Where the hell did chui fook go? Did Xu Fu really go to Japan with his boys and girls?

Many people may have heard of "Xu Fu". According to legend, he was an alchemist during Qin Shihuang's reign. Because Qin Shihuang, who established the first unified feudal empire in history, dreamed of immortality, he sent Xu Fu to lead thousands of boys and girls in Qian Qian to the sea to find the fairy mountain, in order to make people live forever. Fairy medicine can't come back naturally. After all, it's just a legend, but where did Xu Fu go? Some people say that he has arrived in Japan. So, is this really the case?

The first navigator forced out by Qin Shihuang

When you mention famous navigators in Chinese and foreign history, you will naturally think of Zheng He, Magellan and Columbus. What few people know is that more than 2000 years ago, a navigator crossed the ocean and achieved the feat of crossing Japan to the east.

He is the famous navigator Xu Fu in Qin Dynasty.

The more ancient times, the more naive human beings are fascinated by the unknown world. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it is said that there are three fairy mountains, Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou, on the sea east of Yanqi. The mountains are covered with Yao Hua Yao Cao, and immortals live in the sea. Immortals drink nectar, eat panacea and live an immortal life.

This is a charming scenery. Clouds are hidden in the mountains, and spirits are floating. Splendid palaces are shining in the clouds, and rare birds and animals covered with ice and snow are jumping among strange flowers and trees ... and all these wonderful scenery are fascinating, but they can't be reached ... Just as people are rushing to this day, they suddenly sink into the vast expanse.

Today, we can reduce it to a mirage with the scientific knowledge we have obtained. But the "Almighty Kings" are not reconciled. They prefer to believe in gods and immortals.

All kinds of legends make kings who want to live forever dream. Among these kings, Qin Shihuang deserves to be a typical representative. Under all kinds of temptations, he sent a man named Xu Fu to the sea by boat to visit the sacred mountain and explore the fairy medicine.

Chui fook has therefore become the first person to sail farthest in China since recorded history. Sima Qian also wrote the legend of Xu Fudong crossing the river beautifully in his works such as Biography of Qin Shihuang, Closed Zen Book and Biography of Hengshan Mountain in Huainan.

In 22 1 BC, after Qin Shihuang swept the six countries, he established a centralized feudal autocratic country. In the twenty-eighth year of the first emperor, Qin Shihuang toured the sea and arrived in Langya, Shandong Province in the north. In the face of the vast sea, he was "invincible" and suddenly felt deeply. Now, the biggest enemy in this world is yourself. How can we live forever?

It is said that Xu Fuben was a Shandong alchemist wandering around the rivers and lakes. Walking in rivers and lakes, he used his golden words to make the "overseas" world fantastic and suspended. Such a "strange man" was soon brought before Qin Shihuang, which undoubtedly aroused Qin Shihuang's great interest.

In 2 19 BC, Xu Fu, the task force of Qin Shihuang, went to sea. His greatest mission was to find the medicine of immortality. Although I often drift along the coast, I have some sailing experience. But it was not until after the imperial edict that Xu Fu, who usually talks a lot, had no "bottom" in his heart.

He knew that the wind and rain were ruthless and the waves were swift, and this time he went out to sea to ask for medicine, not to mention that the medicine did not know where it was, and it was gone forever. But in front of the violent and reckless Qin Shihuang, he was covered with his mouth and there was no excuse to "desert".

The sacred special mission needs the sacred ceremony to pave the way. In order to get the elixir of life, Qin Shihuang did all the ostentation and extravagance and held a special "farewell ceremony" in order to touch God and give him the holy medicine. Before seeing the medicine and its efficacy, people were not sure, including Qin Shihuang himself.

Chui fook, who boasted about Haikou, was thrown into the sea with the most important expectation of the son of heaven. It is difficult to ride a tiger, which can be described as "two eyes and four hearts at a loss." The greatest gain from drifting on the sea is to gradually understand the vast sea, thus adding a lot of knowledge of astronomical phenomena and hydrology.

For Fulai Xu, how to call many dissenting Confucian "back" is the proposition that he thinks most all day.

With three thousand virgins, Xu Fu is "gone forever".

With the unique shrewdness of Jianghu warlocks, a few years later, Xu Fu figured out a set of rhetoric that made Qin Shihuang retreat, saying that he climbed the fairy mountain, saw the golden king, saw the magnificent buildings, exotic flowers and exotic animals ... As for the elixir of life, Qin Shihuang wanted to fast and bathe, which only 3,000 boys and girls and craftsmen with various advanced skills could get.

