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When it comes to Japan, I believe we are all strangers to us, as our neighbors, they are very close to us.
Japan is the country of Japan, its capital is Tokyo, located on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, and the overall shape of Japan is a house type that extends from the northeast to the southwest.
In life, many people call Japan an island country, and it is not for nothing that the whole of Japan is made up of the four large islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, as well as more than 6,800 small islands.
Japan is composed of 1 capital, 1 province, 2 prefectures and 43 prefectures, with a total land area of 378,000 square meters, which is about the same size as Yunnan Province on the mainland.
The total population of Japan is 124.43 million people, the main ethnic group is the Yamato people, the language is Japanese, in addition to the Yamato people, there is also a part of the Ainu people in Japan, distributed in Hokkaido There are about 25,000 people.
I believe we can all understand that the Japanese actually have a great relationship with the Chinese, because the Chinese and the Japanese are very similar in appearance, living habits, height, body shape and other aspects, and many times if people from the two countries appear at the same time, they cannot distinguish their nationality without speaking.
As a nation, we all want to know about our ancestors, and the Japanese are no exception, and there are many historical records about the introduction of Japanese ancestors, so who are the ancestors of the Japanese, and whether it has anything to do with China, let's find out today.
1. The legend of Xu Fu's eastward crossing
Speaking of Xu Fu, I believe many people don't know this person, but there is a story about the ancestors of the Japanese in him.
In the history of the mainland, there has always been a saying about Yingzhou, Penglai, and the abbot, and these human societies have a vision of a better life, and it is said that in ancient times, there were immortals living in the three places, and there were "home remedies" for immortality.
We all know that ancient kings had two wishes, the first is to hope that their country will last forever, and the second is to hope that they will live forever.
"Long live" and "immortal home remedies" coincide, which makes many emperors want to find Penglai Prefecture.
Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang was one of those who sought the elixir of immortality, and he was obsessed with finding such an elixir and sent people to find it.
Finding the elixir of immortality is a very important thing, and he must find a subordinate of his own relatives, so he valued Xu Fu, according to legend, Xu Fu is the descendant of Guiguzi, whether it is astronomy, geography or literary encyclopedia, there is nothing he doesn't know.
In 219 BC, Xu Fu set out from Langya under the instruction of Qin Shi Huang and began the road of searching for medicine, but this is a myth after all, he can only return in vain, but he knows that going back will face huge consequences, but this is not difficult for Xu Fu.
As expected, Qin Shi Huang was furious, he was very dissatisfied with Xu Fu not finding the elixir, Xu Fu according to his own plan, and Qin Shi Huang said that he had already found the elixir, but because there were many sharks around the elixir, the ship could not get close to half a minute.
This made Qin Shi Huang overjoyed, he had no time to care about the truth of this news, and desperately hoped that the elixir would come to his mouth immediately.
Xu Fu went to sea for the second time under the instruction of Qin Shi Huang, and brought 3,000 boys and girls and many hundreds of laborers with him, in addition to personnel, he also carried a lot of food. The seeds of the five grains and various living utensils were used to allow him to bring back the elixir smoothly.
However, Xu Fu never came back, there are many legends about Xu Fu, some people think that he died a long time ago, but more scholars believe that he brought so many materials just to live outside, so it is likely that he chose to take these people to settle in Japan.
From the historical records, it is very likely that Xu Fu settled in Japan, and it is likely that today's Japanese are the descendants of Xu Fu and the many people Xu Fu brought with him.
2. Introduction to Japanese ancestors
There are actually many things about the ancestors of the Japanese, especially the current Chinese, the Japanese still have Koreans and Koreans, although the people of these four countries belong to Asia, but there are too many similarities between them.
This makes many people have to speculate that the ancestors of the Japanese have a great relationship with the Chinese and Koreans.
As early as 2021, some Japanese scholars have done research on these issues and published academic papers.
The paper shows that the ancestors of the Japanese were indigenous people of Japan, and that these indigenous people did not come from China.
They identify as the Japanese Okinawans indigenous to Japan, and these people are not tall, and their faces are very typical of Japanese, and their skin color, lip shape, and beard shape can be said to be representative of the Japanese people.
Although these people are not good-looking, they do have a lot of similarities with the appearance of the Japanese, these so-called Japanese natives.
