▲ Large and small are sometimes relative
At the eastern and western ends of Eurasia, one is Western Europe and the other is East Asia. Western Europe is dominated by Britain, France and Germany, and all three countries have had incomparably powerful periods in history: the French Empire under Napoleon, the British Empire when the sun never sets, fascist Germany in World War II, and all of them are powerful empires that have been rampant for a while. But in Western Europe and even in europe as a whole, there was no overwhelming only empire in the end, because of the formation of an iron triangle relationship between Britain, France and Germany, when one of the "horns" became temporarily strong for some reason, it would always be jointly balanced by the other two "horns", and eventually re-equilibrium from imbalance, and the result was that no one could destroy anyone, and no one could be too strong.
East Asia is a different story than Western Europe. If you don't count Russia and Mongolia, then there are only three countries in East Asia: China, Japan, and North Korea. Historically, the Korean Peninsula has basically been in a state of absolute weakness, either as a vassal state of China or as a springboard for Japan's invasion of China, and Korea has only been a subordinate existence. In fact, East Asia is mainly the enmity and resentment between China and Japan, which is the ratio between the two endpoints of a line, showing a typical seesaw effect.
Logically speaking, China's volume is much larger than Japan's, whether it is the land area, or the population, or the history and culture, China is much more advantageous than Japan, the so-called seesaw should not have existed in East Asia. In addition to modern times, China is indeed in an overwhelming advantage over Japan for a long time in history, and on the historical stage, most of the time Japan is not the same heavyweight seed player as China, and the Central Empire has never looked at that small island country located overseas.
▲ Movie screen of "The Battle of Jiawu"
However, in modern times, Great China has been repeatedly invaded and suppressed by Little Japan, and once had no ability to fight back, and The big and weak China has become the closest dish in the hands of small and strong Japan. So that today, although China has once again surpassed Japan in terms of national strength, the psychology of the Japanese people still does not accept defeat, does not want to lose, and does not feel that China is stronger than them is a normal imagination, or is it a deliberate attempt to overturn the market.
The country and the people are also composed of both hardware and software. In terms of hardware, China has been in an overwhelming advantage over Japan for most of its history. Japan has only become an upstart in modern times, ostensibly temporarily suppressing China in terms of national strength, and its science and technology, economy, and military are much stronger than China. One of the reasons for this is the successful transformation of modern Japan, which accepted the advanced science and technology of the West earlier and relied on advanced industrialization productivity to defeat China's backward agricultural productivity. The other is Japan's banditry, which has accumulated a lot of wealth for Japan and greatly strengthened Japan's superiority in national strength.
The signing of the "Maguan Treaty" is equivalent to China forcibly losing blood to Japan
When the sun never sets, the British Empire plunders capital and wealth from the whole world, while the Great Japanese Empire only cuts flesh and blood and nutrition from the elephant of its close neighbor China, and through various unequal treaties and a large amount of indemnities, Japan obtains huge amounts of development funds from China to develop its economic strength and military strength, and then relies on its military strength to invade China and further obtain dividends from China in terms of population, minerals, and so on.
The above is a description of the strong and weak relationship between China and Japan from the hardware and the surface, but why small Japan can treat the big China as a piece of fat in modern times, and can draw blood and nutrition at any time, I am afraid that it is necessary to analyze the various reasons between China and Japan from the software.
First of all, compared with the Yamato nation, the Chinese nation is a nation without a sense of aggression. Although there have been periods of external expansion in China's history, it has mostly been a passive, unambiguous defensive counterattack. Historically, China, from the emperor to the people, has always believed that China is the center of the whole world, while other places are just some wild places in the corners and corners, and they are not worthy of the possession of a big country. In contrast, since Japan had the ability to invade the outside world, it has always regarded foreign expansion as a basic national policy that it takes for granted, and it seems that as long as it lives in an island country, it will immediately face disaster. In fact, how to look at this can only be an excuse that cannot withstand scrutiny, because there is no shortage of countries and regions in the world that are much worse than Japan's land environment, and the residents of other island countries are not bent on occupying the nest of doves, and countries in barren lands such as deserts do not have to exchange land with others.
▲ Nature determines everything
To put it bluntly, the Yamato nation is a bloodthirsty people, and even if they bow politely, they cannot change their hungry wolf-like nature. In this way, China is a peace-loving elephant, purely a herbivore. Japan is small and small, but it is a murderous wolf, pure carnivore, different consciousness, the difference between them can be great.
Second, China is not a sheep, but a flock of sheep. In addition to the lack of aggression, but also because of the influence of history and culture, this flock of sheep is quite cowardly in the depths of their hearts. Without the leadership of a wise and brave head sheep, this flock of sheep would be scattered and have no fighting power. In this regard, the Japanese people know the personality of Chinese very well. Therefore, with their wolf nature, they are not afraid of a group of cowardly sheep. In fact, a Sino-Japanese naval battle was enough to make the Japanese always believe that Chinese were all scum of the war, and it was a samurai sword that was enough to frighten a group of East Asian sick men, which of course gave the Japanese samurai infinite courage and pride in the face of east Asian sheep.
But in fact, in addition to the extraordinary period at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which was really counterintuitive, although the Chinese flock of sheep was often hundreds of millions of scum, it was not difficult for one or two of them to stand out with wisdom and 10,000 points of combat strength and 10,000 points of appeal and 10,000 points of charm value. Unfortunately, the Japanese wolves always fail to recognize this reality, and the big win of jia wu is enough for them to believe that every big loss is just bad luck.
▲ We must unite!
Compared with Great China and Small Japan, as long as there are no major problems in hardware, it is always an advantage. Japan, on the other hand, is more lethal in software. Unless there is a real blood lesson, let the Japanese realize that its advantage in software is not a real advantage, Chinese even if they like to buy their own toilet lid from Japan, but once the Sino-Japanese War broke out, they can still distinguish between the enemy and me, and know which head is lighter and which is heavier.
Wise and great head sheep always have, sheep with the head sheep spit spit and drown the Japanese devils always have the strength, so I am afraid that Japan can really die, even if Mt. Fuji erupts ten thousand times, the Mariana Trench is close to a thousand miles, will stay in their four Japanese islands without complaint and regret, even if they finally fall into the Pacific Ocean to feed turtles and whales, there is no longer a single thought about my Greater China.