Is Japan the descendant of the 3,000 boys and girls brought there by Xu Fu, who was sent by Qin Shihuang to seek the elixir of immortality?

Sima Qian was the first person to record Xu Fu's historical events in historical records, but he did not explain where Xu Fu floated to the sea. Later generations thought it was Taiwan or Ryukyu, and some said it was America, but most people thought it was Japan. It was Yichu, a monk from the Later Zhou Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, who first proposed Xu Fu's eastward journey to Japan. Said: "The country of Japan is also called the country of Japan, located in the East China Sea. During the Qin Dynasty, Xu Fu led 500 boys and 500 girls to stop this country. Today, the people are just like Chang'an. ... And more than a thousand miles northeast, there is a mountain named 'Fuji' Named 'Penglai'... Xu Fu was called Penglai until now, and his descendants are all called Qin family." Yi Chu said that this statement came from the Japanese monk Hongshun. Ouyang Xiu, a writer and historian of the Song Dynasty, also believed that Xu Fu traveled east to Japan. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Japanese monk Kukai went to Nanjing and presented poems to the Ming Taizu, mentioning "Xu Fu Temple in front of Xiong Yefeng". Li Shuchang, Huang Qixian and others, the envoys to Japan in the late Qing Dynasty, all visited Xu Fu's tomb and wrote poems and inscriptions on it.

Since this century, Chinese and Japanese scholars have conducted a lot of research on Xu Fu's eastward crossing of the sea. Ma Feibai believed in the "Collected History of Qin" that Xu Fu went to Japan with a purpose. "His original intention was not to seek immortality, but actually wanted to take advantage of the First Emperor's selfish desire to seek immortality and use his power to colonize overseas." Songshi said in "The Origin of the Japanese Nation" that during the Warring States and Pre-Qin Dynasties, a large number of people from the southeastern coast of China immigrated to Japan, and the boys and girls led by Xu Fu were one of them. "Xu Fu's journey to the east by the sea must be true." Hong Kong Wei Ting The author of "An Examination of Xu Fu's Entry into Japan and the Founding of the Nation" believes that Xu Fu is the founder of Japan, Emperor Jimmu Nakata Gen, and that he is the 29th grandson of King Xu Ju after Zhuanxu. Taiwanese scholar Peng Shuangsong wrote the book "Xu Fu is Emperor Jimmu" to further enrich Wei Tingsheng's views. Japan still preserves many relics of Xu Fu's activities, such as the tomb of Xu Fu and his seven followers in Wakayama County, Xu Fu Palace, the "Xu Fu Landing" Monument in Saga County, Kyushu Island, Xu Fu's Shijia, Xu Fu Temple, and others. Jinli Shrine enshrining Xu Fu and so on.

Some scholars believe that Xu Fu's eastward journey to Japan is just a legend and cannot find reliable historical documents to prove it. Some people even believe that the legend of Xu Fu's eastward journey to Japan is a product of Japan around the 10th century and was not first proposed by the Chinese. Xu Fu only visited the islands in the Bohai Bay at that time, and his deeds, ruins, and cemetery in Japan were all false. In addition, some scholars believe that Xu Fu's eastward journey is a historical fact, but he did not go to Japan, but to the Americas. The time of Xu Fu's eastward journey coincides with the rise of the Maya civilization in the Americas, and Japan is very close to mainland China. , there is no need to spend huge sums of money or take several years to arrive. In the vast sea of ????people, there is still no convincing answer to where Xu Fu went when he crossed east.

It is difficult to determine whether the Japanese are the descendants of Xu Fu's group of people. Maybe they are just the ancestors of some Japanese people