When it comes to Japan, it is still very hateful, after all, it has committed unforgivable crimes on Chinese soil; although many veterans who have experienced war have passed away, it is inevitable that the hearts of Japanese people facing the new century are very complicated!
There are many shrines in their country, many people go to worship, it belongs to a faith, representing the spiritual totem of the nation; it is reasonable to say that it is supposed to provide for the gods and goddesses, but what shocks me is that there are three Chinese among them, and they are treated as saviors, so what is the reason for this belief? And what kind of characters?
First, no one should have heard of it, it was Lin Jingyin of the Yuan Dynasty, who accidentally crossed east to Japan, because he was not accustomed to eating the food of the local temple, he made it himself, and fused some local fillings; and the other monks in the temple tasted it very much, and since then it has become popular; even spread to the aristocratic circle, and eventually became the most popular food for the people, because of this, a shrine was specially built for him, called the ancestor of the confectionery world, and was sacrificed by people!
Second, Xu Fu; he is a well-known figure, in the most brilliant period of Qin Shi Huang, he went abroad to seek elixirs for the emperor; after coming to Japan, he found that he was very barren, and did not find immortal medicines, in order to avoid punishment, he decided to live here; and taught advanced technology, teaching locals to farm, even fishing and hunting, and culture! Known by the Japanese as gods, they were sent by the heavens to save them, so they also built shrines and held large-scale sacrifices every year.
The reason is very simple, Japan knows that it has committed heinous crimes, but at the end of the Second World War and surrendered, Chiang Kai-shek gave up the indemnity and cut the land, and they were very moved by the way of moral reparations; and sent a large number of ships to send millions of prisoners of war back to Japan to lay the foundation for their rise again, and the Japanese built shrines to thank them, and every year on the birthday of the old Chiang Kai-shek, many people would go to worship.