Revealing the strange hobbies of the Japanese, can you accept the worship of cats as gods?

You must have never imagined that the Japanese love cats, it is not because cats can catch mice. How do Japanese people treat cats? The Japanese worship cats, and have reached the level of madness and have done some crazy things. Let’s talk about them below.

The Japanese will position the "Cat Day" on February 22 every year. In addition to festivals, cats also offer sacrifices in many shrines and temples. According to the Japanese, doing so can bring wealth and marriage to them. Secondly, many words in Japanese are related to cats and are used very frequently. These words are related to cat characteristics. "geisha" is called   "cats" and people who cannot eat hot food are called "cat tongue".

There is a story about why cats can be so improved in the minds of Japanese people. More than a hundred years ago, there was a courtesan who liked cats very much. She raised a cat called Yu. The courtesan and the cat were inseparable every day, and they were together all the time, and they would follow them even when they went to the toilet. The courtesan loved cats to the point where he was fascinated by the fact that the old mother in the brothel was very unhappy, and then asked the courtesan to throw the cat away, but the courtesan refused. The old mother was so angry that she had no choice. Just one day, when the old mother pulled her sword and cut off the cat's head when she entered the toilet behind the courtesan. Coincidentally, the cat's head flew into the pit. The old mother looked up and found that the cat's head actually bit a snake. Only then did I realize that the cat followed up in the toilet in order to protect the courtesan. After the cat died, the courtesan was so sad that he sent the cat's corpse to the temple and set up a cat's tomb for sacrifice. Afterwards, a tourist sympathized with the sorrow of the courtesan and specially ordered agarwood for the cat, carved it into the appearance of a lucky cat, and gave it to the courtesan. The courtesan was overjoyed and couldn't let it go. After the courtesan passed away, her wood carving lucky cat was also sent to the temple where the cat was sacrificed, allowing the cat to truly accompany her. Is this the first time many people have heard of this little story? I believe that after this, everyone should have understood why Japanese people love cats so much.