During holidays, a large number of Japanese people travel to China and buy a lot of toilet seats and rice cookers. Some time ago, a WeChat video exploded, and a little brother from Hebei denounced Japanese tourists from China. I dare not comment here. First of all, declare that I am the most patriotic!
Look at history carefully and read it carefully. Why have the Chinese and Japanese people been so close since ancient times?
The advanced production technology and culture of ancient China were introduced into Japan. It can be said that the ancient Japanese created this unique Japanese culture by absorbing and integrating China culture.
In the 8th century, before the Tang Dynasty in China, Japan had no written language of its own. The earliest Japanese characters were Chinese characters, that is, during the Western Jin Dynasty in China at the end of the 3rd century, Wang Ren, a Han Confucian scholar of Baekje in Korea, introduced China's classic The Analects and thousands of words to Japan.
Influenced by these Chinese characters, Japan began to use the radicals of Chinese characters to create Japanese regular script-katakana. Later, the Japanese monk Konghai (774 ~ 835) came to the Tang Dynasty, imitated the cursive script of Chinese characters in the Tang Dynasty, and created the Japanese cursive script Hiragana. At this time, Japan had a complete writing system, so Japanese literary works appeared relatively late.
The earliest Japanese history book is Historical Records, which was compiled by the government and completed in 7 12, the year when Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne. This book has three volumes, from beginning to end, down to the ancient emperor.
In 720, Japanese Scheeren and other princes. Imitating the official biography of China, he wrote 30 volumes of Japanese annals in Chinese. In that peaceful era, Japan compiled Chronicle of Japan, Chronicle of Post-Japan, Chronicle of Post-Japan and A Record of Wende.
From the 5th century to the 6th century, Buddhism was introduced to China from China until the Sui Dynasty.
In the middle of the 8th century, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty in China, a monk, Master Jian Zhen, took his disciples to Japan. They brought not only Buddhist classics, but also art, sculpture and calligraphy books from the Tang Dynasty.
Japan is our neighbor separated only by water. During the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty in China, the Japanese were obsessed with prosperity and sent envoys, overseas students, monks and folk scholars to study in the Tang Dynasty many times. In the Tang Dynasty, there were also monks who traveled to Japan to communicate the cultural exchanges and continuity between the two countries, among which Jian Zhen, the great monk, made the greatest contribution.
Jian Zhen, a great monk, was born in 688 and died in 763 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. /kloc-became a monk at the age of 0/4, went to Luoyang to study at the age of 20, and then came to Chang 'an. The Jian Zhen monk has a good knowledge of Buddhism. Legalism is a discipline, and it is also a Buddhist discipline and dharma stipulated by Buddhism on the behavior of monks and nuns.
In 7 13, at the beginning of Kaiyuan, the activities of monks and nuns were controlled at the suggestion of Yao Chong, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Jian Zhen returned to his hometown of Yangzhou. In the following 30 years, he preached and lectured in Jianghuai area, applied medicine according to his illness, and did a lot of charitable activities, which won great respect from all walks of life and became a renowned legalist master at home and abroad.
At that time, the Emperor of Japan wanted to invite Jian Zhen, a great monk, to give lectures in Japan, but Jian Zhen, the great monk, immediately agreed, and began his tragic journey of six trips to Japan.
In 743, 55-year-old Jian Zhen was about to sail out to sea after making full preparations. Who said that someone framed him as a traitor and contacted pirates? Later, the facts finally clarified that Jian Zhen's first eastward crossing was thus killed.
At the end of this year, the determined monk Jian Zhen just wanted to show off and show his face abroad. He started his second journey eastward, accompanied by more than 65,438,000 disciples, craftsmen and painters. Unexpectedly, as soon as the ship set sail, it was destroyed by the evil waves rolled up by the storm, and all the people on board fell into the water. At that time, it was the middle of winter, and it was freezing. The pain of the drowning person can be imagined. After the ship was repaired and set sail, it hit the rocks again and the hull disintegrated. Fortunately, people were rescued in time and were not buried in the belly of fish.
Jian Zhen, the great monk, didn't lose heart when he crossed the east twice. He crossed the east three times and four times, all of which ended in failure. However, indomitable Jian Zhen, undaunted by failure, began his fifth journey across the East.
In 748, Jian Zhen crossed the East for the fifth time. Soon after her voyage, she was suddenly hit by a typhoon heading south. Overnight, the ship was blown out for seven or eight hundred miles, and the Zhejiang Sea blown from the Yangtze River estuary mistakenly entered the terrible current. In the life-and-death struggle with the sea, the fresh water on the ship ran out, and I was hungry, chewing rice to satisfy my hunger. In this way, day after day passed, and life and death were uncertain. Everyone is getting a little desperate in this fierce wave.
Encouraged by the great monk Jian Zhen, they survived 14 days and nights with tenacity and perseverance, and finally saw a glimmer of hope. They thought they had arrived in Japan, but God played a trick on them again. It is also the territory of the Tang Dynasty, which is now Hainan Island.
The failure of the fifth trip to the East made the great monk Jian Zhen feel dejected, and soon he suffered from eye diseases. At the age of 63, he went blind.
Jian Zhen went north from Hainan Island, drifted for three years, and returned to longxing temple, Yangzhou in the spring of 75 1.
One day two years later, Japanese envoy Fujiwara Qinghe suddenly came to longxing temple to meet the great monk Jian Zhen and invited him to travel eastward. Jian Zhen agreed without hesitation, regardless of age, infirmity and blindness.
On July 6, 753 1 1 month/KLOC-0, Jian Zhen boarded the Japanese envoy ship in the Tang Dynasty from Huangsipu, Suzhou. This is his sixth trip to the East.
On February 20th this year/kloc-0, 66-year-old Jian Zhen, who was blind, finally set foot on Japanese soil.
On February 4th, 754, Nara warmly welcomed the arrival of the great monk Jian Zhen. In April, Jian Zhen was consecrated by Emperor Shengwu, Empress Guangming, Empress Xiao Gan and more than 400 monks. In this way, monk Jian Zhen became the originator of Japanese legalism.
Master Jian Zhen not only spread the laws of the Tang Dynasty to Japan, but also spread the Buddhist temple architecture, painting, sculpture and other arts of the Tang Dynasty to Japan. The present Japanese Tangzhao Temple was founded by Jian Zhen and his disciples at that time. It has had an important and far-reaching impact on Japanese architectural art and style.
In addition, monk Jian Zhen is also a doctor with superb medical skills. He treated in Japan and became the most famous doctor in Japan. His "Miracle Pill" and "Fengxin Pill" are still used by Dongda Temple and Xiwei Temple.
On May 6th, 763, Jian Zhen, a 76-year-old monk, died in Japan. He was cremated after his death and his ashes were buried in Nara.
Later, a Japanese messenger came to Yangzhou to deliver the bad news. The monks and nuns in Yangzhou were very sad, so they had to face the sea and mourn eastward for three days.
Jian Zhen devoted his life to the cultural exchange between China and Japan. For many years after his death, he was regarded as a symbol of Sino-Japanese friendship by the Chinese and Japanese people.
After writing this article, I suddenly remembered a sentence: "There was no China after the Song Dynasty, and there was no China after the Ming Dynasty." I forget which professor and master said this sentence. China was a Japanese teacher for hundreds of years before and after the Tang Dynasty. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen of Daming hanged Jingshan Park, and China fell into the hands of Tatars twice, the Japanese began to stop worshipping their masters. Especially in the late Qing Dynasty, western powers plundered and carved up China, and the Japanese began to bully their teachers and destroy their ancestors. ...