1On February 20th, 878, Japan issued the first generation passport, which was named "Overseas Travel Voucher of the Great Japanese Empire". Of course, this is just an official title. Usually the Japanese like to call it "Japan International Travel Service 30". Generally speaking, passports in different countries in the world have different colors, such as blue, green, red, brown and black, and each country only takes one or two of them. However, Japanese passports are not only one color, but four.
At first, the Japanese passport was dark green with the words "Overseas Travel Voucher of Imperial Japan" and chrysanthemum pattern printed on it. It is worth noting that these characters are not written in Japanese, but China's Xiao Zhuan. However, although Japan reduced the words "Imperial Japan Overseas Travel Voucher" to "Japan International Travel Service 30", they still did not replace the seal words with Japanese. On the contrary, they kept and continued this "tradition". The reason why Japan is so nostalgic is actually inseparable from that period of history, especially with Qin Shihuang.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the languages of different countries were not unified, and communication often led to ambiguity. At that time, the script used by Qin was Da Zhuan. Dazhuan, also known as Zhuan (zhòu), is a character carved on stone reeds and stone drums, which evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions. "History of Han, Art and Literature" records: "There are fifteen historical books, and Zhou Xuanwang's history books are printed." From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Warring States Period, the development of Da Zhuan has a history of at least several hundred years. In view of the division of the world, it is not surprising that the national seal will derive a variety of writing forms.
In 22 1 year BC, Qin Shihuang unified the six countries. In order to better issue government decrees and rule, he put forward the policy of "writing in the same language, cars in the same track, and unified measurement". Therefore, he gave the task of unifying writing and calligraphy to Prime Minister Li Si, and ordered him to simplify writing again on the basis of the original seal script. Finally, Lisi started with the outline, strokes and structural stereotypes, changed the winding lines of Da Zhuan, and created a new font with even strokes and convenient writing, which is Xiao Zhuan.
Since then, Qin Shihuang has vigorously promoted the small seal script and abolished all the original seal scripts with different sounds and characters, which greatly promoted economic development and cultural exchanges and affected neighboring countries and regions including Japan. At that time, Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to lead 3,000 boys and girls to the East to find the elixir of life. At that time, it was the early Yayoi period in Japan. There was no farming civilization, no written communication and no medicine.
Therefore, the arrival of Xu Fu just solved this problem for Japan and guided them to break through the bottleneck and move towards a civilized society. Historical Records Biography of Hengshan Mountain in Huainan records that (Qin Shihuang) dispatched 3,000 men and women, and all kinds of food were spared. It can be seen that the reason why Japan insists on keeping the seal script on its passport is because of its nostalgia for Xu Fu. Without his and Qin Shihuang's original command, there would be no Japan today.