Ancient human fossils were unearthed in Dawenkou, Shandong, and their DNA matched those of modern Japanese, revealing the mystery of their origins.

Ancient human fossils were unearthed in Dawenkou, Shandong Province, and their DNA matches those of modern Japanese, revealing the mystery of their origins. I believe everyone has heard this widely circulated story: Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to sea to find the art of immortality. , Xu Fu took three thousand boys and girls to the east, but did not return. Instead, he settled down and multiplied in the Japanese Islands. This is why residents all over Japan regard Xu Fu as a myth. In fact, Xu Fu cannot be an ancestor, because the history of Japan is far more than two thousand years, and according to the evidence unearthed from the Dawenkou site in Shandong, Xu Fu was not the first Chinese to set foot on the Japanese peninsula. The general sequence of human society's progress is: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Each period lasts for hundreds or thousands of years. However, Japan's Iron Age came too suddenly. Around the 3rd century BC, Japan, which was still in a primitive society, "got rich overnight" and leapt into an agricultural society! It is called the Yayoi period, and the changes it brought to Japan were of great significance: the Yayoi people came out of the caves and began to build wooden houses, took off their leaves and put on linen clothes. The status of men began to become prominent, and women began to pay attention to dressing up. There were a lot of advanced tools that had not been available before. appeared, the specifications and shapes of tombs have been greatly improved. The rapid movements of the Yayoi period went against the normal development speed of human society. Such supernatural phenomena also attracted widespread attention, and even Japanese scholars were unable to justify them. Therefore, the "immigration theory" is gradually recognized, that is, modern humans in Japan are a combination of native residents and foreign races, and the most likely sources are China and the Korean Peninsula. Scholars have used modern scientific and technological means to study maternal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which has proved the above point of view. Human genes are constantly changing, but women’s mitochondrial genes can be passed on to future generations. Therefore, studying the structural type and proportion of mtDNA in a population in a region can well reflect its genetic characteristics. The Dawenkou Culture originated from the Shandong Peninsula. Human remains from more than 3000 BC were unearthed from the site. Some scholars compared mtDNA between them and Japanese and Korean residents. The results showed that there are a lot of similarities between the two, especially the D-type haplogroup. Surprisingly consistent. In addition, the Jomon people before the Yayoi period were considered to be the original inhabitants of Japan, but mtDNA analysis found that the Jomon people also had some foreign genes in their bodies. Historical records record: "With the rise of Chen Sheng and others, the world rebelled against Qin, and tens of thousands of Yan, Qi, and Zhao people took refuge in North Korea." Obviously, these people who took refuge did not stop, but continued to Japan through the Korean Peninsula, and in Settlement was completed there. The Jomon people date back about three thousand years, so long before the Qin and Han dynasties, there were Chinese people who had traveled across the ocean and reached Japan. The Dawenkou site is located in Tai'an, which was the territory of the Spring and Autumn Period Qi State, which is also consistent with the records in ancient books. In addition, there is an American scholar who has analyzed the dental morphological characteristics of the Japanese, Jomon people, and prehistoric Chinese. The study shows that modern Japanese only have a small amount of genes from the original residents of the Jomon people, and most of the genes come from mainland China. type crowd. However, this can only show that foreign civilizations have visited, but cannot prove Japan's most primitive origins. In fact, the ancient human fossils unearthed in the Japanese archipelago can be traced back to 30,000 years ago, which means that they have an independent system of human origin, but they have been mixed with other systems in subsequent development. But no matter what, genes don't lie. There are shadows of ancient China in Japan's modern civilization. I hope that with the development of archaeology, this century's problem can be solved.