China china

Why call China for "Central Country"? There are lots of answers. one of them is about china, a type of ceramic.

Several centuries ago, when European people marveled at the fine pottery shipped from a mysterious nation in the Orient, they decided to give the works a name. The trader explained that the exquisite products were made in a town called ‘Chang’an’, which people began to pronounce as ‘ China’. Possibly out of the conventional practice of referring to a country by that for which it is best known, ‘china’ came into use to refer to the whole nation.