The words of Japanese politicians have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.
Recently, Seishiro Eto, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party who once served as the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, said:
South Korea and Japan are brotherly countries in a sense. To be clear, Japan is the older generation. ···We must maintain correct contact and cooperation with South Korea, protect South Korea, and guide it well.
Regarding the history of Japan colonizing South Korea, Seishiro Eto did not shy away from it. He said:
Japan did turn South Korea into a colony in the past. That is because Japan is like an older brother to South Korea. Now, Japan is superior to South Korea in every aspect, and the superior-subordinate relationship between Japan and South Korea is like the relationship between the United States and Japan. Japan has always been in the leadership position.
When the words of Japanese politicians reached South Korea, they immediately became extremely dissatisfied, especially Koreans . On August 8, Professor Xu Jingde of Korea Sungshin Women’s University stated on social media:
Representative Seishiro Eto’s nonsense has caused a lot of controversy. According to his statement, since ancient times, culture has been spread from the Korean Peninsula to Japan. Yes, no one knows this, and everyone knows that South Korea is the "ancestor" of Japan.
In fact, after the Meiji Restoration , the Japanese's national strength became unique in Asia. At this time, the Japanese had two stupid understandings: the Japanese nation is the best nation in Asia; Japan is the leader in Asia and others. The country’s “big brother”.
At the end of World War II, at the International Tribunal for the Far East where Tokyo tried , Tojo Hideki explained Japan's intention to invade China and said: If the younger brother is disobedient, it is normal for the older brother to teach him a lesson.
In ancient Japan, the status of the eldest son in the family was very high
Japanese people like to be other people's "elder brother", because in ancient Japan, the "elder brother" was the head of the family and was very authoritative; while the status of the "younger brother" was too humble. He is almost a free slave for his whole life!
Japan has adopted the "primogeniture system" in history. This system is actually found in many countries, but Japan is unique in that it gives the eldest son, the "elder brother" such great privileges that some people call it " eldest son slavery”.
This system became popular in ancient Japan after it entered a patriarchal society. In a large family, the status of the head of the household is very high. After the head of the household dies, the eldest son inherits the status of the head of the household and becomes the supreme authority in the family: for a male in the family to get married, he must not only get the consent of his parents, but also the consent of the head of the household.
This should be done even if the man may be the uncle of the head of the household, because this uncle is the younger brother of the old head of the household and has no decisive position in the family and must obey the management of the current head of the household.
It can be seen that the primogeniture system in Japan is very strict. It is not like the ancient Chinese primogeniture system of " brother is humble and respectful to the younger brother." It has become the primogeniture system of "the three knights without property, land and titles".
The "visiting wife system" has made Japan's ethics very ambiguous.
How did Japan's strict "primogeniture" system evolve? In fact, this is related to the changes in the chaotic marriage system in ancient Japan.
The earliest marriage system in ancient Japan was the wife-visiting marriage. In layman's terms, the woman lived in her own home, and the men she wanted to pursue came to "visit" her at night. If the woman agreed, he would stay at the house for one or more days. , and then leave.
This marriage system is a bit like the "walking marriage" of ethnic minorities in my country. Objectively speaking, in this kind of marriage, women are dominant and men are subordinate. For example, in the Japanese movie "The Call of the Mountains", the male and female protagonists have a bit of a "wife-visiting" system.
The main reason for the emergence of such a marriage system is that Japan’s land is small, and local powerful men fight each other year after year. Men are the main force in the battles, maybe on the battlefield. Therefore, the visiting wife system is a good way to avoid the consequences to the family after men die in war. crisis.
Women don’t just visit one person, and men don’t just visit one family.This makes it difficult for Japanese women to determine who the biological father of the child is after they become pregnant and give birth.
Therefore, when the children born by women grow up and reach the age of marriage, they should ask their mothers whether the other party is okay. In fact, this is ruling out the possibility of having a different mother.
As for the father, on the one hand, he may not know who he is at all, or he may not be at home in the first place; on the other hand, he has no idea how many visits he has made and how many descendants he has, so it is useless to ask.
This objective situation has caused Japan to not pay attention to the ethics of half-mothers, but to care about the relationship between half-mothers and half-fathers, and blood relations are traced around the maternal line.
Brother-sister marriages often occurred in Japan's early emperor families. The main reason was that the brothers and sisters were "half-mothers". In Japan, they were distant relatives, which didn't matter; as for marrying the cousin home, that was out of the question.
Changes in the marriage system are related to wealth and status.
With the development of society, Japan's internal classes have also become fiercely differentiated. By the Kamakura period in the late 12th century, the role of the samurai class in wars became more important, and samurai had a relatively high status. social status; but samurai are generally poor, which is a social reality.
