Why do Hunan people go to Jiangxi?

In Hunan and Hubei provinces, there has always been a saying that "Jiangxi fills the lake", saying that Jiangxi people are "old cousins" and regard Jiangxi as relatives. It is well documented that the ancestors of Hunan and Hubei today, except for a few indigenous descendants, mostly moved in from other provinces. Investigating its origin, Jiangxi ranks first. At the end of the dynasty, Hubei and Hunan, as the places of four wars, were constantly in war and their population dropped sharply. In order to stabilize the situation in the new dynasty, it is urgent to increase the population of the two lakes.

But there are not many people in the two lakes area. What do we do? A large number of people move in from neighboring Jiangxi. For example, this happened in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the late Yuan Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty. A large number of Jiangxi people moved to the two lakes, which is "Jiangxi fills the lake." Further away, in Sichuan, due to the sudden decrease of the war-torn population, a large number of Huguang people moved into Sichuan. I believe you also know this sentence, "Jiangxi fills Huguang, Huguang fills Sichuan". Changsha people come from all corners of the country, and most of them are from Jiangxi. After Jiangxi people moved to Hunan, most of them mainly cultivated.

In order to avoid a long journey, most people from southern Jiangxi moved to southern Hunan and most people from northern Jiangxi moved to northern Hunan. Tan Qixiang, a historical geographer, believes that as early as the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants entered Hunan, with a relatively large number in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the scale of immigrants in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties was the most unprecedented.

Hunan is located inland. In the long ancient times, there were not many events that attracted worldwide attention, and not many people led the trend. Although there have been Zhou Dunyi and Wang Fuzhi, on the whole, there are few talents. Since modern times, great changes have taken place. On the gate of Yuelu Academy, there is a couplet "Only Chu is talented and prospers in Sri Lanka", so that there has always been a saying that "Hunan people will not fall, and China will not fall".