The origin of Gaocheng people

The ancestors of Gaocheng people came from Shanxi Province.

1980, a stone tablet engraved with the words "Remembering the ancestors" was found in Jinzhuang Village. In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1404), I moved to the mainland and other provinces. My ancestor Gong Li was also from Hongtong County, Shanxi Province. It has been 500 years since Zhao Feng moved to Jinzhuang Village, Gaocheng County, Zhengding Prefecture, Zhili. The genealogy is lost and the order is difficult to remember. Because of the stone, I will never forget it.

In the tombstone inscription of Sun Shi's ancestral grave in Nanxiang, there is also a record that "ancestors moved here from Hongdong, Shanxi".

According to Ming Jiajing's "Gaocheng County Records", "Gaocheng experienced war, the population was exhausted and the land was barren, leaving only one third of the old accounts. Fourteen years of Yongle

14 16), moved to various households in Shanxi and lived in Gaocheng. "The inscription on the tombstone of Zhang Gong, the minister of punishments, and the anthology of this magazine have" male surname Zhang, taboo respect, respect its nickname. Formerly a native of Daizhou, Shanxi Province, Emperor Wen moved to Youhu, Shanxi Province during the Yongle period. My great-grandfather who was afraid of naming was really moved. So in Wujiazhuang, Gaocheng, with the Gelao people and the ancestors, they cultivated more than a thousand acres. ..... "and other records.

Gaocheng local geography also has "My city was the north and south throat in Liao, Jin, Song and Yuan Dynasties. The confrontation reached a crossroads and the army horse was ravaged. As soon as the land was expropriated, the people fled, so the land was barren and sparsely populated. After Ming Chengzu ascended the throne, he ordered Shanxi people to move to Gaocheng.

According to the History of Ming Dynasty, Shanxi people moved to Hebei in the second and fourteenth years of Yongle in Ming Dynasty.

From the above documents and tombstone records, it has been explained that our ancestors moved from Shanxi in the second year (1404) and fourteenth year (14 16) of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty.

The assembly place of the relocated people is Guangji Temple in Hongtong County, Shanxi Province. There is an ancient pagoda next to the temple, and there is an old man's nest on the tree. Immigrants regard this as a symbol of their hometown and pass it on from generation to generation. So it is widely circulated that our ancestors moved from Laowowo, Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. People think that all people whose toenails are split in half are descendants of immigrants.

Why did our ancestors move to Shanxi?

Due to the frequent shortage of soldiers, bare land and few people in the Central Plains provinces during the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, thousands of hectares of fertile land were left uncultivated. Since the invasion of Mongolia, the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty Empire was extremely cruel to the Han people. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people were forbidden to carry weapons, and its minister Bayan called for the killing of five Han people, namely Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li and Zhao, so the Han people had almost no place to live. In order to gain life from death, Liu Futong in Henan Province first revolted in Yingchuan. In the 11th year of Zheng Zhi, Yuan Shundi (135 1), the people of Henan, Huai and Lu, under the leadership of Liu Futong, fought the Yuan Army for thirteen years. The deaths of people in northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, Henan and Shandong are already seven or eight out of ten. & lt

After the defeat of Liu Futong, the generals of the Yuan Dynasty had different ambitions, fighting with each other for the city and land. Zhu Yuanzhang went out of Jianghuai, took Shandong, resumed Henan, settled the capital, settled in Wang Baoyu, destroyed Zhang Siqi in Guanzhong, and fortified China according to risks. The war lasted for sixteen years. During the war, the army had no food, killing the old and the weak for food, and the people fled into exile. Beijing has collected more than 200,000 bodies. The Yellow River has burst many times, and countless people have died.

Ming Taizu thirty-one years (1399), May, Taizu collapse, Sun Yun.

In July, Zhao Kuangyin's fourth son Yan ascended the throne, unable to arise, which lasted more than three years. Such as encircling Xiongxian, fighting bloody battles in Gaocheng, fighting for truth, beheading 30 thousand people.

1403, after Yan seized power, he was exiled to restore social economy. Hebei, Henan and Huaibei have become the main areas, so people who moved to Shanxi are more practical. & lt

At that time, Shaanxi was the base of Chahan Teula and his son Wang Bao (Shilingguan in the north and the north bank of the Yellow River in the south). Because of its dangerous geographical position, strict rule, less war spread, relatively stable society, more births and fewer deaths, and the influx of refugees, it has formed a densely populated and narrow area, so immigrants take other places as their real goals.

Shanxi immigrants mostly come from Hongtong County and its nearby areas (dense population and convenient transportation).