Qin family in Japan

At that time, some people in ancient China fled to the Korean peninsula during the peasant uprising and the Chu-Han dispute at the end of Qin Dynasty, and later some migrated to Japan, and some directly crossed the island of Japan, so they called themselves Qin people (Qin people) because they came from Qin. For China, many people who go to Japan from the mainland go out in turbulent times, and people don't leave messages before going out. At that time, what was more dangerous was the message they left when they fled to Guangwu, Bobby Chen. Of course, it is also very likely that people think that nobles are expected to get preferential treatment. Before they fled, did they say to Chen Sheng and Guangwu, "Remember to let the history books record that after the uprising was successful, when you became emperor, we went to Toyo"? In early Japanese history books, such as "Ancient Records" and "History of Japan", it is recorded in detail that a large number of naturalized people from the mainland arrived in Japan during this period. The representative figures of Han nationality "naturalized people" often mentioned in Japanese literature are Gong Yuejun (Qin), Dong (Liu) and Xi Wenshou (Wang). Most of them are Han "naturalized people" from the Korean peninsula. For example, it was renamed Gong Yuejun and the Qin people he led, descendants of Qin Shihuang; In addition, there is a descendant of Qin Shihuang (of course, the credibility is doubtful), who spread the silk-making method to Japan.

According to Japan's "Historical Records" and "Historical Records", at the beginning of the 4th century A.D., Gong Yuejun led his people to be naturalized in Japan in 120 counties (or 127 counties). This is the origin of the so-called Qin family. By the stag age (that is, the Japanese era, about the second half of the fifth century), the adherents of the State of Qin were incorporated, with 92 18600 people, giving them the name of Jiugong, the leader. Qin clan gradually accumulated wealth in the long-term production activities such as sericulture and silk making, irrigation and water conservancy, civil engineering, etc., and became a powerful local tycoon, a capable official of the Japanese king, a leader of regional groups, and joined the senior ruling group of the Japanese king, who gave his surname directly and became one of the important surname giants in ancient Japan. Qin's migration to Japan can be roughly divided into four periods:

1) came to settle in Japan in the yayoi era in the second and third centuries BC.

2) During the Five Kings of Japan around the 5th century, there were many tourists on the Korean Peninsula.

3) From the second half of the 5th century to the 6th century, the Han people brought the latest technology (note 1).

4) In the 7th century, he fled from the dilapidated Baekje and Koguryo to Japan.

Among the ferry passengers around the 5th century, the most representative and influential are Qin Shihuang and Han Shi. According to the Records of Japan, the former was done by Gong Yuejun (Rong Tongwang) in the 14th year (403), while the latter was done in the 20th year. In the same book, it is also recorded that "Qin and Han ancestors participated in Du Jie". It can be seen that Qin and Han dynasties migrated from the Korean peninsula to Japan. Here we mainly introduce the Qin family who came from the ferry.

Qin's ancestor was Gong Yuejun who crossed the sea from the Korean Peninsula in the early 5th century. He led people from 120 county to Kyushu, and tried to change his name to Gong Yuejun when he fled from the mainland to North Korea. According to the newly written surname in Japan, Qin is the grandson of Qin Shihuang V, who is good at civil and agricultural technology, and uses irrigation technology to vigorously develop land, engaged in sericulture, weaving, wine making and making metal handicrafts. There are river Maochuan in the north, Dayanchuan in the northwest and Gaoyechuan in the Kyoto Basin in the northeast, which is very suitable for large-scale reclamation. In ancient times, it was called Aidang County, and "Aidang" meant "water tumbling like a waterfall in a basin". Qin contributed a lot to the development of Kyoto basin, which laid the economic foundation of Yamato kingship to a certain extent. Not only that, Qin also served as an official in charge of Yamato's finance, and Qin Dazhui served as the Minister of Finance as early as the reign of Emperor Qin Ming (Note 3). The Qin family moved to Taiqin (now Jing Zuo District of Kyoto) based on the back hill of Kyoto. Qin's power is centered on Shanguo, reaching Meinung and Yi Shi in the east and vast areas of Zanqi and Zhu Qian in the west. Compared with the Han family, who are also "ferrymen", Qin family is not only closely integrated with local local tyrants, but also closely related to the belief in gods such as Daohe, Yahe, Yuzuo Haban, Hemao Shrine and Matsuo Shrine, and has become one of the few big forces in ancient Japan.

According to the New Written Record of Zuo Jin's Surname, "Uzumasanokimi Sumi came from King Sun Xiaowu of Qin Shihuang III. In eight years, Emperor Taizu Yan went to Korea, and in fourteen years, Emperor Yutian led the people in twenty-seven counties to be naturalized. Provide gold, silver, jade, silk, etc. Yu Shi, the great Emu Emperor, divided counties with the Qin family in 127 counties. " In addition, the collection of ancient Chinese characters is also called "Hundreds of thousands of people attached to Baekje in Qin and Han Dynasties", and many families are recorded in the records of newly written surnames, which are called Uzumasanokamisumi, Qin Lian, Ji Qin Village and Qinzao. According to the records in Japan's Xionglueji and the newly written surname records, there were 92 Qin people when Xionglue was emperor, 18670, and Qin Jiugong said, "If you see today, there will be no one in ten" (Note 4), then this 18000 is only a small part of Qin immigrants, so you can imagine the number of Qin immigrants. According to Qin Mingji, in the first year of Qin Ming (540), the number of Qin people was 7,053 (Note 5), so there were about 70,000 people according to the average household 10. From the above records, we can see the development of Qin family in Japan.