No one asks about the poor and downtown, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.
From the birth of the Japanese emperor to the present, he has always been the same family, which is simply incredible compared with the Chinese concept of "princely generals, rather have a kind of hu". As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizong heard the news that "the Japanese monarch is a lineage of ten thousand generations", and he said to the prime minister: "The Tang Dynasty is divided, the fate of the five dynasties is short, and Japan has been a long time, and the ancient road is also covered."
Don't say that Song Taizong is curious, what person in modern times is not curious? But then again, this is not the same as the Chinese emperor, and there is no comparison between the two. The Japanese emperor, to put it in layman's terms, is equivalent to a "spiritual leader", a law of the initial development of the nation, and has now become a symbol of their country; the emperors of ancient China held real power, but it has long been a "past tense".
If I had to describe it as a Chinese dynasty, I think the Japanese emperor was very similar to the ancient Zhou royal family. Although he has little power, the good guy is the nominal highest person in the country, and he is still very cautious in some things. For example, in the matter of choosing a concubine, ordinary people have such high requirements for "pillow people", let alone the Japanese emperor. For concubines, they have two hard requirements.
Appearance requirements
This is probably understandable to most people, and it is a hard condition. The first is that the appearance must be beautiful and can have matching talents; at the same time, the fingers must be very soft, that is, the Chinese "jade finger plain arm". From the perspective of normal people, this is still somewhat similar to the aesthetics of modern people, who does not like a partner with smooth skin?
Of course, the beauty here also contains temperament, which is where the face of the country lies, and the selection is so sloppy, is this not abandoning the face of its own country? The next thing is that it must be age-appropriate, and what kind of twilight love, yearless love, etc., is absolutely not allowed to happen to the Japanese emperor. The love of beauty, everyone has it, this can be said to be the common sentiment of people, and others can also understand it.
After these conditions are met, they will then be arranged to the royal family for systematic study. These include some material preparation, spiritual preparation, because the field of the Japanese Imperial Family is very planned, and the study of etiquette and other aspects is very necessary. In Pin Shijun's view, these emperors seem to have begun to choose concubines for themselves when they were young, right?
Marriage of close relatives
In order to ensure the purity of the bloodline, the royal family will carry out close marriage, and this happened in ancient China. Anyone who knows a little about biology knows that this has a great impact on future generations, and our country has long abandoned this bad habit. However, Japan is very different, knowing that such an influence is still going up against the current, and has preserved such feudal customs to this day, without any nutritional value.
The current emperor of Japan is Naruhito, and his grandfather Showa was highly myopic when he was born. In many TV series about him, we can also see that he wears a pair of glasses at all times. There are also Meiji, Taisho, etc., who have been frail and sick since childhood, and some are insane. Especially after Taisho, monogamy was practiced, and the selection of concubines was more rigorous.
Of course, this range is actually relatively wide, as long as it is a person in the royal family, after all, they have also been passed down for more than a hundred generations. Uncle's daughter, uncle's daughter, aunt's daughter, etc., anyway, the royal bloodline can not flow out, which makes the people of the country seem really incomprehensible. To put it nicely is to violate biology and ethics, and to put it worse is to ignore life.
Pin Shijun said
Such strange customs and requirements have been ridiculed and complained by many people, but they do not take it seriously, but feel that it is a very proud thing. However, in some ways, it seems understandable that medicine at that time was not so developed, and they did not know that it was not advisable for close relatives to marry, otherwise the genetic disease of the family would not have spread in the Japanese imperial family.
In pin shijun's view, the ancestral wisdom of our country has long been enlightened. For example, it was once said that "marrying a wife and not marrying a person with the same surname" may be to discover the abnormality of the offspring, and then summarize the warning of the offspring, the purpose of which is to avoid that the two are the same ancestor. It seems that in the early days, there was no one else who could play with biological principles and continue to study them, except for us.
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