Speaking of favorite historical eras, most of the answers Chinese are the powerful Han and Tang Dynasties, followed by the Song and Ming Dynasties, and of course, there are also those who like the Three Kingdoms of Chaos and the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
In Japan, the answer is relatively concentrated: sengoku and the end of the shogunate.
Pictured: At the end of the curtain, the collision of the old and new eras, the collision of East and West
This is not difficult to see from the Japanese people's favorite historical figures. Japanese people who like to engage in rankings, in the past decade of national surveys, the "favorite historical figures" list, the first to be listed is either Oda Nobunaga or Sakamoto Ryoma.
One is the most famous Warring States Tyrant, and the other is the most famous shogun.
Japan's most popular NHK TV station Okawa drama is basically a "Sengoku" and "End of the Curtain" that sits in turn every year, such as the famous "Takeda Shingen", "Toshiya and Matsu", "Shin-kun", "Ryoma Legend", "Tokuhime", "Sanada Maru" and so on.
Pictured: The three popular kings of Japanese Ōkawa drama "Tukhime", "New Selection Group", and "Legend of Ryoma"
However, if you take the PK of "Warring States" and "The End of the Curtain" further, the end of the curtain will win.
Pictured: A survey of japanese popularity, the end of the curtain defeated the Sengoku
In this survey, 66.9% of people replied that they would prefer the end of the shogunate to the Sengoku period. In terms of gender, 61.5 per cent of men supported the end of the curtain and 72.4 per cent of women.
Estimating this result is unexpected by many Chinese.
The end of the shogunate, the Japanese wikipedia, defines it as the end of the era when the Edo shogunate came to power in Japanese history. Specifically, it is the period from the Black Ship Incident (1853) to the Pentashin War (1869).
图: 1854, The Arrival of a Black Ship in Yokohama, Japan
The Edo shogunate, a secluded Japanese feudal era; the arrival of black ships, the bullying of a foreign warship that seems humiliating; the Boshin War, a civil war in which the Japanese fought the Japanese...
However, in the eyes of the Japanese, this short period of sixteen years is a turning point in Japan's clear vision of the world and then its rise.
The Japanese are stubborn and fickle, and have the advantage of learning from the strong. From learning from the Tang Dynasty in ancient times to learning the West in modern times, from closing the country to opening the door, from the shogunate system to the Meiji Restoration.
Pictured: The changes of the times can be seen from the military uniforms at the end of the curtain
Just as we like to say "dream back to the Tang Dynasty", countless Japanese people have a vision of "dreaming back to the end of the curtain".
Almost every Japanese person can relish the ups and downs of these end-of-shogun eras: Ryoma Sakamoto, the promoter of the Nagasa League, the samurai soul Togata, and the Choshu Shoshi's Takasugi Shinsaku... These civilian heroes from middle- and lower-ranking samurai families held a higher status in the minds of the Japanese than Takamori, Okubo Ritsu, and Kido Takayoshi of the Meiji Restoration.
Don't look at them as little people, just waves of history.
For the end of the curtain, according to the understanding of the Japanese, it is roughly like this: countless hot-blooded men, with firm faith, struggle, and bloodshed in an era of great wheel change in order to change the future of Japan.
We all know the history of the end of the shogunate that Japan's Meiji Restoration was successful and embarked on the road of rich countries and strong soldiers.
Why are the two closed countries in the East also opened the door of the country by the Western powers with strong ships and cannons, one unveiled a century of humiliating modern history, and the other began the road to rise?
Photo: Ukiyo-e works. The Japanese defeated their former master in the Sino-Japanese War
More than a hundred years ago, Li Hongzhang, Kang Youwei, and Liang Qichao searched for answers and could not find them, but a Japanese person told part of the truth.
This letter, many people know: During the Sino-Japanese War, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Yuheng Ito, wrote a letter of persuasion to Ding Ruchang, the admiral of the Beiyang Marine Division, intercepting one of the paragraphs:
In the first thirty years, my country affairs in Japan have been so bitter that I have been able to save myself from those who are in danger, and you know it well. At this time, our country is really anxious to get rid of the old rule, and according to the conditions of the times, it is more important to open up a new policy, thinking that the country can exist as a major plan. Now your country must not fail to make it a top priority to seek the new from the past, and if it is urgent to change its ways and obey it, then the country can be at peace; otherwise, how can it be saved from the number of defeats?
History is a long and restless river, always in the great waves of the times constantly ups and downs, twists and turns, sometimes the waves crash on the shore, sometimes the hidden light, its end is a place called the future. Sometimes, a single wave can change history and change the future.
Disclaimer: The author of this article is KuaiZao Feng (Wang Hao), a writer of literature and history, and an expert in the history of Sino-Japanese relations. All articles in toutiao number are original works, welcome to read, any media does not tell, plagiarism must be investigated. Contact QQ: 491460053