Why do some people say "500 years ago was a family"?

Why do you say you were a family 500 years ago? "

Is there anything wrong with the great immigrants of the Ming Dynasty? What are the immigrant provinces? What causes Shanxi to be densely populated and Shandong, Henan and other provinces to be sparsely populated? When did immigration begin? When did it end? In what ways? What role did the Ming immigrants play in history? Recently read (edited by Zheng Shoulai and Huang). Fang found a relatively complete answer.

Trees have roots, water has activities, and it is the nature of the Chinese nation to trace back to the source and recognize one's ancestors. This book contains more than 400,000 words, including historical records, local chronicles, inscriptions, genealogy and legends. , and made the most rigorous textual research and detailed description of the Hongdong relocation celebrated by China people. The migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong in Ming Dynasty was the largest, longest and widest in Chinese history. Yes At this time, the mountains and rivers have been devastated. They are full of war wounds. Shandong, Henan and Hebei are mostly uninhabited areas. In order to restore agricultural production, develop the economy, balance the population, make the world peaceful and consolidate the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the rulers in the early Ming Dynasty adopted the immigration policy. They moved according to the ratio of [one for four families, two for six families and three for eight families]. It proves that during the fifty years from the early Ming Dynasty to the fifteenth year of Yongle, people in fifty-one counties in Shanxi were evacuated. -It covers more than half of China. The pagoda tree in Guangji Temple in Hongdong, Shanxi Province is the place where people go through the relocation procedures. Legend has it that the government used the form of deception: the government posted a notice in advance saying that people were not allowed to move except under the big locust tree. As a result, when thousands of people gathered under the big locust tree, the officers and men were surrounded on all sides, and men, women and children moved. Urged by the officers and men,

Today, descendants of ancient locust immigrants have spread all over the world. Millions of people are homesick for their homeland and seek their roots and ancestors. The "Rooting Festival" held in Hongtong County from April 1 day to 10 every year attracts more than 10 million Chinese at home and abroad to come for sacrifices and visits. It is a good thing to collect, sort out and publish the history of locust migration.