Steamed bread is one of the traditional pasta in China, and now it has become the breakfast of many families. China Song Dynasty monk Lin Jing brought Japanese steamed bread to Japan, thus creating the history of Japanese steamed bread. In order to commemorate him, the Japanese built the Han Temple for him and held the Steamed Bread Festival every year. Lin once opened a shop selling steamed buns on a street in Japan, which was later named Manjuya Town.

Du Dong and Japan

In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a famous Japanese monk, Takumi Longshan, who highly praised the Buddhist culture in China. As a teenager, I came to China, Zhejiang and Tiantong Temple to learn from them. During his 40 years of studying Buddhist scriptures, he has recruited many disciples who love Buddhism. Lin, the originator of Japanese steamed bread, is one of them.

Although Lin is only a lay disciple, he worships his master, Longshan Dejian, and they are closely related. In AD 1350, 70-year-old Longshan was homesick and decided to return to China. Lin Jing was worried that the old master would go to Japan by boat alone, so he asked the master if he could go to Japan together.

The master doesn't want him to accompany him. After all, it is not easy to live in a strange place far from home. The master thinks that Lin's Buddhist attainments are so profound that there is no need to follow him to study in Japan. He can take care of himself alone, and there is no need for his disciples to accompany him.

Lin Jing knew that the master was thinking for himself, but he still didn't trust him, so at his insistence, the master finally agreed to let him go with him. They came to Japan along the Silk Road and lived in Nara.

After returning to Japan, Takashi Longshan was appointed by the shogunate as the host of the Kyoto school. Lin and his master have lived in Kenlin Temple in Kyoto for a period of time, and then they packed their bags and prepared to return to China. After learning about this, Japanese monks tried their best to keep him, hoping that he could stay in Japan and teach Buddhism to Japanese monks.

Although Lin was only a lay disciple who knew Longshan De, he spent the longest time with Longshan De, and his Buddhism was profound, and Japanese monks worshipped him very much. Due to the detention of monks, Lin Jing stayed in Kenneji. Later, when Lailongshande found that he really didn't have the energy to be the abbot, Lin Jing became the abbot of Jianning Temple in Kyoto with everyone's recommendation.

The originator of Japanese steamed bread

Lin didn't adapt quickly when he first came to Japan. First of all, the biggest problem is the dietary gap. As he is already a lay disciple, he can only eat some pasta or vegetarian food on weekdays. At that time, there were few pasta in Japan, mostly hard and crisp snacks such as rice cakes.

In order to improve the food of monks and themselves, Lin Jing made steamed bread with flour and noodles. In order to satisfy Japanese tastes and monks' eating habits, he changed the steamed bread with meat stuffing into the steamed bread with bean stuffing that Japanese like. There is a certain gap between China's ancient steamed bread and today's steamed bread. Today's steamed bread has no stuffing, but in fact, ancient steamed bread is more similar to steamed bread, with stuffing inside.

The bean paste buns made by Lin are soft and sweet, and are deeply loved by monks in Jianning Temple in Kyoto. When some nobles came to Kenya to worship, they all tasted this kind of steamed bread. They even packed the steamed bread home for family analysis.

Soon many people know that there is a snack called steamed bread in Jianning Temple in Kyoto, which is very delicious. The Japanese emperor advocates Buddhism. When he learned that there was a snack in Jianning Temple that was well received by everyone, he was very curious and wanted to try it.

So I called Lin and asked him to make a steamed bun for himself. After the Japanese emperor tasted the steamed bread made by Lin, he also praised it greatly. Knowing that Lin was only a lay disciple and never married, the Japanese emperor decided to give Lin a maid-in-waiting as his wife.

Abandon his wife and return to China.

On their wedding day, Lin Jing made red and white steamed buns as holiday gifts for guests and neighbors. This kind of red, white and double color steamed bread has also deeply influenced the Japanese, and now Japan still has the custom of giving red, white and double color steamed bread at weddings. After Lin Jing got married, she opened a steamed bread shop to make a living.

Every steamed bread he makes will be printed with a word Lin. This kind of steamed bread was deeply loved in Japan at that time, and his steamed bread business became more and more prosperous, opening several branches. In addition to his thriving career, his feelings with his wife are getting deeper and deeper. In the years after marriage, his wife gave birth to four children for him, and the family lived happily.

During the war, Lin also changed his surname to Yan Se. Through the continuous efforts of the family, Lin's Yanlai steamed bread once became a royal snack and opened several branches in Japan. Many years later, Longshande passed away. After attending the master's funeral, Lin Jing aroused his homesickness and planned to leave Japan and return to China.

When he told the story to his wife at home, she was very reluctant to let him stay, but Lin Jing was homesick and insisted on going back to China. On, Lin Jing left his Japanese wife and children and returned to China by boat alone. The wife is very helpless and can only regard the day when Lin Jing returned to China as a kind of fate. The date of death refers to the day of death.

China's blood.

Lin's wife can only lead the children and continue to walk on. Soon this Manjuya became the first 1 Japanese steamed bread food store. Later, Japanese general Ashikaga Yoshimasa personally wrote the signboard of "Japan's No.1 Steamed Bread Shop" for them. Lin's grandson also came to China to study pastry making to increase the variety of his steamed bread.

With the continuous development, Lin's salt steamed bread has become a century-old shop in Japan. The Japanese also thanked Lin for bringing steamed bread. As the originator of steamed bread, Lin was called "God" and built a Han Temple for him. Taking the day when he left as the memorial day, he came to the shrine on April 19 every year and sacrificed with various steamed buns.

Lin brought China steamed bread to Japan, and made great contributions to the development of Japanese diet. In recognition of Lin's contribution to Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges, the relevant departments built a monument in Hangzhou Garden as a memorial. Later, the monument was moved to Gushan, Hangzhou, and a total of Japanese descendants came to worship.

Sun Yingzi, the 34th generation of Lin, is an official of Japan-China Friendship Association. She visited China many times to worship her ancestors. In 20 18, Chuan Dao Eiko came to China for the 32nd time. She brought her own "Yanse" red and white steamed bread and distributed it to people all over China.

As an official of the China-China Friendship Association, she once said in public that's blood runs through her body, and her ancestor Lin is not only the totem of the Japanese Lin family, but also an important figure in China's cultural exchange.

China culture is extensive and profound. Besides steamed bread, many Japanese characters, clothes and even culture have been handed down from China. From this, we can see how powerful China used to be, but now China's national strength is constantly increasing and it is advancing on the road of great rejuvenation. I believe that China will achieve great rejuvenation in the near future!