Is the Zhou family in Jinnan District of Tianjin from Hongtong County?

After the situation in the whole country stabilized slightly, Judy, Ming Taizu, in order to resume production as soon as possible, promote economic development, consolidate political power, and fill the population gap caused by years of war, famine and plague in parts of the north, especially in southern Jilin, implemented a large-scale immigration measure of "migrating to the capital". During the Yongle period, the emigration places of immigrants were mainly concentrated in today's southern Shanxi, that is, the so-called locust tree in Hongtong County, Shanxi Province, which was circulated among the people. Why do you want to immigrate from Shanxi? At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, famine, epidemic diseases and chaos followed in the Central Plains. Shanxi at that time was a different scene. There are no major natural disasters here, and the weather is good and the harvest is good every year. Compared with the Central Plains, it has a stable society, a prosperous economy and a prosperous population. According to Lu, in the early Ming Dynasty, the total population of Hebei and Henan provinces was more than 3.78 million, while the population of Shanxi Province reached more than 4 million, more than the combined population of Hebei and Henan provinces! According to historical records, from the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty to Yongle 15 (A.D. 14 17), Shanxi residents moved out *** 18 times in a planned way. It is the largest, longest and widest organized and planned immigrant in the history of China. At that time, the immigration policy adopted by the imperial court was based on the proportion of "one for a family of four, two for a family of six and three for a family of eight". The imperial court gave the immigrants tolls, cattle, seeds, vehicles and a certain amount of grain, and did not collect taxes for three years. For example, in the fifth year of Yongle (A.D. 1407), "the household gave the Daoli a fee of 100 ingots and five buckets of rations." Yongle 12 (A.D. 14 14) "Each household is entitled to 50 mu of land." In the year of Yongle 14 (A.D. 14 16), every immigrant is tax-free for three years, and so on. These preferential policies are also an economic stimulus to immigrants. According to statistics, there are 19 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China, including Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei provinces and cities 142 urban counties. The descendants of Shanxi immigrants are also distributed in more than 100 countries and regions in the world.

According to legend, the locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province is the place where immigrants do paperwork. This is an ancient pagoda in the Han Dynasty, surrounded by trees. There is a Guangji Temple built in Sui and Tang Dynasties beside the tree. The imperial court once said by deception that people in all places will move out except those under the big pagoda tree, and those who don't want to move must arrive within three days. Three days later, thousands of people gathered around the big pagoda tree. At this time, the officers and men were surrounded on all sides, and men, women and children moved. When they set foot on the journey at the urging of officers and men, they could not bear to say goodbye and leave. As they walked, they looked back and finally saw only the big locust tree and the old man's nest in the distance. As a result, the big locust tree, the old man's nest on the tree, has become a symbol of hometown. It has been circulating for hundreds of years, and some people even mistake the old man's nest for a village. "Asked where my ancestors came from, Shanxi Hong Tong locust tree, what's the name of my ancestors' former residence? The old man's nest under the big locust tree. "This is a folk song widely circulated in Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, Tianjin, Henan, Jiangsu and other provinces and cities, which reflects the attachment of immigrants to their hometown. Nowadays, Hongdong County of Shanxi Province holds the "Root-seeking Festival to worship ancestors" every year from the first day to the tenth day of the fourth lunar month, which attracts 65,438+ten thousand Chinese at home and abroad to visit their ancestors, homesick for their homeland, and ask for their roots. The ancient pagoda has become a sacred place for people to worship their ancestors.