Characteristics of ancient immigrants and modern immigrants in China

Most of the ancient immigrants were forced to move because of natural and man-made disasters, wars and other reasons, which made them unfit to continue living in the local area, and basically moved in their hometown; Modern immigrants mostly emigrate spontaneously in pursuit of a better life, and many of them emigrate overseas.

China ancient immigrants have a long history and are continuous. Generally, it can be divided into spontaneous and disorderly immigrants and immigrants from state power organizations. The former includes primitive immigrants aiming at group survival, disorderly immigrants aiming at individual survival and ancient overseas immigrants; The latter includes political immigrants, military immigrants and economic immigrants.

Although immigrants in history have different backgrounds, different ways and complicated motives, no matter what form of immigration, its essence is a means to integrate unbalanced human society. Generally speaking, immigration activities have the function of restoring and developing social production and can play an active role in stabilizing and consolidating state power.

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In the history of the Chinese nation, the middle and lower reaches of the old course of the Yellow River are the birthplace of ancient civilization and the center of ancient population distribution in China. Until the Qin and Han dynasties, the population of this area accounted for about 80% of the total population of the country. Decades of social unrest at the end of the Western Han Dynasty led to "cannibalism, empty city walls and wild bones", and the population loss in the Yellow River basin was serious.

During the 90 years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the end of the Three Kingdoms, there were frequent wars in the Central Plains, and people in this area fled to the relatively stable south, making "the hukou in the Central Plains not one tenth". The northern and western minorities, such as Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Biandi and Qiang, moved inward one after another, and by the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the number had reached several million. They have lived together with the Han nationality for a long time, influenced each other, and the national boundaries are narrowing day by day.