In China, the marriage of close relatives is explicitly prohibited, but it is allowed to marry close relatives in Japan, especially in the Japanese imperial family, and the marriage of close relatives is even more common
As early as the early days in China when the information was relatively closed, I would occasionally hear about the marriage of close relatives, and I heard that the children born of the marriage of close relatives had problems with iq. With the continuous development of science and technology, people have also confirmed this problem, and they will deliberately avoid marriage of close relatives, and now it is rare to hear of close relatives getting married. Then I believe that in Japan, where science and technology are developed, there will be no one who is unaware of the drawbacks of marriage between close relatives
So why does japan's imperial family interpret the fact that close relatives are married? Quite simply, in fact, in order to inherit the interests of the family, in other words, the fat water does not flow to the fields of outsiders, that is, to not share the power and status that their family has worked hard to manage, and the emperor's family will require the descendants to marry their close relatives, so what if the descendants do not do as required? For Japanese commoners, marriage between close relatives is not prohibited, nor is it forced. However, in the imperial family, the marriage of close relatives is forced, and if any offspring do not do what the family requires, they will naturally be punished accordingly. So if you think about it, even if the emperor's family is borrowing money to get married, will ordinary people in Japan follow suit? The answer is yes
Marriage between close relatives has become a trend in Japan, but it is considered a fashion in the eyes of many people. The phenomenon of marriage between close relatives is not only common in Japan, but also in Europe. This phenomenon exists in Europe because there are not enough social ethics and moral constraints, Europeans like to be free and casual, and marriage is common in Royal families in Europe. Marriage of close relatives can cause the offspring born to carry a variety of genetic histories or have a higher risk of developing the disease. The relatively common phenomenon of marriage between close relatives leads to many social problems, and the birth of children with diseases will bring a great burden to social development when they grow up, and at the same time, life as a patient itself is also very painful
According to scientific research data, it can be seen that the marriage of close relatives is more likely to obtain genetic diseases than the marriage of non-close relatives, and the incidence of marriage between close relatives is 150 times that of non-close relatives, and the results of such data are only conservative. From this specific data, we can see how terrible it is to marry close relatives. But the most unfortunate thing is that since the Japanese have no feeling for this terrible, they are more concerned about family interests and their own feelings. If the family interests are divided by others, and the husband and wife are more loving, the health of the child will follow the fate
There is a very famous example in Japan, When Emperor Hirohito married his own cousin, the couple had a total of five children before and after, but the ending was quite tragic. Their first child was a boy, who was born weak and was taken away. However, Emperor Hirohito and his wife were reluctant and took the child back, but it did not last long for the boy to die of a serious illness. The child came into the world for more than 70 days. For this reason, Emperor Hirohito and his wife were sad for a long time, and then the couple gave birth to a daughter, who died not long after. The couple continued to work hard and gave birth to a third daughter. Although this daughter was weak, she barely survived. The daughter grew up and got married, and later became unfaithful to the marriage, resulting in a divorce not long after, because of breast cancer died. Emperor Hirohito and his wife had only two daughters to accompany them, and the three children they had previously had left due to genetic reasons. Three living lives are indeed regrettable
However, the tragedy continued, and Emperor Hirohito's daughter married Emperor Hirohito's nephew. After marriage, Emperor Hirohito's daughter had 15 children, and only four survived. To be honest, when I heard such a thing, I felt that it was too sad to be a woman, and I didn't do anything after marriage, but I actually had children. The saddest thing is that many children do not survive. In fact, this kind of thing is still very common in the Japanese imperial family, and there is no good way to improve it
In later times, there was a rule in Japan that the imperial family could only intermarry with the imperial family, and the descendants of the imperial family could not be combined with the commoners, which led to the withering of the heirs of the imperial family in the imperial family, and only boys could inherit the throne, so in order to give birth to boys, it was said that Emperor Hirohito was very distressed only because his wife could not give birth to boys. It will also be looked down upon by the Japanese people. The most important thing is that Emperor Hirohito and his wife have too much affection, so they don't want to take concubines and have children, and they are worried that their children will become victims of palace fighting, so they have always insisted on not taking concubines. But as the years passed, no boys were born, so Emperor Hirohito underwent secret artificial insemination. At that time, this matter was a very confidential plan, thinking that if the wife gave birth to a boy, the artificially fertilized child would be hidden forever. If it is really impossible to give birth to a boy, then this artificially inseminated boy is a spare tire to inherit the throne
