Person
Xu Fu
Also called: Xu Shi
Qin court magician (fangshi) sent by the First Emperor to find the elixir of immortality; he sailed with thousands of boys and girls and never returned. Legends place him in Japan and on Jeju
Where they went
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Longing for immortality, the First Emperor sent the magician Xu Fu to fetch an elixir from the islands of the immortals in the eastern sea. Xu Fu sailed with thousands of boys and girls and never returned, leaving legends of his landing in Japan and on Jeju.
People who appear alongside
Qin Shi Huang259 BC – 210 BCKing of Qin (247–221 BCE) and first emperor (221–210 BCE) who conquered the six other states, unified China and created a centralised imperial system
Themes this person appears in
- Ancient China and India770 BC – AD 220
From the Hundred Schools of the Warring States to the unified empires of Qin and Han, and from the Buddha to the Maurya and Kushan empires — the millennium that shaped East and South Asian civilisation