It is said that the ancestor of the Japanese is Xu Fu from China, so they dare not engage in archaeology. Is it true?/You don't say.

In fact, we have no way to investigate whether there is such a thing, but there is such a saying. According to legend, in order to pursue immortality, Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fudong to find the fairy mountain. In order to get a pair of elixirs, he assigned the former virgins to Xu Fu and asked them to accompany him to the fairy mountain in the east to find elixirs. But chui fook never came back after he left. And the 1000 boys and girls he brought with him, like him, disappeared into the historical records of Qin State.

As for another saying that Japan does not conduct archaeology, there is another saying. In fact, the cause of archaeology was also carried out in Japan at the beginning. However, there was once a famous Japanese archaeologist who made a very famous forgery in an archaeological undertaking, which had a great influence on Japanese archaeology. Since this incident, Japan has gradually stopped its own archaeological career.

Of course, for many centuries, people have been entangled in the question of whether Xu Fu is the ancestor of Japan. When Japan was relatively weak, they still recognized it, especially during the Tang Dynasty in China. Moreover, in the later Song Dynasty, many articles also pointed out that the Japanese once thought Xu Fu was their ancestor, because at that time it was probably because they were still weak and wanted to please some powerful people.

So they personally admitted that they were descendants of Xu Fu, in order to curry favor with the relationship of the Tang Dynasty at that time. But after Japan became powerful, they did not make it clear that they were descendants of Xu Fu or that Xu Fu was their first emperor.