"A Brief Reading of Japanese History" by Zhang Hongjie

The origin story in Japanese history

The elder brother asked: "How did you grow up?" The younger sister asked. He replied: "My body has grown up, but there is one place that is not connected." The elder brother said, "My body has grown up, but there is one place that is superfluous. Now I use the remaining parts of my body to fill up your unjoined place, and produce Homeland, how about it?" My sister replied: "Okay." So, the brother and sister staged Japan's earliest "love action movie", which was recorded in Japan's oldest official history books - "Kojiki" and "Nihonsho". Chronicles.

The royal family has a long history of internal intermarriage.

The Japanese believe that the Imperial family is the descendant of Amaterasu. The purpose of intermarriage within the Amaterasu family is to keep the god's family bloodline pure and not contaminated by mortal blood.

Long-term walking marriage has brought about equality between men and women and openness to sex.

Under the walking marriage system or the "wife-visiting marriage" system, men and women do not have the same family, but each has his own residence. Moreover, the relationship between men and women is not fixed. The same man may maintain relationships with dozens of women, and the same is true for women. If the man stops coming to the woman's home, or the woman stops opening the door to the man, the so-called "marriage" relationship is over. There is no contract between the two parties, and there is neither responsibility nor obligation. For men, as the saying goes, "walking among thousands of flowers, not a single leaf touches them." Of course, there is no "chastity" to speak of.

Many ethnic groups in the world are like this, and China is actually very special.

In fact, every nation in the world experienced an era of high sexual freedom like the Japanese in their early days.

Due to Japan’s geographical reasons, the Jomon culture has been preserved and has not been invaded by other cultures from the mainland.

The original human culture has either disappeared or been severely deformed in other areas, but in Japan has continued to do so in large numbers.

North Korea and Japan started very similar, but their geographical location determines the degree of cultural invasion.

Since most other ethnic groups have gone too far in their sexual concepts , so when they collide head-on with the Japanese who are stuck in the primitive sexual concepts, they will feel very shocked.

Being frank about sex is a manifestation of equality between men and women

Although the Japanese have long been "backward" in sexual concepts, they maintain a frank attitude towards sex. Therefore, Japan Women are relatively less demonized, and relationships between the sexes are relatively more equal and natural.

The origin of the surname.

After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government issued the "Common People's Miao Character Permission Order", allowing ordinary people to have surnames. This sounds like a major social progress, and people should be happy and tell each other about it. But in fact, not many people responded positively. Because ordinary Japanese people have survived without surnames for thousands of years, and they don’t understand the use of having a surname. Therefore, most of the people still remained the same and did not give themselves a surname. But the government is worried because without a surname, it is inconvenient to recruit soldiers, collect taxes, and establish household registration. In the eighth year of Meiji (1875), the Japanese government had no choice but to promulgate the mandatory "Miao Characters Must Be Named Ordinance", which stipulated that all citizens must have a surname.

The eldest son system has advantages and disadvantages. From a historical perspective, it has indeed been passed down a lot.

In some Japanese families, only the eldest son can inherit the family name, and other sons must "change their surnames."

He has not been influenced by other ghosts and gods, and retains his own ghost thoughts.

In any case, in the Japanese concept, usually the dead will not harm the living. After the dead become gods or Buddhas, they are full of goodwill towards the living. Therefore, the Chinese people keep a respectful distance from the souls of the dead and send them guidance so that the souls of their ancestors should not miss the present world or their descendants, and go to the underworld quickly and never come back. The Japanese usually stay close to each other and believe that "their ancestors will feel at ease when they are nearby."

The origin of people in Japanese history.

Then one day, one of her descendants, the sixth-generation sun god Waibo Rebigu, came down to earth to play. He found that the rice and sashimi in the world were so delicious that he stopped eating them. If he didn't come down, he ate too much mortal food and lost the ability to return to heaven. He had no choice but to become the first emperor of the Yamato Dynasty, the "Emperor Jimmu", and began to rule the world as a god.

The Japanese may have originated from Asia. From fossils and other aspects, we can see that some places have unexpected similarities.

The first batch of Japanese people may have walked to Japan. Because Japan was originally connected to the Asian continent.

Amazing national initiative to learn

Dafa reform is a special case in human history: without external force, a country can learn from another country so proactively, deeply and comprehensively , "reborn" and "re-established as a country".

Why active learning and internal power differentiation require China’s recognition to improve one’s status.

The emperor is just the "eldest brother" among many nobles, not the "father". The status gap between him and other nobles was not wide enough. Li Zhuo said: "The emperor was originally called the Great King (大君おおきみ), just like the 'Minister' and 'Dalian'. He was just a clan in Kinai, and his power was only slightly stronger than the other strongest kings (きみ). "

The main reason why the Dahua Reform failed to be successful was that the Japanese imperial power could not unify. I personally think that geographical reasons made it too easy to divide Japan and difficult to unify.

The influence of Chinese culture on Japan ultimately It is mainly left behind in surface culture and material culture such as writing, literature, clothing, architecture, and technology.

There is no way to elect people with brains and reason to uphold the system.

Under centralization, the taxes of the imperial power are higher than those of the nobility, and more difficult to control.

The second reason is that the centralized dynasty cannot restrain the urge to raise taxes.

From the beginning, I never thought that I could not copy China. The class was too serious and it was impossible to achieve absolute equal acceptance of non-aristocratic people. It was destined to be a fundamentally unsuccessful revolution.

Japan’s aristocratic system has a long history, and the sense of hierarchy is deeply rooted in the people. Throughout history, Japanese society has always been stratified, with no mobility between the upper and lower classes, and the distinction between nobles and commoners has always been as far as heaven and earth. It is extremely difficult to establish a Chinese-style "equal" society in Japan. Although the core goal of Dahua's reform was to combat the aristocratic system, the reform process was actually still dominated by the aristocracy and severely constrained by the bureaucratic aristocratic group. The main sign was that the Chinese-style imperial examination system was abandoned

During the shogunate era, the nobility and the royal family competed for power

The ancient political history of Japan before the shogunate era was, in a word, a history of the emperor and aristocratic officials competing for the highest power.