Background of Lake Filling in Jiangxi Province

Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, all factions went to Nanjing to celebrate his victory. Tired of coping, he ordered everyone to go to Beijing in turn. As soon as I heard that a group of people had arrived in Changsha, I ordered "three days' rest", only to be misinformed as "three days of blood washing". After the Changsha massacre, it was sparsely populated. Historically, Zhu Yuanzhang may have made a decision in retaliation for the local people's support for Chen Youliang.

In order to consolidate the new regime and develop the economy after the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed in the Ming Dynasty, eight large-scale immigration activities were organized during the fifty years from the early years of Hongwu to the fifteenth year of Yongle, forming the famous "Jiangxi Lake Filling and Widening" movement. Among them, "Waxieba in Poyang, Jiangxi" and "Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi" were one of the two major immigrant distribution centers in China in the Ming Dynasty. The Waxie Dam in Poyang, Jiangxi, Sophora japonica in Hong Tong, Liu Yang Lane in Nanjing and Ninghua in Fujian are the origins of Hakkas, and they are also known as the distribution centers of the four major immigrants in China in the Ming Dynasty, and they are also places to find their roots. Among them, the ancestors of 200 million people in China came from Waxiba (formerly Raozhou) in Poyang County, Jiangxi Province. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the government set up a bureau in Waxieba. The immigrants from counties in Raozhou arrived at Poyang Waxie Dam along Le 'an River and Raohe River, and then distributed "Chuanzi", arranged boats, sailed out of Poyang Lake and arrived at Hukou. But they either went up the Yangtze River and moved to Huguang (now Hubei Province), or went down the Yangtze River and moved to Anhui and other provinces. In the history of China, there have been waves of immigrants again and again. This can get some information from folk proverbs such as "going west", "going east" and "banishing Yunnan" handed down from immigration activities in that year.