The Real Purpose of Qin Shihuang's East Tour

Many children of Kanto refused to accept the Qin Dynasty's destruction of the Six Kingdoms. The first emperor's tour to the east was aimed at showing his strength and subduing the heroes. Unexpectedly, although this failed to deter the heroes, it also caused some people to peep at the throne because of the grand ostentation and extravagance, among which Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were the best. Second, Ying Zheng wants to make his achievements spread through the ages and ascend to heaven, so he wants to sacrifice to heaven. Taishan Mountain in Shandong Province is considered to be suitable for setting up a monument and offering sacrifices to heaven. Third, seek the elixir of life. Developing the ocean should be a shadowless thing. Where did the ancients know about the ocean resources? The first emperor was old, and there was no such ambition. However, we can see from the fact that the Great Wall was built only to defend the Xiongnu, but there was no idea of completely defeating the Xiongnu. Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty completed it.

Xu Fudong's crossing: It is difficult to produce conclusive evidence whether Xu Fu crossed to Japan or not. We can only look for the answer from the only remaining clues. Although there are still many controversies in history, I think history will come out one day.

Sima Qian was the first to record Xu Fu's history in historical books. In Sima Qian's Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor, there is such a record: In the twenty-eighth year of the first emperor: "Qi Xu (Xu Fu) and others wrote that there are three sacred mountains in the sea, named Penglai, abbot, Yingzhou, where immortals live. Please fast, and ask for it with boys and girls. So he sent Xu Fufa thousands of boys and girls to the sea to ask for immortals. " Later, it was recorded in the Taiping Guangji Xu Fu and the Ten Kingdoms: "Xu Fu, also writing Xu Wei, is a gentleman's room and a neat person." There is no record of his date of birth and death. Didn't say where chui fook floating sea. Later generations thought it was Taiwan Province or Ryukyu, and some said it was America, but most thought it was Japanese. Xu Fudong's crossing to Japan was originally proposed by Hou Zhou and Shang Yichu of the Five Dynasties. Said: "Japan is also known as Japan, in the East China Sea. During the Qin Dynasty, Xu Fu stopped the country with 5 boys and 5 girls, and today's figures are just like Chang 'an. ..... There is also a mountain named' Fuji' or' Penglai' in the dry surplus in the northeast ... Xu Fu came here and called Penglai, and all descendants are called Qin. " Yichu said that this statement came from Japanese monk Hiroshi. Ouyang Xiu, a writer and historian in the Song Dynasty, also believed that Xu Fudong crossed to Japan. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a Japanese monk went to Nanjing and presented poems to Ming Taizu, mentioning "Xu Fu Temple in front of a wild bear". Li Shuchang, Huang Qixian, the envoys to Japan in the late Qing Dynasty, all visited Xu Fu's tomb and wrote poems and inscriptions.

since the beginning of this century, Chinese and Japanese scholars have done a lot of research on Xu Fu's trip to the east. Ma Feibai thinks that Xu Fu has a purpose to go to Japan in The Collection of Qin Dynasty. "His intention was not to seek immortality at first, but to use the selfishness of the first emperor to seek immortality and use his power to colonize overseas." Xu Songshi said in "The Origin of the Japanese Nation" that during the Warring States and the Pre-Qin period, a large number of people from the southeast coast of China immigrated to Japan, and the boys and girls led by Xu Fu were one of them. "Xu Fu's eastward trip to the sea must be true." Hong Kong Wei Ting wrote "Xu Fu's Entry into the Founding of Japan", believing that Xu Fu was the founder of Japan, Emperor Jimmu Nakata Xuan, and that he was the 29th grandson of King Xu Ju after Zhuan Xu. Peng Shuangsong, a scholar in Taiwan Province, wrote the book Xu Fu is Emperor Jimmu, which further enriched Wei Tingsheng's point of view. Up to now, there are many relics of Chui Fu's activities in Japan, such as the tomb of Chui Fu in Wakayama Prefecture and his messenger, Chui Fu Palace, the monument of "Chui Fu on Land" in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Chui Fu's Stone House, Chui Fu Temple, and the Gionee Shrine dedicated to Chui Fu. Shinomiya is located on the southeast coastline of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, facing the sea, which is deep and high. Near the coastline of Shinomiya, it is the Lingshan "Penglai Mountain" that Xu Fu dreamed of. Hundreds of meters in front of Penglai Mountain, there stands a low tower monument. When you look closer, it turns out that this is the place where Chui Fu landed.

Some scholars believe that Xu Fudong's trip to Japan is just a legend, and there is no reliable historical document to prove it. Some people even think that the legend of Xu Fudong's crossing to Japan is the product of Japan in the 1th century or so, and it was not first put forward by China people. At that time, Xu Fu only went to the islands in Bohai Bay, and his deeds, relics and cemeteries in Japan were all nominal. In addition, some scholars believe that Xu Fudong's crossing is a historical fact, but he didn't go to Japan, but went to America. The time for Xu Fudong's crossing coincides with the rise of Mayan civilization in America, and Japan and Chinese mainland are very close, so it doesn't need to spend huge sums of money at all, and it will take several years to arrive. There is a vast sea of people, and there is no convincing answer as to where Xu Fudong went.