Legend of the second root-seeking red fly of Kangjia in Hongze District, Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province

From an early age, I heard from my ancestors that the first five generations of our ancestors lived in Suzhou. It was at that time that Suzhou was troubled by the red fly plague and moved from Nagato, Suzhou to northern Jiangsu, as evidenced by the transplanted Sophora japonica in front of the house.

According to the dictionary, this theory of plague migration is mostly misinformed. It should be that after Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising army seized the world in the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of people from the south of the Yangtze River immigrated to northern Jiangsu, and the dictionary name was "Hongwu".

"Red Scarf Drive Away" is also called "Red Scarf Drive Away" or "Red Army Drive Away" because Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers wore red scarves on their heads and were called Red Scarf Army or Red Army. "Red flies drive away" is a misinformation of "red scarf drive away". It may be that people who were forced to emigrate from Jiangnan to northern Jiangsu were dissatisfied with the Red Scarf Army, which was likened to the plague of red flies.

"Red Fly Powder" occurred in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. In the 26th year of Yuan Dynasty (1366), Zhu Yuanzhang of Fengyang, Anhui Province led the Red Scarf Army to occupy a large area on both sides of the Huaihe River in ancient Chu. In the same year, Zhu Yuanzhang set up Huai 'an House, which governed Haizhou, Sizhou and Anton, as well as Yang Shan, Qinghe, Shuyang, Yancheng, Taoyuan, Ganyu, Tianchang and Xuyi. Soon, it was placed under Fengyang House with Sizhou, Xuyi and Tianchang. Andong Prefecture has been reduced to a county, which is still under the jurisdiction of Huai 'an Prefecture, while Pizhou, Suining and Suqian counties are under Huai 'an Prefecture. At that time, Huai 'an Prefecture governed two states and nine counties. However, the Huaihe River region has been in war for years, and the populations of Huai 'an Prefecture, Fengyang Prefecture and surrounding areas have fled and died, and they urgently need immigrants to get rich.

At this time, many landlords and tycoons in the wealthy Jiangnan area were attached to Zhang Shicheng, the king of Wu who occupied Suzhou. Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang captured Suzhou City and hanged Zhang Shicheng, he took an important political measure, that is, forced large-scale immigration to Suzhou.

In the third year of Hongwu (1370), Zhu Yuanzhang moved more than 4,000 households from Suzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and other places to cultivate land in Lin Hao House (Haozhou, the predecessor of Fengyang House). Subsequently, 1.4 million Jiangnan people were forcibly moved to Fengyang House, including many landlords.

Historically, Sizhou and Xuyi counties in Fengyang Prefecture are the main traffic routes between the north and the south, and the military strategists must fight for it. After the civil war in the late Ming Dynasty, the population here dropped sharply. Therefore, quite a few of the 140000 households that migrated from the south of the Yangtze River were settled by Zhu Yuanzhang in his hometown of Sizhou and Xuyi County. Over the next hundred years, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty moved tens of thousands of people from the south of the Yangtze River to Huai 'an Prefecture adjacent to Fengyang Prefecture. This is the "red fly driving away" in the folklore of northern Jiangsu.

As for why these immigrants claim to be the masters of Suzhou, it is because there are eight gates in Suzhou, among which the snake gate and the pan gate symbolize the conquest of southern Yue and the worship of Wu. Qimen is facing Qi in the north, which is intended to subdue Qi in the north. Nagato is located in the west of Suzhou, and its meaning is taken from "the wind flowing through the sky". He Lv must first break the West and strengthen Chu, while Fengyang and Huai 'an belong to Chu in history. Immigrants from northern Jiangsu said that their ancestors were Suzhou masters, which somewhat reflected that the descendants who were forced to immigrate to northern Jiangsu hated Zhu Yuanzhang's "complex" of supporting Zhang Shicheng.

At the same time, there is a dock near the Grand Canal in Nagato, which is also the place where the Ming army drove the people of Wu to gather here to go to northern Jiangsu. So these immigrants remember Nagato, but not hundreds of thousands of people live in Nagato. In order to remember their hometown, these immigrants from Nagato brought soil and acacia from their hometown and planted them in front of their homes.

Hongze District of Huai 'an City belonged to Xuyi County of Fengyang Prefecture and Qinghe County of Huai 'an Prefecture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Kang clan was probably forced to move here from Suzhou during the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty.