The story of Xu Fu's eastward crossing to Japan is widely known in both China and Japan, and there are several temples dedicated to Xu Fu in Japan. There have even been rumors that the first emperor of Japan, Emperor Shenmu, was Xu Fu. Of course, these are not seen in the history, just legends, but it is an indisputable fact that Japanese culture comes from the Central Plains, and Japan never hides it, but is proud of it.
Not only are there cultural ties between China and Japan, but the japanese imperial family has always been known to have come from Chinese mainland. In ancient Chinese and Japanese literature, there are records that the emperor was a descendant of Wu Taibo in the Spring and Autumn Period.
The Wei Luo compiled by the Wei state historian Yu Feng during the Three Kingdoms period records that the Wu people were "men of no size, all whale-faced and tattooed." Smell its old language, call yourself after Tabor. Later, the "Jinshu Wuren Biography" recorded: "There are 70,000 Japanese households, men of all sizes, all whale-faced and tattooed, smelling their old language, calling themselves after Tabor." In the Book of Liang, it is written: "The Wu people have been after Yun Taibo." Sima Guang of Song's Zizhi Tongjian Yun: "After Wu Taibo of Benyouyun today, Wu Wu died, and his branch entered the sea as a widow. The scholar Jin Luxiang of the late Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty mentioned in the "Preface to the General Commentary" compiled by him: "Wu Taibo to Fu Cha twenty-fifth, after the current country and Wu Taibo, Gai Wu died and his branch went into the sea as a widow." ”
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"Old language" refers to the "ancient Wu language", "倭人" refers to the "Wu people", "倭" is the harmonic sound of "Wu" in the ancient language; "whale face tattoo" refers to the traditional living customs of the "Wu people". The account in the Wei Luo book comes from the account of Zhang Zheng, a Wei man during the Three Kingdoms period, who was appointed by the imperial court as an envoy to Japan. The authenticity of this historical material has been recognized by the Chinese and Japanese historians.
According to the Japanese history books Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, Emperor Shinmu was the first emperor of Japan, and it is said that Emperor Shinmu came from "Takatenbara". According to Japanese archaeologists, "Takatenhara" refers to the ancient Wu kingdom. Because according to the meaning of the ancient Wu language and the ancient Japanese, "Gao Tianyuan" refers to "a place higher than heaven", that is, the "Wu" character of "the mouth is in the sky, and the heavens are in heaven", which represents the kingdom of Wu. In ancient times, the founding anniversary of Japan and the birth anniversary of the ancestor Wu Taibo were the same day of the same month, both on the ninth day of the first lunar month, until the time of Emperor Meiji of Japan, which was changed to February 11 of the current solar calendar.
In Japan, there has always been a "Emperor Taibo saying", which means that the ancestor of the emperor is Wu Taibo. In the eighth century AD, in the "New Surname List" compiled in the Nara period of Japan, 30% of Japanese surnames claimed that they originated in China and were after a certain Chinese surname, which included the record of "Matsuno, after Wu Wangfucha, this Wu people came to me at the beginning", they came to Japan and lived in Matsukogen, so they later changed their surnames to Matsuno. A famous figure of the Matsuno clan was Shigemoto Matsuno, who was loyal to the Toyotomi family during the Battle of Sekigahara and did not defect to Tokugawa Ieyasu with his lord Hayakawa Hideaki, so he became known for his loyalty.
In the fourteenth century during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of Japan, the Linji Sect monk NakaiWa Full Moon, who had come to China to study Buddhism, said in his private compilation of the Nihon Chronicle: "The country is always honored as after Wu Taibo. The book was later banned from circulation and burned. However, the Japanese Lin Shu still insisted when writing the "General Book of the Dynasty": "The ancestor of Japan, Wu Taibo Zhiyinye. ”
In his essay "Treatise on Emperor Shenmu" written by the Edo period, the Great Rurin Roshan of the Edo period said, "Taibo escaped from Jingba,...... His descendants came to build the Purple ,...... The descendants of the Ji clan can be a hundred generations, and the ten thousand generations are kings, and they are not also prosperous! Although the mighty Wu of His majesty was destroyed by Yue, the treasure of our state was infinite in heaven and earth, so the more he believed in the supreme virtue of Taibo. This means that Wu Taibo escaped from the land of Jingba and came to the Chikushi region of Japan, and the descendants of the Ji clan can become monarchs for generations, which is really very prosperous! Although the powerful State of Wu was destroyed by the State of Yue, the Wu people came to our country, so the guozuo of our country could be passed on endlessly, so it was even more believed that Wu Taibo had great virtue. The Ji clan mentioned in the text is the surname of Wu Taibo, which shows that Lin Luoshan is proud that the Japanese are descendants of Wu Taibo.
