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Mu Cangyan
Mu Cangyan
preface
From ancient times to the present, people have been looking for their roots and exploring history, so people archeological history, excavation of cultural relics, persistent in tracing the roots of their own culture, but also hope to find their own place of origin, after all, this is related to the cultural inheritance of the nation.
The cultural development of the Chinese nation has been recorded in history books, each of which records the glorious history of civilization of 5,000 years, and China is also the only civilization among the four ancient civilizations without historical faults.
Japan, which is close to the mainland, has also been tracing the origins of the Yamato nation in Japan, because for many years there has been no definitive statement about who the Japanese are descendants.
The Japanese cannot be life born on the island of Japan, because the island of Japan did not exist a long time ago, it appeared only when the continental plate squeezed, and the island of Japan is far from the mainland, so there is almost no chance of human beings, and there are no traces of primitive life on the Japanese islands.
But since Japan's written and spoken language is quite similar to mainland kanji, one has to wonder if the ancestors of the Japanese are related to the mainland.
So this also led to the origin of the Japanese ancestors, and there have been many versions, but the statement that the Japanese ancestors came from China has been quite popular for a long time, and legends have spread that the Japanese are the descendants of the warlock "Xu Fu" during the Qin Dynasty of China.
"Xu Fu said" is popular, also because there is indeed a thing in the history of Xu Fu's eastern crossing, and the historical records also record that Xu Fu led 3,000 boys and girls to the sea and did not return again, and there are many indications that Xu Fu came to the present-day Japanese archipelago and then settled down.
This statement is also recognized by many people in Japan, who enshrine the statue of Xu Fu in the temple, and the incense is constantly burned all year round, and there are even rumors that members of the Japanese royal family have also said that they are the direct descendants of Xu Fu, and other citizens are descendants of virgin boys and girls.
Xu Fu went to sea to find medicine
Since ancient times, China has stood proudly in the east of the world like a lion, since the Spring and Autumn Warring States, until 221 BC King Huanzheng unified the six kingdoms and established the Qin Empire, which is the earliest central dynasty in China, and Yingzheng is also known as "Qin Shi Huang".
The contribution established by Qin Shi Huang is excellent, but he is not exempt from customs, Qin Shi Huang won the government to single-handedly pacify the princely states, and after sitting on the throne, he enjoyed supreme power and glory and wealth, which also made him reluctant to leave.
The older he gets, the more Qin Shi Huang can feel the panic brought by the years. He gradually became fascinated by all kinds of immortal claims, and posted notices to find talented people in the world to refine the elixir for him.
Xu Fu was born in the State of Qi, he was also a closed disciple of Ghost Guzi, he learned some square arts under Ghost Guzi, and also learned astronomy, geography, navigation and other knowledge, until after Ghost Guzi's death, he embarked on the road of travel.
At this time, Xu Fu was also 40 years old, and Qin Shi Huang also fulfilled his dream of unifying the six kingdoms at this time, and Xu Fu heard that Qin Shi Huang wanted the elixir of life, so Xu Fu entered the palace and told Qin Shi Huang that the three places of Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou were places where immortals lived, and there was an elixir there.
Xu Fu indicated that he was willing to help Qin Shi Huang to find the immortals who lived on the mountain and seek the elixir of immortality for him, and the first emperor listened to Longyan Dayue and gave him the name "Xu Fu", which means to bring blessings to the Qin Dynasty, and also gave him a lot of manpower and material resources to set out to seek medicine.
Xu Fu first set sail in 219 BC and spent several years searching for it, but found nothing. The scam will one day be exposed, and Xu Fu will not be able to find such a non-existent elixir with all his life's efforts.
Xu Fusheng was afraid that Kaihuang would blame himself, so he defended himself: "Penglai has immortal medicine to find, but he was blocked by a mackerel. Qin Shi Huang begged for medicine, believed him again, and sent an army to kill this mackerel for him, clearing the way for Xu Fu to go to sea again to find medicine.
Xu Fu went to sea for the second time in 210 BC, and this time he made many unreasonable requests to Qin Shi Huang. He said, "I will offer a batch of precious jewels and other things to the immortals, and I will also need three thousand boys and girls, with which the immortals can grant us the elixir of immortality." ”
Qin Shi Huang once again believed that what Xu Fu said was true, and he met Xu Fu's request. Xu Fu smoothly took away a large number of advanced tools, precious jewelry, 3,000 boys and girls, and many skilled craftsmen from the Qin Dynasty. But until his death, Qin Shi Huang did not wait for Xu Fu to bring back his elixir of life.
