Why is a Chinese regarded as an idol of life by the Japanese? In 1905, there was a very famous battle in the Russo-Japanese War, and there was a famous general in the Japanese Navy named Togo Heihachirō

Why is a Chinese regarded as an idol of life by the Japanese?

In 1905, there was a very famous battle in the Russo-Japanese War, and there was a famous general in the Japanese Navy named Togo Heihachiro, who became famous in one battle and completely annihilated the Russian Baltic Fleet with equipment far less than that of the Russian Army, becoming a famous war hero throughout Japan.

As a sign of his military exploits, the Emperor of Japan recalled him to Japan and appointed him as the head of the Naval Command, and held a celebration banquet for him. At the celebration banquet, everyone praised Dongxiang and kept on flattering words, but he himself was not moved.

At this time, he showed the waist tag pinned to his waist, and there was a line on it, "A lifetime of bowing down to Yang Ming." The "Yangming" here refers to Wang Yangming, "a lifetime of bowing down to Yangming", which shows how much Dongxiang worships Wang Yangming. Since then, this story has been widely circulated in Japan.

From ancient times to the present, there are still many Japanese people who regard him as an idol in life, and his proposal of "to the conscience, the unity of knowledge and action" has also been respected by countless Japanese. Japan used the philosophy of "to the conscience" to transform the weakened and withered Japan, unified the fragmented feudal state, and became the great power it is today. It can be seen that the influence of Yang Ming Xinxue on Japan is so great.

Wang Yangming was a master of the Ming Dynasty's psychology, and the philosophical proposition of "to the conscience" and the methodology of "unity of knowledge and action" put forward by Wang Yangming have the significance of breaking through the feudal ideological imprisonment and calling for the emancipation of the individual personality of the mind.

His author of the "Wang Chengwen Gongshu" was rated by the academic community as the earliest enlightenment philosophy that emerged in the late feudal society of China. Later, it was introduced to Japan, South Korea and other countries, and had a greater impact on Japan and Southeast Asia.