Everyone knows Xu Fudong's crossing. Where did the boys and girls recruit from? Qiantong Town named after Liu Bang unveiled its mystery.

In the early winter, the rare warm sun shines high, and the magnificent central Hebei plain extends to the bottom of the sky like a picture scroll. We came to Qiantong Town, Yanshan County, Cangzhou City, the hometown of martial arts in China. This is the origin of Xu Fudong's crossing the sea in Japan, with a history of more than 2,000 years. The "Thousand Children's Temple" in the center of the town was built on the site of Xufu Thousand Children's City. The hall of the Thousand Children's Museum is rich in unearthed ancient cultural relics and pictures. The "Qin Qian Tong Cheng" on the giant monument in the square was personally inscribed by Zhao Puchu, former vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and honorary president of the Sino-Japanese Relations History Society. Zhao Puchu also wrote a poem about it: "Chuifucheng tea has not returned. Three thousand disciples, Lao Penglai, left many stories on both sides of the strait and opened Hualicheng Village for the second time. " The story of Xu Fu taking boys and girls to Japan has been circulated among the people for thousands of years, and a large number of historical materials and historical remains have also proved that this is an indisputable fact. That is to say, in the history of world navigation, Xu Fudong's voyage to the West was more than 900 years earlier than Jian Zhen's, 1600 years earlier than Zheng He's, and 1700 years earlier than Columbus's. Xu Fu, a famous alchemist, was a native of Xu and Qi in Qin Dynasty. He is well-read and knowledgeable in medicine, astronomy and navigation. This historical event has become an eternal mystery because of the record of Xu Fu's quest for immortality in Historical Records. Where did Xu Fudong's 3000 boys and girls come from? There are generally three bases for judging historical truth and clarifying historical mystery: ancient books, oral materials, historical sites and archaeological discoveries. Of the three, historical sites and archaeological discoveries are undoubtedly the best evidence. The historical record of Xu Fudong crossing the river originated from Historical Records. At that time, Sima Qian, a great official of the Western Han Dynasty, was only 70 or 80 years away from Xu Fudong crossing the river. Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor said that in 2 19 BC, Xu Fu and others wrote that there were three sacred mountains in the sea, named Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou, where immortals lived. Please fast and ask for it with your sons and daughters, so Xu Fufa sent thousands of sons and daughters to the sea to ask for immortality. However, Chui fook failed in his first quest for immortality in the sea. Nine years later, in 2 10 BC, with the approval of Qin Shihuang, Xu Fu led "3,000 boys and girls" and "100 workers" to cross the sea by boat with "five grain seeds". In this regard, "Historical Records of Huainan Hengshan Biography" records: "(Qin Shihuang) dispatched 3,000 men and women, and all kinds of food were spared. Chui fook crossed a broad plain and the king didn't come. Gantong Town is located at the junction of Hebei Province and Shandong Province. During the Warring States period, it was the land of Qi, and it was called Rao Anyi, which means "its land is rich and can be used by the people". Historical Records of Zhao says that in the sixth year of Qin Shihuang (24 BC1), "Zhao will attack Pangqi and take Rao 'an" refers to this place. This place was called "Qianzi Town" in the Qin Dynasty. The first emperor sent Xu Fu to send thousands of men to the sea to seek Penglai, so he chose this city to live in, hence the name. " In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu (202 BC), that is, the seventh year after Xu Fudong's crossing, Liu Bang, a contemporary of Emperor Gaozu, ordered Rao Anyi to be renamed Gantong County to commemorate Xu Dongdu, which was a sensational event in the ruling and opposition parties at that time. Later, Gaocheng County was established in the Han Dynasty and renamed Gaocheng County in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the eighteenth year of Emperor Wendi (598), it was renamed as Yanshan County. Times have changed and its name has changed several times. 1992 In order to promote Gantong culture, it was renamed Gantong Town again. In the southwest of Qiantong Town, under the highway at the junction of Hebei and Shandong provinces, you can clearly see an ancient river named Wudigou. This was one of the main estuaries of the ancient Yellow River. History records show that it is more than 800 meters wide and now it is covered with grass. On the Wudi River, there are still sites where Xu Fu trained thousands of children and skilled craftsmen to build ships-Xuntong Port and Baijiangtai, which are now covered with weeds. According to historical records, the first emperor chased sharks, whales and big fish and fell ill from Haixi to the plain. According to the records in Kuodizhi of the Tang Dynasty, the plain Jin (city) is 42 miles south of Huanghua, that is, the area near the south of Hangaocheng County, and the "plain Jin" should be Wudigou. Qin Shihuang was seriously ill along the coast and ran southwest to his birthplace of Handan, but he died on the sand dune platform on the way (now northeast of Pingxiang, Hebei Province). Li Si and others had to drive the body of the first emperor out of the well and send it to Xianyang in the northwest. With the support of Qin Shihuang, Xu Fu built two cities, Gantong and Fuxi, which made