Handwritten newspaper materials of Shandong ancestors

"Most of the ancestors of Shandong people can be traced back to the big locust tree in Shanxi! This is because, in addition to direct immigration, there are many indirect immigrants. " Liu Zhongping said, "In addition, the immigrants who initially moved to Shandong were mainly distributed in the areas of western Shandong, northwestern Shandong and southwestern Shandong, and these places were mostly flooded by the Yellow River, with poor soil and poor land, suffering from floods, which became the internal reason for the spontaneous relocation of immigrants. The exclusion of the local aborigines in Shandong from the foreign population has also become a factor for immigrants to migrate again. In the early Ming Dynasty, when people moved, the imperial court stipulated that' the same surname and the same clan were not allowed to move', which caused many families with the same surname and the same clan to live in different places, laying the groundwork for finding relatives and returning to their ancestors in the future. At the same time, the Ming government also organized many immigrants in the province according to the actual situation. For example, in the 25th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1392), 5,635 landless residents in Dengzhou and Laizhou moved to Dongchangfu; In the 28th year of Hongwu, 4,666 households with105/kloc-0 and more than five landless households were moved to sparsely populated areas. "