"The rain is continuous during the Qingming Festival, and the wanderers remember their ancestors. "It's the Qingming season again, and many wanderers who are out of town have returned to their hometowns to sweep the tombs and worship their ancestors. Chinese pay attention to a "root", "ancestor" concept is very important in China, the Chinese people call themselves the descendants of Yanhuang, and Japan, which is across the sea from us, also cares about this, all call themselves Xu Fu descendants, think that their first emperor Emperor Jimmu is Xu Fu, and is this really the case? The revelation of DNA makes it difficult for the Japanese to accept.
秦始皇求长生，徐福东渡寻仙药
Speaking of which, I have to talk briefly about Xu Fu first. After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries and sat firmly in the world, he began to worry about his lifespan, so he searched for talented people in the world to find the elixir of immortality.
At this time, Xu Fu wrote to Qin Shi Huang, saying that there are three immortal mountains in the sea: Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou, and as long as you can climb these three mountains and visit the immortals, it will be very easy to obtain the elixir of immortality.
Now it seems that this is just nonsense, but at that time, Qin Shi Huang was convinced of Xu Fu's words, and after preparing for a long time, he spent countless manpower, material and financial resources, and sent Xu Fu to lead thousands of boys and girls on the road to find immortals and ask for medicine.
In fact, not only Qin Shi Huang, before Qin Shi Huang was unified, the monarchs of Qi and Yan were King Qi Xuan, King Yan Zhao, and King Qi Wei successively sent people into these three immortal islands to explore the miracle medicine, which is also recorded in the "Historical Records" "Ziwei, Xuan, and Yan Zhao made people enter the sea to seek Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou." The three gods of the mountain, their Fu in the Bohai, not far away, the trouble comes, the wind will lead away. Cover the taste, all the immortals and the medicine of immortality are there. ”
There is also a reason why there are many fairy islands on the sea, because mirages mostly occur in the sea and in the desert, the desert is inhuman, so it is naturally difficult to be discovered, and there are many coastal residents, and it is difficult to explain why there are magnificent palaces on the sea with the theoretical knowledge at that time.
In this way, under the momentum of the people with hearts, it gradually evolved into the sea inhabited by immortals, and these ethereal scenes are the places where the immortals are.
In 219 BC, with the ardent expectations of Qin Shi Huang, Xu Fu set off with a majestic boy and a girl, and the results were self-evident.
But Qin Shi Huang did not give up, and nine years later, Xu Fu once again embarked on a journey to seek immortals and ask for medicine.
But this time Xu Fu didn't come back, and no one knows where he went.
Xu Fu: Disappeared from Chinese history and appeared in Japanese history
China has no historical records, but it does not want to find the figure of Xu Fu in Japan's "History of Japan", which clearly states that Xu Fu came to Japan in the 72nd year of Emperor Xiaoling.
The strongest evidence that the Japanese believe that Xu Fu is their ancestor is that the Japanese culture seems to have installed an accelerator after Xu Fu crossed to the east, and suddenly entered the Yayoi culture period from the Neolithic Age, and the planting technology, breeding technology, and smelting technology have been qualitatively improved.
At that time, the most prosperous agricultural civilization was our Chinese civilization, and Xu Fu was sent by Qin Shi Huang to ask for medicine, and there were naturally not a few skilled craftsmen who followed, and it is no wonder that the Japanese recognized Xu Fu as their ancestor.
Many Japanese also worship Xu Fu as the god of agriculture and medicine, and the younger brother of Emperor Hirohito once publicly stated that "Xu Fu is the father of our Japanese nation."
What's more, they believe that Xu Fu is their first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
The origin of Emperor Jimmu is mentioned in the Nihon Shoki, and Emperor Jimmu led a fleet of thousands of people to the east and settled down to establish a country.
This description is undoubtedly the same as the description of Xu Fu leading thousands of boys and girls to the east to ask for medicine.
It was also after Emperor Jimmu that Japanese characters that were very similar to Chinese characters gradually appeared, and although the development of agriculture and breeding was still slow, it was slowly on the right track.
But conjecture is always conjecture, and it does not become the truth just because there are many people who believe it.
DNA comparison shows that the ancestors of the Japanese are different
With the development of DNA technology, technicians compared the DNA of Japanese and Chinese, and the results showed that there was no kinship between the two.
It is true that some of the genes of the Japanese come from the Han nationality in the north of the mainland, but they account for less than 10%, and if Xu Fu is really the ancestor of Japan, the genetic similarity will not be so low.
Further research on Japanese genes found that the proportion of genes of the ancient people was extremely high, that is, the proportion of genes of the people of the Bun and the people of the Monkey was higher than that of the Han people in the north.
In fact, as early as 1958, some early human skeletal remains were found near the Japanese island of Okinawa, and it was determined that they were the indigenous people who settled here 10,000 years ago, that is, the Kinabi people, who accounted for part of Japan's genes.
With the development of technology, people have also restored the appearance of the men of the Kinawa literati, and the appearance of their short head and round face is still very obvious.
The legend is difficult to prove!
The results of this series of studies have completely changed the perception of Japanese people, but it is not surprising when you think about it.
According to Japanese legend, the first emperor of Japan, Emperor Jimmu, established the state of Japan on February 11, 660 B.C., and whether it is the first eastward crossing of Xu Fu in 219 B.C. or the second eastward crossing nine years later, it is difficult to connect with the Japanese state established by Xu Fu in the legend 100 years earlier.
If a legend is always a legend and its credibility is unknown, then how much credibility are the many records about Xu Fu?
Japan did not have the habit of recording historical facts, but learned it through the dispatch of Tang envoys during the Sui and Tang dynasties, in other words, Japan's official historical records record that more than 800 years have passed since Xu Fu's eastward crossing.
Source: Bless it!
In fact, another major reason that supported the Japanese to believe that Xu Fu was their ancestor could not be ruled out as deliberate by the Japanese emperor at that time.
At that time, China was strong and advanced in civilization, and at that time, Japan was only a small country dependent on a big country, and in order to survive better, it had to seek the blessing of a big country, and China, which was facing the sea, naturally became their first choice.
As the most powerful emperor in Japan, he recognized himself as the descendant of Xu Fu, and the people below slowly accepted this concept, from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the present, the concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
For the Japanese, they needed someone to tell them where they came from, someone to explain the reasons for the rapid development from the Neolithic to the Yayoi period, and a person to express their emotions, and Xu Fuku, who crossed the east, was chosen to become that person.
On the one hand, there is no way to study the wild history, and on the other hand, there is DNA comparison data supported by science and technology, and it is clear at a glance that the Japanese do not believe it.
It is undeniable that the Japanese and the Chinese are inextricably linked because of trade and population migration, but they are by no means the descendants of Xu Fu as the Japanese say.