Xu Fu once brought 500 boys and girls to Japan, and the Japanese are his descendants? Finally, the verdict is reached
In 1975, when the Hong Kong Baptist Church was full of people, a Japanese man slowly stepped onto the podium and delivered an impassioned speech. This person was Mikasa Palace, the third brother of Emperor Showa of Japan. Soon after, Mikasa Palace announced the official establishment of the Hong Kong Xu Fu Association, and he even claimed to be a descendant of Xu Fu. Many people are very curious about how much xu fu is connected to Japan. In Japanese society, how famous is Xu Fu?
Historically, after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, he spent all day worrying about immortality, and the warlock Xu Fu refined the elixir for him, and took five hundred boys and girls to Penglai XianDao by boat. It is worth mentioning that Penglaixian Island is said to be an island in the open sea of Shandong, and if Xu Fu really leaves by boat, then he is likely to have actually arrived in Japan. At the time of the Qin Dynasty, Japan was still a barbaric place, and there was not much population there at all.
Historians have done research, and the period when Xu Fu came to Japan was the time when the Yamato nation was formed. Therefore, they felt that Xu Fu could indeed be the founder of Japan. In Japanese mythology, Xu Fu is known as the first emperor, who defeated demons and ghosts all over Japan and led the Japanese people to a path of positive development. As we all know, Japan has been learning from China since then, and during the Tang Dynasty, many envoys were sent to the Tang Dynasty. They brought back all the Chinese characters and Confucian classics, and have been greatly influenced by Han culture.
In The Japanese people, many big businessmen claimed to be Xu Fu's descendants, and they used this to strengthen their ties with China. In Yancheng Xufu's hometown, it attracts a large number of Japanese tourists every year. Some Japanese even fell to their knees and prayed to Xu Fu for his blessings. Unfortunately, in recent years, Japanese historians have put forward new views, believing that the Japanese Yamato nation was spontaneously formed and was not influenced by China. In caves in northern Japan, fossils of some apes have been found. These apes are small in stature and more similar to modern Japanese. Japanese experts compared the DNA sequences, and they found that these great apes were indeed the ancestors of the Japanese. From this point of view, Xu Fu has little to do with the Japanese.
Conclusion: Although Xu Fu was not the ancestor of Japan, the Japanese did get help from China. During the Tang Dynasty, Chinese Buddhist culture soon spread to Japan. Like China, native Buddhism in Japan immediately arose, and a large number of monks came to the Tang Dynasty to seek Buddhist scriptures. During this time period, Grand Master Jian Zhen traveled east to Japan seven times. Nowadays, when Chinese tourists visit Japan, they will also be surprised by the similarity of the temples in the two countries. In the temple, bodhisattvas, Buddhas, and physical relics can all be seen.