Should Ninjutsu, which is severely illuminated, be eliminated by the times?

Not long ago, there was a mysterious news in the Japan-US joint military exercise-"Japan dispatched ninjas in training." Several pictures of female ninja performances spread all over the internet. This can not help but remind people that the legendary mysterious ninja is the secret weapon of the Japanese Self-Defense Force? There are even more comments in China that this is because the US military is stealing from Japan and wants to package its own army. What is the truth?

There is no Ninjutsu in the training subjects of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, which focuses on training modern military skills and physical and mental qualities.

So, did the Japanese Self-Defense Forces learn their own traditional Ninjutsu, just as hard qigong is to the Indian army, or yoga is to the Indian army? The answer is no, taking the Japanese army as an example, training is divided into individual training and group training. The former trains individual soldiers' military quality, while the latter trains group strategy and tactics. The former is related to force, including basic training, shooting, weapon protection and comprehensive fighting. Basic projects such as 8 km cross-country and 50 kg field training at night have caused many soldiers to complain, and even soldiers have injured themselves to avoid training.

So, does the fighting project include Ninjutsu? The answer is no again. It is said that the fighting of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces combines karate and judo skills. However, some videos show that the fighting training of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces is mainly composed of routine boxing (similar to China's military boxing), unarmed fighting and bayonet fighting.

The Japanese Self-Defense Forces spend a lot of time on group training every year, for example, in the Fuji Training Center equipped with laser engagement training devices and other equipment, and achieved practical results. The joint training of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in land, sea and air, as well as the joint military exercise between Japan and the United States, are all exercises that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces must conduct every year.

The reason is that Ninjutsu is incompatible with modern times and can only enter museums.

The legend of the deified ninja began with a war that was not mysterious or romantic, but was repeatedly processed by later generations.

People's impression of ninjas-wearing black ninja clothes, climbing over the eaves, hiding underground, almost omnipotent. But there are actually three Japanese ninja cheats-Zhengren Ji, written in 168 1. Ninja clothes have many colors, such as brown, orange and dark blue. And it is no different from ordinary farmers' clothes, except that there is a headscarf that can be taken off at any time.

Kaga and Iga are the birthplaces of ninjas, and the two regions are also neighbors. During the Nara era and Heian period (China was the Tang Dynasty at this time), Japanese shrines and temples were very capable, and people from Iga and Kaga surrendered to the temple society, but later the local armed forces gradually became independent, and the influence of temples declined. People in the temple called "* * *" fought with each other and went to the village to rob tribute property, but the village also tried to stop it. The local people learned the skill of "surprise attack" in the struggle.

It is well documented that the ninja really entered the stage of history in 1487, when the shogunate general Ashikaga Yoshihisa attacked a Lord named Hexagon. The latter fled to Jiahe, and the Jiahe people and the Iga people decided to help the unlucky lords. In the battle with the shogunate, relying on the "surprise attack" skills accumulated before, the locals lured the enemy to the depths of the forest and used the terrain to roll down logs and stones. Destroy when you can and hide when you can't. Later, Kaga and Iga raided the shogunate's barracks at night. In some legends, they even killed the general's bedroom and chopped him up, which made the ninja famous in World War I, and comments such as "elusive" added magic to it, and later generations also repeatedly processed it.

Therefore, a word endowed with too many mythical colors initially started with a story that is not mysterious. With word of mouth, mysterious, absurd and fantastic stories were born. Just like in China's Kung Fu myth, there are always detached old people or masters with youthful white hair. Kaga and Iga's ninjas originally relied on tactics similar to "tunnel warfare", relying on their familiarity with the local terrain and making a surprise attack. …

Ninjutsu was originally a "spy" skill and had little to do with martial arts.

Because the land in the Iga area is not suitable for farming, the farmers there have a hard time. Many farmers have left their homes and become professional ninjas, employed by local lords. And they also have some exclusive props, such as wolf chimneys for communication and very sharp saws. Ninja is generally good at the manufacture and application of gunpowder. Later, during the Warring States period, the famous Japanese military commander Oda Nobuyoshi fought everywhere and conquered the surrounding areas of Iga, including Kaga. Isolated Iga has become a stumbling block. 1579, Nobunaga's son was defeated by Iga. He was furious about it. After the second attack finally captured Iga, he launched a massacre, killing three or four hundred people every day, regardless of gender, age and age. After the war, the surviving Iga people left their homes and went around to be ninjas.

