Is the legend under the big pagoda tree in Shanxi true?

It's true. From 1370 to 14 17, the Ming government organized 18 official immigrants in Shanxi, and nearly one million people moved to Henan, Shandong, Anhui and other places, with immigrants all over the Central Plains. Because it is said that most immigrants gather under the big locust tree in Hongdong, it has also become a well-known immigrant land and the homesickness of immigrant descendants.

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In the early Ming Dynasty, frequent wars led to a sharp drop in the population of the Central Plains. In order to consolidate the rule and resume production, the Ming government decided to emigrate from Shanxi, a populous province.

"The migration of the great locust tree in Hongdong is not recorded in the official history, mainly the genealogy and inscriptions of various places." Fan Dechang, cultural consultant of Hongtong Sophora japonica root-seeking ancestral home, said that the current mainstream view is that Sophora japonica immigrants are officially organized, with the largest scale, the largest immigrant population, the longest duration and the widest influence. Hongdong is a distribution center or a place to go through formalities.