Historical data of immigrants in Ming and Qing dynasties

Jiangxi Waba is located in Lianhu Township, west of Poyang County 10 km. According to research, it is a water transport hub in ancient Poyang Lake area, and with excellent soil resources, the scale of potters is huge. The pottery tiles here have been sold all over the country, even to palaces for building. In the creation and invention of mankind, ancient pottery is ranked as the first, and the ancient pottery of Waxieba is a brilliant flower created by ancestors and a precious heritage of ancient culture in Poyang Lake area. It bears the ancient imprint, with the fresh breath of the earth, leads the roar of historical footsteps, and accompanies our ancestors from the ancient Poyang Lake civilization to the modern civilization.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, this once brilliant land became a ruin after the disaster of war. Poyang County recorded in the "Cultural Relics Site": "Waxieling, a village name in Lianhu Township, was originally a long dam piled up by countless pottery pieces left over from ancient times, so it was called" Waxieba "in the past. There are so many pottery pieces in the river from Shuang Gang River to Lianhu Lake, which is rare. "

Guwaba is a ferry, a pier and a place where rich people live. At this time, there used to be many sails on Bianzi Port. At this time, the pedestrians in Chopsticks Street jostled shoulder to shoulder. Here, "the ruin of troubled times, the decline of green grass, the tomb of the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty have been sleeping together for a long time ...", which shows that its cultural heritage has a long history. After the history entered the Five Dynasties, the word "dam" of Waba gradually disappeared and was inherited by the word "Waling". After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, with the national economic center of gravity moving southward, Jiangxi became the richest man in the country, and its population was second to none. The cruel war of peasant uprising at the end of Yuan Dynasty made large areas of land in Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Sichuan and other places barren and became the "hometown" of baili population. Jiangxi is a "narrow town" with a small land and a large population, because Wu Hong, Yu Guang and other generals in Raozhou seized the throat of Poyang Lake. In order to develop the economy, the rulers of Ming and Qing dynasties began to emigrate from Jiangxi and other places. Waxieba, a grand and sweaty ancient ferry, naturally became the first choice for Jiangxi immigrants.

The great migration of Li nationality touched a sensitive nerve in Jiangxi Province. During the 400-year migration, millions of Jiangxi immigrants left their homes according to the immigration law of "four people stay one, six people stay two, and eight people stay three". One by one, they gathered from the Waba, crossed the rolling Poyang Lake in ancient sailboats, and endured unimaginable care and concern.

According to the literature; The ancestors of immigrants, marked by rough grass, built houses, split mountains and opened fields, built gardens, planted mulberry trees and paid tribute. Their descendants have multiplied nearly 200 million people so far. They have made great contributions to the economic development of Kuanxiang, and also trained a large number of outstanding talents, descendants of immigrants, scholars, prime ministers, generals, national heroes, writers, scientists, bankers and entrepreneurs for the country ... like the stars shining. However, these celebrities have not forgotten the price paid by their ancestors. In many historical materials, celebrity notes and genealogy, it is recorded that ancestors came from Waxieba, Jiangxi. It was the court's "no-move order" that cut off the idea of immigrants moving back. For example, Wu Han, a historian, said in Zhu Yuanzhang's Biography, "Great immigrants have caused many families' sorrow for the sake of enriching the country and strengthening the people, and the mental trauma is hard to calm down for a long time." Over the years, immigrants who have lost contact with their hometown have gradually forgotten the specific place of their ancestral home, but the "Waba" has appeared in their memories for thousands of times, passed down from generation to generation, and some words are recorded in the genealogy. Waxieba is the "root" of Jiangxi immigrants, the destination of their souls, the sustenance of their long-cherished wish, and their spiritual home to watch for thousands of years.

In recent years, the descendants of immigrants who came to Waxieba to seek their roots and ancestors came in an endless stream, and more than 5,000 pieces of information about Waxieba were published on the Internet alone. Waxieba is the historical complex of Jiangxi immigrants, and its charm has attracted many descendants of immigrants to look for the footprints of their ancestors and the thrilling scene that happened in this land. The status of tile dam in the hearts of immigrants can be seen from this.

It is worth mentioning that with the optimization of Poyang Lake ecological environment, "whispering" also "returns" with the descendants of immigrants. Many long-lost or unseen migratory birds, such as the world-class rare bird Oriental Stork, have become particularly eye-catching "angels" in the lake. According to CCTV's News Network on March 20th, 2009, at present, there are more than 6,000 species of creatures in Poyang Lake. As a world-famous wetland park and migratory bird protection area, the only "Swan Lake" with clear water in China and the branch of Xiwan, which is derived from Raohe River, are not only the warmest corner in the hearts of immigrants, the hometown of dreams, but also the blessed land where hundreds of birds come here.

Now, the prelude of Jiangxi's "Eco-economic Circle around Poyang Lake" has sounded, and Poyang Lake, a county with thousands of lakes, has also shown the world the elegance of Poyang Lake with the brand of "Lake City". Restoring the Waxieba site, which has dual cultural values of ancient pottery and immigrant holy land, and reappearing this unique immigrant scene in the human survival landscape is not only the inheritance of Jiangxi immigrant historical complex, but also the highlight of developing "lake city" tourism. In addition, the ancient temple of Lianhuashan, which is adjacent to the Waba, was once a pure land Buddhist country worshipped by good men and women in more than a dozen counties and cities along the lake. The "Round Building" in Jia Zhu, visited by the emperors of the two dynasties, showed tourists the historical and cultural glory of the Waba and the nostalgia of immigrants, and it will surely become a beautiful landscape on Poyang Lake.