In Japan, the most incredible thing is that Japan has been a country since the first generation of emperors, with a total of125th generation. In the history of more than 2600 years, no one thought that I would kill him and become emperor. In other words, until now, Japan has been handed down from generation to generation by the emperor, which is called "a series of generations". So in this sense, Japan lacks a revolutionary concept.
So, who was the first emperor of Japan?
His name is "Emperor Yuyan of Japan", and he is the four emperors who are disrespectful to martial arts and cormorants. He was born in Japan (now Miyazaki Prefecture) and moved eastward from Japan in Kyushu. After many bloody battles, the Yamato region was finally pacified and a "Yamato country" with Nara as the center and covering half of the Japanese archipelago was established. In 660 BC, Japanese Jade Emperor Iwahiko ascended the throne in Xie Yuan Palace, now Nara. Japanese Emperor Iwahiko reigned for 76 years and died in 585 BC. Posthumous title "Emperor Jimmu" after his death. Today, Nara has a cemetery for Emperor Jimmu, and Emperor Jimmu is enshrined in the Golden Crown Shrine.
Legend has it that Emperor Jimmu unified Japan and established Yamato under the guidance of the God Bird.
The era when Emperor Jin Mu lived, that is, the Warring States Period of China, was the same as that of the eighth monarch of the Qin Dynasty. At present, there are only some legends about Emperor Jimmu, saying that he can fight and plow. He is a brave and wise emperor.
Throughout Japan, there are many Xufu temples and sculptures on land.
There are many Japanese who believe that Xu Fu is a legend in Emperor Jimmu. There is a big family living under Mount Fuji. Everyone has the same surname, Haneda. Haneda's pronunciation in Japanese is the same as that of Qin Shihuang. Therefore, Haneda descendants firmly believe that they are descendants of Qin people who followed Xu Fudong to Japan. In the early 1990s, a Japanese Prime Minister named "Tsutomu Hata" was born. He always tells people that he is a descendant of Qin people and a descendant of China. Once, I met Mr. Haneda, and he joked that "we are brothers". This year1October 22nd, 10, the National Blessing Association of Japan will hold a national conference at the foot of Mount Fuji, and I have been invited to attend. Because my surname is Xu, they think I should be a descendant of Tofu. In other words, I am the same flesh and blood as the Haneda family in Japan. Next time you fly to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, you should think about it. This airport is related to Qin Shihuang in China.
Although Japan has a history of more than 2,600 years, its ancient civilization lags behind that of China for many years. So in ancient times, the Japanese always paid tribute to China and learned from China.
Reflection? Shu Wei? The Biography of Japan is the first article recorded in the official history of China, with the word number of *** 1987, which generally introduces what Wei envoys saw and heard in Japan. The envoy stayed in Japan for seven years, and directly mediated the war against Malaysia and Thailand after the death of the pro-Wei Japanese king Ji Miko, and did not return to China until the eldest daughter of Ji Miko succeeded to the throne. Because Shu Wei is about 440 years earlier than the earliest Japanese history book "The History of Japan", Shu Wei? Biography of Japan is an extremely important document to understand the situation in Japan in the 3rd century. The Japanese can only look for the history of their country from the earliest history books in China.
The first recorded classic "Koji" in Japanese history was written in 7 12, which said that Emperor Jimmu lived 137. Why can you live so long? Maybe it's really because of taking the elixir of life. According to this Historical Records, the date when Emperor Jimmu established Japan was 1.660 BC, which is the lunar calendar. During the Meiji period, when Japan officially established the "founding day", it was converted into the Gregorian calendar, and the result became 1 1.06.
