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Traditional Farming Culture Going Global: Cross-cultural Dissemination of Ancient Chinese Agricultural Books Farming and Weaving Pictures in Japan

  

  1. School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University
  • Online:2024-08-08 Published:2024-08-10

Abstract: Through historical research and analysis of the dissemination process of the ancient Chinese agricultural book The Farming and Weaving Map in Japan. Examining how it spread to Japan through the“ Maritime Silk Road” , and was gradually altered into the form of farming drawing such as“ four-season farming pictures” and“ silkworm Farming and Weaving Pictures”with its own characteristics. Research has found that the process of the transmission of The Farming and Weaving Map to Japan was a fusion of Zen culture and the shogunate culture of the Muromachi period in Japan. The cultural intention of the implied meaning of the technical education and the dissemination of orthodox symbols in the Farming and Weaving Pictures was weakened. The aesthetic function was amplified. By transforming the The Farming and Weaving Map into a Japanese art piece, it connects the power control of Zen temples and shogunates, highlighting the cultural taste of the rulers and achieving cultural change. This transformation not only inherits the symbolic meaning of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, but also endows Japans farming pictures with a stronger religious connotation in cultural imagery.

Key words: Ancient Chinese Agricultural books Farming and Weaving Pictures Japans farming pictures Cross-cultural dissemination Cultural change Traditional culture going global

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