Xu Fu arrives in Japan
"The Orthodox Records of the God Emperor" was written by ministers during the Southern Dynasty of Japan, and there is also a record of Xu Fu's arrival in Japan, and the book also shows that Xu Fu made great contributions to the development of early Japanese society and was deeply loved by the Japanese people.
At that time, when Xu Fu fled to the Japanese island, there were already many indigenous people on the island, but unlike the Qin Dynasty, the indigenous people on the island were still extremely backward, and it can be said that the Dongying Island at that time was a large barbarian land.
At this time, it was also during the Warring States period in Japan, and the society was in turmoil. The agriculture, medicine, and smelting technologies he brought were all the most advanced technologies of the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Japanese appreciated his great contribution to Japanese society, and enshrined Xufu in a shrine, and sacrifices were held every major festival.
However, from the records of Japanese classics, it can also be understood that before Xu Fu came to Japan, there was already his own country and civilization, and even the emperor, which shows that Xu Fu is not the ancestor of the Japanese.
Xu Fu brought the culture, medicine, smelting and other technologies of the Qin Dynasty to Japan, and also brought them advanced agriculture, medicine, and textile industries. These three advanced technology experiences fill the gap in the Barbarian Lands.
The most advanced technology of the Qin Dynasty brought by Xu Fu also changed Japan's economy and culture. Taking them from the beginnings of fishing and hunting to growing crops, the boom in agriculture pushed Japan into a new era.
At the same time, according to Japanese historical records, because the time of Xu Fu's eastern journey to Japan was not long after the time when Japan's first emperor ascended the throne, many Japanese also believe that Xu Fu is the ancestor of the Japanese.
Traces of Xu Fu's existence can be found in many places in Japan, and there is also Xu Fu's tombstone in Shingu City, where a ceremony to commemorate Xu Fu is held every year, and the Xu Fu Festival has lasted for five hundred years, and many Japanese believe that they are descendants of Xu Fu.
Japan ancestry truth
But with the development of science and technology, the birth of DNA technology solved many historical problems, and after research, it was confirmed that Xu Fu was not the true ancestor of the Japanese at all, and biologically, their ancestors should be Jomon and Yayoi.
Several biologists at the University of Tokyo in Japan have also studied this, comparing the DNA of Jomon, Yayoi and now Japanese, and found that there are many similar sequences in the DNA of the three, and they have also concluded that modern Japanese are formed by the fusion of multiple ethnic groups, not the descendants of a single race.
The Jomon are believed to be the first inhabited ethnic group in Japan. Their ancestors came to Japan from the Asian continent 38,000 to 18,000 years ago and are now mainly found in Hokkaido, Honshu Island and the Ryukyu Islands.
In Yayoi Town, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, a group of people living on the Japanese island between 3000 BC and 1500 BC were discovered. They are called "Yayoi". Eventually the examination revealed that the Yayoi were also from the Asian continent. They migrated to the Japanese archipelago, but they arrived later than the Jomon people.
By comparing and analyzing the structure of the DNA of ancient Jomon and modern Japanese, scientists found that there is a discontinuity in the mitochondrial DNA of the chromosomes of ancient Jomon and modern Japanese, which means that genes from other races may be involved in the process of gene fusion of Jomon people.
In 2019, Japan's National Museum of Nature and Nature released a study showing that the majority of Japan's population today is descended from the Yayoi people. It is speculated that after the Yayoi came to Japan, there may have been a large-scale war with the Jomon people, and as a result, the Jomon people were defeated, so after the two merged, the Yamato nation was born.
So where did the Jomon and Yayoi originate? To find out, scientists extracted DNA from the remains of residents of the Jomon and Yayoi periods, concluding that the Jomon people most likely originated in northeastern Asia, while the Yayoi people originated in northern China or northern Asia.
Although technology tells us that the ancestors of the Japanese are not Xu Fu, some data also confirm that perhaps some Japanese originates in China, because 1% of the Japanese genes are similar to the Han Chinese people, and most of these 1% are from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
And the group of young boys and girls that Xu Fu brought to Dongying back then were almost all local boys and girls in Yunnan, so this one percent may be the bloodline of Xu Fu and the thousands of people he brought with him.
At the same time, from the current people's appearance, it can be seen that although the Japanese and Chinese belong to the yellow race, they are not completely similar, the Japanese are generally short, and so far they have not changed the genes of the Japanese who are not tall, and their facial features are also more prominent.
epilogue
Many people in Japan expressed their unacceptability for such a certain survey, they felt that their blood was pure and noble, but they did not expect that it was indeed a "mixed" type.
Therefore, some Japanese people try to avoid this result, willing to believe that they are the descendants of Chinese, but they have not thought about whether they want to have descendants like Chinese.
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