China and Japan have a long history, and before the late Qing Dynasty, Japan quite respected our country, and never stopped learning our literature, the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was a scholar in our country who came to Japan by chance, and was treated and respected by the Japanese government and opposition, the scholar died and was buried in Japan, his descendants went to visit the grave, and the Tokugawa family would personally accompany him.
This scholar was named Zhu Zhiyu, born in October of the twenty-eighth year of the Ming Dynasty (1600) in a family of bureaucratic scholars, the character Chuyu, a native of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Province, Zhejiang, chongzhen eleven years (1638), Zhu Zhiyu was recommended to the Ministry of Rites as "the first all-rounder in literature and martial arts", but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government was disordered, and Zhu Zhiyu gave up his career and focused on his own learning.
Zhu Zhiyu often said to others: "The worldly people are pleased with the addition of officials to Lu, and the wise men and gentlemen are pleased with having to do what they say." Words and deeds, the way itself. Cover worldly feelings, Zhi Zhou body and his descendants. Officials and high officials are honored, and Lu Hou is the benefit of his descendants for several generations, and his wish is to stop..." It can be seen that Zhu Zhiyu does not pursue the high-ranking official Houlu, and intends to maintain his own character.
After the Qing army entered the customs, Zhu Zhiyu first followed Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, and then followed the generals Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty gradually stabilized in the Central Plains, Zhu Zhiyu saw that there was no hope of regaining sight, and was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so he crossed east to Japan, when Japan implemented the policy of locking the country, "not leaving a Tang for thirty or forty years", Zhu Zhiyu had to temporarily stop in the boat.
The Japanese scholar Anton Shouju appreciated Zhu Zhiyu's learning and often ran for Zhu Zhiyu, and Zhu Zhiyu went to Japan, and because he was proficient in Confucianism, he was attacked by Tokugawa Mitsuyoshi (
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After requesting a lecture in Edo, Tokugawa Mitsuyoshi felt that Zhu Zhiyu was a highly virtuous person and did not dare to directly call him a name, hoping that Zhu Zhiyu could take a name as a title.
Zhu Zhiyu took his hometown "Shunshui" as the name, which means "Shunshui's water name also", which also means that Zhu Zhiyu never forgot his homeland, "Mr. Shunshui" came from this, and many famous scholars at that time also came to study, Zhu Zhiyu was quite famous in many places in Japan.
Zhu Zhiyu's thought deeply affected the development of Mito Gakuno and Japan, and later in 1681, Zhu Zhiyu was seriously ill due to water and soil disobedience, bedridden, the following year Zhu Zhiyu died in Osaka, Japan, and was buried in the cemetery of the previous Mito domain lords, Ruilong Mountain, the Mito Tokugawa family (Tokugawa family) In order to commemorate Zhu Zhiyu's forgetting his homeland, Zhu Zhiyu's tomb was specially built in the style of the Ming Dynasty, and the inscription is "Tomb of Zhu Zi of the Ming Dynasty Gentleman".
Although there have been many changes between China and Japan, Zhu Zhiyu's tomb has always been well protected by the Tokugawa family, and later China has re-established friendly relations with Japan, and Zhu Zhiyu's descendants will also come to Japan every year to worship Zhu Zhiyu, and the Tokugawa family has accompanied him every time.