Two ancient figures in China that the Japanese can't be unaware of,

One is Confucius and the other is Yang Guifei.

Yang Guifei's position in the hearts of Japanese people is on a par with that of a generation of saints.

One,

How famous is Yang Guifei in Japan?

Yang Guifei is one of the three beauties in world history in the eyes of the Japanese.

The other two are Cleopatra and Onomachi in peacetime.

In 2002, Japanese film star Yamaguchi Momoe.

Claiming to be a descendant of Yang Yuhuan,

Japan's most famous actress,

Because Yang Guifei is proud to be a descendant of Yang family in China.

Even in Japan.

There is a cultural phenomenon of "Yang Guifei worship".

She became the Guanyin bodhisattva in the hearts of the Japanese.

In the royal temple in Kyoto, Xiannu Temple.

There is "Yang Guifei Kannonji",

A wooden statue dedicated to "Yang Guifei Guanyin".

In Abe's hometown, Erzun Temple in Sankou County,

There is a tomb of Yang Guifei.

The Japanese call Yamaguchi Prefecture "the hometown of Yang Guifei".

As Yang Guifei's second hometown,

Shinzo Abe and Yang Guifei are "fellow villagers".

The local people put their own specialty rice

Called "Yang Guifei's Dream", it also created Yang Guifei's bread.

Because Yang Guifei loves peaches,

The local people introduced 30 peach trees from Shandong and planted them in two temples.

Every October,

Both temples will hold "Yan Festival".

Worship Yang Guifei.

The Japanese believe that,

He was executed in Maweipo, China.

Just one of Yang Guifei's maids,

Yang Guifei went to Japan by herself.

Japanese scholars are also willing to verify that Yang Guifei has been to Japan.

Japanese writer longwu Watanabe

I wrote a book, The Secret History of Yang Guifei's Resurrection.

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The solution is well written.

After reading this, you will have two questions:

Why is Yang Guifei so famous in Japan?

Is it true that Yang Guifei is not dead in Japan?

Second,

Why is Yang Guifei famous in Japan?

Some people think that this is because the culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty had a great influence on Japan.

As a representative of Tang Wenhua, Yang Guifei was naturally accepted and worshipped by the Japanese.

But Wu Zetian is a generation of queens, more influential than Yang Guifei.

Why didn't the Japanese go after Wu Zetian?

It can be seen that Japanese worship of Tang Wenhua is not the main reason.

The real reason is Bai Juyi's influence on Japanese culture.

Bai Juyi's influence in the history of Japanese literature

Even more than the influence of Tang poetry on Japan.

In the hearts of the Japanese,

A figure who can represent the peak of Tang Dynasty culture

Only Bai Juyi, Li Bai and Du Fu can't compete with it.

China's poems even appeared in Japanese history because of Bai Juyi.

The period when Japanese traditional literature was almost submerged (759-905 AD)

150 "The Dark Age of National Wind".

In the future, in times of peace,

Bai Juyi has a profound influence on Japanese traditional culture.

From 794 to 1 185,

Japan takes Pingan Jing (Kyoto) as its capital.

Therefore, in peacetime,

This is also the golden age of Japanese classical literature.

In the literary works of the Heian Dynasty,

Bai Juyi's poems are the most quoted.

White poetry has become a model for Japanese poets to imitate.

When they write poems, they often conceive the content of white poems.

At that time, Emperor Emei released Selected Works of Bai.

Under the pillow, as a baby,

Japanese sinologists all use "seventy volumes, full of gold"

An anthology describing Bai.

It is no exaggeration to say that,

From the palace to the civilians,

Bai Juyi simply became a cultural idol at that time.

Some people spend a lot of money.

Get a poem by Bai Juyi,

Not to mention the whole body.

Covered with Bai Juyi's poems, I am proud of it.

In many of Bai Juyi's poem,

The most influential is Song of Eternal Sorrow.

This is why Yang Guifei is very famous in Japan.

Third,

Bai Juyi is in Japan.

There is a famous female fan named Haruki Murakami.

She almost worships Bai Juyi.

