As we all know, most people will not choose to end their lives easily unless they die of natural causes. Suicide is not a glorious thing in the eyes of Chinese, and most of the time it is to escape reality. Anyone who has seen the anti-war works knows that one of the most common actions of Japanese soldiers is to "cut their abdomen and commit suicide", holding a knife and throwing it at their abdomen. In the eyes of Japanese soldiers, suicide is worthy of admiration, and to some extent can be called a hero.
Why can it be linked to heroes? Because in the minds of the Japanese, surrender is an act of disloyalty, and it will also make their military status disgraceful. Therefore, they would rather choose to kill themselves than surrender, whether this is the case or not, the author can indeed always see the act of cutting the abdomen in tv works. This way of suicide is quite difficult, we all know that a large number of nerves are distributed in the abdomen of people, if there is no knife inserted into it, you have to endure pain and continue to cut, the death process alone will last for many hours, when the blood is dry and when it is liberated.
There are many ways to commit suicide, so why do Japanese people have to choose the most difficult one? In Japan, the sword is the representative of the samurai, and it is most appropriate to use it to end one's life. The Japanese believe that the human soul is not in the brain, but in the stomach, the abdomen is cut to better face their soul. In this way, he showed loyalty to the emperor and appeared to be brave. Japan's Fujiwara Yoshinori can be regarded as the "founder" of the cut belly, after the crime was revealed, he did not have the slightest desire to escape, but opened all the doors and windows of the house, and faced his abdomen to everyone. In the end he cut his abdomen open with a samurai sword, a brave move that made most people forgive him.
Detached from the work, is this really the case with the Japanese army on the battlefield? We can search for many related photos on the Internet, and from these photos, we can see that the Japanese soldiers are not as great as they say they are, and there are not a few people who surrender. The spirit of Bushido seems to have been left behind by them, and when the question of life and death comes, the most loyal Japanese soldier is just an ordinary person who wants to survive. The Soviet Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, the American Army, etc. have all seen the Japanese soldiers surrender, and it is true that the Japanese apologized by cutting their abdomen, but the courage did not seem to be as great as they said.