Why did you go to Kanto at that time? Take the west exit?

The "west exit" in a broad sense refers to the passage from northern Shanxi and northwestern Shanxi to Inner Mongolia, which is relative to Zhangjiakou, the "east exit". In fact, Xiguan is the Great Wall Pass in the north of Shanxi Province. Out of these passes, vast expanse's Mongolia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and kanto region are the destinations for Shanxi people to travel westward. In a narrow sense, Xikou refers to a Great Wall pass in Youyu County, which is at the junction of Shanxi and Mongolia, and is called "Killing Tiger Mouth". After Shanxi merchants marched westward, they crossed the Great Wall and headed for the naturalization of Inner Mongolia and Suiyuan, Kulun and Duolun, Ulyasutai and Cobuduo, and Xinjiang and kanto region. At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the society in northern Xinjiang was stable and the economy improved, and the Mongolian people's demand for grain, salt, cotton cloth, handicrafts and production tools in the Central Plains was increasingly strong. Shanxi people exchanged cheap cloth, cotton, needle and thread, grain, salt and iron for Mongolian valuable fur, velvet antler, musk and even sands and precious stones. Shanxi merchants earned several times, even dozens of times, huge profits from Mongolians who were never familiar with business conditions. At that time, an ordinary iron pot can hold a pot of valuable mink, a piece of tea can be exchanged for a sheepskin, and a piece of cloth can be exchanged for a calf. It is difficult to make money in such a business.

As a social custom, traveling to the East is widely accepted. The East Gate of Shanhaiguan City defines the land outside Shanhaiguan and the Central Plains. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China for hundreds of years, Shandong people who left their homes began to venture eastward. /kloc-in the 9th century, the lower reaches of the Yellow River suffered from famine year after year, but the Qing government still prohibited customs clearance. Thousands of bankrupt farmers ignored the ban and risked being punished to "rush" into the northeast, which is the origin of "going to the east" Breaking through the Kanto is a tragic history and an immigration feat. "De-orientalization" has a specific route and a specific background. Therefore, it is a social and historical migration phenomenon with spontaneous objective factors and internal political influence. In essence, Shandong people's crusade to the East is a spontaneous, overwhelming and tragic survival movement of poor farmers who are dying.