Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi: Why is it called "Genzu"?

Because of spirit! The locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi Province has always been regarded as a spiritual home!

People who moved in the early Ming Dynasty recorded in China historical documents have a history of about 50 years from the early years of Hongwu to the fifteenth year of Yongle. Most of the relocated people are in southern Shanxi and southeastern Shanxi, and there are only a few counties in Jinzhong. In the early Ming Dynasty, Shanxi was divided into five states, three zhili states, sixteen scattered states and seventy-nine counties.

The emigrants recorded in Shi Ming Lu include Fenzhou (seven counties), Liaozhou (two counties), Qinzhou (two counties), Zezhou (four counties), Lu 'an (eight counties) and Pingyang (twenty-eight counties). These areas * * * have 50-? ; County, Pingyang Prefecture governs 28 counties. It can be seen that Pingyang Prefecture is a natural place with the largest number of immigrants.

The migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong in the early Ming Dynasty is not clearly recorded in the official history of Ming and Qing Dynasties, but there are many records in local chronicles, inscriptions and genealogy since the middle of Qing Dynasty, especially in the Republic of China and modern genealogy in Qing Dynasty.

It is generally believed that Guangji Temple near Waiguandao in Hongtong County is a distribution center. During the Republic of China, there was a special chronicle. There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong in the early Ming Dynasty, because the local documents scattered in several provinces and places for more than 200 years are described in this way, and some scholars have different opinions.

Can be seen in "Song of Ancient Sophora japonica". However, the epitaph genealogy and oral legends handed down from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China all agree that "Ask me where my hometown is, the locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi" is the most powerful proof material.

To understand the migration of Sophora japonica, we should pay attention to the differences and connections between historical and cultural phenomena. During the reign of Yongle in Hongwu, it was a history that the court organized a generation in Pingyang Prefecture to start with the distribution of Sophora japonica, and the universal migration of Sophora japonica in modern times was a cultural phenomenon.

There are many factors in the generalization of Sophora japonica immigrants, including the cultural and psychological reconstruction of the Han nationality in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, as well as the lack of long-term attachment to genealogical data and the sending of Sophora japonica immigrants. With the in-depth study of family history, there will be more and more genealogies unrelated to the migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong in the early Ming Dynasty, but this will not reduce the sacred position of Sophora japonica in the minds of Han descendants.

It is an inherent spiritual law passed down from generation to generation in China to recognize one's ancestors and return to the ancestors. In the early Ming Dynasty, the migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong has been the ancestral memory of Han nationality for at least 300 years. People always need some spiritual sustenance If you have a little care and no sustenance, you will live too hard.