Japan is China's neighbor, but also a country greatly influenced by Chinese culture, as early as 630 AD, Emperor Shu Ming sent the first Tang envoy to China, and in the following 260 years, the advanced Chinese system, culture, technology, etc. were transmitted back to Japan, which played a vital role in the changing Japan.
In addition to the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the Tang Dynasty, in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, there was also the emergence of a Chinese scholar who had a crucial impact on Japanese culture, and this person was Zhu Shunshui.
Zhu Shunshui, whose original name was Zhu Zhiyu, was born on November 17, 1600 in Yuyao County, Shaoxing Province, Zhejiang Province, to a family of bureaucrats and doctors who were very famous in the local area.
However, when Zhu Shunshui was 8 years old, his father died of illness, so the family road also began to fall, and even once affected him to study and govern, fortunately, Zhu Shunshui persevered, and finally passed the Gongshi examination.
Zhu Shunshui did not seek fame and fame, but was keen on caring for the people's livelihood, and he once said: "The worldly people are pleased with the addition of officials to Lu, and the wise men and gentlemen are pleased with their deeds." "If Zhu Shunshui were in the prosperous world of Taiping, he must have been a good official who could understand the sufferings of the people, but it is a pity that he was born in a chaotic world."
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), when Zhu Shunshui was forty-five years old, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, led a rebel army to capture Jingshi. The Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty hanged himself in Coal Mountain, and the Fu King Zhu Yousong established the Southern Ming in Nanjing, wanting Zhu Shunshui to come to the post, but Zhu Shunshui had no intention of doing so he refused and moved to Zhoushan.
In the first year of Hongguang (1645), the Qing army entered the customs, and when the country was alive and dead, Zhu Shunshui, who lived in seclusion in the mountains, stood up and participated in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Shunshui knew that the Southern Ming was already difficult to resist the Qing army, so he went to Japan to use Japanese reinforcements to resist the Qing army.
However, the Japanese army was enforcing a sea ban at that time, so Zhu Shunshui did not even enter the national gate several times, and when he had the support of the Japanese scholar Anton Shou, when he went to sea for the last time, he was soon told that Zhoushan had also been captured by the Qing army. Zhu Shunshui, who had no hope of recovering the country, did not want to be a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, so he settled in Japan.
When Zhu Shunshui first arrived in Japan, he did not teach in Japan, but prepared to find a place to live in seclusion and live for the rest of his life. Later, the Japanese deputy general Tokugawa Mitsukuni heard that Nagasaki had come to see a Chinese confucian, so he sincerely came to see him, and he also made a heavy offering to hire Zhu Shunshui as a national teacher.
Zhu Shunshui had tried his best to be humble, but under the strong persuasion of Scholars such as Anton Shoujo, he agreed to Tokugawa Mitsukuni's request. Tokugawa Mitsukuni performed the disciple ceremony and took Zhu Shunshui back to the prefectural court to give a lecture with the highest standard of courtesy.
Originally, Tokugawa Mitsukuni wanted to establish a new residence for Zhu Shunshui, but was resigned by Zhu Shunshui on the grounds that "the shame is not extinguished, the pain of sacrifice is there, and if the house is rich and settled, it is not my zhi", which shows that although Zhu Shunshui has always been concerned about his hometown in a foreign country. And actively spread Chinese classical culture to Japan, Zhu Zhiyu every time to Edo, Mito two places to teach is a doorway, has had an immeasurable impact on Japanese culture.
In the thirty-fifth year of the Yong calendar (1681 AD), Zhu Shunshui fell ill due to the lack of water and soil, and died shortly after. Tokugawa Mitsukuni led the courtiers to Zhu Shunshui's funeral to pay their respects sincerely, and buried Zhu Shunshui in The Tomb of the Previous Mito Domain Lords, Mount Mizuryu. Nowadays, the descendants of Zhu Shunshui come here to worship, and the Tokugawa family will accompany them throughout the whole process to show their respect for Zhu Shunshui.