Chapter 1130: Demolishing the Shrine and Worshipping Guandi (First update, please subscribe)
Learning Chinese is not learning a foreign language, although everyone likes to learn a foreign language.
However, in Japan, both men and women like to learn Chinese, especially women, who like to learn Chinese the most from Chinese men.
Speak Mandarin, be a Chinese, and then become a villain... Everyone knows this.
In Japan, as long as you can speak fluent Mandarin and are tall, you will definitely be popular.
But in the end, there are still too many monks and too little porridge. So every Chinese man feels like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, being watched by a tiger when he is in Japan.
As a man, Sun Haodong feels that his life is very hard.
He is not a soldier of the empire, nor is he a high-ranking official of the company. He is just an ordinary employee of the company, a middle-level manager at most.
But ever since he was sent to Japan by the company, he felt that he was being targeted - by women, from the landlord's daughter to the company's employees. The landlord's daughter would greet him warmly every day, and as for the female employees of the company, they would also give him loving lunch boxes.
This is all just... unbelievable.
Who could resist such a sweet place? However, he who is close to the water gets the moon first. On a stormy night, he was seduced by the landlord's daughter Song Mei.
Considering that Songmei's father was an old feudal lord and had a high family background, considering that she was very beautiful, and considering that the empire did not allow concubines, Sun Haodong could only reluctantly give up the forest.
When he put on the engagement ring on his finger, countless women felt sad. This was influenced by the European culture brought by the many Latin Americans in the Ming Dynasty. What was the most annoying thing about this custom? It indicated that he was engaged.
But fortunately, it can be taken off occasionally.
Look, when he put the ring on again and returned home, Songmei was already waiting for him there.
"Dear, tomorrow is Guan Sheng Festival. Can we go to the temple to pray together?"
As soon as she saw her lover, Song Mei ran to his side obediently, took his arm and looked at him with her bright eyes. She looked like a puppy wagging its tail to please its owner, making it impossible to refuse her.
"Well, I should have time tomorrow. It's the All Saints' Day...Okay! I can make time!"
Although men are most afraid of holidays, and I have an appointment with Xiangzi tomorrow, but... I can learn foreign languages in the evening instead.
"Haha, that's great, honey..."
Song Mei pressed her whole body against him, trying to please him.
"You've worked all day today, it must be very tiring, can I help you take a shower later?"
This night was destined to be another night of hard work. It was not easy to be a man. After a night of hard work, he had to accompany a woman to the temple to participate in the Guansheng Festival the next day.
"Guan Sheng Festival" is a festival that has just emerged in recent years.
In order to spiritually assimilate the Japanese, Japan's shrines and a large number of traditional temples were demolished. This was one of the assimilation policies personally set by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
It is not just because according to the official Japanese statement, the emperor is a descendant of Amaterasu, a living god on earth, and the shrine is the most active advocate of this theory.
Now that the emperor has no descendants, there is naturally no need for this kind of theory and shrine to exist.
Of course it must be eradicated.
Places like Ise Grand Shrine and Izumo Taisha Shrine removed their original statues and replaced them with places dedicated to the real emperor, Emperor Shengde, also known as Emperor Zhu the Great.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty also supported the spread of Buddhism, Taoism and even Catholicism in various parts of Japan. Its purpose was to dilute the influence of Shintoism on the Japanese people. Using magic to fight magic was the best choice.
In addition, a number of Guandi temples were specially built.
Why was the Guandi Temple deliberately built?
It is not just because the Japanese have been obsessed with the Three Kingdoms for hundreds of years that Guan Yu is extremely popular in Japan. Long before the empire entered Japan, there were several Guandi temples built spontaneously in many places in Japan.
What’s more important is Guan Yu’s loyalty and righteousness, which is what the Ming Dynasty needs!
The Ming Dynasty needs to complete the spiritual assimilation of the Japanese and fade away their Japanese past. In addition to using magic to fight magic and diluting the influence of Shintoism, it also needs to establish a new god, that is, Guan Yu!
There is no more suitable god than Guan Yu because he is loyal and righteous!
By promoting Guan Yu's loyalty and righteousness, and making the people of Japan take loyalty and righteousness as their foundation, isn't this spiritual assimilation?
Moreover, Guan Yu's loyalty is not to a country or a family, but to orthodoxy! Loyalty to the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period.
On orthodoxy!
In Asia, or even in the whole world, who can compare with our Ming Dynasty?
So, with the popular support on one side and the official demand on the other, the Ming Dynasty naturally went with the flow and converted all the shrines into Guandi Temples.
It is not enough to just renovate the Guandi Temple, but also to make the worship of Guandi full of ritual. Through various activities, it is closely linked with the lives of the people, and with a full sense of ritual, people will unconsciously blend into it.
Western Catholicism and the Muslim sect that disappeared in the desert are the best at this trick. As for China, Buddhism was also very good at it, but it was destroyed by the "anti-Buddhism" campaign that lasted for more than a thousand years. Apart from "Amitabha Buddha" and eating vegetarian food, they didn't dare to have any other rituals.
Chinese people believe everything and nothing at the same time. When they feel threatened, they just use knives!
When you have killed almost all the animals, put down your butcher knife, say "Amitabha" and you will become a Buddha instantly.
How nice!
Now, worshipping Guandi Temple has become a new tradition in Japan. Newlyweds will hold weddings in Guandi Temples; newborns will be taken to Guandi Temples to pray for blessings a few days after birth, and even lovers will go there to worship. Loyalty is even more needed between lovers!
What is a sense of ritual? This is a sense of ritual. Through various explanations, Guandi has penetrated into every aspect of the lives of the Japanese people.
June 24th is Guandi Festival. On this day, like tens of thousands of Guandi temples across Japan, the Guandi Temple in Edo is crowded with people who come to pray for blessings. Newlyweds hold weddings here, and parents bring their children here to pray to Guandi to bless their children with health and kill off any evil spirits around their children.
"Guan Di, may Sun Haodong have only me as his lover for the rest of his life, and only love me..."
Song Mei was kneeling on the ground, looking at the statue of Guandi and praying silently. After the worship, she saw the man next to her out of the corner of her eye. He was also very pious.
Well, he would treat her wholeheartedly like Guandi. Of course, she would also be generous enough to allow him to have several lovers...
"Master Guan, I kowtow to you. Master Guan, please bless me so that I can be promoted today, and please protect me, Meihui, and Xiangzi from being discovered by Songmei. Master Guan, please bless me..."
What do people say before God?
Only one's heart knows what loyalty and righteousness are. Can it be revealed by worshipping gods? Not necessarily, but it will be affected more or less imperceptibly.
Through such subtle influence, even enemies can become our own people. Isn't a certain silly frog a clear example...
Four million people cried in the same place back then, and in just fifty years, their hearts were no longer bound by Japan.
Who is the biggest enemy of the empire's colonial rule?
In fact, it was never the resistance of the indigenous people, but rather systematic assimilation. As long as they put in the effort, spiritually and culturally, in just a few decades, the former enemies became their own people...
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(End of this chapter)
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