/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I've been lately been more and more into China instead of Japan. It all started after I read of Touhou lore, and noticed how many references to Touhou has to real Japanese mythology, and then when I read about Japanese mythology I noticed that most of their stuff comes from China. Then I took even closer look to that, and the amount of Chinese culture embedded in Japanese culture is really baffling. Toori in shinto temples originates from China, for instance. The moon rabbit, "drinking the moon" and even sakura watching has origins in China (although in China they watch plum blossoms).

Here's the real bomb: Japanese art is heavily influenced by Chinese 工笔 (pic related) art style, and techniques from that style are used in drawing manga! Finally the amount of loanwords from chinese is surreal. As a result, I'm nowadays almost as much of a zhongboo as weeaboo.

Any other zhongboos around? Any intresting similarities to share?