Why there are so many contradictions in Japanese culture

This one is complicated.

There was a foreigner (who seemed to be an American) who wrote a book about Japanese culture and national characteristics called "Chrysanthemums and Swords".

You can take a look and there will be a lot of explanations for the questions you want to ask.

In the Tang Dynasty, Japan actually mainly studied our Chinese culture, and then developed and improved, and after hundreds of years, Japan finally formed their own culture, so now it seems that there are many cultural differences between the two countries.

Our own food culture is very different enough. But there are differences in unity. First of all, there are many cuisines in China, generally speaking, the dietary oil is relatively large, and the taste is more important, and the taste of different cuisines is also different.

But in general, there is still a lot of oil for large dishes. And our food always needs to be both good and smelly, and most of them are eaten hot anyway.

Japan is very different from us in that they pay more attention to the taste of the food itself, and the taste is relatively light. There are many ports in Japan, and they eat sashimi more frequently than us, and they don't care if their meals are cold or not, and most of their bento boxes can be purchased at convenience stores, so it is very convenient to eat. But for me, it's a little impersonal.

And I think that their food is to pay attention to the visual effect of the food, anyway, the pose is very good-looking, but ours, the food is fragrant, and it is pleasing to the eye.

China has a wide area, there are many types of Chinese cuisine, and each place has its own characteristics, while in Japan, it may be because they are too small to develop anything, so it is relatively simple, and it is not as rich as our cuisine.

It's a small thing, but it's a big difference. So, China is pretty good, if I stay in Japan for so long, I must have a very small mouth, and I still like the food culture of my hometown.

China and Japan are very different in terms of food and customs.

Chinese live more freely and live very selfishly, while Japanese are more rule-abiding and live too rigidly.

I think it's the difference in diet, Japanese people like to eat sushi and the like, Chinese don't like it.

I think there is a big difference in terms of food, our Chinese diet is more traditional, while the Japanese diet is mainly fresh.

I think the biggest cultural difference between China and Japan is that Chinese culture is more human. Japanese culture is even more ruthless, for example, the talents cultivated by Japanese culture are relatively cold and ruthless.

I think the biggest cultural difference is in the gender aspect, Japan is open, and China is subtle and reserved.

Because their culture is particularly interested in beauty for a short period of time – like cherry blossoms.

This is because Japan is a country that is integrated into the international community.

Japan actually imitates Chinese culture, not completely imitates China, but its culture imitates foreign countries.

First of all, they are an island nation, supposedly immigrants. Qin Shi Huang asked Xu Fu to take three thousand boys and girls to the east to find immortality, but Xu Fu went to find it and did not come back. So now the Japanese say that they are descendants of Xu Fu. I don't know if it's true.

Before the Qin Dynasty, there was no such country as Japan, and even if there were, it was not a country. Japan was originally called Wakoku, but it was renamed Japan during the Tang Dynasty of China. During the Tang Dynasty, Jianzhen traveled east to Japan and brought with him a lot of advanced culture, technology, and so on.

Since then, various customs have imitated China, and this is the Chinese element of Japanese culture.