He lived in Japan for half a century.
Capable of writing and martial arts, versatile.
In Japan, we are committed to the dissemination of Chinese culture,
Earn prestige and gain respect.
He is The Yuhang man, Chen Yuanyun.
Chen Yuanyun was born in the fifteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1587) and was a native of Chenjiaqiao, Yuhang County (now part of Xianlin Subdistrict, Yuhang District). At a young age, he began to study in various parts of China, learned a variety of skills, and had the ambition to travel the world to visit strangers overseas. At the age of 33, he came to Nagasaki, Japan, on a ship of traders to Japan. In the 52 years of living in Japan, many legendary stories have been born on him...
The founder of judo was actually a Yuhang native
Japanese Judo Naso
Traveling abroad for a long time, it is inevitable to know some safety and self-defense skills. After Chen Yuanyun arrived in Japan, he created judo based on what he usually learned and combined with the Japanese boxing techniques of the time. At that time, he lived in a monastery in the south of Edo (present-day Tokyo) in Japan, and lived with three ronin people, and in order to prevent these people from making moves against him, Chen Yuanyun used judo as a self-defense. In the comings and goings, the Ronin people learned the power of judo and learned judo with Chen Yuanyun as a teacher. Later, these three people became sects and spread throughout Japan.
Spread Chinese medical techniques
Promotional China-Japan Medical Exchange
In the early days of his stay in Japan, practicing medicine was Chen Yuanyun's means of livelihood. This is also related to the fact that he managed medicinal herbs and studied medicine at the Shaolin Temple in Songshan during his study tour in China. As the fame of practicing medicine spread, he also received the attention of japanese middle and upper class people, and also had a good friendship with the famous doctors of the time, such as Kurokawa Michiyuki, Noma Mitake, and Fukagawa Masamune. Today, in Japan, there are exchange letters between Chen Yuanyun and the Confucian physician Kurokawa Michiyu.
Promote the art of Chinese calligraphy and painting
Proficient in all kinds of fonts, good at drawing bamboo
(Chen Yuanyun KaiShu Lanting Ji, XiDu is its alias)
Chen Yuanyun has been brilliant since childhood, and has practiced a good hand. He was proficient in various calligraphy styles, and The Japanese calligraphers Watsuya Meifeng, Honda Michiho, and Sasaki Shizumo all learned his calligraphy. Sometimes he also painted, and the Japanese literary critic Sasaki Rinfu considered his paintings to be "all fun", and especially the bamboo paintings were cherished by the Japanese.
Improved the original pottery firing process in Japan
The inheritance of the spirit of craftsmanship
When it comes to pottery, it may be particularly related to Chen Yuanyun. Near his hometown of Chenjiaqiao, there is a market town famous for burning pottery, which is now the bottle kiln. He was not only exposed to burnt pottery in the bottle kiln when he was young, but later also managed pottery during his time at the Songshan Shaolin Temple. Moreover, the Shaolin Temple also has a kiln for burning pottery, and perhaps he also mastered the art of pottery burning there.
When he came to Japan, he soon found that Japanese pottery, especially tea ceremony utensils, was relatively rough. Therefore, he improved from the selection of clay and the glazing of the painting blank, which was praised by the society and potters, and gave it the reputation of "Yuan Yun Yan".
Promote Sino-Japanese tea ceremony cultural exchanges
Proficient in tea ceremony, proficient in tea
Chen Yuanyun was also proficient in tea ceremony. In his daily interactions with Japanese friends, he also enriched the connotation of Japanese tea ceremony culture. He is good at cooking tea, and the tea he cooks is very popular with friends, called "Chen's tea". In the process of drinking tea with his friends, he often composed poems during the banquet, and the friends at the same table also sang happily. In addition, the above-mentioned "Moto-yun yaki" is also often used as a topic of tasting and exchange between tea ceremony exchanges, which enriches the original limitations of the Japanese tea ceremony.
He wrote books and lectures to spread traditional Chinese culture
Talent rich in literature and history, increase spiritual wealth
(Five-character poem by Chen Yuanyun)
During his stay in Nagato Kingdom (present-day Honyamaguchi Prefecture), Chen Yuanyun compiled the Chronicle of the Nagato Kingdom, which is equivalent to the Local Chronicle of China (Compendium). The whole book records local folklore, the Taishou clan, the flow of generations, and the virtues of appearance, which can be said to be the first time in the compilation of local history in Japan at that time.
In terms of disseminating academic thought, Chen Yuanyun took Taoist philosophical thought as the main content, and completed the Taoist work "Lao Tzu Jing Tong Kao" a year before his death, which also had a new impact on the Japanese academic community at that time.
In addition to the two works mentioned above, Chen Yuanyun also wrote works such as "Poetry of Sheng'an", "Collected Poems of Hulin", "Collected Works of The People of Jiebaishan", and left many golden stone inscriptions. For example, the inscription of The Sacred Virtue Temple, a national treasure of Japan in Nagoya, was written by him in Zhao Mengfu italics.
Impart practical skills and spread the idea of "practical learning". This outstanding scholar from Yuhang, erudite and versatile, with both culture and martial arts, has made contributions to Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges with his legendary life.
Let's give this "strongest brain" from Yuhang a zan~