Later, she wrote a book,

This is the famous story of Genji.

In the hearts of the Japanese

The Tale of Genji is absolutely comparable to China's Dream of Red Mansions.

This is the pinnacle of Japanese classical literature,

It is also the beginning of Japanese female culture.

It is also the originator of Japanese literary novels.

In this book, she quoted Bai Juyi's poem 154.

It should account for 59% of the total number of classic citations in China.

She refers to Tang and Yang Guifei,

Shaped two characters, Emperor Tong Hu and Dressed Tong Hu,

And repeatedly quoted the poem "Song of Eternal Sorrow".

It can be said that there would be no Tale of Genji without Song of Eternal Sorrow.

Because "Tale of Genji"

It has a great influence on Japanese literature,

Therefore, Japanese ancient and modern literature youth.

Everyone knows Li Longji and Yang Guifei.

Besides, Yang Guifei was originally a victim of political struggle.

More tragic, so Yang Guifei

It has also become a cultural symbol in Japanese women's literature and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Up to now, Japanese academic circles

I am also keen on the study of Song of Eternal Sorrow.

Therefore, the Japanese have a soft spot for Yang Guifei.

Fourth,

So, why do the Japanese believe that Yang Guifei is not dead?

Went to Japan?

This is because the Japanese have over-interpreted Song of Eternal Sorrow.

Previously, Yu Boping and Zhou Zuoren supported this view:

There is a saying in Song of Eternal Sorrow.

The memory and pain are buried in the soil of Maweipo. Where is her white face? ,

Japanese ancient and modern scholars speculate that,

Since the mud of Maweipo

Can't find Yang Guifei's bones,

In other words, she's not dead.

Maweigang, Maweipo, is located about 1 1 km west of Xingping City, Shaanxi Province.

There's another sentence

Then he heard a story about an enchanted island at sea, which is part of the invisible world.

It turns out that Bai Juyi said that Yang Guifei went to Xianshan after her death.

It is a romantic writing technique to imply that Yang Guifei has become a fairy.

The author's sympathy and beautiful yearning for Yang Guifei's death are pinned.

However, Chinese and Japanese scholars believe that this fairy mountain is Penglai Mountain.

It was called Yingzhou in ancient times, which is Japan today.

So it is inferred that Yang Guifei went to Japan.

So,

Japanese scholars confirmed that Yang Guifei was not dead.

When I came to Japan, things happened.

Yang Guifei Cemetery was founded.

Anyone with a little knowledge of history knows that,

Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow is a literary poem.

There are subjective factors such as the author's personal lyric imagination,

Therefore, The Song of Eternal Sorrow cannot be regarded as historical materials.

Bai Juyi's description cannot be regarded as historical facts.

In New Tang Book and Old Tang Book,

It is clear that Yang Guifei was given death.

"Zi Zhi Tong Jian Ji Tang" is also recorded.

Eunuch Gao Lishi took Yang Guifei to the Buddhist temple to hang herself.

In the Tang Shi Supplement, it is written more clearly.

Gao Lishi hanged Yang Guifei under a pear tree in a Buddhist temple.

These official historical materials are enough to prove

Yang Guifei was really executed in Maweipo,

It is more credible than Bai Juyi's literary work Song of Eternal Sorrow.

But Bai Juyi's influence on Japanese literature is too great.

Japanese scholars interpret Song of Eternal Sorrow as real history.

It is Bai Juyi's cultural influence on Japan.

Yang Guifei became the "goddess" of Japanese literature.

I'm afraid Bai Juyi couldn't think of it either.

I can be the most important person in Japanese history.

A great god worshipped by others, his own poem.

Can change the Japanese view of history.

Yang Guifei in the eyes of the Japanese,

No longer the real Yang Guifei in history,

But the tragic image of Japanese female literature.

Judging from the cultural phenomenon of Japanese Yang Guifei,

This shows that China culture has a profound influence on Japanese culture.

A story of Yang Guifei, reliving the glory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

China's splendid culture spread all over the world.

History can annihilate the past, but it can't hide the pride of the nation.