In the Liangshan Yi area of Sichuan, there is still such a legend, it is said that in the Qin Shi Huang period, Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng in order to find the elixir of life, killed a lot of Yi people, the Yi people have a person named Ge Adu Bija is very smart, knows astronomy, knows geography, he in order to save the Yi people, came up with a way, Ge A Tu Bi Ja said that in today's Japan (ancient known as the Uighur Kingdom) there is an elixir of immortality, but because of the long distance, looking for immortal medicine is a long-term job, I hope that Qin Shi Huang sent 500 virgins and 500 virgins (500 samurai in some areas) to search for them together, and they needed to bring some seeds, and later settled in Japan because they did not find the elixir of immortality, and became today's Japan...
Japanese historians have found through the study of historical materials and the investigation of the Liangshan Yi places in China that in addition to the similarity of writing and customs to the Liangshan Yi people in Sichuan Province, China, the local Yi people have an inexplicable sense of familiarity with the Japanese language. What is even more surprising is that Japanese historians are also familiar with the pronunciation of the Yi people. Even more coincidentally, some of the pronunciations in Japanese are exactly the same as those in the Yi language, and the Yi people can also understand a small number of Japanese. All these coincidences have forced Japanese historians to wonder, are these similarities really just coincidences? Or is there any connection between Japan and the Liangshan Yi people? The Yi people are also very curious about this, although some Japanese pronunciation is the same as the Yi language, but it is not exactly like the Yi language. Why is that? In recent years, there has been a new theory that Japanese experts believe that the Liangshan Yi people in Sichuan are their ancestors.
The reason why Japanese historians are more firm in believing that the birthplace of Japan is the Liangshan Yi region is not the similarities mentioned above, but the similarities in the ancient writing and costume customs unique to the Liangshan Yi region. Even the traditional hairstyles of the Yi people have great similarities with the current customs of Japan. This can't help but make people more convinced that Japan has a certain relationship with the Liangshan Yi people. Let's talk about the similarities between the Liangshan Yi people in Sichuan and the Japanese from these aspects.
1. Words and language
From the comparative study of the "pictograms" between the Yi script and the Japanese script, it was finally found that the two scripts "looked like a god", which obviously had a certain internal connection. Studies have found that the Yi people can understand part of the Japanese language. I have to admit that the pronunciation and meaning of some Yi languages are exactly the same as those in Japanese.
Yi
Japanese
2. Clothing
The national costumes of the Yi people, focusing on abstract depictions of nature, are some figures extracted from life and nature, made of various fabrics, gold and silver, with bold, passionate national characteristics. The author knows too much about Japanese kimono culture, and feels that the hidden influence of the Yi costume culture is an expression of the spirit of nature's pictograms and tears, and the two costumes give people a general choice, and the reflection of the division of two small concept areas seems to have met and is plausible.
Yi costumes
Japanese costumes
3. Hairstyle
The Heavenly Bodhisattva of the Yi man has the cultural connotation of conquering nature with high power and might, and the sideburns on the head of the Japanese samurai also appear to have the desire to conquer, and the two national hairstyles show the common ground and think too much faith and glory.
Yi people heavenly bodhisattva
Japanese Samurai
4. Customs
The most famous festival in the Liangshan Yi area is the Torch Festival, which is a custom that has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, and Japan actually has a festival that has been passed down for a long time, called "Fire Festival", and the two seem to have some relationship.
Liangshan Yi Torch Festival
Japanese Fire Festival
5. Funeral
The Yi people are a fire nation, the Yi people have a proverb that says: born by the fire pond, died on the fire, so the Yi people are a people who live and die from the fire, the traditional funeral customs of the Liangshan Yi people are cremation, according to the time calculation of the auspicious sunrise funeral on the mountain cremation, the men in the family use clothes to tie the hands and feet of the deceased, cover the face with a white cloth, and then lift the mountain for cremation.
6. Physical characteristics
From the appearance of the Yi and Japanese Yamato peoples, the facial features are prominent and the eyes are cold and penetrating.