The historical record of Japan is very strange, and as a country with a certain history, it is reasonable to assume that there are reliable historical documents.
However, no matter how you look at it, Japanese historical documents and books look like mythological books, and it is said that the emperors of Japan are all in the world, and they have been passed down for thousands of years.
There are also different theories in the scientific and historical circles as to how the Japanese nation came about.
There are some Japanese who firmly believe that their ancestor is Xu Fu, who left overseas in search of the first emperor during the Qin Dynasty.
From the perspective of genetic testing, they are not Xu Fu's descendants, what is going on?
There is a reason why many Japanese people say that they are descendants of Xu Fu, because Xu Fu's whereabouts are indeed unknown.
Moreover, there are temples commemorating this Qin Dynasty priest in various parts of Japan, and in some local historical documents,It is also written that the Japanese are likely to be the descendants of the thousands of boys and girls brought out by Xu Fu.
And this has to talk about the Qin Dynasty. Although some people now think that Qin Shi Huang was a tyrant, in fact, Qin Shi Huang's historical exploits in ancient China can be said to be unprecedented.
It ended the turbulent times of the Spring and Autumn Warring States and injected the Chinese with a unified imperial idea.
Qin Shi Huang returned the car with the same text and the same book track, and established the county system. The feudal political system he inherited has been influencing China for more than 2,000 years.
So Qin Shi Huang has a very special place in Chinese history.
And emperors like Qin Shi Huang, who have made great achievements, also have a small problem, that is, they are afraid of death.
After Qin Shi Huang became an emperor after unifying the world, he wanted to live forever. So he recruited monks all over the country and asked them to refine the elixir of immortality for themselves.
Xu Fu, who is regarded as the ancestor by many Japanese, was a relatively famous monk during the Qin Dynasty.
We don't know what Xu Fu's ability to refine medicine is. But he did deceive the First Emperor.
In the Qin Shi Huang Benji, it is clearly recorded that Xu Fu told the First Emperor that there are immortal islands overseas, and there is immortal medicine on immortal islands.
But ordinary people can't get close to the island where the immortals live, so if you want to get back the immortal medicine, you should worship the immortals in order to get the legendary immortal medicine.
Therefore, the First Emperor ordered craftsmen to build a big ship for Xu Fu, and also collected 3,000 boys and girls from all over the country for Xu Fu to take with him, and crossed the ocean to find the elixir of life for the First Emperor.
But Xu Fu never came back, and when the first emperor died, he was still waiting for the elixir of life.
There is also a record of Xu Fu in Japanese history books.
It is clearly written in the history of Japan that in the 72nd year of the seventh emperor of Japan, the fleet led by Xu Fu came to Japan.
However, this history book itself is very problematic, and the average life expectancy in ancient times was only twenty or thirty years, but the emperors of the past dynasties that the Japanese say are often more than 100 years old, which is unlikely.
But in Japanese history books, it is indeed written that Xu Fu went to Japan. But what kind of influence Xu Fu brought to Japan is also recorded in different Japanese books.
Some people just say that Xu Fu brought people to settle in JapanBut there are also some people who say that Xu Fu is the first emperor of Japan.
According to recent scientific research and genetic testing data, in fact, the ancestors of the Japanese have nothing to do with Xu Fu.
Originally, it was impossible to determine the ancestors of the Japanese people by looking at history books alone, but with the development of technology, we can now determine the origin of the Japanese people through DNA testing.
And according to the results of DNA tests, Japan is not an isolated nation.
Essentially, the genes of the Japanese nation come from immigrants who migrated from Chinese mainland and the Korean Peninsula, and a new nation emerged after intermarriage, which is the Japanese nation.
As early as 2006, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States published a report on DNA testing of Japanese people.
It is found that the current Japanese population mainly comes from two ancient ethnic groups, one is the Jomon nation and the other is the Yayoi nation.
The Y chromosomes of the two ethnic groups are different, but generally speaking, the descendants of the Jomon people make up more than 95% of the total population of Japan.
And the genes of this ethnic group are highly similar to the genes of Chinese mainland people and the genes of Korean Peninsula people.
In other words, the Japanese blood does not come from Xu Fu's 3,000 boys and girls.
Rather, it comes from unpredictable times, when migrants from Chinese mainland and the Korean Peninsula combine with local indigenous people to mingle with their bloodlines.
