Examples of Japan's influence by Chinese culture

1. Clothing

The Japanese kimono is based on the clothing, which was called Wu clothing before the Edo period. This name originated in the Three Kingdoms period in China, when textiles and sewing methods were introduced to Japan through trade between the Eastern Wu and Japan.

To be more precise, the term "kumono" refers to a high-class kimono made of silk, while a kimono made of linen and cotton would be called "taiki.

The Nara period in Japan coincided with China's flourishing Tang dynasty. Japan sent a large number of scholars and monks to China to study. These envoys brought back to Japan the culture, art, and legal system of the Tang Dynasty - the "Clothing Order" was one of the systems modeled on the Tang Dynasty during the Nara period.

2. Characters

Japanese characters are derived from Chinese characters, some of which have been distorted and are different from today's characters. Japan first borrowed kanji wholesale to express its own language, but later created a Japanese alphabet based on kanji, which is called kana.

There are two styles of kana, one borrowing the cursive form of kanji to form hiragana, and the other borrowing the radicals of kanji to form katakana. Some of the kanji have different or even opposite meanings from the Chinese ones.

3, painting

Japanese painting is also influenced by China, such as Japan's Han painting school, similar to Chinese painting, the master of the Han paintings, such as snow boat Yang's Han paintings of the autumn and winter landscape series is very famous, he had followed the Ming envoys to China in 1467, especially loved the Southern Song Dynasty painters Ma Yuan, Xia Gui.

4. Architecture

The most famous of all, I'm afraid, is Jianzhen's six trips to Japan to teach Buddhist scriptures, medicine, culture, and agricultural techniques. He instructed Japanese doctors in the identification of medicines, spread the architectural techniques and sculpture art of the Tang Dynasty, and designed and presided over the construction of the Tang Zhaoti Temple.

This temple, modeled after the Tang Dynasty's structural Buddha Hall, is a jewel of the world, preserved to this day. After Kanjin's death, his disciples made a seated statue of him. It is still enshrined in the temple and has been designated as a "national treasure".

5, the system

Japan's most important "envoy to the Sui" was Prince Shengde in Sui Daye three years (607 years) sent. He sent Ono Meiko to Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Sui dynasty, with a letter of state from the Emperor of Japan, seeking to establish diplomatic relations with China and to improve Japan's international status. This was a major diplomatic step for Japan at that time.

The Prince of Shotoku, who was well versed in Chinese studies, attached great importance to the development of relations with the Sui dynasty, and hoped that through this measure, he could actively import various advanced cultures and systems from China in order to establish a perfect state system, and thus sent many foreign students and monks to study in the Sui envoys.

Japanese students were all arranged to study at the Imperial College of the People's Republic of China. In the Tang Dynasty, there were six schools in the Imperial College: the Imperial College, the Imperial College, the Four Doors, the Law School, the Calligraphy School, and the Arithmetic School, each with a different enrollment target. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered Zhao Xuanmo, the assistant teacher of the Four Doors of the Imperial College, to teach these foreign students at the Honglu Temple.

Japanese students studied in China for several years or even decades, and then returned to Japan to spread Chinese culture and promote the development of Japan's politics, economy and culture. The most famous among them were Abe Nakamaru and Yoshibe Shinji, who came to China from Nara.

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