Countries and nations in the world have their own unique customs, such as:
The United States has a special taboo about Friday and the 13th, and a match cannot light three cigarettes in a row;Thailand celebrates with splashing water during festivals;European women in the last era were popular to corset their waists and tighten their waists with something for the sake of beauty.
In Japanese tradition, there is such a bad habit that has lasted for a long time - night crawling.
And there was also a case of night crawling, a bad habit that was not abolished until the twentieth century.
What's going on?
Night crawling, as the name suggests, is to crawl into a woman's room in the middle of the night.
Unlike other customs in Japan, it has a unique religious overtone, and "night crawling" was created only for the purpose of breeding offspring.
It appeared a long time ago, when humans were still in the primitive tribal era, where a group of people gathered together and lived together. At that time, there was no husband and wife system, and there was no morality and ethics, as long as the man and the man were compatible, they could stay together for one night.
Later, with the development of society, people's thinking slowly progressed, and the husband and wife system slowly introduced into people's concepts, and this custom no longer existed in most countries.
But Japan is an exception.
During the Tang Dynasty, China already had a relatively systematic set of marriage laws, and Japan introduced this set of marriage laws while learning Chinese culture.
At that time, the marriage decree provided that a woman who committed adultery with a man other than her husband was considered adultery and punished by exile.
However, this law did not last long in Japan.
In the previous years, the Japanese emperor was slowly deprived of his rights, and he was not willing to give up his rights, so he fought fiercely with the samurai group of the time. After the overthrow of the shogunate, internal contradictions arose, causing Japan's power to divide into the north and the south, and the decades-long struggle between the two sides led to a rapid decline in Japan's population.
In ancient times, due to the constraints of natural conditions, the living environment of the Japanese was very poor, and the population development was already slow. The inconvenience of transportation has led to many people being trapped in the place where they were born for the rest of their lives, and their marriage has become a problem.
In addition, the living conditions of the Japanese people at that time were relatively poor, they could not eat enough, the medical technology was backward, and the nutrition was insufficient, resulting in a very low survival rate of newborns, and in order to increase the population, they had to adopt this method.
If a country wants to develop, it must have a sufficient population to increase its productivity, so that the country can progress and develop.
Later, in order to increase the number of people and enhance national strength, Japan moved the bad habit of "night crawling" again.
Any man can "crawl" into a woman's house at night, and as long as there is no one in the house and the other party agrees, the two can spend the night together without breaking the law.
The relationship is still quite fragile and is maintained entirely by the man crawling at night, and if one day the man does not "patronize" the woman's home, the relationship ends there. This kind of behavior caused a lot of pain to women, for example, at the height of this trend, when several men would come to the house at the same time at the same time to climb at night.
In this case, several men will also discuss together and enter in order.
If a woman gives birth to a child, even if it is not her husband's, the husband has to raise it for her, and in that era, many children were born without knowing who their father was, and grew up eating hundreds of meals.
In order to develop the village, they will use night crawling as a "unique custom and culture" in the village to attract tourists, and the villagers will often offer "village flowers" to attract "guests".
From time to time, people in the village will also engage in some "special activities" with neighboring villages, that is, exchanging night crawls with each other, with the men in village A climbing to village B and the men in village B climbing to village A.
Until the Edo period in Japan, although it was clearly said that this kind of behavior was immoral, there was no explicit prohibition of it, and people continued to practice this activity in private.
The Tokugawa shogunate was the last shogunate period that Japan experienced, and it was very dominant and hard-handed.
During the more than 200 years of its rule, Japan's society was basically stable, and there were no wars and conflicts.
With the prevalence of the custom of night crawling, the population of Japan has risen rapidly.
However, with the stability of society and the increase in the amount of time men spend at home with their wives, the custom of night crawling gradually declined. Night crawling is becoming less and less common among the common people, but interestingly, it is becoming popular among the upper classes again.
In the Imperial Palace, a minister often crawled at night and patronized dozens of palace maids in the palace, so angry that the emperor abdicated;Famous Japanese generals also often crawled into the homes of their retainers in the middle of the night.
In addition, another reason for the gradual dissipation of the custom of night crawling was that the Tokugawa shogunate made it clear that it was illegal to do so at home without permission.
However, "guests" in need and women who needed to make ends meet were allowed to conduct "legal transactions" on occasions stipulated by the Tokugawa shogunate. This kind of behavior can not only bring benefits to the masses, but also solve the problems of the masses.
