Where are Sichuanese from?

Tracing back to the source, seeking roots and ancestors

Do you want to trace back to the source? Want to know where you come from? Look at this trace!

The ancestral surnames of China people all originated from the Central Plains and were given by the Yellow Emperor of China, with a history of more than 3,000 years. Want to know the lineage of ancestors' surnames, and want to find out the changes of native place in the family era, where did it come from? Don't worry, go back to the source!

Step 1: First, find out my grandfather's address (referring to the county and village) and surname (name) in the early days of New China, and then ask the elders to listen to it (if there are genealogy or records at home, it is best to have a look), so as to know my family's modern surname clan, and thus know that I am a descendant of the X surname clan in X county (street) of X province.

From this, further inquiry, grandpa's grandfather's residence and time (according to the current calculation, it should be the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China), from the address: X village, X county, X province, you can get the ancestral home of X family in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and you will know that grandpa's grandfather is the ancestral home of X family in that place. I don't know my name as long as I have a residential address.

The second step is to inquire whether the ancestral home of the X family has changed during the third wave of immigration in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. If not, the original ancestral home will remain unchanged. If it is moved from x x village, x x county, x x province, then the ancestral home of this family will also change.

If the ancestors at that time were Sichuanese, it is necessary to consult relevant historical materials and infer whether the ancestors were immigrants who "pulled lakes to fill Sichuan". If possible, it should belong to the migration from Huguang to Sichuan in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. At that time, due to war and famine, the population of Sichuan decreased sharply. The total population of Sichuan is only over 90,000, 1 more than 10,000 people immigrated to Sichuan. So Sichuan is basically an immigrant population.

The compulsory measures that the state government has to take to fill the population of Sichuan are also known as "pulling lakes to fill Sichuan". Since then, many immigrants have voluntarily chosen to move to Sichuan. From Huguang to Sichuan, his ancestral home was "Huguang" X county, and he himself became a descendant of immigrants named X in Huguang X county. "Huguang" refers to Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian and Anhui provinces. My ancestor, the X immigrant family, moved from X village, X county, X province to Sichuan, where is the ancestral home of that family ancestor! The generation that entered Sichuan became the ancestors of the X family, and they themselves became the descendants of the X family.

Later in the Qing Dynasty, Huguang people migrated to Sichuan and settled in Chengdu, Deyang, Bazhong, Nanchong, Ziyang, Neijiang, Zigong, Longchang and Yongchuan. Therefore, most of the descendants of Sichuan belong to the descendants of immigrants who "filled Sichuan with Huguang".

Step 3: Where are the ancestors of Huguang people? Most of their ancestors came from the Central Plains. That is, the Central Plains, the birthplace of the surname of Huangdi in China. During the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, due to war and famine, most of the population of the Central Plains migrated from Chang 'an, Xianyang, Luoyang, Qinghe and Kaifeng to Huguang. There are immigrants from Huanggang, Macheng and Xiaogan in Hubei, Meizhou and Changle (Wuhua) in Guangdong, and Ganzhou, Ruijin, Yiyang and Huaiyang in Anhui.

The Central Plains is the birthplace of Chinese children, and most of the Han people in China have ancestral homes. Including the ancestral home of descendants of Huguang immigrants, the population expansion of China develops from north to south!

This is the end point of tracing the source, regardless of the class and surname of their family ancestors. More than 3000 years have passed and no one can figure it out. Know the birthplace and age of your ancestors and where you are from!

Finally, tracing back to the source, take the Zhang family as an example:

My name is Zhang Dax, and I am a descendant of Zhang Ancestral Hall in Xinping Township, Guanghan County, Sichuan Province.

My parents lived in Zhangjialaoyuan, 2 kilometers north of Zhangjiaancestral hall in Taiping Township (Xinping), Guanghan County, Sichuan Province in the early days of New China, and they were descendants of Zhang's branch of Zhangjiaancestral hall in Tucheng.

My grandfather's grandfather lives in the Zhangjia branch near the Zhangjia ancestral hall in Taiping Township, Guanghan County, Sichuan Province. My grandfather's name is, he is the grandson of the second son of Zhang's ancestor in Sichuan. I am a descendant of Zhang Chaopei's great-grandson.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the population of Sichuan declined sharply due to war and famine, and the compulsory measures taken by the government to fill the population of Sichuan were also called "pulling lakes to fill Sichuan". Since then, some people have voluntarily chosen to come to Sichuan. Zhang Bingzhong and his wife, born in Tucheng, Guanghan, moved from Xinghua Village, Changle County, Guangdong Province to Tucheng Village, Taiping Township, Guanghan County, Sichuan Province with their five sons in the 56th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi. In the early Qing Dynasty, it was the ancestor of the Zhang family in Guanghan Tucheng that entered Sichuan from Guangdong, and all relatives of the Zhang family in Guanghan Tucheng were descendants of their grandfather.

Zhang, a native of Tucheng, Guanghan, is a descendant of immigrants who "filled Sichuan Huguang" and his ancestral home is Changle (Wuhua) County, Guangdong Province. Huguang people speak Minnan dialect and call it "Hakka", so Huguang immigrants are also called Hakka descendants.

Where did the ancestors of Huguang immigrants come from? Most of them came from the Central Plains, and the Huguang ancestors of the Zhang family in Guanghan Tucheng passed through the Qinghe River in the Central Plains. The Central Plains is the place where the Yellow Emperor of China gave his surname as mentioned earlier. During the Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasties, wars and famines caused great population migration in the Central Plains, and the ancestors of Huguang immigrants migrated from Qinghe in the Central Plains to Huguang.

The ancestral home of Huguang immigrants is in the Central Plains, including the earliest ancestral home of descendants of Huguang immigrants, and also the ancestral home of most Han people in China. The origin of China people began here!