這可能是他們尊重中國古文化的結果。下文Wiki列出了對中國文物的破化， 日軍侵華似乎沒有對文物造成嚴重破壞。如果看某些地震畫麵，佛像廟宇基本與其它建築一樣被毀壞，神佛並沒有發揮效力。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_heritage#China
China[edit]
- Much of the Old Summer Palace was destroyed by British and French forces.
- Around 1921 Buddhist murals at the Mogao Caves were damaged and vandalized by White Russian exiles.[9]
- Buddhist murals at the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves were damaged by local Muslim population whose religion proscribed figurative images of sentient beings, the eyes and mouths in particular were often gouged out. Pieces of murals were also broken off for use as fertilizer by the locals.[10]
- Muslims gouged the eyes of Buddhist murals along Silk Road caves and Kashgari recorded in his Turkic dictionary an anti-Buddhist poem/folk song.[11] It referred to the conquest of the Buddhist Kingdom of Khotan by Turkic Muslims during the Islamicisation and Turkicisation of Xinjiang.
- During the Kumul Rebellion in Xinjiang in the 1930s, Buddhist murals were deliberately vandalized by Muslims.[12]
- During the Cultural Revolution, many artifacts, monuments, and buildings belonging to the Four Olds were attacked and destroyed.