long-term preparations for sailing. Qianzi Town developed from Rao Anyi, and Xi City was built near East Yang Er Village in Huanghua County. 〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉〉𝶹𝶹𝶹𝶹𝶹𝶹𝶹〉12 Sailing training was conducted on Fujin River and Wudi River. At that time, the water surface of the river was more than 800 meters wide, which could fully meet the training requirements. Liu Changqing, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote the poem "Sleeping at Wudigou at Night": "When there is no Wudi, the Great Wall will connect with Chu Pass. The river leads to the sea of stars, and the sea of clouds is near Magu Mountain. Outside the white clouds of the monk temple, people are green. At night, the wind is full and sails fall everywhere. " But the scope of recruitment, of course, is not limited to this place, it should spread to hundreds of miles in Yan, Qi, Zhao and Wei. In recent years, a large number of relics and remains of Xu Fudong's crossing the river have been unearthed in Yanshan County, where Qiantong Town is located, and in neighboring counties such as Haixing and Huanghua. Kaihua Temple site, pier site and urn burial in Qin Dynasty were discovered and excavated one after another. Judging from the cultural relics unearthed in China and Japan, we can also get conclusive evidence. The Zhao Han mirror unearthed in Nagata Site, Saga Prefecture, Japan is as safe as the Zhao Han mirror unearthed in Yanshan Prefecture, and the bronze arrows unearthed in the two places are exactly the same. The shape and decoration of unearthed pottery are very similar, and so are the shapes of unearthed copper coins. There are 2,000 pieces of caskets and coffins unearthed in Yoshino Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Japan, and since 1974, the caskets and coffins unearthed in many places in Harabei Prefecture, Yanshan Prefecture are the same as those unearthed in Japan. "Scenery of Cangzhou City Ruins" records that during the Japanese invasion of China, when the Japanese invaders stationed in Qiantong Town of Yanshan County were building turrets, they dug up a monument engraved with the words Xu Fudong crossing Fusang, so the Japanese troops stationed in Yancheng took a three-day holiday to celebrate and built a monument pavilion. Even Japanese troops from Cangzhou, Botou and Huanghua came to pay homage. More than two thousand years ago, Xu Fu's fleet carried thousands of boys and girls, "like a bird in the cloud, gone without a trace". With the passage of time, people's hopes for the survival of their relatives at sea have become increasingly dim, and the content of praying for the gods has changed from saving and offering sacrifices to evoking souls, which is the cause of the "Faith Festival". People originally called it "Xunzi Festival". Because Xunzi and Angel have the same pronunciation, Angel Festival gradually evolved from Xunzi Festival. According to the tradition of China, evocation requires climbing high and shouting. Qiantong Town has no high mountains to follow and is located in the plain. People set sail on March 28th, and on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, when Xu Fu found Penglai to get the fairy medicine, he tied up a shelf with a height of 14 or 15 meters, selected handsome men and beautiful women, boarded a miniature platform with a high pole, and was carried by 36 boys, who swam around the countryside. Since the end of the Western Han Dynasty, regardless of natural and man-made disasters, festivals in Angel have never stopped. From 1993, it is changed to once every five years. Today, the Thousand Children's Hearts Festival has been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list and has become a "living fossil" of cultural exchanges between China and Japan. Coincidentally, Japan's Saga and Tofu, who landed first in those years, have had the "Noko Festival" since 2000, which is strikingly similar to Noko Festival. The so-called "teachers" are descendants and believers of stone gods (Xu Fu and Qian Tong). There is a Gionee shrine in Jinlishan, Saga Prefecture, Japan, dedicated to Xu Fu. Residents near Jinlishan Mountain are generally considered to be descendants of Xu. They hold an activity to commemorate Xu Fu once a year and Xu Fu Festival once every 50 years. Every year from April 27th to 29th (almost at the same time as March 28th of the China lunar calendar), the "Shizi" carried the statue of Xu Fu from Jinli Mountain Palace to the seaside, and held sacrificial activities along the land where Xu Fu landed, in order to make Xu Fu face the distant motherland and hometown to solve his homesickness. The shrine festival in Qiantong Town is closely related to similar commemorative activities of Saga in Japan for the same event from different angles, which has a causal relationship and has become a strong evidence of the Du Dong event in the folk customs of the two countries. Where does Xu Fu's arrival in Guangze Plain recorded in Historical Records mean? Check the islands in the East China Sea of China. At that time, there was no plain wide except Japan. This point is also verified by the inscription of Qin Xufu in Shintamachi, Wakayama, Japan: "Today, the East China Sea can be Penglai, and there is no matter of giving up the empire. Therefore, it is necessary to call Japan." "Many children's footprints are all over Japan. Among all 47 counties and cities in Japan, there are 18 counties and cities with Xufu ruins and relics, and there are 57. The famous Japanese scholar Naito Tatsuo said in the article "The Flag Bearer of Yayoi-Tofu": "At first, the tattooed rope people in Japan were small groups, self-sufficient, and