Who knows, Qin Shihuang, who has always been possessed by ghosts and vowed to live forever, actually listened to Xu Fu's "myth". Immediately ordered, rushed to call three thousand boys and girls, practise together, with all kinds of food and treasure, went to Xufu, and then into the sea.

As we all know, Qin Shihuang was an ambitious man. He built Wanli Changli, Epang Palace and Lishan Mausoleum. In order to live forever, I will not hesitate to look for warlocks and cultivate elixirs.

Qin Shihuang seemed to see the prescription of immortality, so the ceremony of going to sea was even more grand. In order to express piety, a three-day "Blessing Festival" was held. People happily send blessings and long for miracles. Only Xu looked at the vast sea, full of worries and thoughts.

It is better to venture to the end of the sea than to be executed-the yellow crane never came to the earth again. Chui fook, who already had some kind of answer in his heart, had to cross the rubicon and try his luck. He must find the ending of "Beyond the Sea" in order to come back to life.

After months of rambling sailing, Xu Fu's fleet finally saw the shore-Japan, Japan, Japan and Penglai island. It turned out that they had reached the territory of Japan and completed a voyage that attracted worldwide attention in ancient history.

Xu Fu, who has been far away from the sight of Qin Shihuang, saw the hope of life and found the foundation of peace of mind. He took a long breath and finally didn't have to reply to the first emperor.

According to Records of the Historian, when Fu Laixu went to Guangze Plain, he felt that the local climate was warm, the scenery was beautiful and the people were friendly, so he stopped coming. That is to say, don't be a king again, teach local people to farm, fish, hunt whales and arrange paper, and never come back.

Where is Shi Sheng Sima Qian's "Plain Guangze"? Sima Qian did not give an answer directly. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Chen Shou said in the reflection of Wu Shu that Xu Fu arrived in Zhangzhou. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong thought that the island was "on the northeast coast of the East China Sea" in "Pillow Story", and this position was Japan.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were frequent exchanges between China and Japan. Five Dynasties later, Yi Chu, a monk of the Zhou Dynasty, recorded in Six Postings of Yi Chu: "Japan is also called Japan, which is located in the East China Sea. In the Qin Dynasty, Chui Fu stopped at the country with 500 men and 500 women, and today's figures are only Chang 'an. ..... Fulai Xu this, Penglai, descendants of Qin. Ouyang Xiu's Song of Japanese Knife in the Northern Song Dynasty: "It is said that the country lives on a big island with fertile soil and good customs. First, Chui Fu cheated Qin Min and left it for a long time to take herbs for Tong Lao. There are five kinds of workers living with them, and so far the players are all exquisite. The previous dynasties made frequent achievements, and the literati mostly used rhetoric. Xu Fu's books were not burned during his travels, and there are still hundreds of fugitive books. It is forbidden to spread China, and no one in the world understands ancient Chinese. "

These ancient books all confirm that Xu Fudong moved to Japan, but there are differences in the number of boys and girls.

Japan's "History of Wakayama Prefecture" also wrote in detail: "Qin Xufu's tomb is in Shinonomachi, and there is a stone tablet in front of the tomb, engraved with the words' Qin Xufu's tomb'." There is a story in Biography of Japan, which tells that in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Japan sent a monk from the Ming Dynasty to visit. When Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him, he asked him, "What places of interest are there in Japan?" Juehai first introduced Xufu Temple, and he wrote a poem on the spot: "Xufu Temple in front of Xiongye grave is full of grass and rain." Only when the waves on the sea are stable, the good wind in Wan Li will surely return early. After listening to this, Zhu Yuanzhang was very emotional and wrote a poem: "The blood before the bear leaves the peak should be eaten, and the amber of pine roots should be fat. In the past, Xu Fu begged for the elixir, but he hasn't come back until now. "

According to Japanese research, shortly after Xu Fu set out from Langya, Shandong Province, he encountered a continuous storm at sea. The fleet was blown to the Korean peninsula and stopped for a while. They went south to Kyushu, Japan, and landed at Potous Wave in Shimonoseki City, Kumano Prefecture, Kyushu. Cui Fu's troops were stationed in Saga, the center of Zhuzi Plain, for 9 years, and in the new palace in Wakayama Prefecture for 3 years. Up to now, there are still many relics and legends of Xu Fu in Saga area.

