I was born in Huizhou, thirteen or fourteen years old, and I lost it abroad.

It is an ancient folk proverb, the main reason is that during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huizhou was a densely populated area with few mountains, which was known as "seven mountains, one water, one field, one road and one township", which made Huizhou people feel a deep sense of crisis. In order to survive, people flocked out and begged for food in all directions. The Hui proverb says, "I was born in Huizhou in my last life, but I was thirteen or fourteen years old and lost it abroad."

"Huizhou is surrounded by Qian Shan, which is narrow and dense, and it is not cultivated for three times." (Kangxi's "Wang Wei Notes Xiuning County Records" "people" is "food is precious", and even "food" has become a problem, so it is not sad, so even the extremely unreasonable "thirteen or fourteen years old, thrown away" is reasonable.

This is really forced by the environment. When the 13-or 14-year-old children from other places were reading aloud or playing naively, the children in Huizhou were cruelly "thrown" out by their parents.

Throw yourself out as an apprentice and learn to do business-at an early age, I embarked on a journey of self-reliance, to withstand the wind and rain, and to accept the baptism of life. Therefore, there is a saying in the four drafts of Yizhoushan people that "the average person is thirteen in the city and seventeen in the world".

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Introduction to ancient Huizhou:

The aborigines in Huizhou are "twirling birds" from the mountain and the Vietnamese. They wore a bun on their heads and spoke dialects that the Central Plains people could not understand. Shanyue culture is characterized by "small etiquette", fierce and martial. During the Three Kingdoms period, when the sky was high and the emperor was far away, Huizhou mountain people "resisted the mountain danger and refused to accept the king's rent" and confronted Sun Quan's Soochow regime for decades.

Because the indigenous population at that time was very small, people's life was not difficult. And then it didn't work. Later, the influx of migrants, Yongjia Rebellion in Jin Dynasty, Anshi Rebellion in Late Tang and Five Dynasties, and Jingkang Rebellion in Song Dynasty led to three major immigration climaxes, which finally made Huizhou a rare immigrant society in feudal China.

At least from the Tang Dynasty, the grain needed by the Hui people came from all directions. In the history of our country, the Central Plains of the Yellow River Basin has always been the center of economy, politics and culture. The five ancient capitals in history, three of which: Chang 'an, Luoyang and Kaifeng, are all in the Yellow River basin, and the frequency of unrest is very high.

Today, the so-called most popular surnames in Huizhou, such as Wang, Cheng, Wu, Shu, Dai, Hu, Jiang and Hong, all migrated from the north, especially the Central Plains, due to the war. Huizhou Mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is an ideal refuge for the gentry in the Central Plains.

For thousands of years, wars triggered by dynasty changes, foreign invasions and peasant uprisings. It has been continuously, but rarely affected Huizhou, including the Japanese invasion of China-Huizhou, which has thus become a paradise for war-torn China society.

People today can't dwell on those disastrous days in China's history. Every time there is a fire in the Central Plains, more clans in the Central Plains are forced to move southward on a large scale, resulting in the rapid growth of Huizhou's population and the increasingly poor land resources.

These influx of Han people, on the one hand, used force, on the other hand, used the orthodox culture of the Central Plains as a weapon to conquer and educate Huizhou aborigines, and finally they were replaced by Huizhou under the control of Vietnamese chiefs. After the Tang Dynasty, not only the living customs of Yue people gradually disappeared, but also the name of Yue Mountain was no longer seen in words.

In addition to avoiding chaos, some people settle down because they are officials in Huizhou, or occasionally travel to Huizhou and enjoy the beautiful scenery here. Most of these people are also some literati or famous families.

As an immigrant society with a continuous influx of population, the contradiction between human and land in Huizhou is becoming more and more acute, and the livelihood of Huizhou people is becoming increasingly difficult and food is seriously insufficient. After entering the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was almost unsustainable.

The grain produced in a year can only feed one-tenth of the population in the whole country, and nine-tenths of the people are forced out by grain to make a living. A large amount of grain needs to be shipped from Changzhou, Suzhou, hundreds of miles away, or even Huguang, thousands of miles away, so the rice price in Jiangnan is the highest in Huizhou.