According to the Book of later Han, during the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Japan sent emissaries to worship, and Emperor Liu Xiu made him the "King of Wu", and Japan became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty.
So more than a thousand years ago,
The Japanese have always referred to themselves as "Bo people"
。 According to the thigh bone excavated in the tomb, the height of the ancient Japanese was basically below 160.
During the Edo period, Japan was still a closed country, and beginning in 1853, the Japanese began to learn from the West under the leadership of Emperor Meiji.
Yoshio Takahashi's ethnographic improvement
It is in Japan's long-term self-denial that it has gradually become popular.
Ethnographic transformation
Due to the natural disasters in its living environment, Japan is a country with a strong sense of crisis. As early as the Tang Dynasty, china's talent development over Japan's development and economic culture before Japan's had already given the Japanese people signs of the idea of racial transformation, which was put into practice in the Song Dynasty.
They sent educated aristocratic women to China to "breed"
In order to obtain excellent genes and achieve racial improvement.
In modern times, due to the background of the war, Japan's "racial improvement" plan was not abrupt, after all, it was also full of "experience".
In the 19th century, Europe gained the more developed social and military power in the world at that time by virtue of the development brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and conquered most of the Japanese through war, making Japan feel inferior and fall into a fanatical worship of European and American culture.
While Europe and the United States invaded Asia, they divided people into three, six, nine, and so on according to their skin color.
Coined the term "racial discrimination"
, causing the person himself to develop a spiritual distortion, to regard himself as a spiritual white man.
Yoshio Takahashi's teacher, Yukichi Fukuzawa, vigorously promoted Western culture in Japan.
Yoshio Takahashi was deeply influenced by the idea of "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe."
, reflect on the reasons for Japan's backwardness, and blame it on the backwardness of the race.
Yoshio Takahashi believes that the size, physique, intelligence, level of civilization and living habits of the Japanese people are lagging behind the West, which in turn leads to the backwardness of the country.
Under the influence of many paranoid ideas, Takahashi Yoshio completely rejected Japanese culture and way of life, and gradually developed the idea of improving the race, which was supported by most Japanese celebrities.
After World War II, After Japan's defeat and the increasing arrogance of the West, Japan more actively encouraged Japanese women to borrow seeds from American soldiers stationed in Japan to achieve national genetic optimization.
In addition, Yoshio Takahashi proposed in the "Theory of Racial Transformation":
To make the Japanese race stronger, there must be a change in customs and genetics
。 Therefore, we have to mention some objective reasons and traditional bad habits that affect the genes of the Japanese population.
The reason for Japan's short stature
The Ainu once controlled a third of the island and were indigenous to Japan. Their average height is less than 160 centimeters, their short stature, and their pedigree influences the objective growth law of the Japanese, so ancient China named Japan the "Uighur Country".
The land in Japan is small, the resources are scarce, and the meat is mainly fish. However, later when Buddhism was introduced to Japan, the emperor forbade eating meat, resulting in a serious lack of nutrition in the Japanese and affecting physical development.
The above are the objective factors that affect the development of japanese people. In Takahashi's view, there are more than these reasons for the physical development of Japanese people, and there are other bad habits that need to be corrected.
Ainu people
Marriage of close relatives
In the early days of Japan, there was a great emphasis on blood and family relations, which led to some bad marriage habits and affected the objective development conditions of future generations.
The Japanese have studied Chinese culture over and over again, but under the influence of the pattern of thought, they often deviate in their understanding. as
"Parents are here, not far away"
Ancient Japan firmly attached this sentence to the premise of the marriage of children.
In the early days of Japan, in the choice of marriage objects, most of them did not jump out of the "kinship" relationship chain, believing that the closer the object was to be found, the better, the countryside chose neighbors, and the industry and commerce did not go out of the domain. Such a "principle of proximity" often appears that a village person may be a family three generations up, and in the end most people are related by blood.
Under this premise, the continuation of this marriage habit will inevitably lead to cases of consanguineous marriages, encountering major genetic problems.
