Xu Fu Dong travelled with three thousand boys and girls, "disappeared" for two thousand years, and the Japanese shouted: he was our ancestor. decades of propaganda, countless temple monuments, even the prime ministers came to sacrifice.
But after a round of DNA testing, the result makes people's brains buzzing-it's not Xu Fu, it's not Zhongyuan, and the ancestors are not that blood at all.
Beware of the ship!" said Xu Fu's ancestor, "He was hit by DNA.
Many Japanese people like to say, "We are descendants of Xu Fu." This is really a bit of "cultural pride" when it is said on some occasions. But when a DNA test report comes out, this face can't be saved.
In 2013, Jilin University joined the University of Hong Kong and the University of Beijing to do something: extract human bones from the cemetery of Zhengzhou Han, Dong, and Song, and do a complete set of genes, skulls, and anthropological analyses.
The test results were quite unexpected. On the characteristics of the skull, the Japanese do look like the Han-Dei-Mei-originals.Especially in these places where the nose is sharp, high, and the bow is wide, it is closest to the characteristics of the modern Hong Kong Han. But when you look at the genetic composition, things start to “fall.”
Mitochondrial DNA is inherited maternally and is not easily mutated. In Linzi, Shandong Province, they extracted human bone samples from the cemetery of Qi State 2,500 years ago. The test showed that these Central Plains people belonged to the B and F branches of R system.
Note that although this "R system" also exists in Europe, its branches are different. The Central Plains is the eastern branch, and the Japanese do have group F DNA, but the distribution is extremely unconcentrated and the proportion is low.
If Xu Fu really went to Japan with three thousand boys and girls, it was logical to leave a significant group genetic mark in the area. But the reality is: no. The group F is not the mainstream, nor the ancestral source, in the structure of modern Japanese DNA.
You say they are like the Chinese, but the genes are not like them; you say they are not like them, and they look like them.
At present, the prevailing view is that Japanese people are composed of three ancestral groups: Jomen people, Yayoi people and Gufen people. The Jomon people came from the Amur River valley 10,000 years ago; Yayoi people crossed the sea around the third century BC, more in the direction of Korea; The Gufen people came on horseback around the third century AD, with some Turkic characteristics.
So you see, The Japanese blood is mixed, but it is very stable-that is, there is no "Xu Fu".That is to say, those who say, "Our ancestors are the Chinese people of the Middle East brought by Xu Fu," may have heard more legends and more imaginations.
Three thousand boys and girls, where did they go?
The second time that Qin the Emperor sent Xu Fu Dong to pass this, the story of the "Han Book" is recorded. the time is 219 BC, the location is Lungang, which is today's eastern coastal region of Shandong.
The first time he went out to sea, Xu Fu was “invited to travel” – he said he wanted to find a long-lived anti-aging medicine. Three thousand children, boys and women, hundreds of technicians, and an accompanying fleet and three years of food., almost an "immigration group".
The result went out a few years without a message. by 210 BC, Qin the Emperor again found him to ask where the medicine was. Xu Fu said: "There is a shellfish intercepted, can not kill, the medicine can not take." "Qin the Emperor did not get angry when he heard this, but also sent the fleet "exclude the shellfish", Xu Fu this more reassured, one walk again did not come back.
So where did he go? mainstream evidence is: to the South Korean Pyeongzhe Belt. The Qing Dynasty Wang Qing visit believes that the phrase "to the plain of Pyeongzhe, no return" in the "Science" refers to today's Southwest Korea.
The Japanese people don't think so. They argued that Xu Fu went to Kumano, went to Wakayama, farmed at the foot of Mount Fuji, became a teacher of Emperor Kaihua, and gave birth to offspring. This statement sounds quite plump, but the details are very empty.
For example, the place of departure has three statements: Some say it is today's Shandong Yongshan, some say it is Jiangsu Yongshan port of Qingdao, some say it is Qingdao city in the east of the home river port. you say it is right, none is specific; you say it is not right, there are also monuments, temples, memorials.
The most interesting is Haneda Zhao—the former prime minister of Japan, who in 2007 really ran to join the Yunnan city of Xu Fujimura priests. He was Xu Fujin, and said, “I am the 80th generation of Xu Fujin.” Chinese people also cooperated, gunpowder, table, flower offering, a process to go down, more than the sacrifice.
But here's the question: Did this Xu Fu go to Japan? Did you leave any direct evidence? The answer is written simply in the information: There are no tombstones, no antiquities, no remains, no DNA.
Many people with Japanese surnames, such as "Thuido" and "Fukushima", say that they are the descendants of Xu Fu, and also use "Fu" as a "bloodline symbol". The early genealogy was written on wooden boards, and a temple was burned that year, and it was all gone.
In other words, The phrase "Xu Fu to Japan" does not have a valid "stage", but only an ever-expanding "imaginary space".
The face is like the middle, but the blood does not recognize love.
Many people say that the Japanese face is like the Chinese, this is true. According to a study of the skull at Jilin University, the Japanese face is really close to the Han-Dei-Middle-Native people's face characteristics. Faces can be like, genes don't lie.
DNA testing has long made the ancestral origin of the Japanese clear. To put it simply, there are three mixed bloods: Jomen people, around 10,000 BC, moved south from Northeast Asia and occupied Honshu and Hokkaido; Yayoi, who crossed eastward from the Korean Peninsula in the 3rd century BC, brought rice, copper and iron ware; Gufen people, a group of horsemen riding in the 3rd-6th century AD, brought into a new political rule system.
These three waves are mixed together to form the genetic pattern of the Japanese today. Which one of these three is the “Middle Origin”?
From a genetic point of view, 弥生人 is closer to the Korean Peninsula, Jilin, and Liaoning.From the linear particle DNA, the Japanese match rate with the R system F branch is less than 15%, much lower than the Hong Kong and Jiangnan region Han.
Xu Fu's 3,000 people were all recruited from the Central Plains, Qilu and Guanzhong areas. If they did arrive in Japan, there should be obvious traces of Central Plains blood in the DNA structure of Japan today. But what happened? No, no.
The most heartbreaking thing is: Japanese people are closer to Austronesian languages, such as Vietnamese and Filipinos, but they are not close to Han people in the Central Plains.So why is there anyone who insists that “we are the descendants of Xiaofu”?
Because it sounds good. because it can bring psychological comfort to an island country with the “cultural roots.” because “forefathers from ancient civilized countries” sounds much more decent than “forefathers are fishermen hunters.”
Even the "traces" left by Xu Fu in Japan were mostly "supplemented" by the people of after. You see the "Temple of Xu Fu", "Temple of Xu Fu Fu", "Temple of Xu Fu Fu", mostly built in the middle of the Late period of Jiangsu.
If Xu Fujimori left a descendant, three thousand people would be enough to form a genetic "insular spread" ethnic group. There is no trace of any group of "Xu Fu descendants group".
So the conclusion is clear: The Japanese are not the descendants of Xu Fu.It was just a popular claim spread over a millennium, and in the face of archaeology and genetics, it was fought.
References:
Ancient human genes revealed: Where did the ancestors of the Japanese come from?. ifeng.com.2021.11.15
Has Xu Fu Really Arrived in Japan? - China Cultural Research Institute, July 5, 2019
Are the Japanese the descendants of Xu Fu? - People's Network, April 22, 2014
Xu Fujitsu: The Historical Mist Behind the Millennium Legends. 2017-07-30
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