What is the well-known "Tangshan Crossing Taiwan Province Province" in Taiwan Province Province?

Tangshan Crossing Taiwan Province Province "is a common phrase in Taiwan Province Province. So, what does this sentence mean? Generally speaking, "Tangshan across Taiwan Province Province" refers to the immigration activities from Chinese mainland to Taiwan Province Island in history. In the Qing Dynasty, the book "Records of Taiwan Province Province" recorded: "Taiwan Province province called the mainland Tangshan, and the mainland called it Tang people." Therefore, "Tangshan" is what Taiwan Province people call Chinese mainland.

There is a touching legend in Fujian: A long time ago, Taiwan Province Island was a floating island, and the sea dragon king tied it to a big stone column on the coast of the East China Sea with a huge chain, making it a mainland peninsula. Most coastal residents in Fujian travel back and forth or live on the peninsula to make a living by fishing. In the early years, sharks in the Pacific often swam to the edge of the peninsula to feed. Once, a large group of sharks tried to go south from the edge of the peninsula and were stopped by the peninsula. A shark shook its tail and broke the big chain at once. As a result, the peninsula separated from the mainland and drifted to the east of China.

This incident alarmed the gods in the sea and reported to the sea dragon king one after another. The Sea Dragon King even stabbed Sharkticon with a sea fork, and took 64 snails from Meizhou Bay and threw them into the sea. The tower snail suddenly turned into a huge nail, tied with a broken chain and firmly fixed the peninsula drifting to the Pacific Ocean. This peninsula was the island of Taiwan Province Province that people later saw, and those 64 nails gradually became 64 small islands, which is today's Penghu 64 Island. Although this legend is not a historical reality, the feelings and wishes expressed are historical reality. It is the natural externalization of the blood relationship between Taiwan Province Province and the mainland people of the motherland, and it reflects the strong desire of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for the reunion of flesh and blood.

At present, people in Taiwan Province Province still call it "going back to Tangshan" and returning to the mainland of China. Whenever some elderly people chat with the younger generation and mention that their ancestors started businesses in Taiwan Province Province, they always forget to say "Our ancestors came from Tangshan" to express their feelings of remembering their ancestors and not forgetting their origins. Among the descendants of immigrants in Taiwan Province Province, the traditional custom of "remembering ancestors" and worshiping distant ancestors is still preserved. This kind of ancestor worship activity is usually divided into large-scale and small-scale: small-scale ancestor worship refers to the family burning incense and offering tributes on the day when the ancestors (within three generations) died to express their grief.

Large-scale ancestor worship activities are mostly held around Tomb-Sweeping Day or Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as temple fair sacrifice, or spring sacrifice and autumn sacrifice. At that time, people of the same clan would gather in the ancestral hall. There are two kinds of ancestor worship: Kai Taizu and Tang Shanzu, in which Kai Taizu refers to the Kaiji ancestor who first settled in Taiwan Province Province, and Tang Shanzu refers to the ancestor of Benzong in China Mainland, either the ancestor who first moved to a certain place or the ancestor named Zhao. Then, why does Taiwan Province Province call Chinese mainland "Tangshan", call mainlanders "Tang people" and call ancestors "Tangshan ancestors"? In fact, these are all related to the great migration of people from the Central Plains to Fujian in history.

As we all know, most people in Taiwan Province Province are from Fujian, and most people in Fujian are descendants of ancient Central Plains immigrants. Most genealogies in Fujian and Taiwan are impressively marked with "ancestral home in Gushi, Gwangju, Henan"; Comparing with the "lineage table" in the genealogy, we will also find that most of their ancestors directly entered Fujian from Gushi County, Henan Province from the Tang Dynasty. Gushi County, located between Jianghuai and the northern foot of Dabie Mountain in the south of Henan Province, was under the jurisdiction of Gwangju in the Tang Dynasty and was an important channel and distribution center for ancient Central Plains immigrants to the south of the Yangtze River.

1953, the household registration survey of provincial offices in Taiwan Province found that among the 100 surnames with a population of more than 500 households, the genealogy of 63 surnames clearly recorded that their ancestors came from Gushi, Gwangju. There are 670,000 people in these 63 surnames, accounting for 80.9% of the total number of households in Taiwan Province Province. 1988, Taiwan Province Province published the Catalogue of Genealogy of Taiwan Province Province, which included more than 200 genealogies of 10000 with surnames, most of which claimed that their ancestors came from the Central Plains. The Taiwan Province Provincial Literature Committee investigated the origin of the top ten surnames in Taiwan Province Province and found that most of them originated in the Central Plains. Thus, the blood relationship between the people of Taiwan Province Province and Chinese mainland is close. Most of their distant ancestors came from the Central Plains of the mainland, and experienced the migration process from the Central Plains to Fujian and then to Taiwan Province Province.

The southeast coastal area where Fujian Province is located was the place where people from Fujian and Vietnam lived in ancient times. At that time, because the land was vast and sparsely populated, it was once regarded as a "wild land" by mainlanders. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were only five counties in central Fujian. At the same time, the Central Plains is not only the political, economic and cultural center of China, but also the most densely populated area in China. During the Yongjia period of the Western Jin Dynasty, serious social unrest was caused by the outbreak of "Eight Kings Rebellion" and "Five Rebellions". In order to avoid war and chaos, a large number of people in the Central Plains moved out, and one of the main directions of migration was the southeast coastal areas, and some of them moved to Fujian. In this regard, there are also "the Central Plains swaying, clothes began to enter the eight schools in Fujian, Lin, Huang, Chen, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, Hu and Hu Ye" in the history books. In fact, the Central Plains immigrants who moved to Fujian in the Jin Dynasty also had surnames such as Zhang, Liu, Yang, Liang, Zhong and Wen. These people from the Central Plains and ordinary people went south to Fujian, bringing advanced culture and production technology from the Central Plains, which greatly promoted the development of Fujian and Vietnam. Nowadays, the place names such as Jin 'an River in Fuzhou, Jinjiang in Quanzhou and Luoyang Bridge are all historical impressions left by these immigrants.

In addition to the great immigrants in the Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains immigrants who had the greatest influence on Fujian occurred in the Tang Dynasty, mainly twice, which were related to Wang from Gushi, Gwangju. Chen Yuanguang is not only regarded as the patron saint by Minnan people, but also known as "Zhang Kai" or "Chen", which has always been admired by Taiwan compatriots. There are more than 100 temples in Chen alone. Wang is also a respected person in the province. In addition, more importantly, because these two immigrants had a far-reaching influence in the Tang Dynasty, "Tangren" naturally became the title of remote Fujian by the people in the Central Plains at that time. The reason why Taiwan Province people call mainlanders "Tang people" and Chinese mainland "Tang people" is the continuation of this historical title.