Japanese people developed greatly at the end of the Paleolithic Age, and developed slowly for most of the Paleolithic Age, that is, 10 million years ago. Archaeological studies have found that primitive humans from the north of China began to live on the Korean peninsula hundreds of thousands of years ago, and a few people began to migrate to Japan about10000 years ago. The earliest human fossils found in Japan were born about 10 million years ago. Archaeology and anthropology hold that the Japanese nation mainly evolved from nomadic people in Northeast Asia, Altai Mongols, Manchu-Tungusic languages, Turkic languages, ancient Zhongyuan people, Wuyue people in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, a few Malays and a few Indosinians who gradually migrated to Japan. From the late Warring States period, a large number of Yan people, Qi people, Chu people and Vietnamese people fled to the Korean peninsula and Japan to escape the war. Later, in the Qing Dynasty, the northern part of China was ravaged by war, and China people immigrated to the Korean Peninsula one after another, and later went to Japan or the Japanese archipelago from here to the east or south.

There are no characters in Japan, so China's Chinese characters have been used all the time. Japanese used Japanese in ancient times and borrowed a lot of Chinese words, and the ancient Chinese words in Japanese exceeded 30%. Japanese culture is deeply influenced by China. じょうもんじだい

About 65,438+02,000 years ago, people's culture and life changed greatly due to the end of the last ice age. Except Ryukyu Islands, the whole island has entered the next era, the rope age. It can be divided into six stages: early stage, early stage, middle stage, late stage and late stage. At this time, people made rope pottery, making a living by hunting, fishing and gathering, using bow and arrow hunting, shellfish burial fishing, collecting plants and other commercial life, using stone tools, grinding stone tools, bone horns and so on. It constitutes a society where the rich and the poor are different. After the early days, they settled down, and most of them lived in semi-crypt houses (vertical caves). It is also cultivated, and rice is planted in the later period to the next year. やよいじだい

The period from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD is called the Yayoi Age. The name of this era comes from Yayoi pottery and is regarded as a representative feature of this period. The farming society centered on rice cultivation spread rapidly from Kyushu in the north to all parts of the Japanese archipelago. At that time, the Japanese archipelago was called Japan and Japan by China.

In the 3rd century BC, rice planting technology and metal appliance application technology spread from Korea to northern Kyushu. Rice farming technology has brought epoch-making changes to Japanese society, expanded production, produced differences between the rich and the poor, and made rural communities tend to be politically collectivized. The beliefs, manners and customs brought by farming gradually spread, forming the embryonic form of Japanese culture.

Yayoi pottery

According to the form of pottery, it can be divided into three stages: the first, the middle and the last stage. In the early stage, it expanded from Kyushu to Feng Jingen (East Japan was still at the end of the rope pattern era), and in the middle stage, it expanded to Northeast China. The early flat-edged stone axe in Kitakyushu is similar to the mainland culture in terms of ground stone tools, bronzes and stone tombs. Yayoi culture has advanced farming techniques from the beginning, which is generally considered to be influenced by Korean immigrants. After the middle period, irrigation technology has been improved and agricultural production has gradually stabilized. In the later period, iron farm tools became popular and stone tools basically disappeared. Bronze ritual vessels, such as bronze priests, bronze swords, bronze spears and bronze daggers, are developed, and social division of labor such as ironmaking and salt making has emerged. Through trade and war, a unified political regional group was formed. At this time, Hokkaido can't grow rice, and it is still in the stage of rope culture. こふんじだい

The ancient grave era is the era of building ancient graves (300-600 AD). Cluster graves appeared behind the ancient tombs in the front and back circles, centering on Nara Prefecture, scattered in the vast areas from Fukushima Prefecture in the north to Kumamoto Prefecture and Oita Prefecture in the south, and extended from Miyagi Prefecture to Kagoshima Prefecture in the 5th century. At first, only tribal leaders were buried in ancient tombs, which were jointly built by tribal members.

Around the 3rd century, the Yamato Kingdom rose in Nara Prefecture and gradually conquered most parts of Japan. The leader was called the "king" and later renamed the emperor. At the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th century, Yamato Kingdom became a big country. In the 5th century, the primitive ownership began to disintegrate, the extended family developed into production units and movable property ownership units, and conflicts of interest occurred within the primitive tribes. Since the middle of the fifth century, the civil war between powerful tribes in Guinea has intensified. Some powerful tribes are related to the mockingbird tomb and the ancient city tomb where the five kings of Japan appeared. In the sixth century, the emerging forces of the system of succession to the emperor unified the tribes in the east of the capital and established the status of the king. Kitakyushu forces, led by MICHELLE Iwai's construction, had hoped to gain a similar status and resist, but this resistance had been defeated before obtaining this status. During the civil war, local leaders granted tribal members the right to build small ancient graves to enhance their combat effectiveness. Therefore, in the second half of the 5th century, the ancient grave, which used to be only the head tomb, evolved into a small ancient grave (cluster grave). This trend further developed in the 6th century. More than100000 ancient tombs have been built all over Japan. The main part of the ancient tomb also adopted a horizontal cave stone chamber. Several generations of family members are buried in the stone chamber, with weapons as the center. After death, there are necessities of life, such as hui utensils and earthenware utensils. However, the appearance of a large number of small ancient tombs has gradually weakened the nature of ancient tombs as rulers' buildings. Therefore, from the end of the 6th century to the beginning of the 7th century, Japanese monarchs tried their best to build monasteries in Guinea, and at the same time restricted the construction of small ancient tombs, while kings and powerful nobles were buried in large square tombs modeled after the mausoleum of Emperor China. In this way, the era of ancient graves is coming to an end, and the so-called "thin burial order" of Dahua further encourages this tendency, leaving only the ancient graves of middle-class nobles in Gaosong, which are small but gorgeous. The ancient tombs in Guandong and Northeast China ended later than in western Japan, and the round tombs were still under construction until the first half of the seventh century.