Japan, as a neighbor of China, has always had a deep relationship with China, and there are many Chinese shadows in Japanese culture, such as Japanese characters, which are largely quoted Chinese characters, so we will feel why Japanese characters are so similar to Chinese characters. In addition to writing, there are also academics, art and even many ancient techniques, all of which were learned from China. Therefore, many legendary figures in China have become well-known celebrities in Japan, such as the 4 people mentioned today, few people in China know that they are well-known in Japan.
Wang Yangming
In China, Wang Yangming is a relatively famous historical figure, but his fame is still far from that in Japan. Wang Yangming was born in 1472, and his father was a ruler of the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Yangming is the only son in the family, which naturally carries the high hopes of his father and the whole family.
However, Wang Yangming was not interested in the imperial examination, so he did not pass the examination several times, but Wang Yangming was not sad and frustrated at all, he said instead: "The world is ashamed of not winning the first, and I am ashamed of not winning the first."
In short, in Wang Yangming's heart, he did not care about any imperial examinations at all, but was very attentive to the study of Buddhism and Taoism. Go out alone to find immortals and ask, or in which temple to meditate and meditate.
Wang Yangming had the ambition of a sage from an early age, and the more he sharpened, the more determined his ambitions became, and in the first year of Emperor Mingwu Zhengde's reign (1506), the eunuch Liu Jin was good at government, and Wang Yangming was demoted to Guizhou Longchang for angering Liu Jin.
This is a deserted place, Liu Jin assigned Wang Yangming to this place, even if he wanted to put Wang Yangming to death, but he did not expect that Wang Yangming stimulated the potential of life in the face of adversity and created a psychology. The study of the mind is the study of "to the conscience", and the collation is not outward, but lies in one's own heart.
In Japan, there are many people who revere Wang Yangming, such as Togo Heihachiro, who is known as the "God of War", who not only pursues Wang Yangming's teachings, but also hangs a sign on his waist, which reads: "Bow down to Yangming all your life", in addition to Togo Heihachiro, many japanese politicians during the Meiji Restoration were influenced by Wang Yangming's psychology.
On the contrary, as a native "sage" in China, Wang Yangming is very unfamiliar with his doctrine and even his name, and he does not know how to pursue the theory of "the unity of knowledge and action", which is a great loss.
Indra
Indra was a painter, or more precisely, a monk of the Yuan Dynasty, but Indra did not have any biographies that have survived, so there is no way to determine the life of this mysterious monk. It is only according to the "Hanshan Shide Tu" that he left behind, "The abbot of the Daguang Sect Zen Temple above the Youguo Daguang Sect, the abbot of the Youguo Daguang Sect Zen Temple, the Buddha Huijing Distinguishing the Yuantong Dharma Treasure Master Nonfan Yin", that he was determined to be a painter of the Yuan Dynasty, because the Bieliang refers to the Yuan Dynasty's Fengliang Road in Kaifeng, and the information behind it shows that Indra abbot was in the Daguang Sect Zen Temple and was given a master number.
In Japan, there are many traces of Indra, such as the "Budaitu and Shizukado No.Tsunezen Zen Master Temple" in the Nezu Museum of Art in Tokyo, as well as "Hanshan Shigeto Map", "Danxia Yaki Buddha Map", etc., these three pictures were also designated as Japan's national treasures in the 28th year of Showa (1953), because they felt that Indra's paintings contained a profound Zen meaning, giving people unparalleled spiritual enjoyment, and three works by a foreign painter were listed as national treasures, which is enough to see Indra's popularity in Japan.
Zhu Shunshui
Zhu Shunshui, whose original name was Zhu Zhiyu, was a gongsheng in the late Ming Dynasty and one of the five scholars of the Ming Dynasty, but after the Qing army went south to Jiangnan, Zhu Zhiyu actively engaged in the anti-Qing struggle. In the thirteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1659), the Qing Dynasty regime had taken deep root, and seeing that there was no hope of restoration, Zhu Zhiyu sadly left his homeland, left his hometown, and went into exile in Japan.
After Zhu Zhiyu arrived in Japan, he was treated with courtesy by the Japanese government and the public, inviting him to give lectures in Edo (present-day Tokyo), and famous scholars from all over Japan came to Study here with Zhu Zhiyu, zhu Zhiyu spread Confucianism in Japan, in addition to preaching, Zhu Zhiyu also advocated practice, believing that "the learning of the wise is practiced." His ideas had a great influence on the Japanese "Mito Studies" and he became a household name.
Wei yuan
He was hailed as one of the figures in modern China who opened his eyes to the world; he was the first to put forward the idea of changing the law of "becoming more and more ancient, and the more convenient the people are", advocated the study of advanced Western science and technology, and also wrote a book of "Chart of the Sea Country", which is a comprehensive book introducing the science and technology and world geography of Western countries, and put forward the idea of "mastering the art of mastering the art to control the yi", which is a huge work of epoch-making significance.
This huge work was later circulated to Japan, which was on the eve of the Meiji Restoration, and such a book with advanced ideas was circulated to Japan, no doubt in combination with them, and many questions that japan had been confused for a long time found direction and answers in this book. And Wei Yuan naturally became a well-known figure in Japan, if at this time Wei Yuan went to Japan only to be afraid of the courtesy of Zhu Shunshui, but Wei Yuan is a patriot, even if in the end Wei Yuan was dismissed by the Qing Dynasty for the crime of "playing with military aircraft", he did not betray his motherland.