Saga, Shinomiya and other shrines all worship Xu Fu as a god, and every year, huge sacrificial activities are held. It is said that in order to preserve the historical relics of Xufu's eastward crossing, a "Xufu Historical Relics Preservation Society" was established in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, where Xufu Tomb and Xufu Temple are located, to study, inspect and publicize the achievements and precious cultural relics left by Xufu and his party. Until 1930, there was also a song "Flesh Festival to the Millennium".

Members of the Japanese royal family proudly call Xu Fu the abbot and Yingzhou. Tsutomu Hata, the 80th Japanese Prime Minister, even publicly claimed to be a descendant of Xu Fu, who once led a team to seek roots in the Three North Areas of Cixi, Zhejiang. Miki Miyako, the brother of Emperor Hirohito, also admitted that "Xu Fu is the founding father of our Japanese nation" in his congratulatory message to "Hong Kong Xufuhui".

How did Xu Fu sail in the "BC" where information was blocked?

The compass "Sina" appeared in four great inventions of ancient china during the Middle Warring States Period, which was once famous all over the world. We can totally believe that when Xu Fu goes to sea, he must take this navigation "steering wheel". Although the copper plate must be placed horizontally when it is used, although it is easy to make the magnetic ladle slide down on a rocking ship, the sea is calm and calm as a mirror, and Sina can come in handy at this time.

The legend of "Yellow Emperor logging for a boat, logging for a boat" shows that the ancestors in ancient times already knew the truth that "the benefits of a boat can't help, but benefit the world". According to historical records, at first, the navigation activities of ancestors were limited to inland rivers and lakes. With the deepening of their understanding of the ocean, they gradually expanded to offshore waters, and then crossed the ocean and sailed abroad.

According to records, the shipbuilding technology of the Qin dynasty has been divorced from the "canoe era", and large flat-bottomed wooden boats, tall warships and the prototype of today's catamaran-boats have appeared. According to Records of the Historian and Biography of Zhang Xin, during the Warring States Period, Qin used primitive ships to transport troops along the Yangtze River. "A boat carries 50 people, grain in March, floating in water". It can be seen that according to the shipbuilding technology at that time, it should not be a big difficulty to transport 3 thousand boys and girls, various craftsmen and food and other materials.

But it is puzzling that in the era of cold weapons at that time, the power of the ship came from manpower. However, it is really puzzling to paddle across the vast South China Sea by manpower, along what route and with what strength to reach Japan accurately ... Today, all kinds of "impossible".

Like myths and legends, Xu Fudong's crossing has thus refreshed the most brilliant "first page" in China's maritime history in an incredible way.

At the beginning of this century, Chinese and Japanese scholars have done a lot of research on the history of Qin and Han dynasties and the history of maritime traffic. According to historical data, historians hold different opinions on whether Xu Fu arrived in Japan. Japanese scholar Hideo Kanda's book "China Culture in Japan" pays attention to the problem of refugees crossing eastward in ancient China. He believes that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the end of the Warring States Period in China, with the occurrence of events such as Gou Jian's destruction of Wu and Yue, a large number of refugees crossed eastward. Although the navigation technology and shipbuilding technology at that time were very backward, some of these refugees had mysteriously arrived in Kyushu, Japan.

The tyranny of the Qin dynasty and the war at the end of the Qin dynasty led to a large-scale immigration tide, which is called "Qin people go east" and "Qin people go east" During the Great Uprising at the end of Qin Dynasty, tens of thousands of Qin people fled from Qin, Yan and Qi to take refuge in North Korea. Japanese classics such as Historical Records, Records of Japan, Records of Newly Written Surnames and Notes on Ancient Characters all record Qin Min's eastward journey and immigration.

Historically, Xu Fu spread farming knowledge and fishing, forging, salt making and other technologies to Japanese aborigines in Jiuzhou Island and other places, and also taught Japanese people advanced culture of Qin Dynasty such as medical technology, which was highly respected by Japanese people-Xu Fu was regarded as "the god of agriculture" and "the god of medicine".

As you can imagine, in the vast plains and fertile land thousands of miles away, Fu Cha, in his twilight years, relied on the 3,000 boys and girls who fought with him, acrobatics and all kinds of grain treasures he brought, and quickly established a living base, where he stood on his own feet and continued to multiply.

History has clearly told us that Qin Shihuang died in a hurry when he was in power for 15 years-the dream of immortality came to an abrupt end. In other words, no one will pay attention to Xu Fu and his "elixir of life". Of course, in that information-blocked "BC", neither of them knew "the development and direction of the story" before their lives.

Qin Shihuang, who won many world record titles, unintentionally set a new record and gave birth to the first China navigator who sailed to Japan.