History of Henan immigrants

Shanxi Sophora japonica is the ancestral home of many people, not only in Shanxi, but also in China. There are also traces of locust tree immigrants in other places where Chinese people gather in the world. If this matter goes back, it will be earlier. According to the Ming History, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, when it was ruled by force, it laid the groundwork for the relocation of this natural settlement under the pagoda tree in Hongdong.

1, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty followed Genghis Khan's brave spirit of "only bowing and shooting big eagles", so the official management of the Yuan Dynasty was quite rough. Coupled with the intensification of class contradictions and ethnic contradictions between Mongolia and Han in the late Yuan Dynasty, the society was extremely turbulent.

2. The power competition of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty and the ensuing natural disasters eventually led to the people of the Central Plains fleeing and being displaced. A large number of foreigners went to Shanxi and even to Qin. They left their hometown to make a living, just to find a livable place.

According to the records of Ming history, in the early years of Ming dynasty, the country was in serious turmoil. In the war with opponents, the Yanjun slaughtered Lu the most, such as "Yanjun plundered Calm, Shunde, Guangping and Daming". Ming Taizu Gong Min Nian Pu is really defined as "beheading 30,000", fighting in Baigou River, and the prince "beheaded tens of thousands, set fire to more than 100,000 people".

Li's genealogy in the late Qing Dynasty recorded that the prince of Yan could not fight. When he was writing, he organized the North-South Army and the South Army pursued him. When the northern army was defeated, it was attacked by the north and the south. When you miss him, you either kill, scrape or run away. Six or seven hundred miles from east to west and nearly a thousand miles from north to south are just a few hills.

When the Central Plains was devastated, Shanxi, which was separated by Taihang Mountain, was like a "Xanadu". There was no war in the Central Plains and no erosion by natural disasters.

Therefore, Shanxi Sophora japonica has become the yearning place of the Central Plains people.

Zhong You, a writer in the Yuan Dynasty, wrote: In today's world, there are all kinds of people in the north and south of the Red River (Yellow River), and the residents in Hedong are mixed, so they care for themselves.

Although this is a compliment from feudal literati, it also shows that the Jindong Belt (Sophora japonica in Hong Tong) is relatively stable. It is for these reasons that talents from the Central Plains migrated to Shanxi, southern Shanxi and Jinzhong. According to historical records, in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the population of Henan was 6,543.8+0,890, which was almost the same as that of Hebei. After flowing into Sophora japonica, the population of Shanxi actually reached more than 4 million, higher than the combined population of Henan and Hebei provinces.

Decades or hundreds of years after the disaster, these refugees from the Central Plains began to return home or go further abroad. To this day, they recall the past of their ancestors and never forget the kindness of the "big locust tree". Because of this, the "Hongtong pagoda tree" has become the second hometown of many immigrants and the "real" hometown and real "root" of immigrants in recent years.

Today, hundreds of years later, Shanxi in our consciousness has naturally become the ancestral home of people from Shandong, Henan and Hebei. It has become the root of paying homage to ancestors, especially businessmen who come from the south to the north and overseas Chinese who have lived overseas for a long time.

To this end, the "big locust tree" has also become a witness to the history of immigrants and a hometown in the minds of immigrants. Every year, more than 200,000 Chinese from all over the world and other provinces in China go to the scenic spot to worship their ancestors. Yu Yafei, a cultural scholar, said: "The giant locust tree runs in the same strain as Bihan; Even if the tree is taller than thousands of feet, the leaves will return to the roots in a certain period of time. "

The land of Sanjin embraced by the Yellow River is the "big locust tree" favored by history.