The Diplomacy Between The Tang Dynasty And Japan

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The Diplomacy between Tang Dynasty and Japan
The Tang Dynasty(619-907AD) ended the chaos that existed after the reign by e dynasty and united China. It was founded by Li’s family in the capital of Chang an. The Tang dynasty was one of the greatest dynasties in Chinese history (ushistory). Diplomacy was one of the most successful parts during the Tang Dynasty. Culture, language, education and religion were exchanged rapidly between China and Japan (taschool).
In the Tang dynasty, religion was one of the most important things between China and Japan’s diplomacy. The religion of early China was Buddhism and Japan was Taoism. Since the Tang dynasty, Buddhism has been propagated and developed in Japan. During this period, a lot of Chinese Buddhist
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Abe no Nakamaro(698-770AD) was one of the most famous envoys from japan to Tang dynasty, he also called Chao Heng by Chinese. When he was nineteen, he was sent to the capital of China, Chang an, studied in best school and was an officer in the government. During his Chinese life, he learns a lot about Chinese culture, such as poems, calligraphy and etiquette. He also made some friends, which were the most famous poet in the tang dynasty. They had a really good relationship, before he back to Japan, the poets created so many poems to commemorate him.He also brought a large of literary things back to Japan let Chinese culture integrate into Japanese, and then the Chinese poem and calligraphy started popular in …show more content…
After envoy monk Kūkai back to Japan, he created one of the first language in japan which was called hiragana.
The architecture of China was brought to Japan by the monks and envoys to. Until now we still can see some old temple in japan are looking similar to some Chinese temple. Monk Jian Zhen, Kūkai and so many envoys or monks, when they visited japan or back to japan, they bring a lot construction technology to japan and built a lot building. Based on this building style, Japanese had evolved their own building style.
Over years and years, our society is still developing, we learn history because we can take history as a mirror to see how the people did a good thing or made a mistake. Tang dynasty is one of the most prosperous dynasty during Chinese history, the diplomacy with Japan was just a part of it, history are amazing we still have a long story to look at. In this history can 't with out every single person, every of them had made a

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