Social influence of great immigrants in Ming dynasty

In order to make the migration go smoothly, the Ming government promulgated a series of preferential policies, such as issuing cotton-padded clothes, Sichuan capital (relocation fee) and silver coins for buying farm tools. The land can be cultivated at will and exempted from tax for three years. Shanxi immigrants came to the Central Plains, and when they saw so many fertile fields left uncultivated, they panicked for a while. Some race on land, with horseshoe prints as the boundary, and whoever circles it is who; Some used plows to occupy the land, plowed around it, and the land was mine. With land, we will build houses and villages, some of which are built according to the terrain, called a slope, a pit, an estuary and a bay; Some call a village or a village by surname; Some people call it a vegetable garden according to different industries. Those who can pump oil are called oil presses; Those who can make paper are called paper mills. Others take the name of Zhuang according to the houses built, and many tile houses are called a tile house; Many Jianping houses are called squares; There are many Gai Lou, so it is called a building. There are many villages named after "Tun" and "Ying" in many places. Such as Ding Guantun, Ma Fangtun, Ou Shantun, Zhang Ying, Li Ying and Meng Ying. The origin of these tunhe camps is mostly caused by the practice of commercial reclamation between the military and the people from Hongwu to Yongle in Ming Dynasty.

According to survey data, more than half of the villages in the Central Plains, especially in Henan and Shandong, were established in the Ming Dynasty. For example, there are 1247 villages in Jinxiang County, Shandong Province, 69 villages were built before the Yuan Dynasty, 830 villages were built in the Ming Dynasty, 323 villages were built in the Qing Dynasty, and 8 villages were built after the Republic of China. The village age is unknown 17. Seventy percent of the population in Jinxiang County comes from locust tree immigrants in Hongdong, Shanxi Province. There are 2,276 natural villages in Cao County, Shandong Province, and there are 1 0,606 villages built by Ming immigrants. Tengzhou has 1223 natural villages, of which 687 were built in the Ming Dynasty. Among the 425 existing genealogies and inscriptions, 225 genealogies clearly record that people moved here from Hongtong County in the Ming Dynasty during Hongwu and Yongle. Most villages in Linxian County, Mengxian County, tangyin county County, Neihuang County, lankao county County and Xiuwu County of Henan Province immigrated here from Hong Tong Sophora japonica.