Bronze Age, the cultural exchanges between the three reached the first climax (Tang and Song Dynasties for the second climax, the Ming and Qing Dynasties