What basin did the northern minorities move south to?

Where did the northern minorities move south? The Yellow River Basin.

In ancient China, northerners moved southward continuously, but there were three particularly important large-scale southward movements:

The first time was in the Qin Dynasty. This immigration kicked off the development of Jiangnan. After the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, the talented Qin Shihuang continued to March into Lingnan and conquered Vietnam. In the thirty-third year of the first emperor (2 14 BC), three counties of Guilin, Nanhai and Xiangxiang were established in South Vietnam. For the first time in history, the Pearl River basin has been effectively controlled and extended to the edge of the South China Sea.

Qin Shihuang recruited 500,000 people from the Central Plains to settle in Lingnan in order to strengthen his jurisdiction over the Yue nationality areas. These Zhongyuan people brought ironware and advanced production tools and technologies, which promoted the development of local economy and culture.

The second time was in the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains was in chaos due to years of warlord melee. "Bones are exposed in the wild, but thousands of miles are silent" is a true portrayal of northern China at that time. The troubled northern people long for a peaceful living environment, so the relatively stable Jiangnan area has a strong attraction to them.

According to statistics, from Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty (the year of Emperor Huai of Jin Dynasty) to Tuoba Tao's attack on Song Dynasty in the Northern Wei Dynasty (the guide points to Liu Song Dynasty in 450 AD), there were six high tides of population migration, with a total population of no less than one million.

In the process of further development of Jiangnan, people of all ethnic groups have closely communicated and learned from each other, which has promoted national integration and accelerated the economic development of Jiangnan. As a result, the economy in the south of the Yangtze River, which has always been backward, gradually caught up with the level in the north, making the economy in the north and south tend to be balanced, and the situation of being poor in the south and rich in the north began to reverse, which also laid the foundation for the economic center of gravity to gradually shift to the south in the future.

It is precisely because of the economic development in the south of the Yangtze River that after the Sui and Tang Dynasties unified the north and south, it was necessary to dig the Grand Canal to connect the north and south economies. On this basis, the economies of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River keep pace with each other, which makes the social productive forces develop generally throughout the country. In this way, the feudal dynasty Tang Dynasty was stronger than the Han Dynasty.

But at this time, the economic strength of the south is still not better than that of the north, which is still the most developed area in China.

The third time was in the Southern Song Dynasty. In 1 127, the Northern Song Dynasty perished. After the Song Dynasty moved to the south, the Jin regime ruled the Yellow River valley, and the people in the north once again experienced the pain of war. Unwilling to be oppressed and enslaved by the Jurchen nobles, and supporting Zhao's orthodox psychology, people moved south again.

According to records, in the 19th year of Emperor Gaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 159), the population in the south was16.84 million, and in the 6th year of Xichun in Xiao Zhong in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 179), the population reached more than 29.5 million. This not only provides labor force for the production departments in Jiangnan, but also accelerates the exchange of production technology around the country. In the following 100 years, Qi Xin, a northern and southern people, worked together to actively engage in production, further developing the economy of the south of the Yangtze River and gradually surpassing the north.