Where did the Japanese come from? Who are their ancestors? These issues have always been academic issues of particular concern to Japanese academic circles.
The knowledge of the origin of their ancestors by the Japanese now comes from the theory put forward by Japanese scholars in 1991. That is to say, modern Japanese are considered to be a mixed race of Yayoi and Jomon people.
But the latest academic research denies this statement that has long been rooted in the hearts of Japanese people.
September 17, 2021, "Science Advances" Volume 7, Issue 38, published a new study titled "Ancient Genomics Reveals the Tripartite Origin of the Japanese Population". The new study believes that 71% of modern Japanese genes come to Kofun
This research has caused an uproar in Japan, and some Japanese netizens cannot accept such research
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Who are the people of the ancient tombs? What is their relationship with the Han people?
In Chinese folks, it has always been said that the ancestors of the Japanese were Qin Shihuang sent to Penglai Fairy Island Xu Fu .
More than 2000 years ago, in pursuit of immortality, Emperor Qin Shihuang asked Xu Fu to lead thousands of young boys and girls overseas to find the elixir of life.
There are still a large number of Chinese people who think that Xu Fu went to Japan, but Xu Fu only visited Penglai.Abbot, the three islands of Yingzhou. As for where these fairy mountains are now, we can only estimate that they are in the Bohai Sea area, and the exact location cannot be fully confirmed. Whether Xu Fu visited Japan is still an unsolved mystery.
At present, the scientific community agrees that the Japanese archipelago has been inhabited at least 38,000 years ago. But this group of people did not create a brilliant civilization. Japanese civilization improved by leaps and bounds exactly 3000 years ago, when it was the Western Zhou Dynasty in China.
Why did Japanese culture 3,000 years ago suddenly develop?
3000 years ago happened to be the Yayoi period in Japan, when a large number of Asian mainlanders drifted across the sea to Japan. So the people who went to Japan at that time were called Yayoi people.
The Yayoi people mainly migrated from northeastern China to Japan, and it was they who introduced rice cultivation to Japan
Before the Yayoi people came to Japan, there were indigenous people on the Japanese islands. These indigenous people are called Jomon people.
How did the indigenous people of the Japanese archipelago come from?
Modern genetics and molecular science has given a clear answer. Now all humans in the world have only one ancestor, which is the late Homo sapiens that lived in eastern Africa 70-100,000 years ago. The so-called indigenous people are just more Only the descendants of the late Homo sapiens who arrived in the area earlier.
Jomon people are the aboriginal people of Southeast Asia, the Australian race and the Austronesian mixed to produce the South Asian Mongolian race system. They occupied the Japanese archipelago from 16,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago.
In 1991,Japanese scientists believe that the ancestors of modern Japanese are the mixed descendants of the Yayoi and indigenous Jomon people who crossed the Asian continent more than 3,000 years ago. genetics also supports this view. A large number of inherited characteristics of East Asian mainlanders have been found in the DNA of Yayoi people. This makes the idea that the ancestors of Japanese people are a mixture of Yayoi and Jomon people become mainstream, and it is deeply rooted in the cognitive genes of Japanese people.
But the latest research shows that the two-source theory of Japanese ancestors is considered wrong. The Japanese have a new ancestor, they are called Kofunren.
Scientists found three 1,500-year-old bones at the ancient tomb site of in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, and extracted aDNA, which is ancient DNA, from the bones. There are 12 newly sequenced genes indicating that the Japanese genome contains genes from indigenous Jomon and Yayoi people.
However, aDNA research also found a completely new source of genes, which is the third source of Japanese ancestry, the Kofun people.
Kofun people came to Japan around the 3rd century AD, that is, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Kofun people are genetically similar to Chinese Han people. Scholars combined Japanese history, and it was when the Kofun people went to Japan that Japan began to use Chinese characters.
According to the research results, there are three sources of modern Japanese ancestry. Jomon and Yayoi accounted for 13% and 16%, respectively. The newly discovered Kofun people account for 71% of modern Japanese ancestry.
It can be said that Kofun talents are the direct ancestors of modern Japanese. Experts predict: from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China to during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties,In order to avoid the war, a large number of Han people risked their lives and death to cross the sea to Japan. This group of people mixed with the Japanese at that time, and finally got a new name-Kofunren!
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