Who knows where Li Xikou, a folk song in northern Shaanxi, refers?

"Going West" is widely known because of the folk songs in northern Shaanxi, and some people say that Shanxi folk songs (my family is from northern Shaanxi and I have listened to them since I was a child). But why is it called westward? In fact, this is a history. Simply listen to me.

Let's start with Xikou. Now the specific meaning is controversial. It is said that the Yellow River ferry in northern Shanxi killed the tiger's mouth. It is said to be west of Zhangjiakou, Hebei. Anyway, in Qing dynasty, it generally refers to the vast Inner Mongolia area north of Shanxi and west of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, such as Baotou and other places. Because this is the junction of the Qing government and the Mongolian ancients, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and further north is the Mongolian grassland, that is, the Mongols. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, a pass was set up in Hebei, Shanxi and northern Shaanxi, and the place north of the pass was called Waikou. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the merchandise trade with Mongols was carried out at several fixed points outside the mouth, similar to the establishment of foreign trade ports in places bordering Russia and Kazakhstan today. Businessmen in Shanxi were going to do business outside, so they got the pass, which was later called westward. Later, westward movement became a general term. Businessmen from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei go out to do business, all of which are called westward. It is said that someone from our ancestors walked through the west entrance, that is, they sold the cloth porcelain of the Han people and then sold the leather and horses of the Mongols back. In fact, this incident had a great influence on later generations, that is, a large number of Han Chinese immigrated to the outside of the mouth and stabilized the frontier.

By the way, I would like to tell you about the great migration in modern times, which is as famous as the westward movement, that is, going to Kanto and going down to Nanyang.

Breaking through the Guandong River means that the vast number of Han Chinese in Shandong and Hebei migrated to the northeast north of Shanhaiguan. It was land reclamation.

People who want to go to Nanyang, that is, the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, take a boat to the islands of Southeast Asia.