Eventually, the secret of Emperor Hirohito's artificial insemination was discovered, and Emperor Akihito was the child of this artificial insemination. It can be seen that the idea of preferring sons to daughters in Japan is extremely serious, and the restrictions on the marriage of close relatives are still shrouded in the imperial family, so the probability of marriage between close relatives occurring in the aristocratic family is relatively large, after all, there are interests that are contained, if the offspring are treated as. A tool to defend one's own interests, that would be too unfair to future generations
Although we can't say with certainty now that Japan still allows close relatives to marry, but Japan's management of the marriage of close relatives is really too small to surprise you, and even now there is a poignant love story, that is, the former Japanese prince actually fell in love with his own sister, and finally married his own sister, at that time also received a lot of people's finger pointing, but the prince and sister completely ignored. Not long after the marriage, public opinion continued to heat up, resulting in the two people unable to withstand a lot of public opinion pressure, and finally both martyred. The saddest thing is that posterity calls this story a poignant love story, although the ending is very tragic, but still beautiful because of love, resulting in many ignorant girls, who have unlimited yearning for it
It is said that the origin of the Japanese people was a team sent out at that time because of looking for elixirs, when Qin Shi Huang also spoke, if you can't find the elixir, don't come back, then this group of people will certainly not come back empty-handed to die, but the elixir can not be found, had to keep wandering outside. Fortunately, however, this team is a virgin boy and a virgin, and it is not a problem to reproduce and survive. Eventually, the team came to Toei Island and established their own tribe. Some historians say that this is just a legend and has no archaeological basis
Some people also say that the Japanese are people who migrated to East Asia from the African continent, and later became the current Japanese through cultural edification and assimilation, with a history of 300 years. The Japanese state itself has no cultural heritage, so it has worked very hard to learn Han culture. Especially during the Tang Dynasty, the wave of Japanese people learning from Chinese culture was very high, like the tea art and Tang costumes at that time were learned by the Japanese. After the passage of time, the Japanese people revised and changed it to become Japan. Own independent culture. At the same time, the marriage habit of close relatives between princes and ministers at that time was also learned by Japan, because many officials and nobles at that time would marry close relatives in order to protect their rights and interests
From another point of view, the prevalence of marriage between close relatives in Japan also has a certain relationship with their laws and regulations. Japanese law stipulates that adoptive parents cannot marry, direct blood cannot marry, and collateral blood cannot marry within three generations, then cousins belong to the fourth class and can get married, but in China, the requirements are more stringent, as long as they are within three generations of close relatives, they cannot marry, including cousins. To be honest, the writing of laws is influenced by social culture
There is a saying in Japan that the purity of the bloodline is that it is because of such an underlying idea that close relatives get married. If it is because of traditional culture that leads to such potential ideas, then I would like to say that for traditional culture, we should have a certain screening, and the essence of traditional culture must be carried forward and inherited, but for the dross in traditional culture, we must also boldly hold our breath, which is the new era, we young people should do. In addition to the fact that traditional culture has influenced this possibility, there is another possibility that may lead to the continuation of the practice of marriage between close relatives, that is, in order to retain power and interests. If the Imperial Family deliberately continues the custom of marriage between close relatives for its own benefit, then the descendants born in the Imperial Family are very sad
Although born into the Japanese imperial family, he was born to enjoy various advantages, but he was greatly limited in his own happiness. The saddest thing is that so far, Japan has not paid attention to the harm of marriage between close relatives, but has put the interests of the family in the most important position. But in China, it is different, although there are many cases of uninformed close relatives marrying in China very early on, after scientifically proving the harm of marriage between close relatives. Chinese laws have been forcibly stopped by law, we are putting the health of life first, and the people-oriented thinking is the symbol of humanization. I think we in China have done a very good job, both parties to the marriage can not be too selfish, must take into account the health of future generations, this is not only responsible for their own offspring, but also responsible for society
By querying relevant information, it was found that many countries do not prohibit cousins from marrying, especially in the 19 states of the United States do not prohibit cousins from marrying, Japan is not prohibited at all for cousins to marry, in South Africa and the Middle East, recent marriage is also very common
On the topic of marriage between close relatives, not only is it left over from history, but also deeply influenced by the thinking of modern people, and now we are all very taboo about marriage between close relatives, but in other countries, we do not attach importance to such a problem, what do you think about this?
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