Speaking of the character Xu Fu , many people may be very familiar with it. The legend of him leading three thousand boys and girls to go out to sea to seek the elixir of immortality for the First Emperor can be said to be a household name in China.
In fact, Xu Fu's search for medicine is not a legend, and it does have clear records in historical books.
According to "Records of the Grand Historian: The Annals of Qin Shihuang", in 219 BC, Xu Fu led three thousand boys and girls to Yingzhou on the order of Emperor Shihuang to the east. The purpose of this trip was to find the medicine for immortality for Emperor Shihuang.
However, it should be noted that Xu Fu brought three thousand boys and girls on the road, but he had no good intentions. These boys and girls were actually sacrifices used for sacrifice.
However, Xu Fu has been wandering on the sea for several years and has not found the so-called immortal mountain. Naturally, he has not been able to find the medicine for immortality.
Therefore, when Emperor Shin-Emperor went to Langya County in 210 BC, Xu Fu had to say that it was a giant beast on the sea, which made the fleet unable to sail far away.
After hearing this, the First Emperor sent elite archers into the sea and finally hunted a huge fish back. Seeing this, Xu Fu knew that he could not refuse, so he had to take people out of the sea to find medicine again.
This time, in addition to leading boys and girls, Xu Fu also brought many craftsmen, seeds and farm tools to the sea, and finally landed in the Kyushu area of Japan.
After a arduous journey, Xu Fu finally successfully landed in the Kyushu area of Japan. However, because he did not find the elixir of immortality, he did not return to Qin Dynasty , but instead survived in Japan with these boys, girls and craftsmen.
Because the legend of Xu Fu looking for medicine has been widely circulated, with the passage of time, hundreds or thousands of years later, in the eyes of many people, Xu Fu has become the ancestor of Japan's humanities, and many people even think that Xu Fu is the ancestor of the Japanese.
So, what is the relationship between Xu Fu and the Japanese? Until a few years ago, scientists compared the Japanese DNA, but it was surprising after the release. It turned out that the Japanese ancestor was not Xu Fu.
According to scientists' research results, some foreign genes have indeed been found in some Japanese genes, but compared with the total population of Japan, this proportion is not large, and most of the research subjects are native Japanese.
This result really surprised many people. However, no matter how surprised the result is, the result is relatively accurate, because before Xu Fu arrived in Japan, there was indeed someone living in that place.
According to the records in "A Brief History of Japan", around the 72nd year of the Emperor Xiaoling , Xu Fu traveled to to Japan. This can also be confirmed from archaeology .
When Xu Fu traveled east, he carried a large number of craftsmen and farm tools, transforming from a messenger to a spreader of civilization.
Before Xu Fu arrived in Japan, according to archaeological discoveries, the Jomon culture had existed in Japan for more than 6,000 years. Moreover, due to the special terrain of Japan, it is impossible to communicate with the outside world, which has always been in the Jomon culture and cannot be developed.
However, although the level of civilization of the Jomon culture is relatively low, it has indeed produced a certain civilization and has also reached a certain population size.
However, this Japanese Jomon culture was suddenly interrupted around the 3rd century BC, and suddenly moved from the primitive stone age to the era of using both metal and stone.
has only one possibility for such a situation, that is, Japan during this period received the blessing of foreign civilizations, so it got rid of the Stone Age.
This time point happened to be a deep coincidence with Xu Fu's eastward journey. Considering that Xu Fu took away many skilled craftsmen, it is not difficult to understand why the Japanese have used the Jomon culture that has been using for more than 6,000 years suddenly transformed.
However, although the skilled craftsman brought by Xu Fu may have affected the process of Japan's civilization, he is not the ancestor of the Japanese because there were originally people on the island.
However, since there have been overseas immigrants in the Japanese archipelago in for thousands of years in ancient times, they do have a certain impact on bloodline, and this situation is actually quite common in history.
Finally, let’s talk about the tomb of Xu Fu in Japan. Strictly speaking, this tomb is actually fake, and it is not even considered a tomb.
At first, the Japanese didn't know who Xu Fu was. It was not until later that China-Japan cultural exchanges were frequent. The legend of Xu Fu's eastward travel was introduced to Japan that local people knew that the person who brought civilization to them turned out to be Xu Fu, so they built Xu Fu's tomb to commemorate him.
What many people may not expect is that Xu Fu’s tomb has at least 5 as many as scattered in Japan. In addition, there are two tombs of Yang Guifei in Japan, which were later built in Japan.
Because Japan has been influenced by Central Plains culture in ancient history, these tombs were built to commemorate them.
