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The relationship of China between Japan, Korea, and Vietnam is like a community garden because...

The relationship of China between Japan, Korea, and Vietnam is different from a community garden because...

The Spread of Chinese Civilization

"The relationship of China between Japan, Korea, and Vietnam is like a community garden."

  • Similar to how China had influenced the countries around them, water had influences on the soil and the garden plots in the garden.
  • Similar to how Buddhism affected Japan, Vietnam, Korea and China, the sun affected the garden plots and how their culture would grow.
  • Similar to how Japan, Vietnam, and Korea all rejected some of China’s influences, the soil refused to be completely fused with water.
  • Similar to how bureaucracy made an impact on the government of Japan, Vietnam, Korea, and China, the owner of the garden regulated and made an impact on the garden.
  • Similar to how China was the Middle Kingdom to Japan, Vietnam, and Korea, the well in the center helped start life in the garden.

  • The plants in the garden required water to survive whereas Japan, Korea, and Vietnam don’t need China in order to live.
  • Buddhism affected the way the government worked directly whereas the sun doesn’t really affect the owner of the garden directly.
  • The women in Japan, Vietnam, Korea, and China had certain restrictions in their freedoms whereas the bees in the garden were allowed to do whatever they wanted.
  • The book “How Bees Benefit Violets” was mainly about the advantages the bees had for the flowers whereas the Tale of Genji was actually about a son born to an Emperor and a concubine, written by a lady-in-waiting, with the intention of relating it to the women.
  • Silla’s capital of Kumsong contained hints of Tang counterparts whereas the dead plants don’t really have anything to do with water in the garden.

Jenny Tran, Dan-Thu Nguyen, Liya Kinfe, Bilan Islami

Buddhism

The sun here represents Buddhism. The sun provides sunlight to all of the plots and plays an important role in the plants' growth and development. Similar to the sun, Buddhism was introduced to Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. As a result, Buddhism became part of their societies and had an influence on their daily life.

Middle Kingdom

The well in the garden represents the Middle Kingdom. China considered themselves as the center of the world, and in this garden they are. China is represented as water and the well in the garden illustrates how water affects the Japan, Korea, and Vietnam garden plots. This illustration can be related to how China had influence on the countries around it.

China

Women

The bees in this garden represent the women. Bees carry pollen one flower to another, which benefit the flowers. In addition, the bees can fly anywhere, so they have the freedom to perform tasks that help aid their kins. The women have freedom for certain parts in their society and their freedom can benefit the country and its culture.

Emperor Kammu

Silla

The tumbleweed located in the Korea garden plot represents Silla. Due to their nature of expansion, the tumbleweeds continue to grow and cover up some parts of the Korea plot. Since Silla was the Korean kingdom that overthrew the other two, the tumbleweeds were chosen as a way of comparing it to Silla's widespread power.

Emperor Kammu is a farmer-neighbor who planted the violets, which represent Heian. The Heian period of Japan was a time of peace, prosperity, and security. He saw too much sunlight, which represents Buddhism, as a threat. In order to block out some of the sunlight, he planted a tree.

Trung Sisters

Heian

The sand in the soil represents the Trung sisters. Vietnam wanted to have their own distinct culture and therefore drove out the Chinese, but they couldn't resist Chinese influences completely. The Trung sisters were leaders of some of the rebellions against Chinese rule. Sand doesn't soak up water, which represents China, as well as soil due to the particles' sizes. The Trung sisters can be related to how the sand rejects the water, but not entirely because of the water's ability to slip through.

The violets here represent Heian, the capital city of Japan. Violets represent peace, healing, loyalty, and devotion. Buddhist monks were seen as a threat. In order to keep peace at the capital, Buddhists were forbidden to build monastaries there.

Paekche

The grass in the Korea garden plot represents Paekche. Paekche was a Korean kingdom that was overpowered by the kingdom of Silla, which is represented as the tumbleweeds.

How Bees

Benefit

Violets

Assimilation

Kumsong

The Tale of Genji

Taika Reforms

The dead plants in the Korea garden plot represent Kumsong. Kumsong was the capital of Silla, which is similar to how dead plants are the main component of tumbleweeds.

Khmers

The clay in the Vietnam plot represents assimilation. Clay blocks out water due to their tiny particle sizes. This results in the prevention of water penetration in that area of the garden. This can be related to how the Chinese failed to make much of an impression on the Vietnamese peasantry, thus ruining their hopes for assimilating the Viets.

The book “How Bees Benefit Violets” represents The Tale of Genji. The author, a female, illustrates how women at the Heian court were expected to be just as composed, assertive, and cultured as men. Women at the time played a creative role in Japanese productions. The bees in the garden represent women and the violets represent Heian. The book talks about the roles the bees are responsible for, which can be compared to the role the women played at the Heian court.

The worms in the garden plot represent the Taika reforms in Japan. Worms help to increase the amount of air and water that gets into the soil. The Taika reforms were an attempt to remake the Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor and to create a professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. In this garden, China is represented by water, and therefore the worms are helping increase the amount of Chinese influence in Japan.

The garden snakes represent Khmers, who pose a threat to the garden plot. Although the Khmers occupied the areas to the south that the Vietnamese sought to settle themselves, the Viets intermarried with and adopted some of the customs of the Khmers. The snakes threaten to harm the garden plot and affect the plants and soil. This is similar to how the Khmers were considered Vietnamese rivals, but still had an impact on them.

Bureaucracy

The main farmer/ owner of this community garden represents the bureaucracy. The owner is the essential figure who makes the main choices in regulating his realm. Bureaucracy was a system of government that was adopted in Vietnam, Korea, and Japan from China. Similar to the landowner, the bureaucracy established the rules and orders in their countries.

Japan

Korea

Vietnam

Tribute System

The fertilizer here represents the tribute system. Fertilizer is used to support the growth of plants. This can be related to how embassies were sent to other countries to pay tribute in terms of gifts and currency, which helped benefit and support the countries.

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