The legendary ninja's name comes from the name of an intelligence companion (rumored to be the ancestor of Jiahe people) in Shoto Kutaishi, Japan (527-622, deified by the ancient Japanese as "Sakyamuni of Japan"). In fact, ninjas who move around are engaged in espionage. What they are best at is not fighting, but dressing up and asking for information. The so-called female ninja originally refers to a woman disguised as a dancer and a concubine who goes to the main house to inquire about information. They also rarely carry out assassination work. Moreover, ninjas and samurai are not in the same class at all, and their status is generally much lower.

A painting shows a ninja posing as a maid for assassination.

Therefore, even if the Japanese want to perform Ninjutsu, they don't know what to perform, because Wushu is simply the weakest link of Ninjutsu. And the legendary things that fly to the ground are just legends. Ninja does know some skills, similar to modern magic.

The last real ninja in Japan appeared 159 years ago. Today's ninja teaching is nothing more than selling dog meat.

During the Warring States period, Japanese ninjas were very active, because wars were everywhere, and lords needed a large number of spies and spies. In the much more peaceful edo period, many ninjas lost their jobs, so they switched to ordinary people's jobs. In the Meiji era, the ancient profession of ninja completely disappeared. The last recorded ninja was in 1853, when Perry, commander of the US Navy's East India Fleet, led a fleet to visit Japan to discuss opening ports for trade with Japan. Ichiro Zemura, a subordinate of a vassal, was ordered to spy on Japanese warships. After the investigation, the ninja reported the details to the Lord. The results of the survey are naturally unknown. In short, this is the last face of a ninja. Since then, this group has disappeared from Japanese history. Ninjas are not anonymous, but with the modernization of Japan, they lost their jobs and had to switch to other jobs.

Later, many people claimed to be descendants of ninjas. For example, West Lake Fujita, known as "the last Japanese ninja", knows a kind of martial arts called "Naiman to Liu Quan". Legend has it that he also taught at the Japanese Nakano School during World War II. However, by analyzing the graduation certificates of the students in this school, it is found that the students' courses include "Ninjutsu", but these trainings have not cultivated any "ninja skills" for the students.

In fact, after the Meiji Restoration, the whole country of Japan began to make great efforts. In military reform, we have completely abandoned the shadow of the past by imitating western powers and learning from Germany and France. So the Japanese never trained any ninjas.

Iranian "female ninja" originally learned fighting skills.

Now many people who call themselves ninja masters have opened ninja martial arts schools all over the world. What is even more paradoxical is that most of the teachers are not Japanese. In these ninja martial arts schools, students learn some mixed fighting skills and "black belts" in judo or taekwondo. I really don't know whether to praise professionalism or unprofessionalism. In the first half of this year, Reuters reported that thousands of Iranian women were learning Ninjutsu, saying that Ninjutsu might be Iran's secret weapon. In fact, looking at the training pictures, these women are also practicing fighting skills.

The root cause: the culture out of touch with the times belongs to the museum and does not need too much imagination and sustenance.

Is the ninja culture in Japan developed? If you watch anime like Naruto or some film and television works, it is certainly developed. People who have never traveled to Japan will find that Japanese ninjas live a "tourist" life. For example, the Ida Times Village in Hokkaido is a theme park that embodies the style of the Edo era. Of course, there are two "specialties" in Japan-the performances of Ninja and Kaneko. In the birthplace of ninja, Kaga and Iga are certainly bigger. Iga also has the annual Ninja Festival. On the one hand, the local ninja culture is vigorously developed to store ancient traditions, and on the other hand, it is of course for the tourism economy. But these ninja performers are of course just actors.

The Ninja Museum attracts many tourists.

Now, there is another Japanese who calls himself "the last ninja". His name is Jinichi Kawakami. However, he became an engineer after studying art as a teenager, and then he returned to his old job. The man who was born in the Jiaga Sect and went to the Iga Ninja Museum as an honorary curator didn't teach you the so-called magical Ninjutsu. On the contrary, in a recent interview, he showed a clear understanding: the real ninja no longer exists, because ninjas are simply not suitable for living in modern times, and he himself does not intend to recruit any more apprentices.

Japan's national television station NHK has also made documentaries for ninjas in the past, and there is no deification tendency at all. However, there is nothing mysterious about the recorded ninja story.

Indeed, ninjas are out of touch with this era, and those spy techniques have no reference for today. However, ninjas can certainly be used as cultural cards and tourist cards. In fact, the Japanese themselves regard ninjas as "strange" as foreigners. They prefer to watch the intense and practical modern mixed fighting competition like K- 1.

Some anachronistic and seriously illusory things should really be eliminated by the times and walked into museums instead of living proudly.

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People often put up signs such as "Japanese Ninjutsu vs China Kung Fu", but as we all know, Japanese Ninjutsu is not a martial art, and it has already entered the museum, which is not the national pride of Japan.