Expert advice: It is no longer appropriate to call Yue Fei a "national hero", but the Japanese respect him as a god! In the eyes of the Japanese, the "First God of War in China" is not Xiang Yu, not Guan Yu, why is he?
No matter which dynasty or generation in history, there are many patriots and national heroes, who have made very great contributions to resisting foreign aggression and have exchanged the continuation of Chinese civilization for us. One of the most familiar heroes is Yue Fei, the general of the Southern Song Dynasty and the soul and commander of the "Yue Family Army".
However, with the development of the times, Yue Fei's title of "national hero" has also attracted the attention of experts, saying that this title is easy to cause doubts, so it is recommended that Yue Fei and others no longer be called "national heroes".
There is a Chinese saying called "flowers in the wall and incense outside the wall", and Yue Fei, who has been questioned as a "national hero", is highly respected in Japan, which is separated from us by the water. Why? This stems from Japan's long-term reverence and worship of Chinese civilization.
Before the Ming Dynasty, Japan was very reverent, even worshipped, the country of the Chinese nation. Their thirst for Chinese culture can be described as hunger and thirst, especially in the Tang Dynasty, Japan has sent nineteen batches of Tang envoys to the Tang Dynasty to study and learn from the scriptures, and after a batch of emissaries returned home, they brought the excellent culture of the Tang Dynasty back to Japan and widely disseminated it. Since then, the Japanese people's view of history has been deeply influenced by China. The Japanese people also have a very good understanding of Chinese historical figures, heroes before the Tang Dynasty, they most admire the Western Chu king Xiang Yu, after the Song Dynasty, their big hero is the famous anti-Jin hero Yue Fei.
Why do Japanese people worship Xiang Yu, who has a "simple mind and developed limbs"? Because early Japan, for a long period of history, was in a chaotic period of you taking and killing me, they worshiped Xiang Yu, the god of power who "can carry the crown with strength and fight with one enemy and a hundred enemies".
At the turn of the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties, after Yue Fei, a great hero with national integrity as the most important thing, was born in the land of China, the Japanese turned to worshiping Yue Wumu. In the minds of the Japanese, Xiang Yu's position as the first hero in history was replaced by Yue Fei. As a result, Yue Fei became the "first god of war in China" in the eyes of the Japanese. The reason why they worshipEd Yue Fei was because Yue Fei was the "strongest defending warrior" in history. Ordinary Japanese people almost know Yue Fei, and Yue Fei's heroic deeds have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Japan.
After the outbreak of the Japanese war of aggression against China, the "three lights" were implemented everywhere they passed, and there was no grass left, but they rarely invaded the tomb and temple of Yue Wang. For example, the Japanese invaded Hangzhou for many years, the beautiful Hangzhou was seriously damaged, and even they even dug up the peach blossoms on the edge of the Su Causeway in the West Lake, and then planted cherry blossoms to destroy all the places that could be destroyed around them, and all the cultural relics were occupied.
However, what is strange is that these Japanese soldiers have not moved Yue Fei's tomb and the Yue Wang Temple. During the puppet Manchu period, the Japanese military also specially printed and distributed a postcard entitled "The Gate of the Blue Blood Dan Heart - Yue Fei Temple" to vigorously publicize Yue Fei.
The reason why the Japanese did this is very simple, because the Japanese people know Yue Fei's deeds very well, they know that Yue Fei is a big hero, and in Japan, Yue Fei is a big hero that almost everyone knows. Because, in the hearts of the Japanese, Yue Fei is sacred and inviolable, Yue Fei's tomb and the Yue Wang Temple escaped the disaster.
Even as the wheel of history enters this century, for certain purposes, in the process of frequently tampering with history textbooks, the Japanese still consider Yue Fei to be "the greatest hero in Chinese history" and "the strongest protector of the country in history." In modern times, the novel "Yue Fei Biography" has been widely circulated in Japan, and "Manjiang Hong" has been widely sung by the Japanese. This is the best example.