I am Xinle from Shijiazhuang, Hebei. Father heard from the older generation that our ancestral home was Laowowo, Shanxi. Does anyone know about this?

I am also a newcomer to music. I often hear from the older generation in the village that I moved here from Shanxi a long time ago.

"Ask me where my ancestors are? Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi. What's your ancestral home? The old nest under the big locust tree. " For hundreds of years, this folk song has been handed down from generation to generation in the vast areas of our country, and it is well known to women and children. An ancient locust tree has preserved its soul for generations. For centuries, the ancient pagoda tree site in Hongtong County has been called "home", "ancestor" and "root" by many Chinese descendants at home and abroad, and has become the hometown in people's hearts.

The ancient pagoda tree, also known as Hong Tong pagoda tree, is located in the pagoda tree park on the west side of Jia Cun, two kilometers northwest of Hongtong County. Although there are no magnificent buildings in Hongdong, there are endless tourists in both cold winter and hot summer. Some of them wrote poems to express their feelings of "thinking about drinking water and thinking about the source", while others looked up at the ancient pagoda and lingered for a long time, refusing to leave.

Jinnan is a densely populated place in Shanxi, and Hongdong was the largest and most populous county in Jinnan at that time. According to records, there was a Guangji Temple on the west side of Jia Cun, two miles north of Hongdong in Ming Dynasty. This temple is magnificent, with many monks and pilgrims. There is a "tree surrounded by mu of shade" next to the temple, and the avenue of chariots and horses passes through the shade. The old harriers on Fenhe beach nest in the trees and are scattered all over the floor, which is very spectacular. The Ming government set up a bureau in Guangji Temple to concentrate immigrants, and the locust tree became a gathering place for immigrants.

In late autumn, the locust tree leaves, and the old crow's nest is very eye-catching. When the immigrants left, they stared at the tall ancient locust tree, and the old harrier who lived among the branches kept moaning, which made the immigrants who had left their hometown burst into tears and could not bear to leave. Finally, they can only see the old crane nest on the big locust tree. To this end, the big locust tree and the old crane nest have become symbols for immigrants to bid farewell to their hometown. "Ask me where my ancestors came from, Shanxi Hong Tong Sophora japonica. What is the name of the hometown of ancestral home, the old man's nest under the big locust tree. " For hundreds of years, this folk song has been widely circulated in many areas of our country.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the immigrants from Hongdong and other places in Shanxi mainly distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei, and a few moved to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. Immigrants who moved from Shanxi to the above places later moved to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and northeast provinces. It is rare to have organized large-scale migration for such a long time in the history of our country, and it is only a case that people on one side are scattered around. Although the Ming government carried out the policy of resettling wasteland to revitalize agriculture, its purpose was to consolidate the rule of feudal dynasty, but it objectively eased social contradictions, mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production, gradually restored agricultural production, consolidated border defense and maintained social stability.

There are also some stories about migration. After the Revolution of 1911, Yuan Shikai ordered Zhang Xiluan, the governor of Shanxi Province, to lead soldiers from three towns in Lu Yongxiang to attack the Shanxi Revolutionary Army, and plundered everywhere. After arriving in Hongdong, the soldiers came to the ancient pagoda tree, dismounted and bowed down, and told each other, "Go back to the hometown of pagoda tree." Not only do you not rob, but you also provide property under the big locust tree. Sophora japonica is known as "disaster prevention and resilience".

Legend has it that when immigrating, officers and men cut each little toenail with a knife. Up to now, the little toenails of the descendants of Sophora japonica immigrants are all complicated (two petals). "Who is the ancient locust who moved here? Take off your little toe and check the shape of your nails. " If you are interested, you may wish to check it yourself.

There is a table of surnames of descendants of Guhuai in the ancestral home. There are 450 surnames on the table, which enshrines their memorial tablets, far exceeding the surnames of hundreds of families. They all immigrated to all parts of the country 600 years ago. In order to find their roots, they were collected and made public and hung on the walls. In recent years, mainlanders have been fighting for genealogy, and overseas compatriots have sought roots to worship their ancestors, asking about their blood relationship with Sophora japonica.

More than 600 years have passed, and the ancient Sophora japonica in the Han Dynasty has ceased to exist and disappeared into the dust of history, while the third-generation Sophora japonica, which grew with the same root, is lush and full of vitality. Hu Aixiang's descendants are distributed in more than 20 provinces and 400 counties in China, and some are as far away as some countries and regions in South Asia.

Think about how many sad tears our ancestors shed when they left their hometown to help the elderly and bring up the young. May the pagoda tree take root forever and be heart-to-heart with compatriots at home and abroad.

Dahuaishu couplets

Xiangxiang Liu Xingjin, drink quickly;

The ancient shady road, leaning against the sunset.

Tea can be drunk, and milk is fragrant.

The pavilion can be traced back to the building, and the green locust tree knows homesickness.

When willows come to Huai, there should be a sense of leaving the country;

The water source is woody, and it is still moving home today.