Why are many people surnamed Xie in Xinxi Town, longhu district, Shantou?

There is a monument in Mazu Tempel, Dongsheng Gongdong, which records the Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty 1860. Many Xie families in Shawai came to Xinxi to open up their homes, and Xinxibei Middle School was the first village of Xie family in Shawai. After 100 years of development, new streams have now formed. The population is growing rapidly. It used to be forbidden to go to sea, so this land is quite barren. It was not until the opening of trading ports in the late Qing Dynasty that Xie began to move to land.