Jiangxi lake refers to the object is

The object of lake filling in Jiangxi is population.

It is a folk saying that Jiangxi fills in lakes and vast areas. It first appeared in Wei Yuan's Huguang water conservancy theory. Refers to the migration of population from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, mainly Jiangxi, to the middle reaches. It is said that it first appeared in the Five Dynasties and reached its climax in the Ming Dynasty.

Jiangxi immigrants account for 60% of the total immigrants from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces who moved to Hunan and Hubei. In different areas of the two lakes, the proportion of Jiangxi immigrants is different, decreasing from east to west, which is directly proportional to the distance from Jiangxi. Jiangxi immigrants mainly come from Poyang Lake Plain and Ganjiang River Basin, with Ji 'an and Nanchang as the most.

Background introduction:

Filling Huguang in Jiangxi was a part of the great immigrants in the early Ming Dynasty. Cao's History of Chinese Immigrants Volume 5: Summary of the Ming Dynasty The total population of Hubei in the early years of Hongwu was 6,543,800+0,740 (excluding the minority population in Shizhou), of which the indigenous population accounted for 43% and the immigrant population accounted for 57%.

According to the origin of immigrants from different governments, among the 980,000 immigrants from Hubei, there are about 690,000 immigrants from Jiangxi, accounting for 70% of the total population. -Of the 2.787 million registered population in Hunan during the Hongwu period, 73 1000 people (including children born after immigrants moved to Hunan) emigrated during the Hongwu period at the end of Yuan Dynasty, accounting for a quarter of the total population at that time.