In 2019, Japan's population was nearly 126 million, in recent years, because the number of births has continued to fall below the 1 million mark, the death toll is higher than the number of births, the total population of Japan continues to decline, and even Japanese economists have calculated according to Japan's fertility rate: Japan will be extinct on August 16, 3766. The Japanese people's way to go seems to be in the near future, so is the Japanese way really made up of the 500 boys, girls and boys brought by Xu Fu during the Qin Dynasty?
"Xu Fu Dongdu" is the story
The "Chronicle of History" records that in 219 BC, Qin Shi Huang arrived in the Bohai Sea, climbed zhifu island, ascended to the far horizon, the scenery between the mountains and the sea appeared from time to time, and the ethereal scene of clouds and mist made him fascinated. Most of the ancient emperors wanted to be immortal, to enjoy wealth and power forever, to have great talent, and Qin Shi Huang, who ruled the world, naturally did not want to leave this world, so under the deception of the warlock, he believed that there was a fairyland on the sea, and there was an elixir of immortality in the immortals. In order to find the elixir, Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to take 500 boys, girls and boys to the sea to seek the elixir.
Xu Fu did not find the elixir after going to sea for the first time, but Xu Fu said that he had seen the sea god, in order to express his sincerity to the gods, Qin Shi Huang collected 3,000 boys and girls for Xu Fu to take out of the sea, after this time, Xu Fu never returned, and the 3,000 boys and girls also disappeared into the vast sea with Xu Fu. What is the fate of Xu Fu and these children?
The vast sea, unfathomable, covered up all the Searches of the Qin people for them. Nowadays, the most widely circulated theory is that Xu Fu took these virgin boys and girls with the advanced technology of the Qin Dynasty to Japan after going through hardships and participated in the reproduction of the Japanese population. There is also a saying that after Xu Fu arrived in Japan, he became the first emperor in Japanese history, Emperor Shenmu. There are many opinions about "Xu FuDongdu", so is it all credible?
There are also many legends about Xu Fu all over Japan, how and where to land, how to live, where to die, etc., most of these legends have a long history, and there are even many shrine monuments and special Xu Fu festival days to confirm these legends.
According to legend, the Japanese believe that Xu Fu brought labor (boys and girls), advanced agricultural technology (hundred workers, seeds, agricultural tools), medical techniques, medicines, and whaling techniques to Japan at that time, which promoted the technological development and social progress of Japan at that time, so Xu Fu was revered as "Si Farming God" and "Si Yao God".
Xu Fu could not succeed in the east crossing
Even so, I think it is very unlikely that the Japanese are the offspring of virgin boys and girls brought by Xu Fu.
First of all, Xu Fu was carrying thousands of boys and girls with no chicken power, crossing the vast East China Sea dangerously and unpredictably, tides, typhoons, ocean currents, large waves, undifferentiated courses, large marine creatures that can appear at any time, and any factor may cause this team to hide on the seabed or in the belly of a fish. Not to mention the contradictions with the local indigenous people after landing in Japan, even the difficulties and dangers of opening up the wilderness in a deserted land are unimaginable, and the possibility of establishing the Yamato regime by a team of virgin boys and girls can be imagined.
Secondly, if Xu Fu and the virgin boy and girl really landed in Japan and became the first emperor, why is there no record of a war of unification or a change of dynasty in history? Was it deliberately erased all traces? This operation is too difficult.
As for the origins of the Japanese, most Japanese people have not figured out the three ultimate questions of human beings, "Who am I?", "Where do I come from", and "where I am going". The famous Japanese historian Taro Sakamoto started from the Japanese language and believed that the earliest immigrants in Japan came from Siberia.
The Chinese do not want to share the same roots as the Japanese
Regardless of where the Japanese came from, the likelihood that they were the descendants of the virgin boys and girls brought by Xu Fu was not high.
In addition, I personally believe that from the perspective of national feelings, most Chinese may not want the Japanese to be Chinese immigrants, after all, Japan and China's historical feud has a long history and is difficult to solve. Although today's post-90s and post-00s no longer hate the Japanese as their parents' 50s, 60s and 70s, and most young people will use their own thoughts to reshape the impression of this neighbor, but whether it is history textbooks or film and television drama works, the image of Japan as a country can certainly not be washed away in our hearts.
Chinese patriotic feelings will always come first, and for neighboring Japan, I don't know if everyone will have such a complex: when they encounter Japanese things, they will go to see it, but it is absolutely impossible to have a real feeling for Japan, and those unspeakable crimes will always be engraved in the hearts of Chinese. Even if everyone knows that the Japanese people are different from the Japanese government, they also understand that the living habits, backgrounds, and values of different ethnic groups are different, and we can't use our own values to measure the Japanese people, but it is not so easy for most Chinese people to observe Japan as unsentimentally as possible.