Editor|The King of History
●○Preface○●
If you ask which of the "bad Xi" is stronger? "Night crawling" Xi is definitely on the list.
When night falls, men climb into women's boudoirs, which is now considered a "shameful perversion", whereas many years ago it was a "commonplace" thing.
In fact, there are more surprising things behind this "night crawling" Xi in Japan.
What kind of Xi is "night crawling"? How has it been banned after thousands of years?
●○What is "night climbing"?
The sun sets, the moon climbs the treetops, and as night falls, people who have worked all day are about to begin the ancient Xi activity of night climbing on a specific day.
What is night crawling? This has to start with a book in Japan.
In Japanese history, there is a novel that claims to have the same status as the Chinese "Dream of the Red Chamber" - "The Tale of Genji". According to relevant information, the work was written between 1001 and 1008.
The content of this book covers a wide range, with the Heian Dynasty period in Japan as the background, describing the joys and sorrows, joys, sorrows and sorrows of people in the heyday of the year, and the range of characters involved is quite wide, which has a certain historical reference significance.
And in this book, there is a similar description: on a specified day, it doesn't matter what the marital status is, as long as the woman agrees, the man can climb into the woman's boudoir and reproduce.
This is a Xi custom that has been passed down for a long time, and everyone has long been Xi in the relatively remote villages of Japan in those days, just because they want to "prosper".
If it climbs for a long time, then both parties can determine the relationship between husband and wife.
You may be shocked enough to see this, but there are more details that are even more "unimaginable".
As mentioned earlier, this night climbing Xi is "unrestrained" to a certain extent, her husband can climb into someone else's wife's room, and her wife's room can also come in someone else's husband.
In short, as long as both parties are "willing", then it can be carried out, so the first question arises, what if many men "crawl" into a boudoir at the same time?
When encountering such an unexpected situation, they "handle" it in this way.
First of all, they will negotiate the order in some way similar to the lottery, and proceed in order. Well, at the same time, there is a second problem.
The fundamental purpose of the "night crawling" in Japan is to pass on the offspring and reproduce the offspring, so what if many men climb into the room of a woman who changes their name on the same night, it is impossible to determine who the father of the child is?
Behind the Xi of "strange" is often a series of "strange" solutions.
Who was the father of the child? The question was not taken seriously at the time. As long as there is a child, if you don't know who the father is, then the whole village will raise it together.
The villagers are very happy about this, because it is generally believed that the most important thing is to pass on the heirs, and no one will be ashamed of it, but proud of it.
In addition, in Japan's era, "night crawling" activities were open even to "outsiders".
If a family has a "foreigner" who comes to the village to spend the night, then the family of that household has an "obligation" to prepare this "activity" for the outsider.
There was no rejection of foreign men, and they were very supportive, because the view at the time was that outsiders could help improve genes, and if a woman had more children, the more prosperous the population would be, and the more abundant the labor force would be, and the better the economy would be.
In this way, in order to "reproduce" and produce labor, this Xi custom, which should have been regarded as a "bad Xi", began to spread, and eventually spread for thousands of years.
●○流传"千年」○●
In everything, there must be gains and losses.
Japan is a small country with few people, and in order for the country to be able to maintain long-term peace and stability and sustainable development, the Japanese have regarded "childbirth" as very important since ancient times, and it can even be said that they will do whatever it takes.
It is precisely for this reason that the jaw-dropping "Xi custom" of "night crawling" has become more and more widely involved. In addition to receiving men from outside the village, more "activities" gradually developed.
As a result of this activity, the population of Japanese villages is increasing, and at the same time, the distance between the two adjacent villages is gradually getting closer and closer, and "social activities" have also been created between villages.
In order to seek better genes for offspring, on the day of night crawling, the males of the two villages would exchange "fields" with each other and go to the opposite village to climb at night.
This did not cause anyone to be disgusted, because Japanese women in society at that time had no right to speak, and they did not even have the right to refuse, and whoever came to their room had to be forced to accept it.
In addition, meals are even prepared in the family for men from the other village to come and crawl at night.
What an incredible Xi, in this way, from the "Asuka period" in the sixth century AD in Japan, night crawling activities continued until the Showa period, and it was abolished in 1938 AD.
●○Tossing and turning "abolition"○●
With the gradual enlightenment of the mind, the "bad Xi" will eventually be abolished, but it still took a lot of effort to abolish this bad Xi that "shocked the four seats."
Why should we abolish "night crawling"? In addition to ideological progress, there are actually more practical and fundamental problems.
The first is the issue of "genes". The freedom to crawl at night is quite high, in other words, there is no set of "scientifically written" methods for "scientific reproduction".
In this chaotic pattern, women may not know who their biological father is all their lives, so many men who crawl at night climb to the boudoir, and the woman is likely to be related to herself.
Under close relatives, it will bring serious problems, and the quality of the offspring will not be high, even with diseases, breaking the original "structure".
This was one of the drawbacks faced by night crawling at that time, and at the same time, it would also bring "human torture".
This deformed concept will inevitably arouse people's "primitive desires" and at the same time "awaken" the devil in their hearts. With the development of social civilization, the night crawling Xi has gradually disappeared, and another major driving force for its complete disappearance is some vicious events that occur with night crawling.
In many places, due to the Xi of "night crawling", some disputes have begun to arise, and the relationship between villagers has cracked, which can even disturb social order.
Of course, the most important and fundamental reason is the official "means" of regulation. Since the beginning of the Meiji era, Japan has implemented a policy of "enriching the country and strengthening the army", so it began to rectify the problem with "night climbing" as a typical example.
Believing that it was a kind of dregs of feudal society, and that it must not stay in this new era, the higher authorities began to increase their efforts to govern it.
Under the rule, this Xi was abolished in the cities, but it still existed in many remote rural areas.
In the Showa era, Japan's urbanization process was getting faster and faster, and in order to meet people's production and living needs, most of the rural youth went to the cities to work, and women began to "flock" to the cities.
With the convergence of the boundaries between urban and rural areas in Japan, this thousand-year-old Xi of "night crawling" has finally "completely" disappeared from Japan, and it is only a hundred years from today.
Of course, throughout the history of Japan, their "bad Xi" is not just "night crawling".
●○"陋习"非一○●
There is another item that has the same "magic" as "night crawling" - miscellaneous fish bed.
I'm sure many people have heard of this before, and Japan's miscellaneous fish bed was notoriously "chaotic".
There is a legend in Japanese religious mythology that on the day before the spring equinox, ghosts enter people's bodies, and if you don't want to be devoured by ghosts, you can take refuge in the shrine for safety.
This hiding has "hidden" a "bad Xi".
When you take refuge, you will find that all the men, women, and children in the village have come, and there are so many people that a "night of refuge" gradually evolves into a "night of absurdity".
On this night, the male and female will begin to reproduce again, and no one will blame them, and even the children born that day will be recognized as children of special significance.
This is the miscellaneous fish bed, which is even better than the night crawl. However, such grotesque Xi customs were eventually abolished.
●○Epilogue○●
Grotesque bad Xi, how much sadness.
Although the starting point of these bad Xi practices is for the development of the country, under these Xi customs, it is those women who suffer, and they have become the "victims" of the times, and it is really impossible to imagine how much pain they endured at that time.
In different places, there are more or less "alternative Xi customs" in the era when the mind is not yet civilized, and it is worth celebrating that the times are progressing, and our thinking is also progressing.
These "anti-human" things are also slowly disappearing, and today our society is more equal, at least in terms of human rights.