How do Japanese evaluate the banquet in Tang Palace?

The clouds on the temples want to smell the snow on the cheeks, and the clothes are fragrant and the shadows on the temples are the prosperous Tang Dynasty. During the Spring Festival, a song and dance program "Tang Palace Banquet" of Henan Satellite TV Spring Festival Evening was successfully released, and "Beauty" was hot searched.

In the program, the clever and playful girls of the Tang Dynasty are like walking through ancient paintings, dressed up, laughing and playing, and walking gracefully ... The ultimate glory of the Tang Dynasty has crossed the years with the attitude of "new national tide" and jumped before the eyes of the world.

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National is the world's. China people are not the only ones who love the culture of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty also made China's neighbor, Japan, look forward to it. It is no exaggeration to say that Japan has always been a loyal "fan brother" of Tang Wenhua.

However, what kind of Datang is it that makes this "lost brother" unforgettable?

Women, Poetry and Dunhuang. Next, we will start to find the answer from these three keywords.

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Goddess yang guifei VS witch Wu Zetian

In 20 17, the Sino-Japanese co-production film The Legend of the Demon Cat directed by Chen Kaige set off a "Tang Dynasty upsurge" in Japan.

The film creates a dream of the Tang Dynasty with extremely colorful lens language, among which the most colorful is the dreamlike and intricate "bliss feast": a resplendent temple, a maid-in-waiting in full dress, and a drunken and hazy Li Bai wrote "clothes are needed for the clouds, flowers should be accommodated". ...

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The legendary bliss feast of the demon cat.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty in The Legend of the Demon Cat was not written by China people, but originated from the novel Ghost Banquet of the Tang Dynasty by Japanese writer Baku Yumemakura.

Baku Yumemakura's Tang Dynasty was both free and prosperous, and full of twists and turns. From the perspective of poet Bai Juyi and Japanese monk Konghai, he tells a love tragedy different from that of Emperor Li Longji and Imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan in the Tang Dynasty, and blames Yang Yuhuan's death on the conspiracy and ruthlessness of the royal family, showing his sadness.

After the film was released, the Japanese audience both lamented the tragedy of Yang Yuhuan and marveled at the dreamlike prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

This is not the first time that the Japanese have taken Yang Yuhuan as the leading role in literary works.

Kenji Mizoguchi, a famous Japanese director, filmed the Japanese film Yang Guifei as early as 1955, and the famous Treasure Song and Dance Troupe also rehearsed flower dances in Chang 'an-Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei.

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Stills of the Japanese film Yang Guifei.

Why do Japanese love Yang Yuhuan so much?

In fact, Yang Yuhuan has always been their "goddess". Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan is called "the hometown of Yang Guifei" by the Japanese. There is a temple called Erzun Garden, where not only the statue of Yang Guifei is enshrined, but also the tombstone of the imperial concubine is erected, and even local people go to worship when begging for their children.

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Statue of Yang Guifei in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Another woman in the Tang Dynasty who impressed the Japanese was Wu Zetian.

However, in their minds, this domineering queen is not as lovely as Yang Yuhuan.

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The portrait of Wu Zetian.

In Japan, Wu Zetian is regarded as the "three wicked women" of China, who are equally famous with Lv Hou and Cixi.

NHK TV's recent documentary "The Plain Face of the Powerful-The Only Female Emperor in History is Wuhou" tells the story of Wu Zetian again.

The film profoundly reveals the "black history" of Wu Zetian's reign, and also shows the other side of Wu Zetian as a politician, providing a more comprehensive and three-dimensional perspective for Japanese audiences to understand the culture of the Tang Dynasty.

The film was well received as soon as it was released in Japan. Just one month later, it was broadcast again at the request of the audience.

"Popular Idol" Bai Juyi

"The mountains and rivers are strange, and the wind and the moon are the same." It is not difficult to see the Japanese love for poetry from the poems on the packaging of materials that Japan supported Wuhan during the epidemic.

A poem about the packaging of Japanese support materials during the Wuhan epidemic.

The origin of this poem is also related to the Tang Dynasty. About 1300 years ago, Japanese Prince Nagaya embroidered this affectionate poem on the cassock presented to the monks in the Tang Dynasty.

In a sense, the Japanese love for China's poems began in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, with the ships that sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty, they crossed the ocean and returned to Japan. In addition to utensils, there are also famous works by Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi.

In the era when poets came forth in large numbers in Tang Dynasty, who was the most popular in Japan?

The answer is not Li Bai and Du Fu, but Bai Juyi. In the eyes of the Japanese, Bai Juyi is synonymous with Tang poetry.

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Bai Juyi (left), a poet in the Tang Dynasty in the movie The Legend of the Demon Cat.

As for why Bai Juyi became the "king of popularity" in Japan, there are three reasons-

First, the style of poetry plays a "public card", and even the elderly and children can pass it on from mouth to mouth. After all, Chinese is still an obscure foreign language for the Japanese.

Second, the sentimental feelings of Bai poetry coincide with the most prominent aesthetic feature of Japan's Heian period, "mourning for things";

Thirdly, when Bai Juyi was in vogue in the Tang Dynasty, it was when a large number of envoys were sent back to the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion that Bai Juyi's "fire" spread to Japan.

Bai Juyi's Japanese "iron powder" is numerous, and many of them are well-known.

There are not only royalty like Emperor Emei and Emperor Ji, but also great writers like Murasaki shikibu and Qing Yan.

The royal family's admiration for Bai Juyi has created the phenomenon that Japanese people are proud of "reading white poems", while literary masters directly bring the worship of "idols" into their works.

According to statistics, there are 154 sentences quoting white poems in Murasaki shikibu's masterpiece Tale of Genji, and 13 sentences quoting selected white poems in Pillow Grass of Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the Japanese love of Tang poetry is not limited to Bai Juyi. Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night, Meng Haoran's Spring Dawn, Du Fu's Spring Hope and Zhang Ji's a night-mooring near maple bridge are all required poems in Japanese textbooks.

"The poems of Datang, like the most beautiful sky, can only be looked up." Japanese scholar Haruki Murakami once lamented in Japanese-Chinese poetry.

Dedicated to Dunhuang

Dunhuang is also a sacred place in the hearts of the Japanese.

There is a folk story that an 80-year-old Japanese man came to Dunhuang in the 1980s. After visiting the Mogao Grottoes, he also went to see the famous Yumenguan Gate. In Japan, Wang Zhihuan's Liangzhou Ci is a household name. When the old man finally faced Yumenguan, he couldn't help crying. What kind of feeling is this?

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The two-episode documentary "Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes: A Panorama of Beauty" filmed by NHK was broadcast in 2008.

Dunhuang is an important town in the western regions in the Tang Dynasty and the center of multi-ethnic cultural exchanges. The Silk Road built a bridge between China and foreign countries, Dunhuang was the throat of the Silk Road, and the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous period of the Silk Road communication.

According to historical records, the blueprint for Japan's reform in the 7th century was mainly the political and economic system of the Tang Dynasty. After more than 1000 years, Japanese society generally has the psychology of worshipping China culture.

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The Japanese film Dunhuang 1988 was released, which was adapted from the masterpiece of Jing Shangjing, a famous Japanese historical novelist.

"The reason why we Japanese are excited when we hear the words Silk Road, Dunhuang and Chang 'an is because this culture still lives strongly in the hearts of Japanese people. "Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru takeshita once said Dunhuang's position in the hearts of the Japanese people.

Don't forget, there will be consequences The flourishing age of the Tang Dynasty has never gone far in the long river of time. It exists in the hearts of everyone who misses it and continues in the current culture and life. It is always dazzling and shining.