Friends who have traveled to Japan know that the streets and alleys are full of Chinese character signs, and some friends joke that traveling to Japan will never get lost.
Japanese culture originates from China and has deep roots, which is already a consensus.
Not long ago, another jaw-dropping thing happened.
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Japanese parliamentarians soared into Mandarin Chinese and dialects
A video of Japanese parliamentarians soaring Chinese taken ten years ago suddenly became popular on Station B, and in just over two days, the video received 5.29 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes from netizens, and its clicks once soared to the second place on the site.
The protagonist of the video is a Japanese city councilor named Ichiro Yoshida, who, while speaking in the parliament, suddenly bursts into Mandarin on the spot, imitating the scene after Chinese become a Japanese councilor.
Before he could finish mandarin, Ichiro Yoshida showed off his Cantonese and Hokkien dialects.
The reason why Yoshida is so good is, of course, not because of any performance art, but because of the opposition to the participation of foreigners in politics, and to emphasize the impact of language confusion on politics.
Of course, I also take the opportunity to show off my foreign language skills.
In fact, the issue of foreign participation in politics is also a social issue that Japan has been discussing in recent years.
Mainly in recent years, with the advancement of the decline in children and the aging of the elderly, Japan has actually opened up the introduction of overseas human resources, and the number of foreigners operating in Japan is increasing day by day.
Since these people actually pay various taxes and fees in the same way as Japanese people, except that they do not have Japanese nationality.
Therefore, many Japanese people feel that these foreigners who live in Japan should be given the right to participate in the political power.
However, there are many people like Senator Yoshida who oppose it, so the issue is still in the open.
Regardless of the right to rationality and necessity of this issue, the issue of foreign political participation is not a new problem that has never been encountered in Japan.
As early as the beginning of the birth of Japanese civilization, there was a group of foreign groups called the Watanabes, who not only deeply participated in the political activities of the Japanese state at that time, but even occupied the center of political power for a time.
Among these Dulai collectives, the most representative forces are the Qin clan (はた) and the Han clan (あや).
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The Qin clan of power over the world
The ancestor of the Qin clan was Gong Yuejun, who crossed the sea from the Korean Peninsula in the early fifth century, and he led the people of 120 counties to Kyushu.
Bow Yuejun claimed to be a descendant of Qin Shi Huang - the "New Record of Surnames" said that it was the fifth grandson of Qin Shi Huang, while according to the "Records of the Three Dynasties of Japan" In the seventh year of Yuan Qing (883), Qin Yongyuan and other song chapters said that they were the thirteenth grandson of Qin Shi Huang.
Although the credibility of these accounts is very low now, because the Chinese or Koreans who emigrated to Japan often boasted that they were descendants of an emperor in order to inflate their value.
But this Group of Dulai people from Baekje may really be descendants of the Qin people.
The hometown of the Qin clique is said to be located at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula at that time, that is, the Chenhan region.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, the Biography of Karasuma Xianbei Dongyi: "Chen Han was in the east of Ma Han, and his elders passed down from generation to generation, saying that gu zhi died and went to avoid Qin to adapt to Korea." ”
That is to say, in the chaotic era at the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a Qin people who avoided the Chenhan region of the Korean Peninsula in order to escape the chaos of war.
However, with the rise of Silla, the Qin people who originally lived in Chenhan lost their territory, and because of their status as descendants of Han Chinese, they were not tolerated by the ethnic groups on the peninsula, so they had no choice but to go to Japan on the other side.
Fortunately, the Yamato court in Japan (then known as the Uighur Kingdom) showed great friendliness and welcome to the Qin people and other watanabes who mastered advanced technology and culture.
Although this was due to the consideration of developing and growing itself with the help of the Qin clan and other dulais, the Yamato court did not treat the Qin people badly.
The Qin clan, who is good at civil engineering and agriculture, uses irrigation technology to vigorously develop land, and engages in various labors such as silkworm farming, weaving, wine making, and metal crafts.
The Kyoto Basin has the Kamogawa River in the north, the Dayan River in the northwest, and the Koya River in the northeast, which is very suitable for large-scale reclamation.
In ancient times, it was called Atago County, and "Atago" means "like a waterfall of water tumbling and flowing in the basin".
The Qin clan contributed greatly to the development of the Kyoto Basin, and to some extent laid the economic foundation for the Yamato kingship.
Not only that, the Qin clan also served as the Great Treasurer of the Yamato King's power, and as early as the time of emperor Qin Ming, Qin Dajin's father served as the governor of the Province of Tibet.
