As we know, Japan is an island country, and more than half of its land area is covered by mountains and hills. It is located at the junction of the Asia-Europe plate and the Pacific plate. Volcanoes, earthquakes and other geological disasters occur frequently, and the land is not suitable for farming or raising livestock. Cattle, horses, sheep and other large livestock are almost all imported from abroad, and at most some wild boar and rabbits can be caught. Smart Japanese won't give up eating meat, so they set their sights on the ocean. But at that time, the shipbuilding industry was underdeveloped, so we could catch small fish, pick up crabs and shellfish at the seaside and make a big meal.
Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Japanese royal family was particularly devout to Buddhism. In 676 AD (early Tang Dynasty in China), Emperor Wudi of Heaven issued a ban on killing people. According to the Oracle, beef, horse meat and chicken are not allowed to be eaten, and violators will be severely punished. Things didn't go as expected. Due to the ineffective implementation of the meat ban, Emperor Shengwu has increased the meat ban twice in seven years. The Japanese who don't have enough to eat are even worse, so they can only desperately add the staple food, that is, sushi.
Long-term malnutrition can't eat meat, and protein can't keep up, let alone supplement calcium. Originally, height was influenced by genes and missed the secondary development. The height of Japanese nationals is already terrible. On the contrary, poor farmers living in remote mountain villages can occasionally secretly hunt some game in the mountains and steal some rabbit meat and venison, but they are better than people who eat rice. Japanese aristocrats disdain meat, while middle-level warriors like hunting and eating game. "Vegetarianism is the constraint of officials and ministers, and spitting meat is the style of warriors."
Three outstanding Japanese Warring States: Nonaga Oda, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa. Nobuka ODA is about170 cm; Tall; The unified Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi is140 cm; ; The first generation general Tokugawa Ieyasu 159cm. Open the Tokugawa family in the Edo era and put a photo of the family portrait to make everyone's eyes hot.
Height seems useless, and military commanders have obvious operational advantages. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Sanying fought against Lu Bu, Guan Yu (nine feet), Zhang Fei (eight feet) and Liu Bei (seven feet). In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a foot was about 23 cm, and Lu Bu (nearly a foot) rode on a burly horse. Who dares to fight (come on, let's go together)?
Arguably, China people's life is not rich. Why were men and women in ancient China generally taller than the Japanese? That's because people in China invented tofu in the Han Dynasty. The raw material is soybean, which can be seen everywhere in life, and it is transformed into plant protein easily absorbed by human body through brine.
Not high enough, the helmet should be put together! Japanese military commanders like to wear exaggerated helmets (かぶと). Only in this way can they "raise" themselves and show their will. Shorter Japanese women also have their own magic weapon, that is, stepping on a kind of shoe called clogs, and their height can be much higher.
During the Meiji Restoration, Japan was opened to the outside world by western powers with strong ships and guns. Japanese government promotes diet as an important part of Qiang Bing, a rich country. However, due to the vegetarian habit of 1200 years, Japanese people have a resistance to meat. Finally, Emperor Meiji personally brought goods, took the lead in eating beef in public, and then gradually promoted meat. People began to get high-calorie foods such as meat, milk and dairy products with European and American elements, and the national physique and height were significantly improved.
1889, in the northeast of Japan, the rural primary school run by this local temple was called private Zhong 'ai Primary School. Because some poor children had no food, monks began to provide rice balls, grilled fish and pickles for children who could not afford to bring lunch boxes to school. This extremely simple set meal is regarded as the beginning of the collective feeding system in Japanese schools. Since then, the group feeding system has been popularized throughout Japan. 1923, the Japanese government made a decision to encourage schools to establish a collective feeding system to improve children's nutrition. At that time, the so-called free meals were at best to solve the problem of food and clothing for poor children, let alone enhance their physique. They were closed after the beginning of World War II.
After World War II, General MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces stationed in Japan, reformed Japan, starting with diet, and let Japanese children accept the American way of life. Milk is liquid in wartime, which is not convenient for transportation and storage, so the cream and water in it are extracted, leaving skim milk powder. Americans, of course, drink fresh milk, and a lot of milk powder stored in wartime was sold to Japan after the war. After World War II, Japan began the movement of "A glass of milk makes a nation strong". Although it tastes bad, the nutrients in it are still preserved. In order to bid farewell to the short figure completely, start a boy! 1950, the United States began to give away wheat and provide bread and milk as side dishes for primary school students in eight major cities in Japan. Even when the Korean War broke out, the United States subsidized the Japanese government to let Japanese primary school students continue to provide meals, which enabled the feeding system to continue. 1952 Japan has achieved complete free meals for primary schools at the municipal level.
The popularization rate of nutritious lunch in Japanese schools has rapidly increased from 3% in 1945 to 69% in 1950. 1954, Japan specially promulgated the school nutritious lunch law for primary and secondary school students, and implemented national unified catering. Up to now, it has become a law that primary school students drink milk every day. In Japan, ordinary schools print out students' recipes and send them to everyone every month. It includes the daily content of dishes and their calorie data, protein content and its influence on the body. The westernization of Japanese diet now is caused by the feeding system of that year. As a result, the habit of drinking milk can be seen everywhere, even in cartoons.
1964 After the Tokyo Olympic Games, in order to promote the national exercise, Japan promulgated the Law on the Revitalization of Sports, the core content of which is "Countermeasures on Improving National Health and Physical Strength", which combines the western spirit of the rule of law with the eastern nationalism and rigidly stipulates the national exercise day, school physical education hours and compulsory sports events in the form of government decrees.
Taking both internal and external courses, the Japanese people's physical fitness has been significantly improved. From 1950 to 20 10, the average height of Japanese has increased by 12 cm in the past 60 years, with the average height of men reaching 170 cm and that of women reaching 160 cm.
By the end of last century, the milk bonus was almost exhausted, and the Japanese height growth showed a downward trend. According to the research data published by Japan National Institute of Adult Education Medicine in 20 17, the male and female born in 20 14 are shorter than those born in 1978~ 1979/0.5 cm and 0.6cm respectively.
Why is it shorter? Is it because there is too much milk, but the nutrition is unbalanced? Without data support, we can only make bold guesses. Niu said she had done her best, and the rest was up to the Japanese themselves. There is no doubt that nutrition determines the lower limit of height, the upper limit of height, or genes.
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