Why are Japanese called devils?

Why are Japanese called Japanese devils? We have all watched TV plays in our lives. Sometimes when we see some war movies, we will hear that we are called Japanese devils. In fact, there have always been doubts. Why are the Japanese called Japanese devils in anti-Japanese TV dramas? Let's see why the Japanese are called devils.

Why are the Japanese called devils 1?

China people call the Japanese "devils", but they actually originated from "foreign devils". When modern China people meet westerners for the first time, they find that they are blonde, with high nose and deep eyes and long hair, which seriously violates their traditional aesthetic standards, but some of them conform to the "ghosts" described in the legend.

Most of these people are not out of national friendship, but for aggression. They also drove the Great Qing Dynasty out of Beijing twice, burning, killing, looting and doing nothing, which made the people of the whole country lose face and angry, so they got the name.

In the traditional impression of China people, ghost is the soul after death, commonly known as ghost. It is said that they are generally fierce and scary in appearance. There is also a folklore called Zhong Kui, who is responsible for catching ghosts and keeping people safe. Therefore, in Chinese, the word "ghost" is generally a derogatory term. Such as "nonsense", "ghost", "heavy smoker" and "alcoholic". So it gives me the feeling that all the guys called "devils" are mostly guys who don't look like people or have no heart.

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Seven Japanese Class-A war criminals were sentenced to hang at the Tokyo trial.

Hideki Tojo, general of the army, former commander of the Japanese Kanto Expeditionary Force, former secretary of the army and former prime minister.

Banyuanzheng Shiro, General of the Army, Minister of the Japanese Army, former Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army and former Chief of Staff of the Chinese Dispatching Army.

Heitaro Kimura, General of the Army, former Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Myanmar.

Kenji Toshihara, an army general, a spy, and an officer of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters.

Hiroshi Hirota, Baron, former Prime Minister of Japan.

Matsui Ishigen, general of the army, former commander-in-chief of the Japanese Central China Dispatching Army.

Wu Tengzhang, Lieutenant General of the Army, former Chief of Staff of the No.1 14 Division of the Japanese Army and former Director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Army Province.

Why are the Japanese called Japs 2 1? Japanese people are short in stature. Japan's conscription standards during World War II clearly stipulated that the height of a soldier could be 1.55 meters.

The average height of soldiers in the late Qing Dynasty was 1.8 meters, while that of Japanese adult males during World War II was 1.6 meters.

So it is worthy of the name that they are "small".

2. The devil, at first, is dismissive of contempt, and later it means the devil.

China people are used to using the word devil to address foreigners who come to China, which means barbarians, primitive people and ghostly savages in remote forests.

See the Qing Dynasty scholar Chen Kangqi's Yan Xiang Xia Ji. In the ninth volume of this book, which records folk stories, it is recorded that "when westerners first enter China, everyone is called the devil".

In the late Qing dynasty, people called unfriendly foreigners "foreign devils", but they didn't refer to Japan at that time.

193 1 year, China people were nicknamed Japan and Japanese pirates. After a series of killings on the battlefield, China people naturally called the Japanese the devil.

In fact, Japan also uses monsters to refer to the habit of brutal troops.

China called Japanese troops devils. In Japan during World War II, ordinary Japanese brainwashed by militarism also called the American troops who bombed them "ghosts", but they were called "ghost beasts" instead of "devils". For powerful and fierce countries, they called them "ghost beasts, Britain and the United States".

It can be seen that using ghosts to refer to the enemy means strength, terror and ferocity.

However, due to Japan's small land area and small figure, it is more gratifying to be called a little devil together.

Why are Japanese called devils? As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the coastal areas of China were often invaded by Japanese pirates, and "Japanese pirates" was the name of Japanese pirates at that time. During the Opium War, British and French forces invaded China. Because foreigners looked strange at that time, "foreign devils" gradually became synonymous with foreign invaders.

And how did Japan change from an "enemy" to a "devil"? There are two versions. The first is that before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Li Hongzhang went to Japan to negotiate. At the negotiation meeting, the Japanese suddenly flashed a couplet: "Riding a strange horse, Zhang Longgong, playing the pipa, eight kings, shoulder to shoulder, fighting alone." This is the Japanese showing off their strong army, and Mazhuang can crush the Qing Dynasty. Li Hongzhang did not show weakness in the second couplet: "Japan Committee, attack the dragon."

Since then, China people have changed the name of the Japanese invaders from "the enemy" to "the devil".

There is also a saying that the word "devil" has three meanings in Japanese, one is a child who doesn't look like his parents, the other is a child who was born with teeth, and the third is a fool around. China's young people who studied in Japan in the early days thought that the word "devil" was very suitable for Japanese invaders, especially Japan's crimes in China, which were as cruel as evil spirits, so they called the Japanese invaders "devils".