The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War of Ancient Immigrants in China

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution in 1950s and 1960s once again led to the migration of Hakka people from Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, eighteen provinces in China, especially Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and other southeast coastal provinces, became battlefields for Taiping Army, Qing Army and foreign invaders, many of which were Hakka settlements. In these places, the Qing army and foreign invaders brutally burned, killed and looted, and local vigilantes also spoke ill of the people. In order to avoid the disaster of war, the revenge of reactionary forces and the pursuit of the Qing army, a large number of Hakkas were forced to flee and move to places they thought were safer. After the war, many Hakka settlements were "Jingzhen Road" and "ten rooms and nine empty spaces", and the population in some places decreased by more than half. It can be seen how serious the phenomenon of Hakka immigration was at that time.