The Japanese scholar Fuji Sadakan, who was a contemporary of Lin Luoshan, not only confirmed the historical facts of Wu's eastward crossing to Japan in his book "Okiguchi Fa", but even directly said that Wu Taibo was the father of Emperor Shenwu.
Before the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese scholar Matsushita Mibayashi also said in his book "Biography of Japan with Different Names": "At the time of Wu, his king Ji surnamed Ji was exiled to Japan, which was the beginning of the founding of Japan. ”
Since Wu Guo is the surname of Ji and the surname of the Yellow Emperor, Japan claims to be a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, which shows that the ancient Japanese were very eager to be accepted by China, and even wanted to integrate into China.
In ancient Sino-Japanese exchanges, the Japanese who came to China always emphasized that they were "after Tabor", the purpose of which was to tell Chinese that they were also a Chinese lineage, with the same culture as the Central Plains, not barbarians. In the "Answer to the Question" composed by the envoys of the Uighurs in the Song Dynasty when they came to pay tribute, it was written: "The country is better than the Central Plains, and the people are the same as the ancients." The Tang dynasty system, the Lile Han monarch. "It's the true embodiment of this mentality.
So who is Wu Taibo, who is regarded as the ancestor of the Japanese?
Wu Taibo, also known as Taibo, was the uncle of King Wen of Zhou, who moved to the land of Jingman in order to give up the throne, calling himself "Gou Wu", was the first monarch of the Wu kingdom and the ancestor of Wu culture.
According to the records of the historical materials of China and Japan, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Yue fought for hegemony, and Wu Wang Fuchai was destroyed by the Yue King' Gou Jian. In order to preserve the bloodline from extinction, the Wu clan crossed the east by boat and fled to Japan, which was across the sea.
When the Wu people set foot on the Japanese archipelago, the first to arrive was the Chikushi Kingdom in the Kyushu region, when Japan was in the late Jomon Period, and the Japanese scholars Such as Toritsu Kensaburo and Nishimo Tsuneo assumed that the Wu people's east crossing occurred around 450 BC to 400 BC, which coincided with the Wu-Yue struggle for hegemony.
China's advanced agricultural technology, smelting technology, silkworm farming, silk weaving and other handicraft technology and Wuyue culture also came to Japan with the footsteps of the Wu people's migration, which effectively promoted the development of Japan's economy and culture.
In the pre-Qin period, "倭" did not refer to Japan, when the Huaxia people called the Jingman region where southern Wuyue was located "倭", because "倭" and "Wu" were consonant in Wu, so they could also be called "Wu", and today's Shanghainese "倭" and "Wu" are a pronunciation, such as "倭寇" pronounced "wukou".
Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty's "On Heng and The Restoration of the Kingdom" records: "When he became a king, yue offered pheasants and paid tribute to the Wu people." It can be seen that when King Zhou Cheng was a king, Wu and Yue were all guides to Fang Jingman's natives.
Japan calls itself Yamato, and the word "倭" is pronounced "yamato" in Japanese as "yamato", which is the "evil Matai Kingdom" recorded in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, who interacted with the Wei state and received the title of "Pro-Wei Wu King" given by Emperor Wei Ming and the "evil Matai Kingdom" with a golden seal.
During the Wu Zetian period, the name of the kingdom was changed to Japan, but it still called itself Yamato internally. By the time of Emperor Yuanming, the female emperor replaced the word "倭" with the word "he" and prefixed it with the word "dai" to show grandeur, and from then on, Japan began to call it "Yamato".
In today's Japanese dictionaries, the Kanji "倭" can also be pronounced as "yamato". In Japanese, the pronunciation of "Yamato" is also "yamato", and the pronunciation of "Yamato" in Japanese is also "yamato", and the Yamamon area of Kyushu, Japan, is the original Chikushi Kingdom, which is the area where the Wu people first arrived when they crossed to Japan, that is, where the ancestors of the Wu people of the Matsuno clan were located.