The current Japanese nation was formed.
However, the results of this DNA test have made many Japanese people very unhappy.
The Japanese are a country with an inexplicable sense of national pride, and they are obviously influenced by ancient Chinese culture, but they can be said to be the orthodox inheritors of Chinese culture.
It can be said that Japan's national pride is rather strange. The intermingling of inferiority and self-esteem forms a very awkward national identity.
In such a situation, most Japanese people simply cannot accept that they are actually a people born of a generation of Chinese and ancient Korean blood, and they prefer to believe that they are the descendants of Xu Fu.
Because for the Japanese, they are still willing to respect Chinese culture.
Until now, there are still a large number of kanji in Japanese writingMoreover, some ancient feudal dynasties in Japan are also more respected in Japanese history books, such as the Tang Dynasty.
So they are more inclined to directly describe themselves as descendants of the Chinese. If it can be determined that the Japanese lineage comes from Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty.
It is equivalent to that from the perspective of blood, they can indeed be regarded as one of the inheritors of China's ancient traditional culture.
But now they have migrated from China, and after merging with the Koreans, a new ethnic group has emerged. Then they can no longer be the inheritors of our culture.
Japan can only be said to be a marginal nation influenced by Chinese cultureThis is detrimental to Japan's struggle for cultural orthodoxy.
Moreover, as far as Japan is concerned, they look down on the Koreans, and they have invaded Korea many times in Japan's history.
During World War II, Korea was a Japanese colony.
In the eyes of countless Japanese, North and South Korea are already inferior to them.
But now the Japanese have become the descendants of the Koreans who moved to the past in ancient times, which will make many Japanese people lose face when facing Koreans.
If Koreans raise this issue when communicating with Japanese people, it will directly hurt the national pride of Japanese people.
Therefore, there are detailed scientific materials that can prove where the Japanese blood is located.
But there are still many Japanese who persist in sacrificing Xu Fu, but questioned the genes of North Koreans inherited from his body.
And the reason given by these Japanese is,DNA testing can only reflect the genetic information of a certain population, which is not representative of all Japanese people.
Moreover, DNA testing can only reflect the differences between men and women, and the genetic information cannot reflect the common genetic information of the sexes, let alone the genetic information of the nation and the country.
To put it bluntly, it is all kinds of reasons to find reasons to pull yourself into the orthodox Chinese cultural bloodline.
Although we have assimilated many ethnic minorities in history, we have assimilated other ethnic groups into the Chinese nation, rather than being assimilated, so the fundamental blood of the Chinese nation has not changed, and we have always been the same China.
Japan will be so interested in China's ancient culture that it will even want to compete with China for cultural orthodoxy,、。
It's because Japan's native culture is not very developed, and there is no way to compare with the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture.
Japan's traditional culture is also not adapted to the great power ambitions of the Japanese.
Therefore, they prefer to be the orthodox inheritors of Chinese culture.
This will have a positive effect on strengthening Japan's national self-esteem and for Japan's future development.
Naturally, it is impossible for the Japanese to admit the results of the current scientific DNA tests.
But in fact, although Japan looks down on South Korea very much, is there any essential difference between what they do and the Koreans?
Koreans deny Chinese culture, and even say that some things in Chinese culture are theirs. To put it simply, South Korea also wants to compete with us for cultural orthodoxy.
Although Japan's approach is relatively less radical, this is only because Japan believes that they already have some cultural orthodoxy, so there is no need to grab it with great fanfare.
And now the DNA results released by the United States are equivalent to completely shattering the Japanese dream of Chinese cultural orthodoxy, making them suddenly become the same laughing stock as the Koreans.
That's why countless Japanese people would rather believe their mythical history books than believe in DNA tests.
What we can see is that the countries around China that were once influenced by Chinese culture are now almost in the same situation as Japan and South Korea.
This is mainly because China has not yet become the world's largest power, and these countries are more or less influenced by the United States and Western countries.
In addition, their culture itself has been influenced by Chinese cultureEven their cultural core is built with the core of Chinese culture.
Therefore, they are naturally close to Chinese culture, but they are unwilling to admit that they are vassal states of ancient Chinese feudal dynasties in history.
So over time, these countries have become more and more awkward, with strong national pride on the one hand, and cultural inferiority complex on the other, and finally make a lot of jokes.