Where does the word "devil" come from? Why are Japanese called "devils"

Where to go during the May Day holiday? Recently, I heard an interesting story. My son booked a plane ticket for his old father to travel to Japan. Unexpectedly, the old man tore it into pieces on the spot and was furious. He said, "I can go anywhere except where the Japanese are." This shows that the older generation has an innate hatred for the Japanese. Now it has been more than 70 years since the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. With the passage of time, the word "devil" has quietly faded out of people's field of vision. Then, why were the Japanese called "devils" in those days? (Author: Grand Customs)

In myths and legends, "ghost" means monsters, evil and ugly. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese were cruel, crazy and inhuman, so it is more appropriate to describe them as "devils". In anti-Japanese film and television dramas, you can often see slogans such as "The devil is coming", "The devil has entered the village" and "Down with the Japanese devil". The villagers turned pale when they heard the devil, and the children were not obedient. Adults can scare children with the devil and stop crying at once.

From 193 1 Japanese occupation of Northeast China to 1945 victory in the Anti-Japanese War, China's soldiers and civilians paid 35 million casualties. There are countless heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army in China. The Nanjing Massacre alone killed 300,000 people, the 73 1 germ troops that exterminated human beings experimented with living people, and the "three lights" policy that forced comfort women to make North China miserable. In the battle of Iwo Jima and the battle of Okinawa in the Pacific, the Japanese army's crazy action of "preferring death to surrender" made the doll pilots with an average age of 17 form a "kamikaze death squad", all of which showed the cruelty and madness of the Japanese army.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese have been called "Japanese". In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, "Japanese" invaded the coast of China many times, often referred to as "Japanese pirates", such as the famous Qi Jiguang Anti-Japanese War; During the Anti-Japanese War, the people of China called the Japanese "Japanese devils", which shows that the hatred for Japan for hundreds of years is by no means overnight. But you know what? The real origin of the word "Japanese devil" did not come from War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, but in the late Qing Dynasty, the word "Japanese devil" had already spread, came from a couplet and staged an allusion.

1894 On the eve of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, in order to avoid the war as much as possible, the Qing court sent ministers to Japan to negotiate and held a press conference at the end. At this time, some Japanese made a request. They had couplets and asked us to make a couplet: "Riding a strange horse, pulling a long bow and playing the pipa, fighting side by side and fighting alone." Hearing this, the minister of the Qing court understood that this was mocking the Qing court.

The neatness of the confrontation means obvious, and the powerful counterattack of ministers has made Chinese and foreign journalists applaud in succession, and at the same time, it has also made the Japanese feel ashamed. Since then, the name "Japanese devil" has spread with the propaganda of journalists. However, it is worth noting that this will not change the fiasco of the Sino-Japanese War, and the national strength is not strong. It's no use playing tricks.