The story of Qin Shi Huang's pursuit of immortality, presumably every chinese person is a family treasure. As the founding emperor of the first feudal dynasty in the history of our country, it is normal to pursue permanent rule. To this end, he listened to the lies of the Fang Magician, thinking that Dongfang Penglai had the elixir of immortality, so he sent Xu Fu to look for it with 500 boys and girls.
But where is this Oriental Penglai? Nature is not today's Shandong Penglai, is the Chinese mythology of the overseas immortal mountains, according to the "Liezi TangWen" record, there are a total of five overseas immortal mountains, namely Daiyu, Yuanyu, Fanghu, Yingzhou, Penglai. It is also recorded in the Hai Nei North Classic in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that Penglai was surrounded by a black sea in the middle of the sea.
For many years, china has been rumored that this Penglai Island is ancient Japan. At that time, Xu Fu and the 500 virgin boys and girls brought here were the ancestors of the Japanese. Moreover, there are also records of Xu Fu in Japan, who is revered by the Japanese as the god of farming, the god of sericulture, and the god of medicine. It can be seen that Xu Fu not only went to Japan, but also brought the advanced farming civilization and medical technology in Chinese culture to the indigenous people of the Japanese island.
In addition, Japanese folklore has always spread the legend that Xu Fu was the first emperor of Shenmu. There is no historical record of this, and there are few written records of prehistory in Japan, and in the general history of Japan in the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, Emperor Shenwu is a descendant of the god Amaterasu on Takatenhara, and is the son of the immortal, which is still a little different from Xu Fu's exact identity.
Of course, the identity of Emperor Shenmu is a myth, so are the Japanese really the descendants of Xu Fu and the 500 boys and girls? With the development of modern DNA biological genetic technology, through genetic tracing, historians have finally reached a conclusion about the ancestors of the Japanese.
According to analysis, the ancestors of the Japanese people came from three groups of people. A wave of indigenous Jomon people from the Island of Japan, who had been stationed since the Paleolithic Age, pioneered the prehistoric jomon culture of Japan.
The Jomon period is an earlier existence than Emperor Shenmu, which migrated to Japan from the Asian continent about 38,000 to 18,000 years ago, and did not produce a script when it existed, but left a lot of pottery, because of its Jomon pattern, it was named Jomon, and it is also the oldest and most authentic ancestor of the Japanese.
After the end of the Jomon period, Japan reached the Yayoi period. During this period, a group of new immigrants came from the Korean Peninsula, and they had an impact on the local Jomon culture. The two populations are constantly merging and communicating, bringing fresh blood to the Japanese bloodline.
During this period, Xu Fu and the 500 virgin boys and girls also came to Japan, bringing advanced feudal civilization to these two backward populations and instilling the concept of the word state to the Japanese natives. They were also called the Watanabes by Japanese historians, and eventually took root in Japan and integrated into the local ethnic groups in Japan. Since then, the ancestors of the Japanese people have had three bloodlines, namely Yayoi, Jomon, and Watanabe.
Therefore, it is not entirely accurate to say that the ancestors of the Japanese people today are the 500 virgin boys and girls that Xu Fu brought over. They are an important part of the genes of the Ancestors of the Japanese, but not all of them. In terms of cultural contributions to Japan, Xu Fu and these Watanabes are definitely among the best. Experts also do not shy away from saying that "Xu Fu improved the genes of the Japanese natives."
This is also why until now, there are still many places in Japan that have statues of Xu Fu, and even many place names are related to Xu Fu. For example, the place where Xu Fu first landed in Japan is now called Penglaili.
From this point of view, the ancients of our country can be said to have broken their hearts for Japan, but in modern Times, Japan has treated our country in this way, which is really ignoring history and ungrateful behavior, and it is no wonder that in the end they lost this unjust war.