Chapter 844 super national treasure

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But of course this story is not over yet, otherwise, how can it show that Prince Shotoku is different!

A few days later, the prince of the stable household suddenly had a dream, which is said to be a dream entrusted to him by an immortal.

So Prince Shotoku told his followers the next day that the tramp was no ordinary person, he must be a god.

The entourage was of course dubious, but they still opened the tomb, and seeing that there was no body in the tomb, only the folded clothes were placed in the coffin village.

The prince of the stable household retrieved his clothes and wore them as usual. Then the story spread, and people said, “Only saints can know about gods!”

So the prince of the stable household has the title of Prince Shotoku. Of course, these are all Japanese legends, and in Jin Muchen’s view, this is just a trick played by the prince of the stable household to fool the people. In Chinese history, I don’t know how many times it happened, and it’s even more mysterious than this, there are many more.

However, Prince Shotoku was smart and eager to learn since he was a child, and it was true, but at that time there were not many good teachers in Japan.

And he happened to know the Anbu family, a Chinese immigrant who spread Buddhism in Japan. After interacting with this family more, he realized the power of the country across the sea, and learned a lot from the Anbu family who came to the mainland. knowledge, and the relationship becomes more and more close.

He not only learned Buddhist theory from Anbe, but also got to know the “Five Classics Doctor” Jue-chi from the mainland through Anbe, and began to study Confucianism with him, and absorbed China’s advanced thought and culture extensively.

It is said that Prince Shotoku once studied Buddhist scriptures in Iyo Onsen from the North Korean monk Keiji, who came to Japan. He asked many questions, but this Keiji was only half a bucket of water from North Korea, so he could not answer the question raised by Prince Shotoku. question.

Prince Shotoku can only understand through his own thinking. It is said that several times, he thought for a long time about a question that could not be answered, and suddenly realized it in his sleep, the next day. He explained his understanding to the teacher Huici, and Huici felt that his opinion was very reasonable.

But Jin Muchen, who later learned about the life of Prince Shotoku, believed that these historical records were actually descendants of Japan. Just to beautify their ancestors, this Prince Shotoku is definitely not as mysterious as the legend, but he is smart and has certain abilities, so it must be true.

This is the era in which Prince Shotoku lived. It can be said that the international situation in eastern Asia was turbulent. At that time, the Sui Dynasty in China had just unified the whole country, ending the 300-plus years of division since the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Silla on the Korean peninsula also adopted some of China’s systems and quickly became stronger. It even sent a lot of people east to hang and beat Japan. Japan, which has been in a closed state, was faced with how to adapt to this new situation. question.

At that time, the Japanese imperial court was divided into two groups: the Mobu clan and the Suga clan. The Suga clan advocated the acceptance of Buddhism in order to unify the beliefs of Japan.

The Mobu clan opposed the acceptance of Buddhism and insisted on the original beliefs of the clans, which was the essence of the struggle between the two factions. In addition to actively absorbing the advanced culture of the mainland, it has even risen to the point of religious struggle.

When the 30th emperor, Emperor Minda, did not believe in Buddhism, he supported the Mobu clan to burn down stupas and temples, and detained monks and nuns. Coincidentally, scabies were prevalent in the country at this time, and even the emperor was infected. Suwa took the opportunity to publicize that this was the Buddha’s punishment for them, and the emperor had to agree with Suwa to re-enshrine the Buddha statue.

And in this struggle, the young Prince Shotoku firmly sided with the Suga clan, so in April 593 AD. Prince Shotoku, who was only 20 years old, was established by his aunt, Emperor Ku, as the first batch of foreign students to travel to the mainland.

In fact, this is also the pioneering work of Prince Shotoku. He adopted this positive and enlightened attitude in order to transplant China’s advanced scientific culture.

Later, this form of sending international students to China continued for a long time. After Prince Shotoku returned to rule from the mainland. Since then, the plan to send international students to China has been comprehensively promoted. Although there are not many, they are all outstanding talents who are proficient in Chinese selected from the descendants of immigrants from the mainland.

These students have studied in China for 20 to 30 years, and have gone through the Sui and Tang dynasties, systematically learning Chinese laws and regulations, and actively disseminating them after returning to China. It has made great contributions to the development of Japanese culture and society.

It was during this period that Japan systematically learned various advanced ideas and technologies from China, thus opening the first cultural prosperity period in Japanese history. great development.

Especially those international students who were sent to China and returned home after their studies, many of them became the backbone of the most important political change in ancient Japanese history 20 years later, the Dahua Reform.

