Ancient Guangdong was vast and sparsely populated. When did a large number of people move here?

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Guangdong had the population data of the whole province. 138 1 year, and the population of Guangdong is 3170,000. 1749, Guangdong has a population of 6.46 million. After 1600 years of population reproduction, the population of Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty was only 317 million. Therefore, it is personally estimated that when Qin unified the Qinling Mountains, the population of Guangdong and Guangxi was less than10,000,000 (at that time, Guangdong was still a primitive society of slash-and-burn cultivation), and Guangdong in the Southern Song Dynasty was 1279.

Immigrants from Shaanxi, Central Plains and North China-In 2 19 BC, most of the 600,000 troops of Qin Michu marched into Lingnan, while the 500,000 troops led by Tu Youyou were not used to fighting in mountainous areas and were defeated. After the Lingqu was completed, Qin unified Wuling in 2 14, and the soldiers stayed behind. In the second year, 300,000 people moved from the Central Plains to Wuling.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, after Qin unified Wuling 1500, northerners went south again, this time mainly the Han people in Central China.

Central Plains and Jianghuai Immigrants-1276, Yuan captured Lin 'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Immigrants entered Guangdong in two ways, most of them from Jiangxi. During this period, the Hakkas in Guangdong mainly migrated, and the other branch was the Jianghuai people who migrated by sea. With the support of Wen Tianxiang, hundreds of thousands of Shi Zhaohe, Zhao Bing, members of the royal family, court bureaucrats, foot soldiers and refugees moved to the coastal areas of Guangdong. Therefore, Jianghuai immigrants accounted for about 65,438+00% of Guangdong population (mainly Guangfu and Minnan dialect), and Jiangxi immigrants (Han people in Central China) accounted for more than 20%, forming Hakkas. At the end of Song Dynasty, the population who moved to Guangdong exceeded 1 10,000. It is the largest number of immigrants in Guangdong's history, but the proportion of immigrants in the total population is still not as high as that of Han people in North China during the Qin Dynasty.

Immigrants from North China brought Guangdong farming techniques, Cantonese dialects in Guangfu and Chaoshan areas and Han descent.

The Han people in the Central Plains and Jianghuai brought education. Although the proportion of the population is not high, they mainly bring education, culture, reading and writing to Guangdong. Because most of the people who migrated in the Qin dynasty were farmers and soldiers, they had no education. Many people who moved in Jiangxi and Jianghuai areas were court bureaucrats. There are many literati, and the celebrities who came out of Guangdong mainly came from the Song Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are closely related to the immigrants from the Central Plains and Jianghuai.