Do you agree that Janpanese learn a lot from Chinese , including their language ,food and culture?

Answer 1

Historically, the Japanese have taken Chinese concepts and adapted them to meet their own needs.

The Japanese did not learn their language from the Chinese. Chinese and Japanese are very different languages. Chinese is grammatically similar to English. Japanese on the other hand is a SOV (subject object verb) language, which is not like Chinese at all. Chinese is tonal, and Japanese is not a tonal language. Early Japanese learned to write with Chinese characters, but the characters did not properly represent the Japanese language until the Japanese gave the characters their own readings. They also created hiragana and katakana to facilitate this to better compliment their own language.

Much Japanese food is quite distinct. There are some dishes that were once Chinese, but the Japanese typically modify dishes to match their own tastes, so they change. There are Japanese foods that are purely Japanese, though, so China did not teach the Japanese how to cook.

Japanese culture does have roots in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Although Buddhism is from India, the Japanese were introduced to this religion from China, however the Japanese prefer Zen ("Chan" in Chinese) Buddhism much more than the Chinese. In regards to general beliefs, such as filial piety, the Japanese have certainly developed these beliefs as a result of contact with China, however, Japanese asthetics tend to be quite unique.

Answer 2

The two languages are totally different; the only commonality is the traditional use of Chinese characters to represent Japanese words and concepts, just as in Korea. Japanese architecture and art, while copying some elements from the Chinese, is also different. Anyone who has eaten "Japanese" food knows that it is very different from "Chinese" food. The concept of many religions in Japan are also different (however, Buddhism did come from China via Korea to Japan). There was much interaction among China, Korea (especially Shilla), and Japan, but each nation began with different peoples with different languages and customs.

Answer 3

Do you think that Americans learn a lot from Italy, including their language, food and culture?

It's about the same relationship. We use a language derived from Roman times, we eat pizza, and there are many other similar points, but the relationship is very distant.

Answer 4

i think of many *** like historical China and custom. yet no longer cutting-edge China. There are discovering chinese language as 2nd language at some intense college. and actually some *** had learnt previous chinese language chronicles or poem at intense college.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

If you made the decision in finding out to talk Chinese then you should now that the ideal selection is a Course for Mandarin.

Answer 7

well in the past, ya. I've learned that Japanese adapted to the Chinese culture in lots of ways, for-instance the chopsticks, and kanji. but i don't think it's a bad thing at all, cause that's something lots of other countries do.
by the way, you spelled Japanese wrong lol

Answer 8

I'm a Japanese. And I don't agree with the idea that we are learning a lot from China.

Of course, we learned a lot from China 1000 or 2000 years ago. The origin of civilization was earlier in China than in Japan. So we regularly sent some people to China to learn from them in ancient times.

But what about after WWII? China turned itself to a communist nation and it bothered modernization of its country a lot. China experienced some disasters like Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution during in late 20th century while Japan was enjoying economic growth.

So we are not learning from China. But China is learning from us. Please compre our GDP per capita. Japan is much greater.