During the Tang Dynasty, there were Jian Zhen monks who crossed to Japan and brought Chinese Buddhism, medicine, calligraphy inscriptions, and architectural techniques, so that Japan absorbed the advanced Chinese civilization and accumulated the capital for the future national strength to take off.
Pujiang also has a high monk who crossed to Japan in the east, named Donggao Xinyue.
Donggao heart is more like
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the high monk Donggao Xinyue promoted Buddhism in Japan and founded the Shouchang school of Zen Buddhism. At the same time, his calligraphy and painting, seal carving, piano path, medicine, especially seal carving, piano path, have a great influence on Japan, becoming the "father of seal carving" and "the ancestor of recent violinology" in Japan.
Donggao Xinyue is commonly known as Jiang, the legal name is Xingli, the number Donggao, the character Xinyue. Because he was born at an early age and had seen the anti-Qing struggle, there are very few records, but his deeds in Japan are more and more clearly recorded. He once described himself in the "Chronicle of Dongdu" as "Jiang Shizi of Puyang, Benguanwu County", and according to later research, he was a native of Pujiang County, Zhejiang.
Donggao Xinyue works
Donggao Xinyue was born in the twelfth year of Ming Chongzhen (1639). When he was six years old, the Ming dynasty was easy to ding, and the situation was chaotic. When he was eight years old, the Qing army occupied Pujiang, and Xinyue was sent to Suzhou Bao'en Temple to be ordained. After the age of thirteen, he began to roam between Jiangsu and Zhejiang, seeking teachers and visiting the Tao, and studying Zen. At the age of 32, he stayed at Yongfu Temple in Hangzhou. Five years later, the "San Francisco" army rose up and there was a riot in the southeast, so the thirty-seven-year-old Donggao Xinyue set off from Hangzhou and crossed east to Japan, where he lived in Japan for nearly nineteen years until his death at Mito Tentoku-ji Temple in 1695.
Donggao Xinyue Gong calligraphy and painting, fine seal carving, Tongqin Dao, is a versatile monk. His calligraphy is excellent in all aspects, especially in grass. The Lishu he wrote did not focus on the Han tablets, but used the Zhong Ding text and the seal text to do its best to transcend the magic of spiritual change; Its practice of grass blends the way of Zen Buddhism, which is beautiful and beautiful, and the standard is exquisite; His paintings are longer than figures, and he works part-time Meilan Zhuju, and the Dharma statues he painted were made into auspicious logistics by the Japanese and passed down to this day; Its seal engraving chases the Qin Han Dynasty, which is a style of its own, and is regarded by the Japanese as the "father of Japanese seal carving".
Donggao Xinyue works
Xinyue was also proficient in the Tao of the Qin, and was once a disciple of Zhuang Zhenfeng, a violinist of the Yushan Sect. When he crossed the east, he carried two guqins, of which the "Yu Shun" piano is still preserved. He is also good at dispensing eye drops, and the eye drops he concocts are called "Hokuto Fragrant Eye Drops" by the Japanese, and have been used for a long time in production.
The site of the current Chiju No. 4 Elementary School in Tokyo was once the mansion where Higashigao Shinkoshi lived at that time. There is the site of the "Jiaqing Monument" in the courtyard, which was erected by Xinyue's disciples to commemorate him.
The reason why it is called "Jiaqing Monument" is because there is a plum tree in this courtyard, which was brought to Japan to be planted after the fruit was collected from jiaqingfang in the Luoyang Royal Garden before xinyue dongdu, and was called "Jiaqing tree" after growing. More than three hundred years have passed, and the plum tree has long since withered, but the monument is still there.
On the mountainside of Mount Xianhua in Pujiang, we can find traces of Donggao Xinyue, where there is a memorial pavilion of Donggao Xinyue, which is a Japanese-style building with wooden lattice lintels, window lintels, and several cherry blossom trees in front of the house. At the entrance, a Japanese-style stone stele is erected, and the words "Passing the Mantle" are engraved on it. Inside the memorial pavilion is a statue of Zen Master Higashigao Shinkoshi presented by Theo Higashigashi, who presided over the Kannon Temple in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, on behalf of the Japanese religious community.
Donggao Xinyue Memorial Pavilion
Every Year in March, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and coming here is like suddenly walking into a different place in Toei. While feeling the beauty of Xianhua, you can also feel the Zen master xinyue who lived in Japan in the past, killing two birds with one stone.