Why were the ancient Japanese short in stature? Ancient Chinese books are very detailed, and there are pictures as evidence
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a book called "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks". Although this is a novel, it was not made up by anyone else. The author of this book, Duan Chengshi, was originally a scholar. He was very knowledgeable. Unfortunately, the imperial examinations were always missed, so he rewrote the book. In his book, he emphasizes that much of what he wrote was what he heard and was true. Just in the details, there may be some processing.
The book writes that there was a man named Li Zhangwu in Luoyang City, who hid a "human wax" at home. To put it bluntly, a mummy without bandages. According to historical records, this thing is about 3 inches long, originally a "overseas country" person, and then for some reason, came to Luoyang. He died after being taken in by Li Zhangwu. He obeyed his wishes and made it into a "human wax". I hope to see his countrymen one day and bring him back.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is "overseas sea, foreign country", which means that this person lives overseas, outside our country, that is, overseas. Based on Tang Dynasty China's contacts with neighboring ethnic groups, Mr. Hu Shi came to the conclusion that "the wax wax may have come from the Korean Peninsula or Japan, when it was still alive." Of course, Mr. Hu Shi prefers the latter, because after all, the ancient Japanese were very short.
Why are they so short? Duan Chengshi deduced in the book that the Japanese have lived on the island for a long time, have no worries about food and clothing, and have poor growth, so they are very short. Ladies and gentlemen, from an environmental point of view, there is some truth to this statement. Modern science has proven that in a relatively closed environment, if food is scarce, organisms become smaller and smaller because fewer resources are needed.
In addition, there is a passage in the relevant books that in the Yao era, there was a fluctuating country, and the king sent people there to deliver precious feathers, which are said to be "not wet in the water". Yao returned a piece of the "Queen Mother's White Ring". Where is the country? The book says that as we walked 400,000 miles east from here, there was a erratic country of water on all sides, a foot and a half inches long.
A foot in ancient times was a little longer than it is now, but this foot and five inches, in other words, is estimated to be a meter four or five inches. Judging from its description, it is clear that the country is ancient Japan. According to the book, when this lucky guy met Yao, he once said that we are the sons of the sun god, so we are not as tall as you.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand? Why were the ancient Japanese so short? They say because they are sons of the sun god! Not like us humans! In fact, according to relevant research, the earliest humans on the Japanese peninsula were "dwarf blacks", who entered Japan during the last glacial period of the Quaternary Period. So, genetically speaking, the ancient Japanese were not very tall.