Japan has 125 emperors so far. Among the 125 emperors, there should be three most famous ones, one of whom is the ancient queen of China Sui Dynasty. What great things has she done? She sent envoys, monks and overseas students to China to learn advanced science, technology and political system from China, which enabled Japanese society to enter a civilized era. He has an excellent nephew named Shoto Kutaishi. According to China's political system and laws at that time, Shoto Kutaishi formulated the first national constitution in Japanese history, which was called the Seventeen-Article Constitution. The first sentence of Article 1 of this Constitution is "Harmony is the most important thing". The second emperor was Emperor Meiji of China in the late Qing Dynasty. He implemented the Meiji Restoration, opened Japan to the outside world, comprehensively studied the western political, economic, cultural and educational systems, and implemented the first reform and opening up in Asian countries. Through the Meiji Restoration, Japan became an industrial, economic and military power in Asia. Third, Hirohito, who launched the war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, brought great disasters to the people of China and other Asian countries.
In ancient times, in order to maintain the purity of the emperor's bloodline, Japan was generally not allowed to marry civilians outside the royal family. However, the 50th emperor of Japan, named Wu Heng, is said to have married a beautiful woman who was born on the Korean peninsula in Japan. Therefore, the Japanese royal family joined the lineage of the Korean peninsula. Therefore, there is a saying in Japan that why Japan occupied and colonized the Korean peninsula in the first place was to make the Korean peninsula belong to Japan, so as to show that the lineage of the Japanese emperor is authentic and all Japanese.
There is also a legend in Japanese history that Emperor Jimmu was actually the alchemist Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty in China. It is said that Qin Shihuang ordered his minister Xu Fu to take 3000 boys and girls to Haixian Mountain to look for the medicine of immortality. As a result, Cui Fu came to Japan with such a huge fleet, but he didn't find the elixir. He was afraid that he could not pay the bill when he returned, so he stayed in Japan and established a country called "Yamato".
Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty in China wrote Historical Records, which is the first biographical general history in the history of China, and records the history of more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi period to the Han Wudi period. This book tells the story of Xu Fu's search for an elixir of life.
Emperor Heisei and Empress Michiko are a loving couple.
After World War II, Japan declared its surrender, and the emperor was deprived of the right to manage and rule the country. At the same time, most of the royal aristocrats in Japan were deprived of their privileges and cut into civilians, leaving only three families in their immediate family. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer women in the royal family. At that time, the Crown Prince was now Emperor Heisei, and his concubine was a folk woman, that is, Michiko, the daughter of the boss of Nissin Food Company, which is now the queen. So now the Crown Prince has followed his father's example and married Masako, a female diplomat. Although Masako is a civilian woman, her grandfather is a navy general and her father is a Japanese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In ancient times, she was also a noble family. Even so, the Japanese emperor is very particular about blood. A few years ago, he needed a blood transfusion for surgery. In order to ensure the purity of the blood on the emperor, the palace hall does not allow the use of folk blood, but the emperor himself takes out some blood before surgery and stores it, and then transfuses his own blood during the operation.
By 20 16, Japan had been established in 2676, but there were only three real capitals in Japan. 1300 years ago, Japan established its first capital, called Heichengjing, which is now Nara. At that time, it was the Tang Dynasty in China, and Nara City was completely built according to the model of Chang 'an. So we can't see the ancient city of Chang 'an now, but you can still see the ancient city of Chang 'an in Nara. In 794, Wu Heng decided to move the capital. To this end, he specially invited Mr. Feng Shui to choose a place according to the principle of Feng Shui in China. It turns out that Kyoto is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a plain in the south and two rivers running through it. It is a good place that can be used as an ancient capital for thousands of years. Therefore, Emperor Wu Heng ordered the construction of a Kyoto city with a width of 4.5 kilometers from east to west and a length of 5.2 kilometers from north to south according to the model of Chang 'an, China.
So when we go to Kyoto now, we can see a place name called one, two, three, four, all the way to nine. One is the road, that is, the loop around the palace, which is equivalent to one ring and two rings in our current concept. This is a street view model of Chang 'an in those days.
