中日文化交流自古有之。早在公元一世纪,佛教由印度传到我国,并于公元六世纪初经中国传入日本。佛教在日本得到广泛传播正值中国隋唐时代,尤其在盛唐时期,中国经济与文化的发展空前繁荣,当时日本政府向中国大量派遣留学生、遣唐使、僧人和商人,他们怀着 Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges since ancient times. As early as the first century AD, Buddhism came to India from India and was introduced to Japan through China in the sixth century AD. The widespread spread of Buddhism in Japan came at a time when China was in the Sui and Tang dynasties, especially in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, where the economic and cultural development of China enjoyed an unprecedented boom. At that time, the Japanese government sent a large number of overseas students to China and sent Tang envoys, monks and merchants,