How did Luoyang go to Japan?

Do you still remember the big clock of Fangguang Temple and the inscription on it?

At the east foot of Luoyang, Ashe Dojo and Songshiqiong Hall are painted with a rainbow beam.

The uneven Wanwa Cui Wei promenade is exquisite and radiant in all directions.

Elephants sleep at night in the courtyard, the new mulberry clock is hung high, and the high-pitched clock always rings.

Responding to the Eighteen Voices of Palace Merchants in the Far and Near Law.

The night Zen painting sings the evening light and the morning fragrance, and the upper boundary Wen Temple goes out of Hunan

The east welcomes the west, the setting sun sends jade, and the Fengshan falls frost.

Blame the Han dynasty for saving the Tang dynasty, and the gang has boundless merits.

Long live the well-being of the country and be universally applicable.

Yin Chang, son of Fengle, Jun Chen, a Buddhist disciple, Jin Tang of Chufa Society.

Zhide Mountain in yingtan is high in water.

As we all know, Luoyang is a city in China and one of the four ancient capitals in China. How can it appear on the clock of a Japanese temple? It is difficult to find a place called Luoyang in Japan.

It is true that Luoyang went to Japan, and it is not recent. It has been running for hundreds of thousands of years. Japan's "Luoyang" is now Kyoto, Japan's Millennium ancient capital, and the city that the Japanese call the spiritual home. What the hell is going on here?

In 794 AD (Tang Dynasty in China), the Japanese emperor moved the capital to Pingan, which is the ancient name of Kyoto. At that time, due to the Japanese worship and complete China of the Tang civilization, the urban pattern of Ping An Beijing was also designed in full accordance with the layout of the capital of the Tang Dynasty. The whole city is square, and the internal blocks are checkerboard. There are trading places such as the East Market and the West Market, and even the names of the main roads have been moved, such as Suzaku Street in the facade of the Palace.

But there is one thing that Japan can't imitate. This is the phenomenon of "two capitals" in China. China has two capitals, Chang 'an in the west and Luoyang in the east. The Western Zhou Dynasty was in Chang 'an and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was in Luoyang. The Western Han Dynasty was in Chang 'an and the Eastern Han Dynasty was in Luoyang. The Tang Dynasty took Chang 'an as its capital and Luoyang as its deputy capital. Japan is a small country with a limited economy at that time. It is estimated that there is no condition and no need to set up two Beijings. So the Japanese came up with a compromise, artificially dividing the then Kyoto (Ping 'an) city into Youjing and sakyo. Right Beijing, that is, the west of the city is called Chang' an; Sakyo, in the east of the city, is called Luoyang. Urbanization embodies the situation of the two capitals of China and satisfies the desire to learn from the Tang Dynasty. The one-track mind and perseverance of Japanese learning are also reflected in their total quality management and industrial cluster construction, which is another story and will be mentioned in detail at the beginning of next time.

Later, the west was often flooded because of the low terrain, and the city center gradually moved eastward, so people gradually used the name of the east-Luoyang to call Kyoto. In the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era, that is, the Ming Dynasty in China, Toyotomi Hideyoshi re-planned Kyoto City in the "Luo Yang" part of the old Kyoto (that is, the East), forming the current Kyoto pattern. Wherever China people go, they often use the word "Shang", such as "Shang Peiping" and "Shang Nan". The Japanese go to Kyoto, or Luoyang for short. The word "Shangluo" often appears in various Japanese literary works.

Today's Kyoto people still use the word "Luo" in all aspects of life. For example, when the company is called XX Luoyang Co., Ltd. and the local drink is called Luoshui, the bus in Kyoto is called Luobus. They also have Luoyang University of Technology.

From this, it can be understood that the inscription of Fangguang Temple Bell begins with "the eastern foot of Luoyang" and actually refers to the foot of the mountain east of Kyoto.

Do you know that two poems in the inscription of this big clock also triggered a war?