Why do China people like to call Japanese aggressors devils?

The devil refers to swearing words; Used as a disparaging term for foreigners. See Chen Kangqi's "Strictly Going to the Countryside in Qing Dynasty", Volume 9: "If a ghost makes an envoy, he is a member of an overseas mission; When westerners first entered China, everyone called them devils. " During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, "Japanese devils" ran across the land of China, burning, killing and looting, with many evils, so "Japanese devils" became the floorboard of "Japanese devils".

According to incomplete textual research, the word "devil" was coined by China people, generally referring to Japanese or Japanese soldiers during the invasion of China. Or foreigners, call them foreign devils. For example, British devils, American devils, German devils and so on. The cultural phenomenon that needs special attention is that China people generally use the word "devil" to scold foreigners, while China people generally use the word "bandit" to scold China people.

"Devil" is also a disrespectful name for the devil by Taoist priests (based on Painted Skin of Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio). Because the invading army that first shocked the whole country was white, and most of the imps in some ghost paintings were distorted images, the people of China hated the white people with "weird" facial features, and called them "devils", and later regarded them as the general name of invaders.