Why do some Guizhou people say that their ancestors were from Jiangxi?

It's true. Guizhou and Jiangxi have deep roots. Not only do many people in Guizhou say that their ancestral home was moved here from Jiangxi, but some ancient books also record it.

Jiangxi Wuyuan Nuo Opera

Historically, there have been many great migrations of Jiangxi population, some of which were ordered by the state, such as "transferring the north to fill the south" in the Ming Dynasty and "refugees entering Yunnan and Guizhou" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, many military families and people entered Guizhou to solve the contradiction between Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangnan. Now, Anshun and Guiyang in central Guizhou can still see the "Tunpu culture". There is also a saying in history that "Jiangxi is full of lakes and wide".

Then, I went to Guizhou to escape the war, because most of Guizhou is a mountainous area with winding mountain roads and dangers. Many places are rivers and cliffs. The cost of building bridges and roads is too high, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. War is not easy to spread here. Even the Japanese invaders of that year failed to completely occupy Guizhou. At that time, Guizhou belonged to the rear area.

Another reason is that there are not many geological disasters in Guizhou, such as earthquakes and floods. As long as the land is reclaimed, it is still very conducive to the cultivation of agricultural civilization and attracts many people to migrate. Even now, the climate in Guizhou is livable.

Guizhou Anshun Nuo Opera

In Guizhou, many families with genealogy, including those who recorded the time when they came to Guizhou from Jiangxi, were relatively common in the Ming Dynasty. And many famous families in Jiangxi have come to Guizhou. At that time, many local officers in Guizhou were from Jiangxi.

Immigrants from Jiangxi mainly came from Nanchang, Fengcheng, Jiujiang, De 'an, Jingdezhen, Leping, Poyang, Yugan, Ji 'an, Taihe and other cities and counties, namely Raozhou, Nanchang, Ji 'an and Jiujiang in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with more in northern Jiangxi than in southern Jiangxi.

The aborigines in Guizhou are mainly Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities, and the Yi people are mainly in the northwest of Guizhou. The Han nationality is mainly concentrated in central Guizhou (Guiyang, Anshun) and northern Guizhou (Zunyi). With the integration of ethnic groups, the Han nationality who migrated from outside gradually distributed in all parts of Guizhou.

Therefore, as long as you carefully observe and ask a few Guizhou people, you should be able to trace back several generations. They may have moved from Jiangxi, and many big families, such as Huang and Zhu, are probably from Jiangxi. In recent years, some Guizhou people love to go to Jiangxi to "find their roots", which is also evidence.

Source: Wukong Q&A Editor: Lingqiu County