Influenced by the culture of "emphasis on agriculture and light on business", businessmen have a low social status, but they are rich. As a result, the "wife-visiting system" in Japanese society gradually moved towards "son-in-law marriage": men stepped in the door.
Especially when a samurai cuts in the door and enters a merchant family, it is a win-win situation: the social status of the merchant family improves, and the samurai are no longer in poverty.
By the Muromachi period at the end of the 14th century, as Japan entered the warring States Period, the samurai class became more important. They formed their own families and clans, and normal "marriage" became the mainstream.
Although normal "marriage" has become the mainstream, in Japan at that time, the woman still maintained relative independence. It was recorded in the "Japanese Records" at the end of the 16th century: "The lord's wife and children were separated. Own a house and land. "
In fact, Japanese aristocrats are quite nostalgic for "marriage visits". Aristocratic men go out to relax from time to time, such as the little prince in "The Tale of Genji". The reason they enjoy this kind of thing is simple, it's all about the blooming of hormones.
In any case, marriage is a necessary way to form a family, and the property of a large family is fixed and increased in value through marriage.
Since women have a relatively stable and powerful position in Japanese families, in order to keep the family property from being separated after the birth of a child, the system of "the eldest son inherits everything" has been further strengthened.
The status of Japanese women has always been relatively high
The Western Industrial Revolution was introduced to Japan. After the Meiji Restoration, all aspects of Japanese society have undergone earth-shaking changes; at the same time, the modern marriage system is also being laid out in Japan, and a new type of husband-wife relationship It also continues to take shape in Japan.
For example, Japanese women seem gentle and considerate, and they silently contribute at home. In fact, Japan now protects housewives both legally and socially. It can be said that men are a bit like money-making machines at home.
In ancient Japan, women had a very high status. Even their "Amaterasu " was based on women as a template; the inheritance of family property was also dominated by women.
In the family, women's property belongs to themselves, and part of the man's property belongs to his wife. The distribution of property reflects the status of women.
Among the samurai class, there were also female samurai, who were particularly famous; until World War II, many women still appeared in special secret battlefields.
The famous female samurai "Tomoe Gozen" in Japanese history
In order to keep wealth from being dispersed
After the improvement of the marriage system, in order to keep the family property from being diluted or weakened, Japanese families must find ways to ensure the concentration of property. The eldest son in the family, Therefore, property is inherited by the eldest son. The younger brothers do not have any property and can only become the "retainers" of the eldest brother.
What's more, many people refer to the "primogeniture" system in Japanese history as "eldest son slavery", saying that younger brothers who have no property at all are almost slaves to their older brothers.
It doesn't matter if the family does not have an eldest son. Japan's "son-in-law marriage" tradition makes up for this shortcoming. The family can recruit a son-in-law for the daughter, and then let the son-in-law inherit the family property and status;
Similarly, if a family has many sons, the eldest son will inherit. After the family wealth is established, younger brothers who have not inherited can also be recruited into a large family without sons and become members of another family.
This also makes Japan’s current big families, whether political or capitalist, have many blood connections with each other.
Family property cannot be lost
For example, Shinzo Abe 's father is Abe. A son of 's family was recruited into the "Kishinobu" family. The eldest son, Shinzo Abe, whose surname is Abe, inherited the political influence of Abe's family ; and Abe's younger brother is called Nobuo Kishi , he takes his mother's surname.
In short, in Japanese families, the status of the eldest son is very detached. This is related to not dispersing family wealth, and also to the marriage system caused by Japan's special geographical environment. Now, Japan's marriage system has changed, but the underlying tradition has not changed. .
The Japanese have never been a law-abiding people.
Japanese politicians refer to South Korea as Japan's "younger brother". What he is referring to is the traditional Japanese dominance of the "older brother" over the "younger brother", indicating that South Korea must obey Japan. obey Japanese control.
On this basis, the Japanese politician disguised himself as beautifying the history of Japan's colonization of South Korea, and also secretly included Japan's ambition to dominate Asia. Japanese militarists even look down on China, let alone South Korea.
The Japanese nonsense made the violent Koreans angry. They launched a vigorous denunciation on the Internet. Korean "folk historians" used their "good at research" characteristics to conclude that "Korea is the grandfather and culture of Japan." Korea is the ancestor of Japan."
In short, a small controversial statement explains a lot of problems. This includes not only the Japanese ambitions for Korea and even Asia, but also the strange "brother and brother" relationship in Japanese history; and the Japanese's idea of exonerating the crimes of World War II in disguise.
You still have to be careful about the Japanese, they have never been a law-abiding people.
Japan’s current festivals have “female samurai” performances
