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#日本 #
Japan's rich kabukicho industry is world-famous, and whether it is a "waitress" or a "male publicist", it is a major feature of Japan.
Asia's largest red light district is located in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, which is known as the "Sleepless Street" and can be found everywhere in adult bars, movie theaters, and customs streets.
Japan is a country that prides itself on its culture, but there are not many kabukicho industries like this that are so prosperous and can survive in the world, and it has to be said that this in Japan is really breathtaking!
In Japan, mixed bathing is regarded as a rather elegant thing, and even spawned a series of services; in Japan, the culture of fertility worship can also be seen everywhere, and many places have related stone gods, such as the two-body Taoist god, the golden spirit of the Great God, the "Golden Magic God", etc., which are regarded as the three major guardian gods of Japan.
Many men and women often pray to these patron saints for wishes in the hope of having children and grandchildren.
This is very similar to the practice of our people who like to ask bodhisattvas for children and grandchildren. However, the essence between the two is still a world of difference!
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Japan's concept of openness permeates every aspect of their lives, which can be found in their literary works, manga, film and television works.
In terms of literature, for example, the Japanese national treasure literary masterpiece "The Tale of Genji", which was shared by Shushujun and everyone before, has described a lot of gender relations (see below).
Film and television stills of "The Tale of Genji"
Similarly, many famous Japanese writers have written many similar novels, such as the familiar Yasunari Kawabata, whose depiction of love is almost "absurd", and some people call him a neurotic "perverted" writer.
Another example is Haruki Murakami, Junichi Watanabe, Yukio Mishima, etc., which can be said to be representatives of the creators in this regard.
In terms of animation, for example, in 2004, a Japanese animation film set on the history of the Three Kingdoms, "One Ride when a Thousand", once swept the screen of the Internet, of course, it was also criticized by many people.
The reason is the same, because the animation is too erotic and violent, and the famous Three Kingdoms characters such as Cao Cao and Sun Quan are designed as girls with bare bottoms.
This kind of design that subverts conventions and subverts history can be said to be "destroying the three views".
Seeing this, you may feel that it has nothing to do with you: I don't watch anime.
In fact, the Japanese people's output of this anime erotic soft culture can be found in the Chinese manga market.
For example, Japan's comic pocket books occupy a large proportion of China's comic book market and are highly sought after by many teenagers.
Friends who like to visit the book market are definitely more familiar with this, and young children like to read in front of this kind of book.
However, such books are often filled with all kinds of darkness, horror, eroticism and color, etc., and like the indecent and thriller patterns printed in the "Jiangnan Cloth" children's clothing, its harm to teenagers is self-evident.
The same is true in film and television. There are also many works similar to horror, gloomy, and corrupt literary themes on a certain station, and many of them are actually Japanese works, or many are also deeply influenced by Japanese culture.
Objectively speaking, however, many of Japan's cultures are heavily influenced by China.
Japan is located in Asia, and historical Japan is deeply influenced by Chinese Confucian culture, which can be glimpsed from japan's bowing etiquette alone.
Japanese people often bow when they meet and treat guests, and the etiquette of bowing alone is incomparable, which is perhaps the most experienced for salesmen and etiquette ladies in Japan who may bow thousands of times a day. This is basically in line with China's traditional Confucian culture of hospitality, modesty and courtesy.
Across the sea from China, during the Tang Dynasty, Chinese Confucianism penetrated deeply into Japan and played a great role in educating Japanese society at that time.
The Japanese have combined the "benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, filial piety" in Chinese Confucianism with the traditional ideological norms of their own country, such as imperial power divine empowerment and filial piety first, forming their own characteristic culture, making China's Confucian thought and culture deeply rooted in their own society.
However, unlike most Asia-Pacific countries, which are heavily influenced by China's Confucian cultural circle, Japan's concept of openness far exceeds that of its neighbors, which even open Europeans estimate to be astonished.
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Why is Japan so open to ideas and industrial culture? There are many reasons for this.
◆ Long history inherited
Japan's open concept of sexuality began in ancient times, and the first literary dictionary in Japanese history, "Ancient Chronicles", written in 712, is written in ancient and unrestrained stories. As an ancient historical book, this book describes the love of men and women as much as China's "Golden Plum Bottle".
