Ancient Japanese actively learned from China, and there are still a lot of shadows of China culture, even China culture which is more traditional than contemporary China. Japan is short of resources, so it attaches great importance to absorbing foreign culture and technology.

Not to mention Chinese characters in Japanese, such as matcha, which was first drunk by people in Sui Dynasty, developed in Tang Dynasty and became very popular in Song Dynasty. Almost all the teas mentioned in Tang poetry and Song poetry are matcha. Japan learned from the Tang Dynasty and carried it forward, incorporating its own tea ceremony. In China, tea-making has been popular since the Ming Dynasty, and matcha culture has gradually disappeared. As for sushi, there seems to be a similar record in the Han Dynasty. It was the food rations preserved by vendors in China, which was later introduced to Japan. Popular in Japan in 17 and 18 centuries, the prevalence of modern sushi culture is entirely attributed to Japan. Raw food. I don't know ... there's no need to invent it. It is normal to eat raw food without cooked food. Mustard is unclear.

China did learn from Japan in modern times, especially after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, when Japan was the main target of China's study. With the introduction of modern western science and technology, political system and industrial culture, a large number of new words were introduced into China-just like when Japanese people studied Chinese characters, we learned a lot of Chinese characters.

Japan admits to studying the ancient history of China, and there are not as many strange views as South Korea. However, Japanese officials are often vague or deny all kinds of acts of aggression against China since modern times-this should be the reason why most people in modern China hate the Japanese. These two countries have been learning from each other in history ... What "Japan belongs to China" has no academic value.