Talk:Xu Fu
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[edit] Number of boys and girls, as with purpose
Xu Fu knew that he was unable to return with such an elixir able to grant immortality. However he was smart enough that in order to survive, he would require many ships and around five hundred young boys and girls to create a new nation. Xu Fu knew that Qing wouldn't have spared him if he were to decline in searching for the immortality. Thanksly, Aeryck89 09:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thats speculative I assume - or do you have sources for his motivation? (if it is your own speculation, its a pretty good one:)....Engr105th (talk) 22:50, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
By the way, this does not sound like a case of someone who "disappeared". Sounds like he lived out his life in a colony in Japan. Should he really be on a list of Disappeared Persons ? Engr105th (talk) 22:52, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
- I think the problem is that we can't really tell what happened to him. Historical records about him haven't been verified with any archaeological studies so they're all really up for interpretation. How much can you trust a record that was written hundreds of years ago about events that happened hundreds of years prior to the writing of the record? But at any rate, I am not opposed to it if we removed the "Disappeared people" category from the article. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 23:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Character for Fu
I'm not sure about the character for "Fu" given - the character I have here in Celestial Lancets (Needham et al, 1980), looks more like 幅, actually the left hand side looks like the left hand side of 祔, but with the right hand phonetic for "food" (as the original character). Reading Chinese Characters (1927, Catholic Mission Press) p. 193 (lesson 75D) it also notes the character means a "transcendent influence that brings luck". Perhaps this character has changed shape in the 20th century? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.97.235.49 (talk) 09:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC).
- Yes, that's the case (though I can't say if it occurred in the 20th century). They are the same character. _dk 12:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mythology?
Interesting story, but (at least part of) it seems more mythology than fact, with Perseus type qualities. The 3000 virgins on a boat bit sounds like the two ships with 50 virgins of King Danaus and 50 sons of his brother, King Aegyptus that sailed to Argos. Their descendent Perseus also fought monsters (Gorgons) in search for an elixir of life. Tchoutoye (talk) 03:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
