The development history of Hong Tong immigrants

At that time, a word called "Jieshou" was coined, which is still in use today, but it is an irrefutable fact. After people were forcibly registered, in order to prevent them from escaping on the way, officers and men tied them behind their backs and connected them with a long rope. On the migration road at that time, there were a series of immigrants everywhere, and they turned step by step, and they were also worried. In the process of escort, because of the long distance, people inevitably have to urinate, but several people or even dozens of people are tied to a rope, which is very inconvenient. So I had to report to the escort officers and soldiers: "Sir, please relieve yourself, I have to pee." In this way, day after day, one person after another, the number of times is becoming more and more simplified, and they say, "Sir, I want to relieve myself."

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a Yuan named Cheng Fu. He fought side by side with Zhu Yuanzhang, fought in the south and fought in the north, and repeatedly made meritorious military service. This official worships General Wei Zhen. After the reunification of the Ming Dynasty, the first task was to emigrate and reclaim land. Yuan automatically signed up, and his family moved from Huanggang, Cao County, Shandong Province. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang appreciated it very much, gave him a "jade tablet with an inscription by Yuan" and awarded him a third-class merit. Yuan Gong Zheng settled in Tu Gang, north of Wang Guan Temple, about 20 kilometers north of Cao Zhou, and named it "Yuanjiagudui". The inscription reads: "Hongdong branches from the old family, and Cao Zhou lives in the old family style."

There are many Shanxi immigrants in Shaanxi Province, probably because they are separated from Shanxi by a river. According to the collected spectrum spy, ancestors such as Dai in Wugong County, Zhao in linyou county, Xing in Fufeng County, Liu in Binxian County, Zheng in Guyuan County, Yang in Mizhi County and Liu in Meixian County all moved from Hongdong in the early Ming Dynasty.

To sum up, the immigrants under the pagoda tree in Hongtong initially moved directly to Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Shanxi provinces and cities. However, in the past few hundred years, the descendants of these local immigrants have moved to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Northeast China, Hongkong and Taiwan Province. Especially in recent decades, the wave of immigrants has come and gone. For example, before liberation, "westward", "Kanto" and "Southeast Asia", after the founding of the People's Republic of China, urban educated youth "bordered" and "went to the countryside", as well as studying abroad, visiting relatives and settling down since the reform and opening up, all made the descendants of Hongtong immigrants travel all over China and the ends of the earth.