History of Shaozhuang Village

According to Shao's genealogy, the history of the village can be traced back to the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan government used troops year after year to carry out ethnic oppression at home. Coupled with frequent floods and famines in the Huanghuai River Basin, it finally aroused the Red Scarf Army uprising that lasted for more than ten years. The Yuan government brutally suppressed, and desperate wars for territory and land occurred from time to time. Nine times out of ten people in Huaibei, Shandong, Hebei and Henan were killed. At the end of the yuan dynasty, the soldiers were not healed, and the battle of Jingnan in the early Ming dynasty followed. Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places have suffered greatly, and almost all of them are uninhabited. Since the Ming Dynasty, the largest migration has taken place in history, and the residents of Shaozhuang Village moved in from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. According to the legend of ancestors, the migration was forced after being cheated: the court announced that all localities should emigrate, except Laowowo village in Hongtong county, so residents from all over the country gathered in Laowowo village to find relatives and friends. One night, loyalists suddenly surrounded a large number of people gathered in the old woman's lair to avoid migration, tied them up and forced them to migrate. It is also said that every time you move, no matter where your home is, you will focus on Hongdong. The official set up an institution next to Guangji Temple to register and then moved to other places. As the saying goes, "it is difficult for a poor family to leave, and it is difficult to leave the homeland." Because of this, when the people left Hongdong, everyone was in pain and shed tears. They dragged their children, helped the young and the old, carried laundry baskets, held broken sticks and pressed the Tianchang, which was extremely sad. In late autumn, the leaves of Sophora japonica fall, and the nest of the elderly is very eye-catching. When the immigrants left, they stared at the towering ancient locust trees, and the old people living among the branches kept moaning, which made the immigrants who had left their homes cry and could not bear to leave. Finally, they can only see the old man's nest on the big locust tree. Everybody turn around in three steps, turn around in five steps. Looking at it, I can't see enough Guangji Temple in my hometown, and I can't see enough big locust trees next to Guangji Temple. When people go far away, the last thing they can see is the locust tree standing in the clouds and the crow's nest on the treetops. The big pagoda tree is old and tall, with lush foliage and green leaves shaking up and down, as if to bid farewell to people in their hometown. As a result, the pagoda tree and the old man's nest have become the symbols for immigrants to bid farewell to their hometown, and the image of this ancient pagoda tree has been firmly engraved in the hearts of all immigrants: the ancient pagoda tree, my hometown, has been integrated since then. Later, the father passed on the son, and the son passed on the grandson, "Ask me where my ancestors came from, the big pagoda tree in Hongdong, Shanxi" and "What's the name of my ancestors' hometown, the old man's nest under the big pagoda tree" became a popular song.

Shaozhuang village is the birthplace of the Shao family in Chaocheng town. After the ancestors of Shaozhuang Village in Ming Dynasty moved here, they named this place Xiaozili, and later renamed it Shao Zhuang. With the expansion of population and geographical division, Shao people gradually spread from Shao Zhuang to nearby villages. Now, people surnamed Shao in villages and towns have moved out of Shaozhuang Village, and every time the genealogy is updated, people surnamed Shao will gather here.