- [Preface]
We all know that compared to the children of ordinary people, princes and princesses in the royal family generally have fair skin and beautiful faces. The reason is that when the royal family gets married, they will choose spouses with good looks. After generations of gene fusion, their offspring's appearance becomes more outstanding, even bewitching the whole country.
But the appearance of the Japanese royal family seems to be " does not follow the ordinary path " .
In fact, in the past, the appearance of the Japanese royal family was not only not high, but also had facial deformities such as "big nose", "convex mouth", and "short chin". What is even more exaggerated is that the four emperors in modern times all developed deformities.
And this is all the consequences of close relatives getting married.
So why did the Japanese royal family get married in close relatives? What harm will close relatives bring? Behind the pros and cons, how should the Japanese royal family choose?
- [Why did the Japanese royal family get married in close relatives? 】
Intimate marriage is also called intimate marriage, which refers to a common ancestor within three generations. If they intermarry, it is called intimate marriage.
Since ancient times, in order to stabilize his ruling status, emperors have often used the identity of "the emperor of the Nine Five, the true dragon emperor" to confuse the people. Not only that, in order to highlight the superiority of his descendants, the emperor often seeks the daughter of the royal family when choosing concubines in order to pursue a "family matched family".
The examples of close relatives getting married do not only appear in the Japanese royal family.
As early as ancient China, there were cases of Tang Taizong Li Shimin married his cousin Yang's . As a result, in this political close marriage, the two sons born to Li Shimin and Yang died tragically, causing a tragedy. Fortunately, as the harm caused by in-kin marriage gradually emerged, China introduced a variety of policies to explicitly prohibit intermarriage from close relatives. "Wind marriage not marrying the same-sex ", "Man with the same surname and his life is not vain ' and other ideas have gradually spread.
But Japan, a neighboring country, does not seem to recognize the serious consequences of intermarriage in close relatives, but has become more and more serious. Why is this?
In fact, there are three main reasons:
, one is influenced by the emperor's system.
There has always been a strict regulation within the Japanese royal family, that is, royal members must be of equal status to marry. Once royal members marry civilians, they will lose their status as royals and be demoted to common people. For example, Princess Mako After marrying Kei Komuro, they are forced to leave their royal family, lose their status as princess, and become a civilian.
Under the influence of this regulation, most members of the Japanese royal family will choose to marry relatives in the royal family to retain their royal status and their status as "highest" .
is influenced by the "theistic concept".
The motivation for the marriage of the Japanese royal family is not only to ensure the pure bloodline of the royal family, but also a saying is the "theistic concept".
has always been circulating in Japan: It is said that when Pangu opened the sky and the beginning of chaos, two gods, a man and a woman, were sent to the mortal world by heaven. They called each other brothers and sisters, and after some effort, they created an island, which is the current Japanese island. Later, in order to make the island The more vibrant scene appeared, and the brother and sister got married and created eight continents and gods.
Those who are familiar with history know that this is a mess. Japan's ancestors did not come from the gods, nor from the Chinese Xufu , but the Ainu people. Therefore, the saying that the gods created Japan is even more nonsense.
But the Japanese royal family believed in this and called themselves "the descendant of God". They firmly believed that they were "sons of God", so they always felt superior to people outside the royal family.
is also the so-called "highest" that makes the Japanese royal family more cautious about the issue of future generations. In order to ensure that the blood of God is not polluted, they adopt the " proximity principle " in the choice of mate selection, which is what we usually call close relative marriage.
third is that the scope of marriage between close relatives is unreasonable.
China's statement about the scope of marriage between in-kind relatives is that if it belongs to direct blood relatives or collateral blood relatives within three generations, the marriage registration authority will not register the marriage. In other words, those within three generations are considered close relatives and marriage is not allowed.
, and in the " Civil Code " of Japan, it is stipulated that direct blood relatives or collateral blood relatives within three relatives cannot get married. The so-called third-class relatives in Japan here mean that the parents and daughter are first-class relatives; the elder brother and sister are second-class relatives; the children of aunt and uncle are third-class relatives.
In addition to this, cousin, cousin, etc. belong to the third grade. Therefore, marriage can be handled in Japanese regulations, so within the scope of Japanese understanding, cousins are not considered close relative marriages.