In ancient Japan,
Marriage between close relatives is almost universal
The result is multiple intellectual disabilities, disabilities and other recessive diseases, such genes are passed down from generation to generation, affecting the growth and development of the next generation is an inevitable result.
Early marriage
Like ancient China, ancient Japan was also developed from traditional farming, and family labor was particularly important, so there was usually a common phenomenon of early marriage.
From the history of our country, we can see that in the period of feudal society, women basically married and had children at the age of sixteen, and the Qing Dynasty advanced to 14 years old, while in some parts of Japan, women could marry and have children at the earliest thirteen years old. During this period, the woman's own physical development is not yet complete, and premature pregnancy and childbirth will affect the growth and development of the child in addition to bringing physical burdens to herself.
Class concept
In ancient Japan, there were many ranks, such as shoguns, daimyōs, samurai, farmers, workers, merchants, filthy people, non-human beings, etc., the imperial family married the royal family, the nobles married to the nobles, the hierarchy between the public and the untouchables was strict, and there was generally no intermarriage between the various classes. At that time, the marriage of two parents would generally consider the family lineage first, and the rest of their own development and other physical conditions were basically not within the scope of choice.
Such self-deception intermarriage, if the encounter with the object itself is not healthy or has other disease factors, then it will naturally have a more or less impact on the offspring, and in the long run, the problem will only become more and more obvious.
In the case of such multiple influences and interference, the shortcomings of the overall physical condition of the Japanese people have gradually emerged in modern times, and the inferiority and self-denial caused by contrast have filled the entire Japanese nation. Therefore, if Yoshio Takahashi's racial transformation is to be realized, he must first change these habits.
Retrofit measures
Knowing the crux of the problem affecting the quality of the population, Yoshio Takahashi proposed a targeted reform proposal.
Improve diet, nutritionally make up for the lack of congenital, think that as long as nutrition keeps up, physical development will always tend to be better. In 1954, Japan made the "feeding" nutritious lunch a part of compulsory education, and wrote it into the regulations of the "School Feeding Law".
Japanese students drink a glass of milk ranging from 200-400 ml every day
。
Quit the bad habit of early marriage and marriage of close relatives,
At the same time, the promotion of mixed marriage with Westerners was made the core of racial improvement
。 During World War II, at the behest of the Japanese Emperor, the Japanese army began to arrest prime-age men in the Soviet Union, Mongolia, China, and the United States to have sex with Japanese women; after Japan's defeat, it set its sights on the American soldiers stationed in the war to reduce them to a tool for breeding.
So, Japanese people born after 1945,
Many are "mixed-race" descendants
。 Yoshio Takahashi's theory is somewhat constructive, and changes in diet and intermarriage habits have long affected japanese lives. According to statistics, from 1900 to 1955, the physical indicators such as height, weight, and bust circumference of Japanese teenagers showed an overall upward trend. Among them, how much of the effect of genetic hybridity is, there is no scientific proof for reference.
Japanese people need self-confidence
Here, we do not comment on the merits of Japan's population reform plan, after all, there are too many objective and subjective factors involved to truly jump out of the self-framework to do analysis. But it is clear that the racial reforms that emerged from colonialism are fundamentally a pathological point of view. This stems from inferiority complex,
It is a lack of confidence in one's own nation and culture
Whether the development of a nation and people is good or bad cannot be judged solely by external manifestations, and the spiritual and cultural core is very important.
For example, the historical precipitation of five thousand in our country has achieved a great power sentiment and cultural core that other countries cannot match, and when we go abroad, we still have the courage to say that we are a yellow-skinned Chinese.
All the conditions that drive historical change are, to the greatest extent, man-made, so-called:
The wind moves, the flag moves, but the heart is moved.
Resources
"Comparison of Yoshio Takahashi and Yan Fu's Theory of "Racial Improvement" Jiao Runming; Jiao Jie
"Meiji Japan's "Racial Improvement" and School Sports" Liu Chunyan; TAN Hua; Ji Liu
"A Brief Discussion on the Japanese People's Sense of Crisis" Du Junlin