Chapter 836 Pinch your nose

Isn’t this Horyu Temple Treasure Hall dedicated to displaying the treasures of the Emperor?

Why is the baby on display here so shabby? Could it be that they didn’t come up with real treasures at all?

Looking at these Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues, Jin Muchen can be said to be full of suspicion, but no matter what, this is a national public museum.

After all, this museum is also equivalent to Japan’s royal face. It is impossible to fool the Japanese people with some shoddy things, right?

Although Little Japan has done a lot of **** things in history, and has always lied, but after thinking about it, Jin Muchen still thinks that these guys don’t dare to cheat on matters related to national credibility.

Speaking of these bronze Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, although they look very rough, they are also shining with some special light that only antiques can have. Jin Muchen pinched his nose and came to these Bodhisattva statues.

If he had carefully checked these bronze Buddha and Bodhisattva statues when he came to the site last time, Jin Muchen might not have hesitated as he is now.

When he walked to these bronze Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues and carefully looked at the introduction of these bronze Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues, he realized that the Japanese really didn’t cheat, and these things can indeed be regarded as national treasures of the Japanese. .

Because these bronze Buddha and Bodhisattva statues can be said to be the earliest batch of bronze Buddha and Bodhisattva statues in Japan.

After a careful inspection, these bronze Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues were actually made in the park around the seventh century. At that time, it happened to be the era of birds in Japan, and it was also when the Datang civilization had just begun its eastward crossing to Japan, which had a civilized influence on Japan. .

You must know that before that, Japanese culture can definitely be said to have been in a state of ignorance. Although the reign of the emperor has already begun, and there have been daimyo from all over the world, the Japanese culture at that time has not yet been enlightened. It has always been separated from the continental civilization, and even outside the East Asian civilization circle. There is really not much to say about Japanese history before that.

It can only be the emperor family. If you have to say it, it can only be said to be a piece of history of the island unified by the emperor of Japan.

However, from the sixth century AD to about the seventh century, after the civilization of the Tang Dynasty was introduced to Japan, Japanese culture began to become rich and colorful.

It was with the input of the Tang civilization that Japan began to have real writing. I started to live in a decent house, and sat on tatami mats. I started to learn Chinese people and started to eat at the table. Many people even started to have surnames from that time.

In the process of importing the Tang civilization, it was impossible not to mention Buddhism. It was the introduction of Buddhism that gave Japan the concept of religion for the first time in history, and finally the emperor used religious propaganda to complete it. The concept of political and religious integration. The Tianhuang family and Buddhism were tied together, and only then did they stand firm in the history of more than a thousand years in the future, and there was no change of dynasties like China.

Although it came later. The imperial family has been overtaken by powerful daimyo and generals several times, but there has never been a change in the royal family. This cannot but speak of the important role that Buddhism has played in Japanese history.

In the Nara period, the ancient Japanese civilization experienced a period of prosperous and prosperous, and this period is now the era of balance that Japanese historians talk about with great interest.

At that time, it was the 45th emperor of Japan, Emperor Shengmu, who commanded the world at that time. He probably reigned from 701 AD to May 2, 756.

Emperor Shomu is the grandson of Emperor Motomei, the 43rd female emperor of Japan. In 714 AD, he was established as the crown prince, but in 715 AD, the emperor died of illness. The crown prince was still young, so Huang Wei was temporarily succeeded by Princess Binggao. To become the 44th emperor of Japan, Emperor Yuanzheng, is also to curb and balance Fujiwara, not to compare the snobbish expansion of the other family.

Later, after Emperor Shomu took the throne as an adult, Japan was in a state of dealing with natural disasters, clan rivalries, rebellions, and constant political crises. In order to change the political environment and ecology of Japan at that time, Emperor Shomu tried his best to learn to adopt the ruling system of the Tang Dynasty. , and living habits, to educate the nation.

It was at this time that he began to introduce Buddhism from the Tang Dynasty, and advocated for the people in the country to believe in Buddhism. He dispatched Tang envoys twice to introduce culture and Buddhism from the Eastern Land Tang Dynasty. He also personally created Guofen Temple and Dongda Temple. Casting the Great Buddha, it is precisely this kind of concentrating on attainments, and the strong leading influence, that makes Japan appear the later stage of the balance culture.

In 749 AD, the Emperor Shengmu simply abdicated and became a Buddhist monk!