- [The dangers of intermarriage between relatives in the Japanese royal family]
With the continuous development and progress of science, people have long understood the pain and harm that marriage between relatives will bring to their descendants, but the Japanese royal family is moving further and further on this road.
From some old photos, we can see that Most Japanese royal families have characteristics such as protruding mouths, long faces, buck teeth, etc., and they look very strange. In the Japanese royal families, most of them are born as princesses, males wither, yin is strong and yang is weak .
So starting from Emperor Meiji , I began to try not to intermarry within the royal family, but to choose my own queen and concubine from the children of ministers and nobles.
However, even though he chose a spouse among the ministers' children, he still did not escape the kinship of three generations. Therefore, among the 15 children born to Emperor Meiji and his wife, five of them died young. The only surviving son Jiaren also suffered from diabetes , meningitis, cerebral thrombosis, etc., and even had congenital mental illnesses.
But for the sake of inheritance of the throne, Kazuhito was named the crown prince after his birth. He inherited the throne after his father, Emperor Meiji, died, known in history as Emperor Taisho .
On May 10, 1900, 21-year-old Jiaren married the four daughters of the Duke of the Kyujo Dao School, and Kyujo Shiko was his wife, who later became the Crown Princess. This is also the second non-royal intermarriage in the Japanese royal family since Emperor Akihito.
However, after marriage, Emperor Karen often acted in public places with some "unbelievable" behavior.
For example, he would often run out of the palace alone and ride his bicycle around the streets; when he was fine at night, he would run to the yard with chopsticks, direct soldiers to sing, etc.
These small actions at the beginning did not affect his position as emperor. But after the age of forty, Emperor Karen's sequelae became more and more out of control. not only has moody emotions, memory declines greatly, but even the limbs have become inconsistent, walking is very difficult, and words and deeds have become even more outrageous .
For example, when watching a military exercise, he would suddenly run off the reviewing stand regardless of the obstacles of everyone, whip the soldiers with a whip, and flip the soldiers' backpacks around.
The most surprising time was that when he attended the opening ceremony of the Congress, on a whim, he suddenly wrapped the manuscript of his speech into a roll and placed it in his eyes, laughing foolishly, while pointing the rolls one by one at the foreign envoys, constantly making fools.
is obvious, Jiaren is "the younger you get, the younger you get". Under the influence of the disease, his IQ returns to childhood.
This scared the old people in the Japanese political circle. The Japanese emperor made such a shameful move. If this spread, wouldn’t Japan be laughed at internationally? So just ten years after Emperor Karen took office, he was driven out of power by the political veterans for physical discomfort, and his son Hirohito was in charge of the power.
Although Hirohito did not suffer from many diseases like his father Jiaren, he also inherited some hereditary diseases. For example, in 1908, when Hirohito entered the Royal Academy for study at the age of 6, he suddenly had inconvenient movement of his right finger and also had congenital myopia.
After Emperor Hirohito came to power, for the sake of bloodline unification, he married the daughter of one of the five major families and gave birth to five daughters.
Among them, the eldest daughter died early due to physical reasons shortly after birth; the second daughter was found to have sepsis shortly after birth, and was far away from the dead soon afterwards; although the third daughter was healthy, she was found to have infertility and failed to give birth to a child and half of her daughter as she wished.
It can be seen from this that getting married in close relatives is really "infinite troubles".
So, after knowing that marriage with close relatives will bring such harm, have the Japanese royal family made changes?
answer is inevitable.
In fact, as early as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Japan sent young royal men to Zhongyuan . is to marry a Chinese royal woman to change the genetic problems of her offspring.
Although the Japanese royal family believes that it is a descendant of the gods, their bloodline is extremely noble. But the Tang Dynasty was even more famous Asian power at that time, so Japan regarded women in the Tang Dynasty royal family as saints, and believed that only the bloodline of the saints could be compared with the bloodline of the Japanese royal family. Although this method is effective, it cannot be implemented for a long time. Therefore, after several generations of emperors died of illness one after another, Japan returned to the state of getting married in close relatives. After this cycle, the genes of the Japanese royal family became more and more stupid.
