First of all, let's clarify the background of the times, and the Warring States of Japan (16th century), which we are most familiar with, corresponds to Europe, which is already the Renaissance period. The most appropriate date for the European Middle Ages is the Heian period (9th to 12th centuries, about 400 years ago) in Japan.

(Regarding the life of Japan's Warring States Period, His Excellency Red Army has already described it in detail in "Living, Warring States in Japan", so I won't say more here.) ）

Although it is not as familiar as the Warring States period of Japan, which was full of smoke and swords. However, among the anime works of later generations, there are actually quite a few works in which the story takes place in the Heian Dynasty or is based on the Heian Dynasty. For example, "Young Onmyoji", "Yuka Kusako", "In the Distant Time and Space", etc., as well as many other girl aiqing comics, depict an elegant and reserved romantic era for us modern people.

- "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, "Pillow Grass" by Kiyo Shao Nayan, the invincible supernatural power of the great onmyoji Abe Haruaki, and the desolate and sad wish of Sugawara Michi, the god of learning; The soft-spoken amorous nobleman, the shy and beautiful deep resentful woman, the intelligent and cunning poetess, the white beat dancer who sings and dances, the serious and rigid middle-aged monk, and the demons and monsters who haunt at midnight......

Among the above-mentioned anime and novels, the main theme of Japan's Heian period seems to be the romantic aiqing and the elegant and flashy aristocratic life. Although this era does not have the pride of the golden iron horse and the bloody men in the battlefield in the Warring States era, it is full of feminine delicate softness, exquisite elegance, and seems to be very liked by those female writers of Jinjiang Chinese Network.

Well, it seems to look good, just like a modern Japanese doll, so why not travel back in time and take a look?

…… That one...... Before you cross, you'd better be aware of your geographical location. At that time, it was not possible to experience the atmosphere of the Heian period anywhere in the Japanese archipelago......

-- The territory of Japan in the Heian period was very different from today, and in short, it was a small circle. The island of Hokkaido is still home to the indigenous Ezo people, and the Ou region in the northeastern part of Honshu Island (the one on the map from Tokyo upwards) was also ruled by the old indigenous people before the conquest of the Yamato Imperial Court, similar to a colony. By the end of the Heian period, the local people had basically completed ethnic integration and assimilation with the Yamato people.

To the southwest, Ryukyu Island is still an ignorant and uncivilized wilderness, and the southern part of Kyushu Island is also infested with wild people, and is only nominally included in the territory. In these places, you can only appreciate the "simple style" of primitive society......

Even in most places under the rule of the Yamato court, the land is vast and sparsely populated, slash-and-burn, and infested with wild beasts, and even a slightly decent city cannot be found, and the living conditions of the common people are probably not as good as the serfs of the European Middle Ages!

There is no way, the birth of Japanese civilization was already in the second century AD. The Yamato Imperial Court did not take shape until the 6th century, and the Heian period began in the 9th century...... Even if the Central Plains Celestial Empire in the west vigorously imported the Central Plains culture, it is really a bit difficult for the Japanese to go from a primitive tribe of slash-and-burn cultivation and blood-drinking to a unified feudal state by rocket.

(Imagine what China in the Xia Dynasty should have looked like, and you wouldn't feel that Japanese society was slow in society during the Heian period.) ）

What's more, although the country has not yet been truly unified, the aristocratic ministers who rule Japan have already decayed early.

They let go of the heavy task of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and devoted themselves to the mountains and rivers, burning incense and worshiping the Buddha, reciting poetry, studying calligraphy, and cultivating sentiments...... What's more, the ministers and aristocrats at that time also regarded the rest of Japan as "countryside" or even "ghost land", thinking that going to those places would be tainted with bad luck, and they wanted to be otaku, and they wanted to shrink into the beautiful scenery and Buddhist temples of Kyoto for the rest of their lives. Occasionally, a few guys left Beijing, most of them either because of exile or because of derogation, or because they ran away to avoid ** - the people who left and the people who sent them were crying, and some even left suicide notes, and as soon as they arrived at the land, they looked forward to coming back as soon as possible. …,

As a result, Japan in the Heian period was a deformed society that was completely disconnected from top to bottom. The only civilized city is Kyoto, and the rest of the city is a poor area for the old and the young. In the perception of the Japanese at that time, the Kanto Plain, where the prosperous Tokyo was located, was similar to the Xinjiang and Tibet in our modern Chinese impression. The first few famous samurai families that rose there were actually the "production and construction corps" sent by the Kyoto ministers to consolidate the frontier. These poor early samurai had to fend off the attacks of separatist terrorists (primitive tribes such as earth spiders, Ezo people, etc.) while cultivating land to grow rice for their own sufficiency, as the Kyoto imperial court was generally not responsible for the supply of military rations.

-- As for the ministers who have been sent there to serve as state secretaries and other positions, they are basically equivalent to our current "cadres assisting Tibet."

As a result, the wealth, civilization, art, and so-called "legends of the Heian period" of that era are all condensed into the square area of Kyoto, and those who travel through it must land there to see it with their own eyes. Instead of being like the Warring States period in Japan hundreds of years later, there are their own heroes and beauties and stories in Kyushu, Shikoku, Nishikoku,, Tokaido, and Tohoku (Ou).

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