What do you think of Japanese samurai culture?

Suicide is our first impression of Japanese Bushido culture, which seems incomprehensible and even ironic. In fact, our views on Japanese samurai or the whole Japanese culture are very complicated. They are fanatical and violent, but if we only look at the consciousness of death, there are some similarities with the morality of our traditional culture. If you think about it carefully, their bushido spirit actually embodies a pursuit of the supremacy of ideals. For example, we say that scholars die for their confidants, and those who listen to Taoism late die. In our traditional culture, there are also many things higher than death. But the morality we pursue beyond death is the morality under the premise of improving ourselves and not endangering others. What we pursue is the improvement of personality and conduct.

In Japanese aesthetic culture, they advocate the beauty of tragedy and death. As warriors, they must overcome their fear of death and be ready to sacrifice themselves at any time. For death, what they see is the warmth of burning at the last moment of life and the sadness of cherry blossoms falling at the most gorgeous time. The pursuit of ideals can make them give up their most precious lives to safeguard their morality. Of course, the image of samurai may also be sanctified through the polishing of literary works. After all, samurai are human beings. Facing life and death, fear is human instinct.

In fact, all forms are just the evolution of pursuing interests, and so is the Japanese Bushido. At first, samurai was an armed force to protect private property, and later it was used by the court, and the samurai was affirmed by the upper class. The Japanese Bushido spirit can also be regarded as a means of spiritual control for the upper class in Japan. People who come and go are disturbed by interests.

Japanese culture is always difficult to understand, because we feel abnormal because we don't understand it. Is it really correct to commit suicide easily in their film and television works? Actually, not necessarily. Because everyone's life is dominated by themselves, we should strive to make ourselves strong and colorful. The culture of violence in which they try to invade others and profit from it is shameful. We respect those who sacrificed for a just cause, but we don't respect those who sacrificed others for their own interests.