Information about Japan in the Tang and Song Dynasties!

From the Song Dynasty, the late Tang Dynasty coincided with Japan's peaceful period and peaceful period, which was the beginning of Japan's gradual stepping out of the Tang civilization. Since then, the cultural styles of Japan and China have gradually drifted away, although Japan also introduced China's tea ceremony culture and Zen thought in the Song Dynasty, creating "Pure Land Sect" and other cultures. But these are not enough to make them call themselves "China people" or even consider themselves "authentic China people" in the Qing Dynasty. This is something we must deeply understand.

Heian period's Yin-Yang Taoism is actually the product of the combination of China Taoism, Yin-Yang thinking and Japanese traditional religion. The most famous teacher of Yin and Yang in Japan is Abe Harumi. According to legend, Abe Harumi's mother is a white fox-of course this is not the case. It is more likely to infer that the Rope Scholars, that is, the aborigines who have settled in the Japanese archipelago since the Rope Age in 10,000 BC, were nicknamed "Shanmin" and "Haimin" around 300 BC, and the immigrants who crossed the sea from Chinese mainland and the Korean Peninsula were Yayoi. Rope literati is a hunting and gathering culture, and Yayoi is a rice culture. Immigrants with rice culture must keep their land, settle in fixed places and form tribes. After a long struggle for hegemony, these tribes gradually built the ancient Dahe Court. However, there is also a saying that the growing Yamato tribe wiped out other tribal countries.

The rope literati, who mainly hunt and gather, basically have no idea of settling down. Their parents are natural and depend on the products of mountains, rivers and oceans for their livelihood. Therefore, they are not controlled by the Yamato court, similar to nomadic people moving around. In the Nara era, the Yamato imperial court strengthened centralization, persecuted the literati by opening local names, and vilified them as "Falcon", "Bear Attack" and "Xiayi".

In heian period, among the aborigines, there are a group of "puppets" who move around the island along the mountain road all the year round. This group has a group of women named "Bai Pai", who are good at singing and dancing and are popular artists when festivals are held in rural areas. And there are not a few witches with divination ability in White Beat. The mysterious biological mother is probably one of these witches. Therefore, tomorrow's students will be able to see what others can't, that is, "a hundred ghosts walk at night." Mysteriously appeared in Emperor Kanmu period (about Zhenyuan period of Tang Dezong). At that time, superstition prevailed in the Japanese court, and people used to use ghosts to explain many strange events. Therefore, Yin-Yang Daoism flourished in this atmosphere. Abe Harumi has become an active figure in the Japanese court. ...

After the end of heian period, the Japanese gradually entered the war. During the Warring States period, the imperial court declined, and it was the samurai's turn to rule the world, so the division of Yin and Yang disappeared from the historical stage. But military commanders all over the country should have military advisers around them, and most of their predecessors are Yin and Yang teachers. The school that trains military advisers is Ashikaga School, which was founded in 1439. The first principal was a monk named Kuaiyuan, who was the authority of Yi studies at that time. Every alternate military adviser must learn divination, geomantic omen, meteorology and so on. Ashikaga School was not closed until the fifth year of Meiji (A.D. 1872).

Warring States military commanders actually pay great attention to divination, and military fans in the hands of military commanders are also a kind of magic. Both sides of the military fan are painted with January. In case of a fierce day when you have to go out, just expose the moon of the army fan during the day and turn the day and night upside down, and you can turn the fierce day into a good day. Even when examining the enemy's head, there is a requiem ceremony. A typical example is that the head must be made up before the examination. This is a woman's job. At that time, among all the military commanders, only Nobu Oda didn't believe in this, but Tokugawa Ieyasu attached great importance to magic. When Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Edo shogunate, he invited Tianhai, a monk of Tiantai Sect, as a staff officer. Tianhai had rich knowledge of Yin and Yang, and tried his best to be a shogunate until the third generation of generals.

The descendants of Abe Harumi come from the Tujia family. During the Edo period, he was sheltered by the Tokugawa shogunate, and always held the real power of the Yin-Yang Division Group, and established the "Yu Tu Door-God Way". After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the new Japanese government not only deprived the Moonlight people of the right to publish calendars, but also abolished the Yin-Yang Road. Later, many branches, headed by the native Wado family, secretly formed the "same family meeting" and survived. Around 1952, according to the draft constitution of freedom of religious belief drafted by American general MacArthur, Tuyumen Shen Dao was able to become a formal religious legal person, and the inheritance of Yin and Yang Taoism still exists in the name of "family learning".

Yin-yang Taoism has been spread in Japan until modern times, and many rituals have been carried out in Japan's daily life. For example, during World War II, Japanese soldiers popularized the "Thousand Needles" spell, asking people to sew a needle on a piece of white cloth with a red line, so that thousands of people could sew thousands of needles in total to bless the soldiers who went out to war to survive. In addition, the "Thousand Feathers Crane" praying for the fulfillment of wishes is also one of the variants of Yin-Yang Daoism. When a pregnant woman is five months pregnant, she must wear a "pregnant woman's belt" on the fifth day to pray for safe delivery. The custom of 42-year-old men and 33-year-old women, as well as the habit that the Japanese "New Year's Eve bell" must ring 108 on New Year's Eve, are also derived from Yin-Yang mathematics.

Only from the Taoist culture of Yin and Yang in Japan, we can see that there are fundamental cultural differences between Japanese and Americans. I don't know why some people think that the Japanese are deeply "China-oriented". Some netizens even used Japanese culture to satirize our civilization in Ming and Qing Dynasties, thinking that Chinese civilization in Ming and Qing Dynasties was not as "pure" as Han and Tang civilizations inherited by Japan? In fact, some cultures of the Tang Dynasty were truly preserved in the Nara era, and we can still see a little shadow of heian period and Tang Wenhua. By the Warring States period, the Japanese literati civilization spread from Tang Wenhua was almost destroyed by samurai thought, and the difference between the Edo period in Japan and the Han and Tang cultures was even greater. I hope everyone can notice that cultural communication is communication, and don't be ignorant of the differences in cultural connotations. Japan used to be a country that studied our culture. Don't let them usurp the role of master. Chinese culture is the culture of all Chinese sons and daughters, and Japan is a country influenced by our Chinese culture, not an "orthodox successor". We are the inheritors of the blood and culture of Chinese ancestors along the way.