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In Taoism, immortality is a sign of immortals, and there are schools of medicine in Taoism that specialize in alchemy and medicine, and the purpose is also to live forever. Chang'e, Hou Yi's wife, she stole the immortal medicine of the Queen Mother of the West and took it, and finally Chang'e ran to the moon.

There is no mention of immortality and immeasurable longevity in the Buddhist Pali scriptures, the Buddha said, "Everything is impermanent, there is no eternal soul, there is no eternal heaven, there is life and there is death, and no man or god can live forever." Even the colorless Brahma god who has 84,000 eons of life and wants to live in heaven has a day when he dies. ”

As the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, although he had everything, he was a mortal after all, and he was afraid that one day he would die.

How can one be afraid of something that one has never known? How can one be afraid of something that one does not know, that is completely unfamiliar, that is unfamiliar, that is unfamiliar? Fear can only exist in the knowledge of what is known.

When Yingzheng said, "I am afraid of death. ”

He's not afraid of death, he doesn't know at all, who knows? Death may be better than life? That fear is not the fear of death, that fear is the fear of time.

Fear grabs the human heart, life goes by, time continues to flow out of the hand, death approaches every moment with a constant pace, it can knock at the door at any time, and time is gone, there is no way to recover it, once it is gone, it is gone forever, fear, anxiety, a neurosis that worries about time, it becomes a chronic disease, people are always alert to the loss of time, and thus become afraid.

That fear is that it has not yet been able to live, and time has been passing, and there is no way for it to be restored, it cannot turn back time, and once it is gone, it is gone forever, and life shrinks every day, becoming less and less, less and less, less and less......

The elixir of life is a kind of medicine that can make people immortal in ancient myths and legends, "Han Feizi Says Linshang": "And the guest offers the medicine of immortality, and the king kills the minister while the minister eats it, it is the medicine of death, and it is the guest who bullies the king." "The elixir of immortality is a miracle medicine that emperors of all generations have been pursuing.

Qin Shi Huang once rode a boat around the Shandong Peninsula, where he lingered for three months, where he heard that there were three immortal mountains in the Bohai Bay, called Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou. On the three immortal mountains live three immortals, who have the elixir of life in their hands.

The man who told Qin Shi Huang this magical story was called Xu Fu, a local monk who had heard that he had seen the three immortal mountains with his own eyes. Qin Shi Huang was very happy when he heard this, so he sent Xu Fu to lead a thousand boys and girls into the sea to find the elixir of life. The huge fleet led by Xu Fu set off, but he drifted on the sea for a long time and did not find the immortal mountain he was talking about, let alone the elixir of life. Qin Shi Huang was a tyrant, Xu Fu did not complete the task, and after returning to Qin Shi Huang's style, he would definitely be beheaded, so legend has it that he took these thousand boys and girls to Japan along the river.

The same story is told in both China and Japan, and that is the legendary story of Xu Fu who traveled east for the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang.

Xu Fu, he was a smart-minded, bold and careful liar, because he had been a monk, and when Qin Shi Huang completed the great cause of dominating the world and building the Great Wall, he began to dream of the magic of immortality. At this time, Xu Fu came to Qin Shi Huang's court and claimed that he could go to the Immortal Mountain in the east to obtain the immortal elixir for Qin Shi Huang. According to him, the three immortal islands of Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are in the Oriental Sea, and he is willing to go there for Qin Shi Huang to get the medicine of immortality.

As a result of the first eastward crossing, Xu Fu did not bring back the elixir of immortality, he told the first emperor that there was indeed a miracle medicine in the East, but the gods wanted 3,000 boys and girls, all kinds of gifts from the world, and at the same time, there were whales blocking the way at sea, and he wanted to shoot off the big fish with a strong bow and crossbow. Qin Shi Huang believed it was true, so he agreed to the conditions in full and helped him cross to the east again, but Xu Fu was gone and never returned.

Who is Qin Shi Huang, a professional assassin like Jing Ke has been cut down by him, how can he be deceived by a Xu Fu? Unless Qin Shi Huang can be convinced that there is really an immortal mountain in the east, and there is really an immortal elixir on the immortal mountain. The legendary fairy island is not all illusory, there are no immortals, but the island is. According to Japanese records, what Xu Fu is talking about is the three islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu in Japan.

Xu Fu asked for 3,000 boys and girls, Qin Shi Huang could not get together at once, at this time, the Qin army happened to conquer the southwest Yi, so Qin Shi Huang ordered these conquered tribes to provide the required boys and girls, southwest Yi, is the common ancestor of all ethnic groups in modern Yunnan.

Is the legend of Xu Fu's so-called elixir of immortality groundless? Or is it true? The elixir of immortality that Xu Fu said has a little shadow, and when Xu Fu crossed to the east for the first time, he himself believed in the existence of the elixir of immortality.

