Do the ancestors of northerners all come from the big locust tree in Shanxi?

Not all the ancestors of northerners came from big locust trees. The big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi was actually the official designated place for relocation procedures in China during the Ming Dynasty.

The story of the big locust tree is still circulated to this day. Old people often say that people with two little toenails are Shanxi people from the big locust tree. This statement is not testable. Because as early as in the long history, we have known that the two-part little toenail is caused by the sequencing of genes. But if we trace the origin of this legend, we still have to go back to the famous "Ming Dynasty Great Immigration" event in ancient China.

After the wars in the late Yuan Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang unified the north and south. In the early days of establishing a dynasty, the most important thing for a monarch is to "recuperate and recuperate." At this time, due to years of war. Everywhere in the country is devastated. Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places have long been desolate and desolate. In order to develop the national economy, especially in most of the northern areas that suffered heavy losses in manpower and material resources during the peasant uprisings at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people from Shanxi to migrate to other areas in the north. There is a very famous policy: Families are allowed to leave only one person in the local area and the rest will be moved away. A family of six will leave two people here, and a family of eight will leave three people here.

Why should we use Shanxi as the source to relocate people? This brings us to the topography of Shanxi Province. Shanxi is located on a high loess slope and is dominated by mountains and forests. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack in a war. That's why people here can avoid the war and recuperate. Therefore, compared with people in other northern regions, Shanxi has good weather and no war, and everyone lives a very prosperous life. From this, it can be seen that Shanxi has more people, so for Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it was imperative to move the population from Shanxi. Simply for the sake of convenience, a "Dahuaishu Immigration Office" was set up directly in the Hongdong area of ??southern Shanxi. This made it easier for Shanxi locals to move out, which was known as the "Ming Dynasty Great Immigration", and made it easier to develop the northern economy in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.