Japan,Korea,Vietnam

Chinese Influence into Korea, Japan, Vietnam



//JAPAN ESPIRIT CHART// o Japanese court scholars’ master Chinese characters combine a little with their languages. o Followed a court etiquette that combines ancient Japan ideas about politeness and decorum with the Chinese protocol. o Aristocracy struggled to master Confucian ways o Worshiped in Chinese-style temples o Admired Buddhist art
 * E || MI: Most of the Japanese was consider to be wealthy and well economic.
 * 794- Kammu created new capital city at Heian, which was called Kyoto.
 * Encouraging people to settle in areas that are not own
 * Creating guilds
 * **Daimyos** brought tax and public works into Japan ( farming)
 * Collected taxes from peasants
 * S || MI: Social in Japan was considered to a major role that played during the period.
 * Women were not able to rule Japan.
 * Peasants revolt – stealing things
 * Government would be small and controlled
 * Peasants became serfs and ~ lands and was treated badly
 * Warriors were dedicated to the military class
 * Peasants turn to Buddhist monks when they are sick or for luck.
 * Buddhist monks became very powerful that court and aristocracy lived in fear of the street demonstration by “rowdy monks”.
 * Buddhist was forbidden to build monasteries in Kyoto, but instead they created monasteries in the hills that surround it.
 * Aristocrats lived at the court - men and women followed strict code of polite behavior under constant scrutiny of their peers and superiors.
 * Love affairs were major preoccupations/ gossip everywhere.
 * Samurai begins to practice **bushido/seppuku**
 * Spying, murder, and betray was common.
 * Aristocratic families lived in complex of palaces and gardens. ||
 * P || MI: Japanese political system was somewhat similar to the Chinese.
 * Similar to China
 * Bureaucracy was brought into Japan
 * Bushi and Samurai has led peasants to be reduced to serf.
 * Hierarchy – emperor, court families, diamyo, samurai, and serfs.
 * The fall of Ashikage, victory was decided by size/organization of the army ||
 * I || MI: Japan doesn’t have many interactions with others besides China.
 * Influence by China
 * **Gempei Wars** allows Minamoto to create **bakufu**, government, military, and based in Kamkura ||
 * R || MI: Japan mainly was influence by the Chinese during the 600’s.
 * **Taika reforms** (646)
 * **Taika reforms** (646)
 * Worship of Buddhist deities with ancient Kami of Japan.
 * Kami, spirits of natures that believe my Japanese
 * Buddhism key role – came from china ||
 * I || MI: Poems, novels, and literature was brought in by the Chinese culture.
 * Poems were written on scented paper or painted fans, and sometimes sent down in a little boat down the streams that ran through the palace.
 * **The Tale of Genji**- novel that created by Lady Murasaki first novel any language
 * Painting and landscapes were consider to be the main
 * Brought Chinese culture ||
 * T || MI: Technology wasn’t as noticeable to the Japanese during the period.
 * The creating of Katana
 * High quality steal
 * Military weapons ||