there was no need to form a country. However, people who came to Japan across the ocean, because they live in a large group, have the ability to rule the group, so Japan's country may also be established by people who came to Japan across the ocean. This is a valuable comment on Xu Fu's "winning the plain and spreading the ze, stopping the king from coming" recorded in Historical Records. There were aborigines in Japan when Xu Fudong crossed. At that time, Japan was still in a primitive social society, and people still lived a life of picking wild fruits and hunting, drifting and migrating, living without a fixed place and writing. In the Neolithic sites in Japan, a large number of pottery with straw rope patterns were unearthed, so it was called the rope pattern era. As early as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors era, China was far more advanced than the Japanese rope pattern era, not to mention the experience of Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. Until Qin unified the six countries, the Qin culture brought by Xu Fu Du Dong Group was thousands of years more advanced than that of Japanese at that time. This group of earliest Qin immigrants got along well with the aborigines, and brought advanced cultures such as farming, rice cultivation, textile, smelting, shipbuilding, medicine and writing. The Yayoi of Qin Dynasty spread to Japan, which made a qualitative leap in Japanese culture and quickly entered the "Yayoi era". The Japanese people and Xu's descendants have not forgotten this great man who created the source of Sino-Japanese friendship. In many places in Japan, Chuifu Palace, Chuifu Pavilion, Chuifu Temple, Chuifu Temple and other places have been built to worship Chuifu Temple, and 56 relics have been preserved so far. They respect Xu Fu as the god of farming, water conservancy, medicine, textile and education, and offer sacrifices regularly, with endless incense. In Fuji Yoshida City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, there is an ancient book called "Fuji Ancient Books under the Palace", which reads: Xu Fu * * * has seven sons, and his descendants have thrived all over Japan. Their Japanese surnames have evolved as follows: Fukuoka is the descendant of the eldest son, Fukushima is the second son, Fukuyama is the descendant of the third son, Fukuda is the fourth son, Fukuda is the fifth son, Fukuda is the sixth son, Fuhai is the sixth son, and Fuzhou is the seventh son. What are the surnames of three thousand boys and girls? In order not to forget their hometown, they got married and had children, and gave their children the same surname: Qin. In the long historical evolution, the Qin surname gradually evolved into many surnames. In today's Japan, many surnames, such as Haneda, Yutai, Bata, Pando, Porto, etc., are all derived from Qin's surname. Even today, the Japanese pronunciation of these surnames is the same or similar to that of Qin. So today, many Japanese firmly believe that their ancestors came from the mainland as "Qin people". 1339, Xu Fudong's journey was first mentioned in Japanese official history books. Prior to this, Historical Records in the eighth century only mentioned that when China was in the Qin Dynasty, someone crossed the border to Japan, but it was not clearly said that it was Xu Fu. "A Brief History of Japan" mentioned: "In the seventy-two years of Xiaoling, Fu Laixu was born in Qin." Said he came to get the medicine and just settled down. The Japanese attitude towards Xu Fu is very interesting. According to official records, from Yuduo Emperor (late Tang Dynasty) to Kameyama Emperor (mid-Yuan Dynasty), the emperor presided over the sacrifice of Xu Fu as many as 80 times. It was not until the Meiji Restoration that the official worship gradually stopped. 1975, "Hong Kong Xufuhui" was established. When invited to deliver a congratulatory message, the younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan said emotionally, "Xu Fu is the father of our country." 1977, with the support of Li Sangong, Xu Fu's "Examination of the Founding of Japan" was translated and published in Japan. So far, no one has put forward a systematic and well-founded rebuttal. According to the statistics of Asahi Shimbun, Xu's children have more than 34 million followers, accounting for more than a quarter of Japan's total population. There are 6.5438+0.45 million people in South Korea. These people are scattered in all walks of life in Japan and South Korea, and more than 300 memorial organizations of Xu Fu have been established. They knelt down in Qiantong Town in batches, burning incense and offering sacrifices to their ancestors. In the wave of confessing to ancestors, the highest official position is former Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata. He has publicly admitted many times that he is a descendant of Xu. In 2006, he met with the representative of Yanshan and talked for more than two hours. He said that his surname was originally written not as "Haneda" but as "Qin" of Qin Shihuang, so the word "Qin" was originally written on the tombstone of his hometown and the memorial tablet of the past. When talking about his origin with China, Haneda proudly said: "As the sixty-fifth generation grandson of Xu Fu, we are proud ... I am willing to do anything that can move China. I will try to participate in all activities related to blessing. " Among the cabinet ministers in Japan for more than 1000 years, Haneda is an alternative. When few people in China wear Chinese tunic suit, he still wears Chinese tunic suit when he attends cocktail parties, visits and even pays his respects to the emperor.