In 2019, a Japanese genetic test report on their own ethnicity appeared that completely upended our perception of the origin of the Japanese people. In the eyes of the Chinese and the Japanese, Xu Fu, who came from the Qin Dynasty in ancient China, has always been recognized as the ancestor of the Japanese, but the ancestors of the Japanese are different people on this test report.
Seofuku is the origin of the legend of the ancestors of the Japanese
In the "Brief History of Japan", it is clearly recorded that Xu Fu once arrived in Japan. This provides a clear answer to whether Xu Fu arrived in Japan. Before that, Xu Fu had gone to sea many times to seek the elixir of immortality for the First Emperor, and the first time was when Xu Fu led three thousand boys and girls and all kinds of necessary daily necessities to the sea.
However, this voyage did not expect a smooth sail in Zhongyi, and after several years, nothing was found, and the legendary elixir was not found. Xu Fu could only return in vain and return to the first emperor.
In 210 B.C., Xu Fu went to sea for the second time and came to the "Plains Hirosawa", which is said to be the predecessor of Japan. After Xu Fu saw the pleasant climate of the place, he may have understood that he could not find the fairy island to seek the elixir, in order to avoid the wrath of the first emperor, Xu Fu immediately decided to settle here and not return to China.
In this way, in many accounts, Xu Fu is considered to be the ancestor of the Japanese, and Xu Fuku, who came to Japan with his belongings, helped the local aborigines to further develop. Therefore, the vast majority of Japanese people have a sense of identity with Xu Fu in their hearts, and think that Xu Fu is their ancestor.
And by establishing a sacrificial place for Xu Fu, November 28 is the day of sacrifice every year. And called Xu Fu a god, a god in charge of agricultural medicine. It can be seen that Xu Fu's status in Japan is high.
There are various theories about the ancestors of the Japanese
Previously, the theory of the origin of the Japanese can be said to be strange, and it is not only Xu Fu's statement. In addition, in the early days, many scholars compared the similarity of bones by detecting skeletal models and genetic sequences to infer the sacred ancestors of the Japanese. The most famous of all the findings is the theory that the Wa originated in Yunnan, China.
The theory that the Japanese originated in Yunnan should be explored from the Japanese title of the Wa nationality. Kenzaburo Torigoshi, a Japanese scholar, was also very interested in the theory of the origin of the Japanese people, so he decided to come to China to have his genetic sequence tested to determine the origin of the Japanese.
Therefore, after carefully comparing the skeletal characteristics and gene sequences of Yunnan people, northern Thai people and other races, Torigoshi Kenzaburo formally put forward the theory of the origin of the Wa people.
This theory holds that the genetic sequences and skeletal characteristics of the Japanese are very similar to those of the Yunnan people, which is direct evidence that the two parties are related. And in order to avoid errors, Kenzaburo Torigoshi repeated several genetic tests and finally determined that Yunnan, China, was the place of origin of the Japanese.
The process of scientific verification is always full of adventures, and the theory proposed by Kenzaburo Torigoshi has already been compared with bones. According to the characteristics of the bones, the Dutch doctor Strepo proposed that there are two major races of Japanese people, the Okinawans and the Ainu.
In the ensuing in-depth research, Japanese scholars Hirai Goro and Hasebe Yan questioned the results of Shi Debo's research, and both believed that there were alien races in early Japan.
In addition, Hasebe's dialect prefers that the Japanese fused with various races at different times to produce offspring, which also led to huge differences in the shape of the skulls of the Japanese at different stages of history. This doctrine happens to provide strong evidence for Kenzaburo Torigoshi's theory of the origin of the Wa people, and it is true that among the ancestors of the Japanese people there were people from Yunnan, China.
It turns out that the genes of the Kofun people are the most important genetic makeup in Japan
In 2019, a public report on the results of genetic tests for Japanese people completely overturned the imagination of their ancestors in Japanese people. In the report, it is openly stated that the ancestors of the Japanese were not Xu Fu from ancient China.
According to the genetic report, there were traces of large-scale human life in Japan long before Xu Fu arrived in Japan, and 71% of the genetic composition of the human race was Burial Mounds.
Comparison of the genetic sequences of the ancient burial people showed that they were genetically identical to those of the ancient people in the Yellow River valley and northern China. This shows that the Burial Burial Folk are the same ancestors as the people of central China today, and that the Burial Burial Folk are former ancient Chinese. As for why they appeared in Japan, it is likely that they arrived in Japan from the Yellow River valley from 250 to 590 BC because of their migration activities.
After arriving in Japan, the Kofun people united with the Yayoi people, who had settled down long ago, and this established the direct kinship of modern Japanese. The emergence of the Kofun people helped to integrate the system and culture of the ancient Japanese with the cultural system of ancient China at that time.
This greatly contributed to the development and progress of Japan at that time. Moreover, due to the relatively stable development of the Japanese mainland in the later period, the genetic sequence of the Kofun people was completely preserved in the body of the Japanese people, constituting the current Japanese people.
Although the Yayoi genes make up a small percentage, the Yayoi people are indispensable to Japan
Although the Yayoi and Jomon people make up only about 29 percent of the Japanese genes, they make up only about 29 percent. However, before the Kofun people came to Japan, these two races were the main constituent races of the ancient Japanese people. More precisely, it was the competition between these two races for survival that contributed to the progress of ancient Japan.
The Jomon people, as the first people to appear in ancient Japan, migrated from the low sea level between continents. After all, according to experts' predictions, the continents at that time were not separated from each other now, but were connected to form a whole continent, but because the continents were divided by movement, they formed the current state of separation.
It was also during this period that the Jomon people came to Japan itself. The Jomon people as a race from Southeast Asia also show that modern Japanese people are genetically connected to Southeast Asia.
Japan suddenly experienced rapid development 3,000 years ago, and a large number of people from mainland Asia came to Japan at the same time. Because it was during the Yayoi period in Japan, this group of people from the northeastern region of ancient China who drifted across the sea were called Yayoi people.
The arrival of the Yayoi people introduced advanced rice cultivation technology to ancient Japan, and due to the strong force value of the Yayoi people, the Jomon people, a native Japanese race who had the upper hand, were driven to the edge of Japan by the Yayoi people and occupied the center of the land themselves.
Moreover, Yayoi not only helped the Japanese improve their planting technology, but also made great achievements in the metallurgical industry. This has also contributed to the development of the local economy in Japan.
Regardless of the race of people, the ancestors of the Japanese have long since fused the genes of many foreign races in the long history of the Japanese to form the modern Japanese.