Japan is a neighbor of our country, and there are two theories about the origin of the Japanese state. The first claim arises from Japanese mythology. In this myth, the man who founded the world changed from Pangu to a great god named Izanagi, a cattle man who created the heavens and the earth and then created the god of Amaterasu. After a long period of development and evolution, in 660 BC, Emperor Shinmu, a descendant of the god Amaterasu, founded the kingdom of Japan. As a result, the god Amaterasu became the most core deity of Japan, and was revered as the ancestor of the Japanese imperial family.
Another theory arises from Xu Fudongdu. After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, he began to pursue the way of immortality, in 219 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent the alchemist Xu Fu to lead thousands of boys, girls and boys into the sea to cross the immortals, and as a result, Xu Fu never returned, took these thousands of people to live in Japan, and became the ancestors of the Japanese. Both the Shi Ji Of Qin Shi Huang Ben Ji and the Later Han Shu Wu Zhuan have records of Xu Fudongdu. The Kai Kuniji, written in the Edo period of Japan, also records the story of Xu Fudongdu, and says that after Xu Fu arrived in Japan, he changed his name to Haneda and took up the position of a teacher.
In addition to historical records, there are still many relics of Xu Fu in Japan, more than 50 tombs, shrines, monuments, temples, etc. named after Xu Fu, more than 20 landing points in Xu Fu Dongdu, and more than 30 legends and stories. There is a tomb of Xu Fu in The New Palace Xufu Park in Wasakata Prefecture, Japan, and there is a Jinlishan Shrine stove in Kandateyama In Sasan Prefecture, Japan, and the main worshipper is Xu Fu. In Japan, Xu Fu is also regarded as the "god of farming", "the god of medicine" and the "god of weaving", which shows his great influence in Japan.
Regardless of which of these two claims is true, it is an indisputable fact that Japan has long regarded China as its teacher. This situation did not begin to change until the Meiji Restoration in Japan, when China was in the late Qing Dynasty and was already in a backward position compared with some advanced countries in the West. Japan saw this and began to westernize completely. At that time, most Western countries had their own national anthems, so Japan followed suit and created its own national anthem in the second year of the Meiji Restoration.
The Japanese national anthem is called "Jun's Generation", and the lyrics are written by Oyama Iwa, the leader of the Satsuma Domain infantry team, who is good at studying Chinese history and has a high degree of literary attainment, and the song was composed by Fenton, a British military band teacher working in Yokohama, Japan. After translating the "Emperor's Generation" into Chinese, it goes like this: "My emperor has been passed down for thousands of generations, all the way to the eight thousand generations, until the small rock becomes a huge rock, until the giant rock grows moss." Although the lyrics have only 28 words, they expose the ambitions of the Japanese.
As we all know, Japan is a small country, many resources are relatively scarce, and there are many earthquakes and volcanoes in the country. Therefore, Japan has always wanted to expand outwards, turning "small rocks" into "giant rocks". Coupled with the sharp increase in national strength after the Meiji Restoration, this further fueled Japan's ambitions. Later, through the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, Japan obtained many rights and indemnities in China. However, Japan was not satisfied and still sought further aggression against China.
At the end of July 1927, Yoshiichi Tanaka, who was the first Japanese at the time, played the Tanaka Recital to the Emperor, clearly proposing that "if you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia; if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China". After that, Japan first created the "Huanggutun Incident", which killed Zhang Zuolin, the king of the northeast, and then launched the "918 Incident" and began a comprehensive invasion of China. After 14 years of arduous resistance and great sacrifices, the Chinese people drove the invaders out of their homes. The Japanese national anthem is only 28 words, and after translating it into Chinese, I learned how ambitious the Japanese people were.