Immigrants from Waxieba in the Early Ming Dynasty

In the history of our country, there was a war almost every time the regime changed. Due to the devastation of war and frequent natural disasters, the society is in violent turmoil and the population is constantly migrating. Historically, in order to avoid chaos and escape from famine, the people of the Central Plains have been forced to emigrate on a large scale many times, mainly from the Yellow River basin to the Yangtze River basin and the more remote south. There are countless others who migrate sporadically because of being an official, doing business, studying and avoiding harm. The direct result of this continuous migration is the widespread spread of China's surname. Later, due to the age, it was difficult for the descendants of former immigrants to know exactly where their ancestral home was. They often take the original distribution center where their ancestors migrated as their ancestral home, write dictation by hand, record it in genealogy and pass it on to future generations.

On March 1 day, 2000, Anqing Daily published an article entitled "Waxie Dam-the Root of Anqing People", written by Professor Ge, director of the Institute of History of Fudan University in Shanghai. The article points out that Raozhou Road in Jiangxi in Yuan Dynasty is equivalent to today's cities and counties such as Poyang, Yugan, Wannian, Leping, Dexing, Jingdezhen and Fuliang, belonging to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Poyang County is now Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, where there is a place called Waba. Mr. Ge thinks that in the 11th year of Yuan Dynasty (135 1), the uprising of Zou Pusheng and Xu Shouhui took place in the area of Baibi and Huangzhou, and Xu Shouhui and his department led Zhao Pusheng and Chen Youliang to attack Anqing and other counties along the river many times. Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang and Zhao Pusheng fought many battles in Poyang Lake, Anqing and Chizhou. It was not until four years ago that Zhu was destroyed and Chen was restored to Anqing. The war lasted 13 years, and its devastating damage can be imagined. The population will definitely drop sharply, and the land is basically barren. Raozhou, Jiangxi Province is less affected by the war, with a large population and few people. In the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial court encouraged immigrants to the sparsely populated areas such as Jianghuai.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to emigrate to the Jianghuai area in order to restore the social economy of the war-torn areas. At the same time, in Raozhou, despite the harassment of Chen Youliang's army, local people Wu Hong and Yu Guang organized people to protect the land and people, so there was no big population loss. So the court ordered people who moved to Raozhou to fill in Anhui and Hubei.