Therefore, "倭" is "Wu", that is, "Yamato", from which we can see the relationship between the Wu people and Japan.
To this day, there are still many Descendants of the Wu people who retain their own blood memories and retain the Wu character in the surname, and many of the japanese surnames such as "Wu", "Wu Ren", "Wu Yu", "Wu Fu", "Wu Han", "Wu Fubu" and many other surnames are descendants of the Wu people. For example, Dr. Wu Wenbing, a famous contemporary Japanese economist and dean of the School of Economics at Nihon University, and Wu Wencong, a Japanese statistician and "father of the national census", are all descendants of Wu surname.
The cultural and kinship between Japan and China exists not only in historical records, but also in science. According to the analysis and research of tens of thousands of Japanese men and women in counties and cities in 280 years, such as Dr. Yanjin Tanibe, a famous japanese anthropologist parent, the source of the Japanese race mainly comes from the Wuyue ethnic group along the coast of Chinese mainland. After years of research, the Nanjing Museum of China also announced on April 4, 1999 that they had achieved a scientific research result, that is, it had been preliminarily proved that the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China were the origin of the Watarai people in the Yayoi period of Japan. The Yayoi period was roughly around the time of the Qin unification of China, and the Watanabes were immigrants from the East Asian continent.

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Although Japan has long claimed to be a descendant of Taibo in history, it has not learned from Wu Taibo's high righteousness and great virtues, but instead, as Zhu Shunshui, the Great Confucian of Dongdu, said, "the meaning is narrow and partial", the personality is paranoid, the behavior is obedient, and it lacks leniency. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan became strong and prosperous, but China's national power declined, but instead of feeding back China, Japan intended to annex and carry out brutal aggression and killing against China.
Wuxi in Jiangsu, China, is the hometown of Wu Taibo, and Senator Eiichi Matsumoto of Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan once made a special trip to the ancestral land of Wuxi Meicun to pay homage to the ancestors, claiming to be a descendant of Taibo. Before the invasion of China, Wuxi's GDP was second in China, second only to Shanghai, but the Japanese burned and looted in Wuxi, and a torch burned the bustling Beitang commercial street. Treating the cultural motherland and the ancestral land they claim to be in this way, the Japanese can do it! In the Chinese conception, this kind of disobedience is unforgivable and unforgivable, so Chinese hate the Japanese invaders even more than the Western powers.
In order to strengthen its aggression against China, Japan forced the out-of-power warlord Wu Peifu to come out and take up a puppet post. However, although this talented Wu Dashuai was a feudal warlord, he was also a typical traditional Chinese scholar, who had a high character and emphasized five virtues, and refused to give the Western beauty who took the initiative to give her a hug with a sentence of "the old wife is still there". How can a person who does not abandon his wife betray the motherland? The unreasonable demands of the Japanese were strictly rejected by him. He also moved out the Wu clan genealogy, pointing out that he was the same generation as The Meiji Emperor of Japan, the 121st grandson of Wu Taibo, and the great-uncle of Emperor Hirohito at that time! Faced with the black and white words on the family tree, the Japanese were very annoyed but had nothing to say, and in the end, the emperor's uncle was murdered by those vicious "descendants of Taibo".
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When China was strong, the Japanese called themselves "Taibo descendants", whether true or false, and strongly recognized Huaxia as a clan relative. But as soon as the strong and weak were transposed, they immediately turned their faces and regarded the historical blood ties with China as a disgrace. The Japanese Imperial Household Agency has always not allowed archaeological excavations of the ancient tombs of the Japanese Imperial Family in order to cover up this connection. This is in line with an old Chinese saying: the white horse is red and red, and it is not the relatives who force them to kiss. Once the horse dies and the gold is exhausted, the relatives are like strangers!
Now with the development of China, the Japanese people have begun to change their faces again, and when the veteran Japanese singer Shinji Tanimura came to China, he said: "I really feel incredible, when I set foot on Chinese soil, there is an inexplicable sense of closeness." ”
Yamaguchi Believes that she is a descendant of Yang Guifei, and her son also came to China to develop, and said: "It is very kind to come to the place where the ancestors lived!" ”
No matter how the Japanese people change, the milk of Chinese civilization has fed the growth of Japan, so that they can get rid of ignorance and gradually move towards Changming, which is a fact that no one can change.