TS,
Think it's a good habit to formerly quote your sources....
Ok that said, after Qin's 'one people, one nation'
consolidation, there are many dialect groups that made it to the
court as ministers. What is Xu Fu's? Also, the virgin bois
and gers were specially selected from all over China to exchange
for Qin's Tongkat Ali a.k.a. elixir of longevity - they were
not from only one part of Central Nation and thus they
comprised of different dialect groups as well.
Chinese studying Jap lang will know that certain Jap words
sounded like certain dialects. E.g. Pencil = enpitsu and in hakka,
it is the same pronounciation. Another wild silmilarity is
'Mediocre' = ma ma desu - doesn't it sounds like Cantonese 'mah mah
deh'?
If you wish to find out more, investigate on Xu Fu's dialect and
his staffs' dialect. Cos none of them returned to China when they
failed to bring back the elixir. I'm not sure of your claim that
they returned to resup - please quote the source.
One point to note is Qin's emporor's head dress and traditional
Jap royal blood's head dress. In Jap royal head dress, it's black
and seldom gold - at least the earliest record. In ancient China,
no one was allowed/had the resources to wear yellow or gold. All
the ministered had to wear the offical black. And I believe Xu Fu
also wore black head dress. Compare that (design and colour) to Jap
ancient royal head dress.
Quoting this website, Japan was linked to the continent and it
seems that academics think that Japan came from Korea >
China.
The Jomon culture, in essence a Mesolithic culture (although
they display Neolithic traits, such as pottery-making), thrived in
Japan from the eleventh century to the third century
B.C., when it was displaced by a wave of immigrants
from the mainland. These were the Yayoi, and their origins lay in
the north of China. Northern China was originally a temperate and
lush place full of forests, streams, and rainfall. It began to dry
out, however, a few thousand years before the common era. This
dessication, which eventually produced one of the largest deserts
in the world, the Gobi, drove the original inhabitants south and
east. These peoples pushed into Korea and displaced indigenous
populations. Eventually, these new settlers were displaced by a new
wave of immigrations from northern China and a large number of them
crossed over into the Japanese islands. For this reason, the
languages of the area north of China, the language of Korea, and
Japanese are all in the same family of languages according to most
linguists. Because Mongolian (spoken in the area north of China) is
also part of this language family and because the Mongolians
conquered the world far to the west, this means that the language
family to which Japanese belongs is spoken across a geographical
region from Japan to Europe. The westernmost language in this
family is Magyar, spoken in Hungary, and the easternmost language
in this family is Japanese.
The Yayoi brought with them agriculture, the
working of bronze and iron, and a new religion which would
eventually develop into Shinto (which wasn't given this name until
much, much later). While we don't know what these immigrations did
to the indigenous peoples, there are several possibilities.
According to one theory, which is widely accepted in Japan, the
waves of Yayoi immigrants were very small. While they brought new
technologies with them, they were nevertheless assimilated into the
native Jomon culture. By this account, Japanese culture,
particularly as it is represented by the Shinto religion, is very
ancient and indigenous Japan. Some Japanese believe that the Jomon
spoke an Austronesian language, that is, that the
Jomon were more closely related to south Pacific islanders and that
Japanese is still largely a Pacific island language. In the West,
historians believe that the Yayoi displaced the indigenous Jomon
and thus ended their culture permanently. The Yayoi displaced the
indigenous language, social patterns, and religion of the original
inhabitants. In this view, Japanese culture is a foreign import
deriving ultimately from the north of China and ancient Korea, a
view that is not popular among the modern Japanese.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAYOI.HTM
Well, you can see that Japs are linked to many ethnic groups and
culture. The thing to note is, with gene pool diversification, the
off springs are healthier.