//Notes of Influences of China into Korea, Japan, Vietnam// · bureaucracy · peasants to form army · determining ranks by birth and allow little mobility between various orders · system of ranks that aristocrats were divided · writing verses · written script that borrow from the Simplified Chinese · Women wrote poems, played flutes, stringed instruments in informal concerts, and part of schemes to snub or disgrace rivals · Ideas of heavenly mandate and centralized power · Buddhism was increase to transform by aristocrats and peasants || · focus on beauty and social interaction-being gracious and well mannered · Heian court, members lived in imperial household and leading aristocratic families lived in complex palaces and gardens · Poems were written on painted fans or scented paper · **The Tale of Genji** – first novel written in any languages by Lady Murasaki · Women expected to be poised and cultured as men · Families such as the **Fujiwara** are married to each other. · Families used wealth and influence of their high office to build up large estates that gives a stable financial base for growing power · Aristocratic risen power to be landowners, estate managers, or local state officials ~ families control lands, labor, and resources to court · **Bushi-** warrior leaders created public works projects, and collected money mainly for themselves · **Sammurai** maintain peace and keep everything running smoothly · **Seppuku** -Warrior code- stress family honor and death than retreat or defeat, also beaten or disgrace warrior has to kill themselves to prove their courage and restore family honor · Peasants- status drop to serfs, treated as property, not able to carry weapons, and popular Buddhism · Contain different guilds that revolts and rulers of it was consider daimyos · Daimyos divided Japan up to more than 300 kingdoms · Misery of common people were created by badly trained peasants and poorly fed peasant forces · Civilized life toward barbarism · Painting captures nature and life in Japan || · Playing a role in dynastic struggles that preoccupied people of the north China pain · Korean Kingdom- **Choson** was taken over by Han emperor Wudi ~ colonies were influence by Chinese settlers · **Korguryo** resisted away from the ruling due to the despite conquest and colonization · **Sinification** was brought up that the adoption of Chinese culture was brought into Korea · Buddhism supplied key links of Korea and successors of Han dynasty · Buddhist artists and financed building monasteries and pagodas was given by the Korean rulers · Chinese writings blend in with Korean language · Korean youth struggles to master Confucian classics and teachers wrote history of China · Rulers put together a Chinese-style bureaucracy · Tributary system provided privileges access to Chinese learning, art, and manufactured goods. · Tribute system · Aristocrats studied in Chinese schools and submitted to Confucian examination system · Positions of government continue to be occupied by aristocratic families by their birth and family connection rather than knowledge · Follow the ideas of need to mollify local spirits and balance supernatural forces · Porcelain manufacture · Wood block and moveable type printing.
 * || Borrowed from China || Unique that borrowed ||
 * Japan || · Chinese-style emperor
 * Korea || · By 4th century B.C.E., people that moved into the peninsula had begin to gain farming and metalworking techniques

Koreans begin to submits to the Chinese influences, but later on they begin to advacne their own with their art. || · Japanese provided contact with the island · Korguryo created independent state in the northern half of peninsula. · Korguryo sent out a unified law code patterned after of Han China · Tang dynasty included Korea in their territories (war) · Works of religious art- Kumsong crowded with Buddhist temples, made of wood · Pottery produced~ master worked that the Chinese admire and collect · Holding metal type in place in a long registers ~ local artisans · Korea exported raw materials such as forest products and metals · Slaves lived in horrendous conditions · Former was the low, latter was weak but didn’t form distinct class, aristocrats counted in the society · Rankings determine by birth · Advances techinque · Art of printing · Honey as glue · Monteraes was built · Chinese conscript || · Extended household · Chinese style palaces · Buddhism · Military organization and political · Written scripts · Examinations system · Chinese schools || · Viets intermarried and blended with Mon-khmer- and Tai-speaking peoples that controls the Red River area · Favored nuclear family · Not developing clans · Traded ivory, tortoise shells, pearls, aromatic woods, peacock feathers for Chinese silks · Differences of languages – Chinese · Variety of ways dressing up according to status · Writings expresses hatred to Chinese dominance and doubts · Powers limited of Scholar · The Roman and French influencing into it. || Summary: The Chinese influences begun to be adopted by Vietnam, Japan, and Korea, that structuzied a start if a new government for them. In Japan, the influences were adopted at first such as burecracy of the Chinese and later were used in the government. As time goes by the burecracry government fell. The influences continue in Japan, but later Japan became to be their own influences. Vietnam was also influence by the Chinese. They receive ideas and styles of arts, but as the influences continue, the Koreans begins to revolt and the Chinese influences begin to slowly leave Korea. Lastly, the Korea was located on the peninsula of China and it was consider having the greatest influence of the Chinese. They begin to start of their government with the
 * Vietnam || · Receives ideas from China

