In 1644, the Qing army entered the customs and occupied the city of Beijing! The next year, Nanjing and Fujian fell into the hands of the Qing army one after another, and the whole big eyes were on the verge of complete collapse, at this time, a Ming Dynasty Gongsheng did a very bold thing! He set out from Fujian, took a boat to dongdu alone, and went to Japan to seek financial support, ready to throw himself into the struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty! However, at that time, Japan imposed a sea ban, and this Gongsheng was eventually driven back! In the following ten years, he traveled back and forth between China and Japan many times, and once went to Annan in the middle! However, at that time, the power of the Qing Dynasty had been consolidated, and he was only loyal to the Ming Dynasty and was unwilling to contribute to the Qing Dynasty, so in 1661, he went to Japan again and made the decision never to return! This person's name is Zhu Shunshui!
Zhu Shunshui
Zhu Shunshui's trip to Japan was not smooth, and for a Chinese from afar, the Japanese people showed their guard and rejection, so soon after, Zhu Shunshui's diet and living became a serious difficulty! The good point is that he was poor but had a full stomach of Confucianism, these things were very popular in Japan at that time, relying on these inks, Zhu Shunshui first solved the difficulty of eating a full stomach! He also included an abortive scholar Anton Shou, a famous scholar in Japan at that time, under his own disciples and became a disciple! With the help of Anton Shou, Zhu Shunshui obtained a permanent residence certificate similar to today's green card, and has since stabilized in Japan!
Zhu Shunshui's former residence
After Zhu Shunshui gained his footing, the Confucianism he represented in the late Ming Dynasty spread rapidly in Japan, and he himself was respected like never before! Even the Tokugawa shogunate at that time paid special attention to this Chinese who was full of poetry and books! In 1665, tokugawa Mitsukuni, the deputy general of the Japanese nation (the second in command of the Tokugawa shogunate), sent his men to Nagasaki, where Zhu Shunshui lived, to meet him, and conveyed the order of the Tokugawa shogunate: he was willing to hire Zhu Shunshui as a Japanese national teacher and teach Chinese Confucianism! Accompanied by Anton Shou, Zhu Shunshui eventually went to Edo, and from then on, he embarked on the peak of his life after coming to Japan! In particular, Tokugawa Mitsukuni was willing to surrender himself to be a student under Zhu Shunshui's gate, so much so that the shogunate treated Zhu Shunshui as a guest! By the way, there is also a saying about the name of Zhu Shunshui, Zhu Shunshui's original name was Zhu Zhiyu, Andigawa Mitsukuni respected it, so he did not dare to call him by his name, so Zhu Shunshui had to take another name of "Shunshui" for everyone to call!
Zhu Shunshui Memorial Ceremony
Zhu Shunshui's trip to Japan played a crucial role in the eastern transmission of Confucianism! And under his auspices, he built Japan's first academic palace, and also established his supremacy in the field of Japanese Confucianism! In 1682, Zhu Shunshui died in Japan due to unsatisfactory water and soil! After His death, Chu Shunshui enjoyed high-standard treatment in Japan, and his disciples, with the support of the shogunate, buried him next to the cemetery of the previous Mito domain lords! Because he was nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty before his death, his tomb was designed according to the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, and the inscription on the tombstone was "Tomb of Ming Zhengjun Zhuzi"!
Zhu Shun's water tomb
Then after more than three hundred years, the history of China and Japan has undergone earth-shaking changes, the Qing Dynasty has finally collapsed, and the shogunate era has finally become a thing of the past, but Zhu Shunshui's tomb has been intact in Japan, and has been carefully cared for by the descendants of the shogunate for more than three hundred years! After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Shunshui's descendants went to Japan every year to visit the graves, and at this time, the descendants of the Tokugawa family often accompanied them throughout the whole process to show their respect for this Confucian master from China!