It was also in the era of Emperor Shomu that Buddhism took root in Japan and developed rapidly. In 740 AD, Emperor Shomu made a great wish to build a big Buddha when he worshiped the Buddha of Lushana at the Knowledge Temple in Hanoi.

He asked the various countries in Japan’s main island to build three statues of Sakyamuni, and copied the “Great Prajna Sutra”. He also built Jinguangming Temple and Hoka Temple in various countries. He also built the famous Todaiji Temple in Nara. It was he who made Buddhism become the The teaching of protecting the country in Japan.

And he also promulgated the “Law of the Elderly”, among which there is such a “Order for monks and nuns”, which manages the precepts originally managed by Buddhist groups in the form of the national legal system, and the ordination based on faith is also subject to public inspection by the state. Since then, Buddhism has officially become the state religion of Japan.

At this time, the monks who got the sweetness, of course, also knew very well what it means to repay the favor. The emperor gave them so many benefits, and they also gave the emperor the corresponding return.

Later, when these monks preached Buddhism all over the island, they would promote the emperor as the supreme **** of Japan, so the emperor family became the agent of the **** Amaterasu believed in by the whole Japan.

That’s why it is said that at this time, the Heavenly Royal Family and the monks completed the ****** notification method.

It is precisely because of the advocacy of these monks that the Tianhuang family has penetrated into the hearts of the common people in all parts of Japan, and has even become the belief of the common people.

Therefore, although later, after the actual control of the country by the Tianhuang family was weakened, many local names began to play the trick of coercing the emperor to command the princes, but there was no general with real power who dared to be like the old Cao family of the Wei Dynasty in Chinese history. In that case, dare to ask the emperor to abdicate.

As for the rotation of Feng Shui, when I came to my house this year, Lao Tzu also came to sit on the dragon chair in a dashing manner, which has never happened in the history of Japan.

So this shows the status of Buddhism in Japanese history and how close the relationship with the royal family is.

At this time, it is not so surprising to see these crudely made bronze Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues in the Horyu Temple Treasure Hall.

In the eyes of Jin Muchen, these bronze statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas may be shoddy and shoddy, but in the eyes of the Japanese Buddhist circles and the imperial family, they are quite precious treasures.

These bronze Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues, according to Jin Muchen’s vision of seeing top-level Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues, are really rough in workmanship to a certain extent, and even if they appear in China’s antique market, they will definitely be swept away. Classified as fake antiques and imitations.

After all, the workmanship is too rough, but if you understand that these bronze Buddha and Bodhisattva statues are the products of Japan’s Asuka period and the seventh century AD, you will be relieved.

After all, at that time, it was not long before Buddhism entered Japan, and the Japanese probably just learned how to cast these bronze Buddha and Bodhisattva statues from China.

At that time, the Japanese were able to make Bodhisattva and Buddha statues like this, it was already their limit.

So you can’t really say that other people’s things are too rough, you can only say that this is the most authentic embodiment of Japan’s metallurgy and moldmaking technology at that time.

Therefore, these gilt bronze statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva can really be called national treasures of Japan. Although Jin Muchen is very disdainful of such national treasures, he can’t help pinching his nose to recognize them. It’s really a national treasure of Japan.

And this is also a royal collection, because the following introduction can say that these bronze Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues were specially collected by the people of Horyu Temple back then and dedicated to the imperial family.

When they were dedicated to the emperor, it should have been around the eighth century AD, which means that these bronze statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva have been handed down in the emperor family for more than a thousand years.

In this way, the collection value of this thing will immediately increase.

Japan’s Heavenly Royal Family, although compared with the Windsor Family of the Empire on the other side of the earth that never sets the sun, is a royal family that has been passed down for more than 2,000 years and has been inexhaustible.

Although this family’s reputation in Asia is really not good, it is still one of the few royal families in Asia that has been passed down to the present.

Since it is a treasure held by this family for a long time, although the workmanship is rough, it is not very beautiful, and it is not made of precious materials, but the B level is still quite high.

If you get it internationally, in addition to the Japanese, there must be many people in Europe and the United States who are willing to collect this thing.

After all, those European and American collectors like this kind of things with historical heritage the most, especially famous people in history, or things that are inherited from famous families.

This kind of thing is most to their appetite.

So these bronze Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues, although Jin Muchen didn’t like it very much, he still pinched his nose and put them away. However, he didn’t plan to hold these things for a long time. According to his plan, since Europeans liked these things, he would simply put them away for a long time. Take it to Europe and sell it. (To be continued.)