Han Tuxi looked at the day and night,
Sad hu yu according to the Central Plains.
Although the crown has a pre-dynastic system,
The East Sea recognizes the old garden.
This poem is the work of Zhu Zhiyu, a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and expresses Zhu Zhiyu's longing for his homeland (Ming Dynasty), who was in Japan at that time and missed daming incomparably.
Zhu Zhiyu (1600 – 1682 CE), courtesy name Chuyu (楚屿), courtesy name Shunshui, was a Scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and together with Huang Zongxi, Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu, and Yan Yuan, was known as the "Five Scholars of the Ming Dynasty".
Zhu Zhiyu's ideas had little influence in China, but they had a profound influence in Japan, all the way to the Meiji Restoration.
Zhu Zhiyu is a Chinese, how can he have such a great influence on Japan? Because he was in Japan at the time.
Zhu Zhiyu's era was the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, although Zhu Zhiyu was a scholar, he was also actively involved in the War of Resistance Against the Qing Dynasty and fought to the death with the Qing Army.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhiyu was still unwilling and threw himself into the Southern Ming Dynasty and continued to resist the Qing.
Zhu Zhiyu was discouraged when he saw that the Southern Ming regime was fighting and that the Qing Dynasty had been stabilized, he knew that Daming was hopeless, and he did not have any illusions.
Although the Ming Dynasty collapsed, he was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so he crossed east to Japan and settled in Japan. In this way, Zhu Zhiyu lived in Japan for more than twenty years and was buried in Japan after his death.
Japanese cultural thought has always been influenced by China, and When Tokugawa Mitsuyoshi heard that Zhu Zhiyu had arrived in Japan, he rushed to meet him, hired him as a national teacher, and let him teach in Japan and impart cultural knowledge.
Zhu Zhiyu is very knowledgeable, full of poetry, and his knowledge and character are respected and treated with courtesy by the Japanese, who regard Zhu Zhiyu as a god. Alone in a foreign country for strangers, every festive season to think of relatives!
Zhu Zhiyu's heart deeply loves Daming and loves his hometown, and the reason why Zhu Zhiyu is called "Shunshui" is because a river in his hometown is called Shunshui, and he always thinks about his homeland.
Zhu Zhiyu not only spread Confucian cultural ideas in Japan, but also taught Advanced Chinese medicine, crafts, architecture, etc. to the Japanese to promote the development of Japan, so the Japanese people are very grateful to Zhu Zhiyu.
In the thirty-sixth year of the Yong calendar (1682 AD), because of the dissatisfaction of the water and soil, coupled with the perennial longing for his homeland, Zhu Zhiyu fell ill, and he died in Osaka, Japan, at the age of 83.
Although Zhu Zhiyu died, his ideas have always influenced Japan, and he has always been respected by the Japanese.
When Zhu Zhiyu's descendants went to Japan to visit the grave, the Tokugawa family personally accompanied him to show the importance that the Tokugawa family attached to Zhu Zhiyu and respected his descendants.
Through Zhu Zhiyu's experience, it is not difficult to see that the exile of a Confucian scholar in another country is really a great loss for China, and this loss is irreparable.
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References: "History of the Ming Dynasty", "Guoyu", "Collected Writings of Mr. Shunshui", etc