Ancient Chinese civilization had long been a cultural resource for her neighboring states. Nevertheless, in the year of 1644, China fell to the conquest of the Manchus. Nothing could be more shocking and overwhelming than this to those neighbors of China. They had been learning the Chinese ways for years. Many of their cultural traditions had originated from China. Now the gorgeous cultural origin was dead, was the Chinese way just simply archaic and thus no longer applicable, or had the Chinese themselves lost the original wisdom and splendor of their ancestors? If the second argument holds, who should be responsible and legitimate for inheriting the orthodox Chinese civilization? And what role did the thought of “Inheritors” play in the subsequent eras of those countries?