Later, the Tokugawa shogunate** entered the Meiji period. Although Meiji** explicitly prohibits these activities, it still cannot change the status quo.
* Behind the scenes, Japanese women are forced to go to other countries to trade human flesh, and the money they earn is often deducted under various names.
At the same time, in order to train an army that is "brave and good at fighting" and "obedient", such an absurd rule was developed:
Before a soldier goes out on a campaign, the commander of the unit has the right to choose the wife of an ordinary soldier to spend the night with.
If a soldier resists, he will inform his wife that she will let her husband fight on the front line on the battlefield, and most women will agree to this behavior in order to ensure his safe return.
It was also a way for the Japanese to control their soldiers, allowing them to "move forward" on the battlefield.
After their wives were occupied, many soldiers, out of anger, would choose to crawl at night as a dirty behavior, and night crawling behavior flourished again. It wasn't until a "night crawling" broke out that it caused a serious social impact, and Japan increased its efforts to control it and make it disappear slowly.
The protagonist of the case is called Mutsuo Toi, born in 1917, and has a happy family. When Toi was two years old, his father fell ill and died, leaving him and his sister to live with his grandmother.
Mutsuo Toi was loved by his family since he was a child, even if the family conditions were not good, his grandmother was frugal and left him all the good things, he studied very well when he was a child, and was admitted to junior high school with excellent grades.
When he was in middle school, the ignorant children began to gradually enter puberty, and when he was in high school, he gave up his studies because of the limitations of his ideas at that time, and because his sister was going to get married, he had to give up his studies and go home to work to support his family.
After his sister got married, Mutsuo Toi fell into loneliness, he became more and more autistic, and always liked to play alone at home. Later, with the help of his teacher, Mutsuo Toi regained his strength and started studying again.
Once, when he went to the bookstore to buy books, he met a friend, and under the guidance of this friend, he tried his hand at men and women for the first time.
At that time, he was still in adolescence, and he was once fascinated by this kind of thing, and often went to bookstores to buy some related books to read.
Later, he fell in love with a woman in the village, and after much pleading, he went to the house while the woman was home alone. After tasting the sweetness, he made a request to the other two women in a blink of an eye, but they were all refused.
Later, when he heard his friend talk about the custom of "night crawling", Mutsuo Toi became interested in it.
His first target was called Miyo Okabe, and when Mutsuo Toi sneaked into Miyo Okabe's house at night, he was met with great resistance from her, and in the end, Muyo Toi succeeded.
Later, he found that the distribution had been tried and tested and had ruined many of the women in the village.
It wasn't until he was about to spoil his next target, Nishida Cainu, that he was scolded and his filthy behavior made public, and since then, the hatred in his heart has slowly grown. He bought a shotgun and threatened the people of the village not to spread rumors about him.
One night in May 1938, Mutsuo Toi began his revenge by cutting off the village's power supply, then changing into plain black clothes and walking out of the house with a gun and a knife on his back.
Originally, Du Jing Muxiong's heart was a little distorted, and he held a grudge because his grandmother found out about his ** and reprimanded him.
He went to his grandmother's room and brutally murdered her while she was asleep, and in this way, he ended the life of his first relative.
He then went to a neighbor's house and killed a woman and two children.
Later, he came to several families one after another and brutally killed all of them, including children and old people.
Among them, there was an old man who trembled before he died
Beg. Please. Please, let me go!”
After hearing this, Mutsuo Tsui became even more excited, and his ** psychology completely exploded at this time, and he shot the old man in the chest without blinking.
Before and after, Mutsuo Toi killed a total of 30 people, some of whom had conflicts with him, and some innocent people.
This incident caused a sensation, and the bad habit of "night crawling" caused ** made **vigilant and intensified supervision, so that this bad habit slowly disappeared.
In fact, in Japan, there are many bad customs that people feel outrageous when they hear about it, such as Utagaki and Miscellaneous Fish Bed, which are related to things between men and women.
This makes us wonder what kind of people Japan is, and their absurd customs are even more shocking, and Japanese women have never been truly respected.
Now, this phenomenon is almost gone, and in today's society, everyone is equal, and people live and work in peace and contentment.
Finally, I hope that everyone will take the essence of traditional customs and eliminate their dross, carry forward our good customs and habits, remove those feudal and old customs, and respect women.