1868, Emperor Meiji of Japan came to Tokyo from Kyoto. Tokyo was called edo at that time. He saw Edo City surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea for a year. So he decided to move the capital and renamed Edo City Tokyo. Therefore, Tokyo has become the third capital of Japan. Today, arrogant Kyoto people still insist that Emperor Meiji was kidnapped to Tokyo by some bureaucrats. So they all think that the emperor's heart is in Kyoto, and now he is only in Tokyo on business. The capital of Japan is still Kyoto, not Tokyo.
In the history of more than two thousand years. The Japanese emperor has twice lost the right to rule the country. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty in China, due to the weakness of the emperor, national sovereignty was controlled by generals, so Japan entered the era of autocratic ministers, that is, the emperor was replaced by generals who recruited foreigners to manage the country. At the end of 12, the Yuan Dynasty was named as the first generation general to conquer foreign countries, and the shogunate was established in Kamakura, thus the samurai regime was born. Since then, the Muromachi era has been established in Ashikaga. In16th century, when Japan entered the Warring States period, two famous generals appeared, one was Nobunobunaga and the other was Toyotomi Hideyoshi. These two generals and their descendants often fight for the world. During the Edo period, the power center of the Japanese state was transferred to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Therefore, for 700 years in Japanese history, the emperor was just a puppet and was regarded as a "god" regardless of state affairs. As long as the generals don't want the throne, they dare not touch the national ideology of "the emperor is supreme" from beginning to end, for fear of losing people's hearts and losing the country.
If you have been to Kyoto, you must have been to Nijo Castle. Nijo Castle has a very important position in modern Japanese history. 1867, 10 On June 9th, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the15th generation general of the Tokugawa family who was in charge of Japan, paid a visit to the Meiji Emperor in Nijo Castle and returned the management of the country to the Meiji Emperor. This is called "the return of big government" in Japanese history, ending the 600-year-old general dictatorship in Japan.
In this room in Nijo Castle, the peaceful transfer of state management was completed.
It was after the Second World War that the Japanese Emperor lost his national sovereignty for the second time. The victorious country led by the United States deprived Hirohito of his national sovereignty, and the emperor once again became a national symbol, without the right to manage the country. This situation has continued until now.
After Hirohito surrendered, there was a disagreement within the US government on whether Hirohito should be executed. General MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces that occupied Japan at that time, discovered something that Americans could not understand: the Japanese actually regarded the emperor as a "god" rather than a "man", and the emperor was equivalent to a "pope". If you kill the emperor, it is tantamount to destroying Japan's "national god", and the result is likely to be that Japanese nationals will rise up and hunt down American soldiers. So MacArthur finally condescended to visit the commander-in-chief of the occupying forces at the United Nations Command, completely sweeping the emperor down a peg or two and throwing him from the position of God to the position of man. MacArthur's practice not only preserved Japan's imperial system that lasted for more than 2,600 years, but also ensured the peaceful occupation and transformation of Japan by the United States.
The arrogant photo of General MacArthur meeting Hirohito with her hips akimbo once made many Japanese people shed painful tears.
Since 660 BC, Emperor Jimmu has established Japan. Up to now, Japan's founding history has been 2676 years. We in China like to talk about "changing the dynasty", but in 2676, the Japanese did not change the dynasty, just changed the dynasty. In other words, the Japanese emperors ruled this country forever, even if it was only a symbolic rule, and a dynasty lasted for125th generation, which is unique in world history. However, the Cabinet Office of Japan conducted a survey and asked people, "When is Japan's founding day?" As a result, only 47% people got it right, and more than half of them can't remember when their country's National Day is. Therefore, even if February 1 1 national holiday is implemented, many Japanese people don't know why this day is a holiday. For them, the story of the founding of the People's Republic of China is too far away. What matters is whether the country is rich now and whether life is beautiful. On the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Japanese government did not celebrate, but some buildings hung national flags, which can also arouse some people's memories of the founding of the People's Republic of China.