Prince Shotoku, although he was called the prince by later generations, was actually never the emperor in his life, because he was not the eldest son of the emperor, so the throne finally fell to his mediocre elder brother. It is to push the ancient emperor.

However, this is also a tragedy for the ancient emperor. Although he was in power, he actually had no real power. Because he advocated the eradication of Buddhism at the beginning of his reign, he offended the flourishing Buddhism in Japan at that time. In addition, he later contracted scabies. Failed in the political struggle and completely lost his rights, Prince Shotoku became the regent of Japan at that time.

At the beginning of Emperor Tuigu’s administration, Japan was still in the era of slavery. The backward production relations restricted the development of productive forces, and economic poverty continued to cause social crises.

After Prince Shotoku took power, in order to change this situation, he implemented a series of reforms. In 603, according to the custom of the Chinese official system, he formulated the twelve ranks of the crown, that is, the official position was divided into twelve ranks, and the hats of each class had different colors. These twelve different hats were used to distinguish the nobles. and rank of officials.

This is the first important reform of the official system in Japanese history, and it also has a great impact on the reform of the political system in the future, because the crown is awarded according to individual talent and merit, and can be promoted or deprived, and it cannot be passed on to Descendants, this broke the old tradition of slavery in which status was determined by blood, laid the foundation for the establishment of the feudal bureaucracy, and promoted the advancement of society.

In the second year, he formulated a seventeen-article constitution, drawing on the classics of hundreds of schools of thought and Buddhist thought from Chinese Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, etc., and stipulated the basic principles that citizens should abide by. However, due to the limitations of the times, Prince Shotoku did not realize that the root cause of the social crisis was slavery, so he did not make a big fuss about slavery.

In addition, the largest slave-owner noble in Japan at that time was Suga Mako, the uncle of Emperor Takugu, and the father-in-law of Prince Shotoku, who also held considerable real power in the imperial court.

Prince Shotoku’s reforms have violated the interests of Suga Mazi, so he has always taken a negative attitude, and after Prince Shotoku’s death, he has publicly opposed it.

In 622, Prince Shotoku died of illness at the age of 49. His death caused a great shock in Japanese society. According to historical records at the time, the elder princes and ministers seemed to have lost their beloved sons and did not know the taste of anything they ate; young people seemed to have lost their loving fathers. , the sound of crying spread throughout the street. The man ploughing the field stopped the plow, and the woman in Chunmi put down the pestle. Even the sun and moon have lost their brilliance, and the sky and the earth seem to have collapsed! His concubine, Lady Orange, embroidered the “Tian Shou Guo Man Cha Luo Embroidered Tent” in memory of him, which is now a famous national treasure in Japan.

This paragraph may be a little familiar to many people. Isn’t this what happened when our country’s great ancestor passed away? Therefore, Jin Muchen feels very suspicious about this historical record. There must be some Japanese beautification and processing in it.

Of course, Prince Shotoku’s position in Japanese history is absolutely beyond doubt. After all, it was his promotion and his attitude of learning the advanced culture and ideological system of the mainland that promoted the grand occasion of Japan sending overseas students to China in an all-round way. And it was these foreign students who promoted and completed Japan’s transformation from a slave society to a feudal society.

So if it wasn’t for his appearance, maybe when the Americans blasted open Japan’s door through the Black Ship Incident, Japan was still in a slavery society at that time!

In such a society completely out of touch with the international world, it is simply impossible to complete the subsequent Meiji Restoration, make a direct transition from feudalism to capitalism, and lay the foundation for Japan to become a later world power.

So until now, the Japanese still respect the Prince Shotoku, and even in their eyes, the Prince Shotoku’s status in Japanese history~www.readmtl.com~ is not weaker than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The status in Chinese history is the same, so many Japanese scholars respect this Prince Shotoku as “the benefactor of Japanese culture”.

And the “Shotoku Prince’s Biography” in front of him, such a magnificent work composed of 60 huge pictures, is definitely more qualified to be called a national treasure among Japan’s national treasures than anything else.

Even in the eyes of many people in the Japanese archaeology community, the value of this magnificent work is actually no worse than that of the Yaotian Tianmu Bowl.

That bowl is nothing but a piece of porcelain, and this magnum opus is about the history of Japan!

And it is also the life history of one of the most famous figures in Japan. Throughout the history of the world, no ruler of any country has left such a work, not even in China with a long history. This painting is seen in the eyes of the Japanese. Come on, it is definitely a super national treasure that is no weaker than the ancient Egyptian pyramids! (To be continued.)

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