- [Behind the pros and cons, how should we choose? 】
The 125th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Akihito, was the first emperor to break the marriage tradition of the Japanese royal family. He married the "Princess of the Civilian Princess" Michiko and gave birth to two sons - Naruhito and Fumien.
Although the appearance of their descendants has not changed much, it has to be said that the appearance of their descendants has been improved a little.
It is said that although Mingren does not have significant hereditary disease, he is also dark in skin and has a very serious hunchback. So he wanted to seek a civilian woman to improve her family genes. And just so happened to be at this moment, Michiko appeared.
Although Michiko is not a member of the royal family, she is also a rich daughter, beautiful in appearance and comes from a famous family. His father is a famous Japanese businessman, and his three uncles are also university professors. According to
, Michiko and Akihito met because of a tennis match. It happened that Akihito and Michiko both participated in the competition. During the competition, when others learned about Akihito's identity, they all let the prince win, but Michiko was determined to compete.
's actions seemed to be unique in Akihito's opinion, so in the game, Michiko not only won the tennis match, but also won the heart of Prince Akihito.
So Akihito began to pursue Michiko frantically and often invited her to watch movies and have afternoon tea.
But Akihito asked his family that he wanted to marry Michiko as his wife, but everyone opposed it. Especially Akihito's mother, the Queen of Goodson.
The same concepts as all Japanese royal families, Queen Ryoko is determined to find a beautiful girl for her son in the royal family, but now her son wants to marry a civilian. How can civilians deserve the royal family? So he obstructed it in every way.
Akihito is also a strong person. After his repeated persistence, he finally convinced his parents to agree to the marriage.But even so, when Akihito's parents discussed the marriage with the Michiko family, they just made a phone call and were very arrogant.
Michiko's parents were afraid that she would be wronged in the royal family in the future, so they prepared a dowry of 30 million yuan for her, and the sofa, piano, jewelry, etc. were filled with three carriages. But even so, Michiko, who was born in a civilian, still suffered a lot of grievances after entering the door.
After marrying into the royal family, she became a thorn in the eyes of her mother-in-law, Queen Ryoko. In the eyes of Queen Ryoko, civilians like Michiko are not worthy of marrying into their royal family. Not only did she humiliate Michiko in public many times, she even sent people to monitor her, drove her into the cold palace, and even forced Michiko to have an abortion.
Just like that, Michiko was tortured by her mother-in-law for a full 41 years because of her low background.
It was not until 2000 that Queen Liangzi passed away that her life became calmer.
And at that time, Michiko was already 66 years old.
In fact, with Michiko's background, she could find someone rich and live a stable and happy life, but she had to choose Akihito and the royal family, and ended up being looked down upon by her mother-in-law for the rest of her life. Although
did not express his regrets bluntly, in 2013, Michiko publicly stated that she refused to be buried with Emperor Akihito. The reason is that as a civilian, I am not qualified to be buried with the Emperor. And this sentence may be Michiko telling her injustice and grievances over the years.
The harm of marriage of intimate relatives has long been well known, but the Japanese royal family has adopted this bad habit for thousands of years for the sake of the so-called purity of blood. The ultimate consequence of is that all the four emperors in modern times have developed abnormalities, and the children they gave birth to are also sick and sick, and those who died are prematurely . Even until now, Emperor Akihito has been worried about the issue of descendants, which is enough to show how harmful it is to get married in close relatives.
. Although the Japanese royal family has gradually relaxed and their spouses have begun to choose among the civilians, Michiko's experience has made most civilians feel disappointed. Even though her family has a very strong financial resources, she has endured unfair treatment for 41 years.
In this way, even if the royal family dares to marry, who dares to marry?
on the one hand breaks the harm of close relatives and keeps the purity of the royal bloodline. In fact, there is no conflict between the two. The key to the problem is that the Japanese royal family believes that they are superior.
Nowadays, the only male member of the younger generation of Japanese royal family is left, Prince Yuren, and the task of passing on the family line he shoulders is even more serious. In order to ensure the pure bloodline of the royal family, who knows whether he will be forced to marry his cousin in the future?
It is hard for us to imagine how the descendants of the Japanese royal family would become if the intimate marriage happened again. The choice between pros and cons depends on how the Japanese royal family will make a choice.
