When Sekitani magically encountered exciting things in "Love Apartment", a sentence that often hangs on his lips is "I cut your abdomen every minute to show you"; in "Wolverine", when the Japanese army was defeated, several soldiers collectively knelt on the ground and cut their stomachs to commit suicide; on the day of the end of World War II, The Japanese Army General Anan only ended himself by cutting his abdomen, but when he died, he was extremely painful, becoming the first Japanese senior general to self-determine himself by cutting his abdomen after the war; even in 1962, the Japanese directed a movie "Cutting the Abdomen"... Why do Japanese people, or Japanese samurai, choose to "go to justice" by cutting their stomachs instead of other ways such as killing themselves or hanging themselves when they "defend their dignity"? After the abdominal incision, it is physiologically due to excessive blood loss and external infections; so is there any deeper meaning?
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A fragment of Wolverine
Before going back to the roots, we need to talk about another thing - rice. The ancestors of the Japanese migrated from the East Asian continent, and rice is a traditional food crop in Asia, so it is normal for the Japanese to eat rice. Amazingly, rice plays an important role in the minds of the Japanese, and until now, the Attitude of the Japanese towards Western food or pasta is far worse than that of rice (every meal of the Japanese is only complete if they have eaten rice). They believe that rice has a soul, that is, the "rice soul", which is as invisible and very critical as the human soul. In the ancient book "Nihon Shoki", it is said that when the god of food was killed, various foods emerged from the corpse, and rice came out of the abdomen, eyes out of the eyes, and wheat beans out of the anus. Simply put, the Japanese believe that the soul is not in the head or heart, but in the stomach.
In Japan, there is a royal ceremony called the "Great Tasting Festival", which has always been presided over by the emperor during the harvest year. Its original meaning is "tasting new matsuri", that is, tasting fresh rice. The reason is that after a year, the human soul is susceptible to the influence of the seasons, "swelling in the winter, shrinking in the spring" leaving the human body, and needs to replenish substances to obtain health.
There are two ways to replenish the soul, the first of which is more bloody and terrifying, but it has actually happened: in order to allow the soul of the late emperor to enter the body of the new emperor, the new emperor usually bites the former's corpse when he takes the throne. The second way is natural and reasonable, that is, to eat rice and enrich your soul with the "rice soul" in rice. Therefore, psychologically speaking, it is the man who cuts open his abdomen to release his soul.
Interestingly, in order to alleviate the pain in the process, when cutting the abdomen, in addition to cutting his own knife first, there stood next to a person in charge of repairing the knife, who was held by a friend or a trusted courtier, called the wrong person, and cut off his head immediately after the first knife, clean and neat.
Fragment of "Let the Bullets Fly"
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