What is the phenomenon of westward advancement?

Westward Movement is one of the five most famous immigration events in China's modern history.

In a narrow sense, the west exit refers to the outer exit north of the Great Wall, including Shahukou in Shanxi, Fugukou in Shaanxi and Dushikou in Hebei, which is the intersection of people in northern Shaanxi, northern Shaanxi and Hebei.

The west exit starts from the north-central part of Shanxi, the other one goes west, passes through the Shahukou and enters the Mongolian grassland. One goes east, crosses Datong and enters Mongolia via Zhangjiakou.

The west exit in the folk "westbound" refers to the exit north of the Great Wall. Out of the killing tiger mouth in Shanxi, we went to Guihua and Suiyuan, Kulun and Duolun, Ulyasutai, Cobudo and Xinjiang, which were once dominated by Shanxi people.

Extended data:

Social value of westward advancement;

Westward Journey is a bitter history of immigration, as well as a history of hard struggle and entrepreneurship. Groups of immigrants left their homes and came to Mongolia outside Beikou to develop Inner Mongolia.

More importantly, they brought advanced farming culture to the central and western Inner Mongolia, which was in a backward nomadic state at that time, and fundamentally changed the whole local cultural outlook.

With the process of western migration, Inner Mongolia outside the mouth has evolved from a traditional single nomadic society to a diversified society with both banner and county, grazing and farming.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-take the west exit