Every trip is a departure, and here you are going home.

Every trip is a departure, but you are here to go home. If you have been to Shanxi, most people have probably heard this sentence. What we are talking about here is Hong Tong Sophora japonica, which is the place where people all over the country seek their roots and recognize their ancestors. Why do you say that? This starts with migration.

In the early Ming Dynasty, due to large-scale wars, people's livelihood in many places was depressed and the population was sparse, and the whole Central Plains was lifeless. However, the southern part of Shanxi is not affected much, with a prosperous economy and a large population. Therefore, in the official name, the Ming Dynasty set up an immigration department in Hongdong, which was responsible for moving the population here to other places. From Hongwu to Yongle, after more than 50 years, the migration population reached one million. There are immigrants all over the country, and their surnames can reach more than 100. This department is located near the big locust tree in Hongdong today. Every migration is to gather everyone under the big locust tree and set out together.

This matter is mostly folklore, which is not clearly recorded in the official records, but this does not mean that it has never happened. People determined which surnames came from here from a large number of genealogies, and then Hong Tong Daxie Immigration Research Association officially published the genealogy of descendants of immigrants from Daxie, Hong Tong. Li's genealogy, Wang's genealogy, Zhang's genealogy, Liu, Chen, Yang, Zhao, Huang, Zhou, Wu, Xu, Sun, Hu, Zhu, Gao, Lin, He, Guo, Ma, Luo, Liang, Song, Zheng, Xie, Han, Tang, Feng, Yu and Dong. Hao, Kong, Bai, Cui, Kang, Mao, Qiu, Qin, Jiang, Shi, Gu, Hou, Shao, Meng, Long, Wan, Duan, Lei, Qian, Tang, Yin, Li, Yi, Chang, Wu, Qiao, He, Lai, Gong, Wen, Pang, Fan.

The big pagoda tree scenic spot you see now was built by Hongdong gentry and He Qian during the Republic of China. Only then has the legendary big locust tree trace.