What was the concentration and base camp of Fujian and Guangdong immigrants in Ming and Qing Dynasties?

Gannan was the concentration and base camp of Fujian and Guangdong immigrants in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, words such as "refugee" and "rogue" frequently appeared in Ming History and Gannan Local Records.

For example, Wang Yangming, a former governor of Nan 'an, pointed out that "Ji 'an, Longquan, Wan 'an and Taihe counties belong to Dayu residents in Nan 'an, have no civil rights, and often take their wives and daughters with them as thieves. At the same time, according to Rao Weixin's statistics, there are other names such as Guangguan, Lingkou, Fujian thief, Fujian thief, Zhang Ting thief and Cheng Xiang thief.

The influence of migration is enormous. It changed the population structure of Gannan before the Ming Dynasty, changed Gannan from an area dominated by Jiangxi culture to an area dominated by Hakka culture, and Ganzhou has since become a Hakka town. These changes began with the great migration in southern Jiangxi during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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Gannan not only accepted immigrants from central Jiangxi, but also attracted immigrants from neighboring Guangdong and Fujian. Although Guangdong and Fujian provinces are separated from Gannan by Nanling and Wuyishan mountains, there are many mountain tunnels between them, and there are many exchanges between the two places.

There are official roads between Fujian and Jiangxi, and between Fujian Ruijin and Changting, starting from Ninghua County, crossing Wuyishan to Lingnan or entering Gannan. Between Jiangxi and Guangdong, there is Dayuling Post Road, which connects Nanxiong, Guangdong and Xinfeng, Jiangxi, and is an important channel for Jiangxi to go south to Guangdong. This provided convenience for Fujian and Guangdong immigrants to enter Gannan.

Immigrants from Guangdong and Fujian provinces mainly come from poor areas in northern and eastern Guangdong and poor areas in western Fujian. For a long time, these places have a narrow land and a dense population, the contradiction between people and land is very serious, and the motivation for people to move out is very sufficient. The extortion of local officials has prompted the people of the two places to move out and move to Gannan in the form of refugees.