Who is Xu Fu? Is he the ancestor of the Japanese?

Xu Fu, named Jun Fang, was a famous alchemist and Taoist celebrity in Qin Dynasty. He used to be the physician of Qin Shihuang and a native of Qi during the Warring States Period. Xu Fu is not the ancestor of the Japanese.

During the Qin Shihuang period, Xu Fu led 3,000 boys and girls across the coast of Shandong, and the legend spread to South Korea and Japan, which became a much-told story in the cultural exchanges between China, Japan and South Korea in history. It has been a hot topic for people to study and discuss for thousands of years, and has become a comprehensive study of pre-Qin history, Qin and Han history, Sino-foreign relations history, navigation history, folklore, religion, archaeology and other disciplines, which has extremely important academic value.

Humans first appeared in the Japanese archipelago 200,000 years ago, and the earliest known Japanese human fossils can be traced back to about 30,000 years ago. According to Records of Historical Records and Records of Japan, the first emperor Emperor Jimmu was founded in 660 BC and acceded to the throne. The date of his accession to the throne was equivalent to 1 1 in February of the Western calendar, so this day was designated as the "founding day".

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Xu Fudong's Role in Japan

When Xu Fudong crossed, there were aborigines in Japan, so it is not accurate to say that today's Japanese are descendants of Xu Fu. However, Xu Fudong did have a profound influence on the Yayoi culture in Japan. Xu Fu brought rice and taught people here rice planting, medical knowledge, metal smelting and textile technology, which made Japan get rid of the primitive era of gathering, fishing and hunting and enter the era of agricultural civilization. They learned to smelt iron, got rid of the clumsy and inefficient Stone Age and promoted the development of agriculture.

The introduction of Chinese characters has reference significance for the production of Japanese native characters; The theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements and the introduction of Confucianism educated the Japanese people. These are of epoch-making significance to the development of Japanese society. To this day, the Japanese people still regard Xu Fufeng as the god of farming, medicine and textile.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Xu Fu