What is the saying that the little toe nail is divided into two halves?

There are two ways to say that toenails are two halves: one is that only people of pure China descent have two halves. Han descent refers not only to the Han nationality, but also to the Mongols. Mongols are not today's Mongols, but to the nationalities in the vast areas including eastern Central Asia, China, Japan and South Korea and the Russian Far East.

There is also a saying that the ancestral home of Little Toe's two nails is in the area of Sophora japonica in Shanxi. It is said that there were several large-scale immigrants in the early Ming Dynasty, and everyone who wants to leave Shanxi should make a mark so that they can recognize each other in the future. This mark is to cut the nail of the little toe into two pieces.

immigration policy

During the migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong, the Ming government implemented the measures of giving migrants cattle, seeds and farm tools without levying them for 3-5 years to encourage farmers to produce. The government also distributed idle land near the northern cities to the landless to cultivate seeds, each person 15 mu, and 2 mu of vegetable fields. "Unlimited hectares with spare capacity."

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu (1394), the Ming government issued an imperial edict to reclaim more land and never start a business, stipulating that immigrants from Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Shaanxi would occupy their own land for reclamation and never be taxed.