Xu Fu was a famous alchemist in the Qin Dynasty, claiming to be able to do gods and ghosts, so he was favored by the kings and magnates who wanted to live forever, and finally became the imperial physician of Qin Shi Huang.
Xu Fu himself was a Qi state, witnessed the tyranny of the Qin state conquering the six kingdoms, so he resisted, wanted to get rid of this tyrant, and looked for a peaceful and peaceful world, so he borrowed the long-standing marine culture and myths and legends of the State of Qi, and described to Qin Shi Huang a fairy realm of "Penglai Immortal Island", saying that it was the "ancestral continent" where the gods lived, and there was an "immortal medicine".
This remark was exactly in the heart of Qin Shi Huang, so Qin Shi Huang ordered that at any cost, Xu Fu should also ask for "immortal medicine" for him. Xu Fu asked for three thousand virgin boys and three thousand virgins for "offering gifts to God", and Qin Shi Huang agreed without blinking an eyelid. Xu Fu was afraid that Qin Shi Huang would not believe it, and said that there were large fish in the East China Sea, which would hinder the voyage, and Qin Shi Huang ordered thousands of crossbowmen to shoot fish on a large scale in the East Sea (in fact, it was a primitive whaling).
Under such a "gift" of rejuvenating the teachers and the masses, Xu Fucai took a large number of virgin boys and girls, and hundreds of craftsmen, seed cultivators, etc. out to sea, and never returned.
Xu Fu's deeds are recorded in the "Chronicle of History", which is not fiction, but there has always been controversy over where Xu Fu went, and the most passed down theory is that Xu Fu arrived in Japan, or Kyushu Island to be exact, where there are still many remnants of Xu Fu's "landing place" and "cemetery".
The earliest origin of Xu Fu's arrival in Japan is the "Six Theses of Yi Chu" written by Yi Chu, a monk of the Kaiyuan Temple in Jeju in the fifth dynasty of China, which is very long ago from the Qin Dynasty, so there does not seem to be much historical basis.
The story of Xu Fu appeared even later in the Japanese canonical books, such as the oldest Japanese "Ancient Chronicles" and "Nihon Shoki".
However, these are only "written records" of Xu Fu's landing in Japan, not the origin of folk word of mouth. As we all know, many backward peoples have no writing, and their stories are often included very late, but these stories may have been passed down from their ancestors for thousands of years.
Moreover, although the idea of Xu Fu's arrival in Japan first appeared in the pen of the five generations of Chinese monks Yi Chu, this story was heard by Yi Chu from the Japanese monk Kuan Fu who came to China, in the final analysis, there is still a legend of Xu Fu going to Japan in Japan. The monk Kuanfu was a learned monk, and what he said must have a broad basis in folklore allusions, so it has great reference.
Xu Fu went to Japan with a large number of virgin boys, girls and craftsmen, which is actually a large-scale "immigration" behavior, such a large-scale and high-level immigration activities will inevitably bring earth-shaking changes to the areas that have been moved. In fact, this is also true in Japan.
The earliest historical stage of Japan is the thousands of years of Neolithic "Jomon Age", there is no metal tools, there is no rice culture, the main body of the human race is a low and bearded Australian race, but in the third century BC, that is, the period of Qin Shi Huang's unification of China, the Japanese archipelago has also undergone tremendous changes, the backward Neolithic culture was suddenly replaced by a more advanced agricultural civilization, into the "Yayoi Era", not only with bronze and iron, even the human race also suddenly changed blood, The emergence of "Yayoi people" who are clearly characteristic of the continental race, the most significant feature is the general sudden increase in height by a few centimeters.
This is the result of the typical influx of immigrants, and these remarkable changes confirm the possibility of Xu Fu's story.
Some people may say: Since Xu Fu brought so many people with the production technology and cultural quality of a high-level civilized society, if he really arrived in Japan, why didn't Japan choose "Qin wen and Qin system" from that period?
After all, Xu Fu and his party were not in the army, and their numbers were still pitifully small compared to the natives of Japan at that time, so even if Xu Fu and his party arrived in Japan, they could not use the Qin army to sweep away the Six Kingdoms, and could only gradually change through harmonious coexistence and little by little indoctrination.
In the extremely backward ancient times, even if the highly civilized people went to the low-civilization areas, in the end, it was often the people with low culture who learned advanced technology and "assimilated" the immigrants in terms of social customs and language and culture.
For example, at the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou's two older brothers, Taibo and Zhongyong, each brought some Zhou people to the Gou Wu region full of Jingman, and did not soon learn the indigenous "broken hair tattoo"?
Speaking of the story of "Taibo Ben Wu", some friends will ask: Will Xu Fu be the ancestor of japan's "Wanshi Lineage" Chrysanthemum Dynasty - Emperor Shenwu?
In order to deify its rule, the Japanese dynasty very early on traced the origin of its dynasty back to the early Spring and Autumn Period of China through fictitious means, and its method was to extend the life span and reign time of the first twelve emperors to more than a staggering hundred years! In this way, the Chrysanthemum Dynasty was suddenly more than a thousand years ahead! Therefore, according to Japanese parlance, Xu Fu came to Japan during the reign of the sixth emperor of the Chrysanthemum Dynasty.
After knowing the Japanese tricks, we will understand that when Xu Fu arrived in Japan, the Chrysanthemum Dynasty did not exist at all, so it is indeed possible for Xu Fu to lead one side to become king by virtue of his high-end civilization and his superb "flickering" skills, and then conquer the Japanese archipelago one by one like the legendary Emperor Shenwu.
However, according to the cultural relics excavated from the ancient tombs, modern Japanese archaeologists have "restored" the real appearance of Japan in the era of Emperor Shenwu, and the utensils and clothing used are all types of Chinese Southern and Northern Dynasties! It seems that Japan's first generation of Emperor Shenwu was at best a Japanese tribal "Great Chief" during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China.
In this way, Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty could not have been the first emperor of Japan, but Xu Fu may have been his ancestor. Japan's earliest history book, "Ancient Chronicles", tells that the founding fathers of Japan, Izanozun (male god) and Izandanzun (goddess), came to Japan from heaven on a crane ship!
What kind of ship is the Crane Boat? It is a large ship with a crane head towering on its bow, and the "crane" is the famous "Xuan Bird" in Chinese mythology.
This myth undoubtedly reveals a historical fact (creation myths often correspond to real history): the founders of Japanese culture were a couple of men and women who came from overseas on a sea boat.
The harrier ship in the original Japan of the Jomon period could not have been built at all, but the coastal areas of The pre-Qin era of China, especially the coastal areas of Shandong, existed in large quantities and were frequently unearthed, five hundred years before Emperor Shenwu, Xu Fu, it is likely that this bird ship, with the beloved woman (the leader of the three thousand virgins), from the heavenly kingdom of Great Qin!
In 1975, the historian Wei Tingsheng wrote a sensational work "Xu Fu Japan National Founding Examination" with a large amount of evidence, and Prince Mikasa Palace, the third brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, read it and said: "Xu Fu is worthy of being the father of Japan!" ”