Qin Shi Huang has never been a stupid person, if Xu Fu relied entirely on rumors to make trouble, how could he deceive this shrewd emperor of the ages? That is a generation of heroes who imprisoned his mother and killed his father and unified the six countries. Even if he was eager to seek medicine, wouldn't Xu Fu's first failure arouse his suspicions? And Xu Fu wondered, if he had never been to Japan, how did he know that he could reach Japan by sailing all the way east?

Suppose there is a legendary origin of immortal medicine in the East China Sea, and Xu Fu is good at rhetoric and advocacy, deceive Qin Shi Huang's trust, and then get the personnel and equipment he needs. Otherwise, if you want to plant flowers on the raw soil, if you want Qin Shi Huang to take out the blood book, I am afraid that it is more likely to play with your own head.

Was there really an elixir of immortality in ancient Japan? This miraculous elixir of immortality not only existed, but was also produced on Zhujima, Zhujima, which is located in the Seto Inland Sea, surrounded by Kyushu Island, Honshu Island, and Shikoku Island, and is sparsely populated. Since ancient times, it has been spread that there is a magical spiritual creature in the hinterland of its deep valley, this spiritual creature is the fruit of a plant, commonly known as the kiln, also known as a thousand years old, the size of this fruit is like a walnut, the juice is thick, the taste is sweet, it is said that eating it can keep a thousand years of immortality, and it can also increase the life span of three years and three months when you smell it. This plant is extremely rare, rare in the world, and rare even for locals.

The legend of a thousand years old was introduced to Middle-earth, and Xu Fu's family lived on the coast of the East China Sea, and it was not a strange thing to hear about it, and he attached such a legend to Qin Shi Huang's ears through other means. The people of Zhu Island believe that Xu Fu once visited their island, because on the rock in the bay, there is a chessboard carved in stone, which the locals say was left by Xu Fu.

The elixir of immortality that Xu Fu sought for Qin Shi Huang was probably the miraculous fruit Chitose produced on Zhu Island. But what exactly is Chitose? Does it really exist?

Chitose is indeed a rare plant, a vine-like shrub that uses its roots and fruits as medicine. It has the effect of regulating qi, moisturizing dryness, relieving fever and removing annoyance, invigorating blood and reducing swelling. The flesh is green, the skin is soft and hairy, and it can be eaten often to strengthen the body and prolong life.

Xu Fu, a child born on the coast of the East China Sea, heard many magical legends from the mouth of seafarers since he was a child, including that there is a fairy island in the Oriental Sea, and there is a spirit fruit on the fairy island that can eat a thousand years of life, so he began to learn to sail.

Xu Fu grew up, and at this time, Qin Shi Huang began to solicit the elixir of immortality, and Xu Fu went to apply, because he thought that the spiritual fruit he knew was the elixir of immortality that the emperor needed. Qin Shi Huang was suspicious of him, but seeing that this person was determined and did not look like a liar under various tests, he sent people to go with him by boat. Xu Fu succeeded, and what was even more successful was that he landed on Xiandao, landed on Zhu Island, and even really found the elixir of immortality - Chitose.

The dramatic scene appeared, and when Xu Fu finally succeeded in finding the elixir of immortality, he probably began to complain, because he tasted it himself, can he not die if he eats this thing? Because the locals told him that Daddy so-and-so still died ugly after eating it, and Xu Fu saw this thing, and he understood that he had been fooled.

Xu Fu thought to himself: What should I do? Bring this thing back to the emperor to eat? If he eats it, he will definitely cut off my head? Let me tell the emperor that we are fooled, and the emperor will also cut off my head, what if I run away? God, I won't become a wild man in this kind of wild place?

Anyway, there was no one around him who understood the local dialect, so he told those who came with him: "This, you have also seen, the people here say that there is an elixir of immortality, but there is no here, and we have to continue to go east, there are whales on the road, and the sea god needs 3,000 boys and girls, otherwise they will not be allowed to pass." ”

These people immediately shook their heads: "My lord, let's go back and discuss with the emperor first." ”

Xu Fu pushed the boat down the river and went back to discuss with Qin Shi Huang, he had already seen that the local place was good, the climate was warm, the tribes were very backward and the people were short and not good at fighting, maybe he was also making small calculations. There must be some luck here, anyway, this guy has hidden the fact that he has found the elixir of immortality.

Qin Shi Huang was not idle at this time, and someone collected the legend of the East China Sea to him: "There is indeed an immortal mountain in the east, and there is indeed a saying that immortal medicine is produced on the immortal mountain." "What is spread by falsehood is mixed with truth and falsehood.