The Qin clan took the mountain back of Kyoto as their base and moved to Taiqin (present-day Sakyo-ku, Kyoto).
From the second half of the fifth century onwards, the Qin clan served as the "companion" of the Ministry of Handicrafts, and managed the "Qin Ministry" to engage in various production activities (mainly weaving and reclamation).
During the Tuigu Emperor period, Qin Hesheng was prominent as the economic backing and think tank of Prince Shengde.
The Qin clan was also married to the imperial family, and the mother of Emperor Hengwu was the daughter of the Qin clan.
At that time, the Qin clan had its roots centered on Kyushu and and spread throughout Japan, and its power was second only to that of Katsuragi, Sumi, Daisuke, and Monobe, which held the authority of the Yamato regime.
Even from the end of Nara to the beginning of The Heian period after the defeat of these clans, countless people in the Qin clan were enthroned and promoted to the rank of knight.
The Qin clan collected as many as 1,147 names of the Qin clan before the Nara Dynasty from Mr. Goheino Kunio in the "Study of the Qin Clan". Obviously, the number of Qin clans that could not be collected but actually existed must have far exceeded this number.
However, things were uncertain, and as Emperor Huanwu, who was of Qin descent, moved the imperial palace in the back of the mountain to Heian Kyo, the power of the Qin clan weakened rapidly and soon withdrew from the stage of history.
Interestingly, it is said that it was the Qin clan who funded the construction of Heian Kyo, which is really ironic for the Qin clan.
Compared with the Qin clan, another Group of Watanabes, the Eastern Han Clan, was much less powerful, but its influence in Japanese politics was more enduring.
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Wu De Biao's fierce Eastern Han clan
The ancestor of the Eastern Han clan was Liu Azhi, who moved to Japan with the Qin clan.
Unlike the Qin clan, the Eastern Han clan was not a group of clans, but a consortium of multiple clan groups, the so-called Seven Han people (Zhu Li Duo Guo Guo Duan Gao).
However, like the Qin clan, the Eastern Han clan also claimed to be the last descendant of the Han Ling Emperor, claiming that they fled to the Korean Peninsula in order to escape the war at the end of the Han Dynasty, and heard that there was a holy king in Japan, although they came to defect and so on.
To put it bluntly, like the Qin clan, the living space was squeezed by the rising Silla, so they had to run to Japan to escape the war.
Although the Eastern Han clan, like the Qin clan, also mastered a lot of construction technology, and often served as officials in charge of revenue and expenditure of the Great Tibet Province and the Ministry of Inner Tibet.
But perhaps because the Eastern Han dynasty also mastered iron-making technology, it was more related to military activities.
During the reign of the Su I clan, the Eastern Han clan served as a vassal of the Su I clan and served as the guard and garrison of the Su I clan's imperial palace.
Not only did he undertake the important task of manufacturing weapons when the Su I clan planned to invade Silla, but also in the war between the Su I clan and the Monobe clan, he shot and killed the head of the Monobe clan, making a contribution to the victory of the Su I clan in the war.
He was even assigned by the Su I clan to assassinate Emperor Chongjun, who was dissatisfied with the su i clan's dictatorship.
It can be said that without the strong support of the Eastern Han clan, it is difficult for the Su I clan to overwhelm other clans and monopolize power in the Yamato court.
Therefore, later, as the Eastern Han clan gave up its loyalty to the Su I clan, the Su I clan also quickly embarked on the road of destruction.
And perhaps it is precisely because the Eastern Han clan took sides in time, so even after the fall of the Su I clan, the Eastern Han clan was still highly valued by the Yamato court.
For a long time, it continued to participate in a series of military activities carried out by the Yamato imperial court as a military clan mainly responsible for military activities.
For example, the first great general of the conquest of Theoyi, Sakaidamura Maru, who was in the conquest of The Yi, was a descendant of the Eastern Han Clan. The military status of the Sakaue clan in the Japanese state was gradually declined until the rise of the Tokuni samurai.
Since modern times, Japan has always advertised itself as a mono-ethnic group, so it is a great enemy of the issue of foreign participation in politics.
But in fact, even the Japanese archipelago, which is relatively isolated from the world in terms of geography, has evolved its civilization by the advanced technology and culture brought by the Watanabe group from the mainland.
The key to attracting outsiders to participate in politics lies in the quality and ability of this person, and as for the original place of origin, it is a secondary issue that should be considered.
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