Japanese people generally like China culture. Because China culture has a great influence on Japanese. In today's Japan, China can be found in all aspects, whether in words, thoughts, living habits and architectural styles.

Chinese food is also very popular. The number of restaurants in China accounts for more than 41% of the total catering industry in Tokyo alone, and food and condiments in China are more common in supermarkets. Kung Fu, represented by Shaolin Temple, is also very popular. The movie shaolin soccer once caused a sensation in Japan, and DVD sales topped the list for a long time. China's historical and literary books, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West and Water Margin, are quite popular. Among the second foreign languages in universities, Chinese is the most popular. A Chinese conversation classroom on TV or radio for the general public has a large audience or audience. At present, Chinese education is second only to English in Japan.

The main influences of China culture on Japan:

1. The introduction of Chinese characters in China and the development of Japanese characters?

Japanese ethnic groups, like other ethnic groups in the world, have their own spoken language for a long time, but as far as Japanese characters are concerned, it was only after Chinese characters from China were gradually introduced into Japan.

From the initial absence of characters in Japan to the creation of its own unique writing system of pseudonyms and "harmony and Chinese", this process is a process of comprehensively learning and introducing Chinese characters, and dripping and recreating them according to the original Japanese language.

after Chinese characters were introduced into Japan, they not only promoted the progress of ancient Japanese culture, but also contributed to the emergence of Japanese characters called kata and hiragana. Although Japan doesn't have its own written language, it has transformed Chinese characters into its own through a thorough transformation from function to form, which shows that the Japanese are not only good at imitating foreign cultures, but also processing and transforming them in the process of their absorption and integration.

2. the influence of China's Confucianism on Japanese culture?

Confucianism is the main body of China's traditional culture, which has always had a profound influence on the formation and development of Japanese traditional culture. Especially before the Japanese capitalist thought came into being.

Confucianism was introduced to Japan about before the 5th century. According to Ancient Century, A Zhiqi of Baekje, Wang Ren, was the first Confucian who came to Japan, and brought Confucian classics such as The Analects of Confucius and The Collection of Thousand Words and taught Confucianism in Japan.

The epoch-making innovation of Dahua in Japanese history also took place under the profound influence of Confucianism. However, Japanese people's absorption of China's Confucianism is also selective, and they have become Japanese Confucianism in the process of learning and absorbing Confucianism. In Japan, "benevolence" is completely excluded from the Japanese ethical system; In China's Confucianism, "loyalty" is conditional, while in Japan, "loyalty" to the monarch is unconditional obedience to the emperor.

Japanese Confucianism, as a social ideology, has a great and far-reaching influence on the Japanese nation and society. This influence inevitably continues to the whole process of Japan's historical development. Until the Meiji Restoration, when the Japanese government began to accept the western modern capitalist culture with different characteristics from Confucian culture, Confucian culture was destined to start a special position different from any previous historical stage and began to play a more unique role in modern Japanese history. ?

3. The influence of Buddhism on Japanese culture?

With the introduction of Buddhism, China culture took root in Japan. It took the monk and his disciples six times to reach Japan, which made great contributions to the spread and development of Buddhism in Japan.

Buddhism first spread to Japan through China in the 6th century. At first, Buddhism was only the belief of Su Wo and other nobles, and it became a recognized belief of the imperial court before Dahua changed its profession.

From the events described in the poems of "Ancient Stories" and "Thousand Leaves Collection", we can find that the Japanese people's love for life, optimism about life interest and compassion for death are incompatible with the Buddhist pessimistic philosophy of life. But for the need of cultural exchange and political rule, Buddhism gradually spread in Japan.

While absorbing Buddhist ideas from China, Buddhism has been localized in Japan. The localization of Japanese Buddhism is marked by the prosperity and secularization of Pure Land Sect and Zen Sect.