Are Anqing people descended from Jiangxi?

Some Anqing people are descendants of immigrants from Waxieba, Jiangxi.

Waxieba migration was an event in which a large number of official immigrants from Jiangxi opened up wasteland in the early Ming Dynasty, and it was part of the "Hongwu drive away". Waxieba is an ancient ferry along Poyang Lake, and it was the distribution center of Jiang Youmin immigrants in Anhui and Hubei provinces in the early Ming Dynasty.

Waxieba immigrants took 48 years from the 3rd year of Hongwu to the 15th year of Yongle (1370- 14 17), and the 22nd year of Hongwu (1389). Of the 420,000 residents in Anqing, 270,000 came from Waxieba, Jiangxi. According to research, the tile dam in Jiangxi is located in Lianhu Township, Poyang County. According to Zhu Jiapu's records, Waba has become a "tile-roofed village".

Migration history of Washba

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Jiangxi became a densely populated area as the national economic center moved southward. The brutal war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty led to a large area of barren land in Hubei, Anhui, Henan and Sichuan, which became a "wide township" with no one in a hundred miles. Jiangxi is relatively peaceful and has become a "narrow township" with a small land and a large population. In order to restore the economy, immigrants from Jiangxi and other places began to migrate to Hubei, Anhui, Henan and Sichuan in the early Ming Dynasty. Washba, a convenient ferry crossing in this small village, has become the first choice for immigrant distribution centers.

From the early Ming Dynasty to the middle Qing Dynasty, the tile dam in Raozhou, Jiangxi Province (now Poyang County) played an extremely important role in the process of official relocation. As an important distribution center for immigrants who flooded Huguang, Jiangxi in the early Ming Dynasty, most of the 2 140000 Jiangxi immigrants set out from here for Huguang, thus becoming one of the eight immigrant holy places, also known as the first immigrant holy place in the south of the Yangtze River.