What do you mean by going west? What do you mean by going west? Why did the ancients go west?

What does Xikou mean? Let's start with Xikou. Now the specific meaning is controversial. It is said that the Yellow River ferry in northern Shanxi killed the tiger's mouth. It is said to be west of Zhangjiakou, Hebei. Anyway, in Qing dynasty, it generally refers to the vast Inner Mongolia area north of Shanxi and west of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, such as Baotou and other places.

What do you mean by going west? What do you mean by going west? During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the merchandise trade with Mongols was carried out at several fixed points outside the mouth, similar to the establishment of foreign trade ports in places bordering Russia and Kazakhstan today. Businessmen in Shanxi were going to do business outside, so they got the pass, which was later called westward. Later, westward movement became a general term. Businessmen from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei go out to do business, all of which are called westward.

Why did the ancients go west? It lasted nearly 300 years before and after the westward advance, and it should be said that there were two situations during the westward advance. One situation was that Shanxi had a large population at that time and life was difficult. So what? Population migration, this is a part of people. Other people were in Inner Mongolia because of the need of frontier defense at that time, so Shanxi businessmen developed in the middle of Ming Dynasty because of the need of frontier defense in Inner Mongolia. Then some people went to the west to meet this requirement, to develop commercial trade outside the mouth, and even to later banks. Therefore, the westward movement is actually a part of China immigrants.