The origin of anzhuang town anzhuang

According to the records in Ming History, Hongwu and Yongle immigrated from Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi 10 times, and Yongle 8 times, accounting for 18 times, and moved to all parts of the country. People have different views on immigration:

1. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the cruel exploitation and oppression of farmers by Mongolian nobles and feudal landlords, class contradictions and ethnic contradictions intensified day by day, floods, droughts, locusts and epidemics continued, and people lived in poverty, which made the roads in the Central Plains such as Henan, Shandong, Hebei and northern Anhui "all blocked and deserted" (Record of Ming Taizu, Volume 29). According to the historical records of Yuan Dynasty, there were only 19 floods and droughts in Shandong, 17 in Henan, 15 in Hebei and 8 in Huaibei. ") caused by" wandering without others, many dead people "(Yuan history. Chronicle of Shundi, "Food does not enter the ground, people eat each other" (Yuan history. Records of the five elements). At the end of Yuan Dynasty, there were not only serious floods in the Central Plains, but also frequent locusts. From the first year of Zheng Zheng to the twenty-fifth year, there were 189 locust plagues. In Jin Meng, Xin 'an, Mianchi and other places in Lu Yu, there has been a tragedy of "people eat locusts and people eat people". After Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty, due to the chaos of war, floods and locusts, the people either died or fled, which made the Central Plains vast and sparsely populated, the land barren, and the fiscal revenue dropped sharply, which directly threatened the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Yuanzhang knew that "after the chaos, the Central Plains was rough and sparsely populated, so it was urgent for the Central Plains to open up fields and increase household registration" (Volume 25 of A Record of Ming Taizu), so grapes were used. The memorials of Liu Jiugao (Record of Ming Food Loans) and imperial academy Song Na, etc., in order to maintain the feudal rule of Ming Dynasty, decided the war strategy decision of immigrants (Record of Ming Taizu), and after more than 50 years of history, a large-scale immigration climax began. Second, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, according to the tradition of "long" instead of "emperor", Zhu Biao's eldest son, Zhu Jun (Huowen), became the emperor and the founding of the People's Republic of China. At the suggestion of Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and other ministers, Wen Jian greatly reduced the vassals and deprived the enfeoffed uncles all over the country of their military power. The prince borrowed the name of Huang Zhi and rose up, so-called "Jingnan". Emperor Wen Jian sent troops to suppress the rebellion. So in Hebei and Shandong, we fought for three or four years. History books call it "the battle of Jingnan", and folklore calls it "the prince sweeping the north" During this period, the people were destroyed by war and attacked by natural disasters. "Nine times out of ten, the village was destroyed, leaving only 1 1.2 people." "When Chun Yan came back, there was no place to live, and the bare land was thousands of miles away." According to historical records, this place in Hebei was "white bones and green", "devastated" and desolate everywhere. However, there was no war in Hongdong, Shanxi. The weather is good every year, the surrounding area is peaceful, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. The battle of Jingnan ended with Judy's victory. 1403, Yan captured Nanjing, and Emperor Jianwen disappeared in the war. The prince of Yan is the emperor, and Yongle's name is for the Ming Dynasty. Cheng Zu of Ming Dynasty was an outstanding emperor in history. He vigorously developed production and tried his best to restore Hebei's economy. In the early years of Yongle, the imperial edict from Shaanxi was "divided into Dingding and Nanguan areas in Ding Yu Town, which were occupied by the people", so the central government at that time set up an immigration agency in Hongtong County to handle immigration matters. According to legend, there is an ancient pagoda tree here. So among Hebei people, "Where are our ancestors?" ? The saying of the old locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi. There are many legends about the forced organization of large-scale immigration in the Ming Dynasty. Although there is no textual research, it bears in mind people's unspeakable pain for the great immigrants. The word "jieshou" has also been handed down since then. At that time, the Ming army wore a red headscarf, so later "red-headed flies" chased after it. According to the Ming History, An surname, as one of the surnames of people who moved to Huaihua, once moved to Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places (see The Origin of An surname for details).

It's not just people who move to Hongdong who move locust trees in Hongdong. Sophora japonica in Hongtong is the general gathering place of Shanxi immigrants, mainly Taiyuan, Pingyang (now Linfen) and Ze, Lu, Liao, Qin and Fen. Roughly speaking, there are at least several million. At that time, there were records of immigrants, which specifically recorded where all immigrants came from and where they moved. Unfortunately, they were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.

At that time, immigration was also a great feat in China's immigration history. The Anshi brothers were one of the earliest immigrants who moved into the giant land from the bottom of the old pagoda tree in Hongtong County, Shanxi Province. Today, I moved to Anzhuang Town, because my surname is An and my name is An Zhuang. After that, the families of the two brothers gradually grew, and later generations gradually dispersed to build villages, first building Xi 'an Village, and then building another village in the middle of the two villages. Therefore, the village is located between Anzhuang and Xi 'an Village, so it was named Zhong 'an Village. Because there is a depression behind the village, Anshi is called Anjiawa, and then the village is gradually built. (There are at least five villages in Anzhuang related to Anshi: Anzhuang Village, Zhong 'an Village, Xi 'an Village, Anjiawa Village and Anjiabaowa Village)

Why, when, and where Ann moved out for various reasons is still unknown, leaving endless reverie and mysterious speculation for the descendants of Anzhuang. This is the famous "An Mystery" in the history of Anzhuang, and it is also one of the famous "Four Mysteries of Juxian County" in the history of Juxian County (also known as "Four Mysteries of Juxian County"), so Anzhuang no longer has a surname. (The author believes that even now, it is impossible for such a huge family to migrate and disappear collectively, and it is not impossible to follow his surname or be related to the earthquake in the early Qing Dynasty without migration. )

From Anshi Ding Cun to other surnames, it took hundreds of years to form Anzhuang Village. In recent years, stone tablets have been found around the village, which records that Hong Tong moved from Shanxi to the village during the Ming Hongwu and Yongle years. However, except that "An" is recorded as a branch of Shanxi's move to Shandong, even immigrants with other surnames who moved from Shanxi did not live directly in the village after moving in, but moved to other places and then transferred to the village.