Seeds of Tang (Dunhuang stories passed down from Japan)

Author: Wang Xiaoping
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Since the era of the Japanese envoys to Tang China, the Japanese have been accepting Chinese literature. The Tang manuscripts that have been passed down to this day tell the story of a long history of cultural exchange and have also made Japanese literature one of the most important external resources for Chinese literature. Folk literature, Buddhist literature, and popular literature are all parts of Dunhuang literature that are particularly worth noting, and they are also the most valuable parts of manuscripts from the Nara and Heian periods. Dunhuang literature is a treasure of Chinese culture and a focal point of overseas Chinese culture studies. This book starts with the Dunhuang stories that have been passed down to Japan, using detailed materials and rigorous analysis to provide a thorough review and exploration of the spread of Dunhuang culture and Japan's cultural reception of it, drawing valuable conclusions. The rise and fall of the sun have illuminated the meditations of countless cross-sea travelers; the ebb and flow of the tide have stirred the emotions of many book lovers. By placing the Dunhuang literature materials of China and Japan side by side, the characteristics of Chinese medieval literature, Japanese upper-class literature, and medieval literature become more prominent, and the connections between the two are clearer. "Transmission" means the spread, continuation, and expansion. This book mainly tells how the seeds of stories originally from the Western Land of Tang were rooted and developed in Japanese literature through literary works such as.