In other words, in the early years of the Meiji era, when Zhang Boli, who later became the prime minister of the United Kingdom, worked in Japan, he translated the book into English and introduced it to Britain. But unexpectedly, even the British mistakenly regarded this book as a small yellow book.
In ancient Japan, there were fewer people in the land, and in order to improve the population labor force, Japanese men and women began to learn around the age of 10, and began to have children around the age of 14-15.
Japanese folklore expert Akamatsu Keisuke has conducted many years of research on Kyoto, Osaka and other regions and found that in rural Areas of Japan, it is particularly popular to marry, which is somewhat similar to the marriage customs of ethnic minorities in southwest China, and men will visit women late at night, so that the phenomenon of being a father and a mother at a young age is inevitable.
In addition, in ancient times, due to the backwardness of social productivity and war and other reasons, there were not many children who survived at that time, which required men and women to work harder to have children, which created Japan's concept of openness.
In modern times, with the influx of Western powers, the door of Japan was opened, and a large number of Western cultural ideas spread to Japan, which made this culture unprecedentedly prosperous and developed.
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan proposed the so-called "separation from Asia and entry into Europe", the intention of which was to "borrow seeds" from the West.
For example, geisha have a history of more than 300 years in Japan, and Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country" and "Izu Dancer" are depicting geisha romances.
◆ The Japanese cult of fertility
The gods and immortals in our country are basically abstinent, while in Japan, on the contrary, the Japanese fertility cult is embodied in many myths and stories.
Amaterasu in the Japanese "Ancient Chronicles"
For example, the empress of the first emperor in Japanese mythology, Emperor Shenmu, named "Nu Yin", named the gods and goddesses with such bold and open names, which is also a very small minority in the mythological system of the world. As for the origin of the "female yin", the story of this is even more needless to tell, and it is even more straightforward.
In ancient Japan, various reproduction worship artifacts made of clay and stone were widely seen, and some villages directly regarded these motifs or artifact deities as protective gods and reverently worshipped them.
Even now, this concept still deeply affects the Japanese people. In other words, in some related sports meetings, you can still see the shape of various genitals everywhere, and do not avoid children at all, and even some parents will bring children of several years old to participate in the sports meeting.
◆ Japanese people are tolerant of sex
In Japan, mixed bathing is a phenomenon. In a Japanese family, it is very common for a family of several to bathe in a large bathtub. For this reason, it is said that in the 19th century, when Americans visited Japan, they were shocked by the phenomenon of mixed bathing without any clothes, and thought that the people at the bottom of Japan were vulgar.
For the Japanese, bathing naked with each other, everyone has long been accustomed to it, just like eating and drinking. Everyone was naked through the crowd, not feeling weird at all.
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan promulgated relevant regulations prohibiting mixed bathing. However, for this kind of folk customs that have been circulating for many years, how easy is it to rely on a paper ban to completely ban it?
For this reason, although it is explicitly prohibited, it is actually repeatedly prohibited, and this phenomenon of mixed bathing cannot be cured at all.
In Japan, the education of both men and women begins at the elementary school level, and it is said that Japanese people will be quite satisfied when they see their young children and understand this very early.
In addition, although Japan is deeply influenced by Chinese Confucianism and has always been known for its subtlety, modesty, deference, and conservatism in its demands on women, it is very open in gender relations.
The Japanese did not attach as much importance to chastity as traditional Chinese Confucianism did.
In Japan, there is no chastity arch, no small-footed woman, no three from four virtues, it is normal to open up the breasts, and there are many men who can martyr their beloved geisha.
Among Japanese women, if a girl has not had contact with the opposite sex when she is in college, it is also regarded as a shameful and humiliating thing. All of this reflects the Japanese people's tolerant attitude towards sexuality.
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It is precisely for these reasons that Japan has such an open concept. In today's Japan, how developed the Kabukicho industry is, everyone has long been familiar with it, and Japan's AV industry alone has greatly stimulated the growth of the Japanese economy.
It can be said that in the Confucian cultural circle, Japan is an exception. It highly absorbs traditional Chinese cultural ideas, but there are many differences, among which the difference in personality concepts alone is a world away from China.
This unique cultural landscape of Japan is also unique in the world, and it is really rare and impressive!
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