What is the culture of Zen in Southeast Asia, Japan, and China?What is the artistic conception?

Zen culture refers to a traditional culture developed on the basis of Chinese Buddhist Zen thought. Zen culture can be divided into classics (Zen text), thought (Zen language), poetry (Zen poetry), calligraphy (Zen book), painting (Zen painting), ** (Zen music), martial arts (Zen martial arts), traditional Chinese medicine (Zen medicine), farming (Zen farming), vegetarian (Zen food), tea ceremony (Zen tea), compassion - the way of compassion and charity (Zen Ci), filial piety (Zen filial piety) and other types.

The history of Zen Buddhism is a history of pride and pride for Chinese Buddhism. Buddhism was introduced from India, but Zen Buddhism was the product of a complete sinicization of Buddhism. The establishment of Zen Buddhism, Tiantai Buddhism, and Pure Land Buddhism changed the situation in which the Buddhist pulpit was originally dominated by foreign monks, marking that Chinese Buddhism has entered a new stage.

Since then, a large number of local Chinese monks have been produced, such as the Wise Master, the Master of Good Guidance, the Six Ancestors Huineng, Nanyue Huairang, Shi Xiqian, and Matsu Dao.

1. Baizhang Huaihai and other Dharma dragon elephants, as bright as the stars, passed on the torch, continued the wisdom of the Buddha, participated in the creation of Sinicized Buddhism, and also contributed to the creation of a brilliant Chinese civilization.

Zen Buddhism is an important and distinctive sect of Chinese Buddhism, which is closely integrated with traditional Chinese culture. Elder Zhao Pu once said that talking about China's religious culture is inseparable from Zen Buddhism. Zen Buddhism once brought vitality to Chinese culture, and had a profound impact on Chinese literati painting, landscape poetry, sexual and spiritual literature, and even Song and Ming Dynasty science, bringing the historical Chinese culture into a new artistic conception that focuses on nature, harmony, spirituality, and vividness.

Such a historical and cultural treasure is still worthy of our excavation, sorting, research, and reference today. Zen Buddhism is one of the largest, far-reaching and widely spread sects in the history of Chinese Buddhism. It spread eastward to Korea and Japan, spread throughout Southeast Asia, and in modern times spread to Western Europe and North America.

Questions like this are very broad questions, and the answer is only how the human heart feels. So here, I'm just writing it according to my own feelings.

In my opinion, Zen is an attitude of view and experience of the world.

Chinese Zen is a kind of life that is at ease with what happens, which we can see from Su Shi's own experience. Although his career is not smooth, his attitude towards life is very admirable with an optimistic and broad spirit.

As for the Japanese Zen, it is more of a deliberate inquiry, and it loses the original meaning of Zen. This can be seen from the Japanese tea ceremony's attitude of pursuing the extreme, paying attention to the art of tea, and ignoring the charm of the tea ceremony, which is a kind of spiritual leisure and broad life experience.