Migration after 1700

Before modern times, the general direction of population migration in China was mainly from north to south. Northerners have moved to the south again and again, which has created the prosperity of culture and economy in the south, among which the most representative is Hakka.

Move south in the war

Hakka

From Qin and Han Dynasties to Song and Yuan Dynasties, almost every major social unrest will lead to large-scale population migration to the south. The war at the end of the Western Han Dynasty caused a large number of people in the Central Plains to move southward to the Yangtze River basin. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the military conquest and appeasement policy made the northwest minorities move inward, while the people of China in the north continued to move southward, and the economic center of China began to move southward.

When the wheel of history turned to the end of the Tang Dynasty, the population migration triggered by the Anshi Rebellion fundamentally changed the pattern of population distribution in China: the Yangtze River basin replaced the Yellow River basin for the first time and became the center of population distribution in China. In the Song Dynasty, 1273, Kublai Khan invaded the south on a large scale, leading the war to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and southerners were forced to seek a happy place to live in the Pearl River basin further south.