Why is there a saying that it was a family 500 years ago?

1, please see how "there was one 500 years ago" came from.

Xinhua News Agency, Taiyuan, April 5 (Reporter Ye Jian and Liu Huan) "Five hundred years ago, there was a family" is a well-known proverb among women and children, but few people know its origin. Experts pointed out in the ongoing "China Hong Tong Sophora Roots Festival" that this sentence originated from "Hong Tong Sophora Immigrants" more than 600 years ago.

According to historical records, at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, there were frequent wars and disasters, and many parts of the country were empty. Shanxi, on the other hand, is stable because of the Taihang Mountain in the east, showing another rich scene. In the fourteenth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (138 1 year), the population of the whole country was less than 60 million. At that time, the population of Henan was 189 1 10,000, that of Hebei was18.93 million, and that of Shanxi was 4.034 million, more than the sum of Hebei and Henan provinces. In order to develop agriculture, enrich national strength and consolidate political power, from the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1370) to the fifteenth year of Yongle (14 17), the Ming government set up a bureau to post notices under the Han Dynasty pagoda tree in the north of Hongtong County, Shanxi Province, which was surrounded by trees and covered with acres of land. Well-documented migration activities under Sophora japonica in Hongdong. In the 50 years since san huang in the Ming Dynasty, there have been 18 large-scale immigrants. The immigrant provinces cover 18 provinces and cities and more than 500 counties, involving four ethnic groups of Han, Manchu, Hui and Mongolian, with more than 800 surnames, and the total number of immigrants reaches 65,400.

The migration of Sophora japonica was the most extensive, largest and longest-lasting migration in ancient China, which was called "the largest migration in the world". Today, the descendants of ancient Sophora japonica have spread all over the world. According to Sun, deputy secretary of Hongdong County Committee, there are hundreds of millions of descendants of ancient Sophora japonica trees in the world, about one in every ten people in China.

Experts said that the migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong not only played a great role in the recovery of social productive forces at that time, but also had a far-reaching impact on the Chinese nation. The emergence and spread of the saying "five hundred years ago was a family" is a "by-product" of this great migration.

According to research, it took more than 500 years from the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, the descendants of Sophora japonica have spread all over the country. When people meet for the first time and ask each other about their hometown, they will say, "Ah!" It turns out that he is from Hongdong. "If you ask" What's the name of your hometown "again, if the answer is the same surname, the questioner will say:" Ah! It was a family 500 years ago. " Gradually, the saying that people with the same surname "were a family 500 years ago" has continued to this day. (End)

Second, why did you say that you were a family 500 years ago?

Source: Huaihua. com update time: April 2, 2007

Is there anything wrong with the great immigrants of the Ming Dynasty? What are the immigrant provinces? What causes Shanxi to be densely populated while Shandong, Henan and other provinces are sparsely populated? When did immigration begin and end? In what ways? What role did the Ming immigrants play in history? It was not until I read the book Looking for the Roots of Sophora japonica (edited by Zheng Shoulai and Huang) published by Chinese Publishing House that I found a relatively complete answer.

Trees have roots and water has power. It is the nature of the Chinese nation to trace back to the source and recognize one's ancestors. This book has more than 400,000 words, based on historical records, local chronicles, inscriptions, genealogy, legends and so on. , made the most rigorous textual research and the most detailed description of the relocated people in Hongdong. The migration of Sophora japonica in Hongdong in Ming Dynasty was the largest, longest and widest organized and planned migration in the history of China. After the war at the end of Yuan Dynasty, after more than 20 years, Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world. However, at this time, the mountains and rivers were devastated and devastated. Shandong, Henan and Hebei are mostly uninhabited areas. In order to restore agricultural production, develop the economy, balance the population, make the world peaceful and consolidate the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the rulers of the early Ming Dynasty adopted an immigration policy and moved in according to the proportion of "four families in one household, six families in two households and eight families in three households". According to research, during the fifty years from the early Ming Dynasty to the fifteenth year of Yongle, people from fifty-one counties in Shanxi Province were evacuated and sent to Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, and so on ... all over half of China. The pagoda tree of Guangji Temple in Hongdong, Shanxi Province is the place where people go through the relocation procedures. Legend has it that the government once took the form of deception: the government posted a notice in advance, saying that people everywhere would move except those under the big locust tree. As a result, when thousands of people gathered under the big locust tree, the officers and men were surrounded on all sides, and all men, women and children moved. When they set foot on the journey at the urging of officers and men, they turned around while walking, and finally only saw the big locust tree and the old man's nest in the distance. Therefore, the locust tree and the old man's nest have become the symbol of Shanxi immigrants bidding farewell to their hometown.

Today, descendants of ancient locust immigrants have spread all over the world. Millions of people are homesick for their homeland and seek their roots and ancestors. This ancient pagoda tree has become a popular place for people to worship their ancestors. The "Root-seeking Festival" held in Hongtong County from April 1 day to 10 every year attracts more than1000000 Chinese at home and abroad to come for sacrifices and sightseeing. It is a good thing to collect, sort out and publicize the migration history of Sophora japonica. The publication of this book will play a positive role in exploring the historical and cultural origins of our country, enhancing the centripetal force and cohesion of Chinese people at home and abroad, and realizing the great cause of peaceful reunification of the motherland.