According to the analysis of scholars, these people should have lived in Southeast Asia themselves, came to Japan later, and became indigenous to Japan after a long period of reproduction.
The discussion about Japanese ancestors has never stopped.
3. The latest research on Japanese ancestors
The Japanese have never stopped tracking the question of their ancestors, whether it is the ancient legend of Xu Fudongdu or the analysis of various kinship relations in Japan, it is not a more scientific statement, and now through some scientific statements, scholars have a new view.
On April 17, 2024, the Japan Institute of Liberal Studies announced a new study on Japanese ancestors, which gives many Japanese another way to say about ancestors.
According to a study by the Institute of Physics and Chemistry in Japan, they have found a new theory about the ancestors of Japanese people after studying the genes of 3,200 modern Japanese people.
It is worth mentioning that for this research, Japanese scholars have put a lot of effort into it, and they are worried about affecting the results of the study, and the selection of more than 3,000 volunteers is also very strict, which is through the selection of people distributed throughout the country, not in one region.
In addition, the selected Japanese must be indigenous to Japan, and they must not be mixed-race, or their own generations must not be mixed-race.
Through the careful selection of volunteers, as well as the precise control of the experimental process, and based on the results of the experiment based on facts, several more objective statements were finally obtained.
According to the genes provided by these 3,200 volunteers, their ancestors can be roughly divided into three categories: the first group is the Okinawan people who gather in the Okinawa area, the second group is the Kansai family living in the Kanto region of Japan, and the third group is the Tohoku family living in the Tohoku region of Japan.
The theory of the Okinawan system has been circulating in Japan for a long time, and after this research, the new theories are mainly different theories of the Kansai system and the Tohoku system.
For the study of the Kansai and Tohoku systems, it can be seen that these two types of people have a great relationship with China, and some people even boldly suggest that these people may be Chinese who lived in Japan in the early years.
Through the study of human figures and the comparison of bones, it is found that the Kansai system is very similar to the Han people living in the Yellow River valley on the mainland.
It is important to know that the Yellow River Basin on the mainland is the origin of Chinese culture, and the development of the Yellow River Basin has a great relationship with the current Chinese culture, and the human civilization in the Yellow River Basin is also an indispensable force in the long river of mankind.
It is not difficult to conclude from this statement that the ancestors of Japan are likely to be Han Chinese in the Yellow River Valley, but it is not certain when the descendants of the Chinese who came to Japan and reproduced.
The study of the Tohoku line is very complex, and the genetic genealogy in their bodies is more complex than that of the Okinawan line and the Western lineage, and the Tohoku lineage is more complex, and although their life position is fixed, the genes in their bodies are mixed.
The complexity of the genes suggests that the ancestors of these people may have traveled through many regions before settling in Japan, so the genes in this generation reflect a mixed picture.
Based on the genes of the Tohoku lineage, scholars have deduced that the ancestors of these people probably came from the Korean Peninsula, and after living in Japan, they married and reproduced offspring with local Japanese people, which is why the current genetic mixture is present.
It is not known that there is no trace of these Korean Peninsula people in Japanese life, and as for why they disappeared, it is not known why.
summary
From the article, it is clear that Japan is different from China, which has a long history and a clear understanding of our own ancestors.
Whether it is our ancestors, culture or history, we can clearly record that in the development of history, although we have experienced a difficult time, we still rely on our own strength and perseverance in the forest of the world's nations, and have a unique position.
On the other hand, the Japanese have been struggling to find their ancestors, whether it is using various scientific methods, using genes to find their ancestors, or searching through various materials and historical books, all of which reflect that the Japanese are very eager to know who their ancestors are.
For Japan, they already have a long history, but the search for ancestors has never stopped, and many issues may not need to be taken so seriously, but for the problems of ancestors, Japan has never given up.
The recognition of ancestors may not be a big deal for many people, and it may not affect our lives, but for a nation, how this nation came to be and how it evolved, it plays an important role in the development of the country and the reproduction of the race.
Whether it is the legend of Xu Fu's eastward crossing, or their relationship with the Han people in the Yellow River valley of China, etc., the Japanese have repeatedly studied and scrutinized how credible they are.
With the progress of science, the pursuit of ancestors of the Japanese people is also constantly changing, so who are the ancestors of Japan, science and folklore, when will they be able to give the most accurate statement, let's wait and see.