Why is there The Journey to the West?

1. Going East refers to the process that a large number of people in the Central Plains and Jiangbei areas were forced or took the initiative to cross Shanhaiguan and Bohai Sea to travel, reclaim land and settle in the Northeast during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

2. Background

As a social custom, traveling to the East is widely accepted. The East Gate of Shanhaiguan City defines the land outside Shanhaiguan and the Central Plains. During the hundreds of years from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, people from Shanhaiguan, such as Shandong, left their hometown and began to travel eastward. In the Qing dynasty, the system of ethnic hierarchy and segregation was implemented, and Han people were forbidden to enter the "Longxing land" in the northeast for farming-a customs ban was issued. Shunzhi warned Manchu nobles to finally retreat to Kanto. The Manchu lost everything and entered the customs, and the population of Kanto dropped sharply. Under the pretext of "ancestral home prospering the king", we protected "participating in the mountains and benefiting the pearl" and implemented the policy of closing the Kanto for a long time. At the beginning of Shunzhi, more than 1,000 kilometers of "wicker fence"-the Great Wall of Northeast China (wicker fence, willow wall, Liucheng fence and striped fence) was built in sections, covering the whole territory, and it was completed in the middle of Kangxi. From Shanhaiguan via Kaiyuan and Xinbin to the wicker border in the south of Fengcheng, it is called "Old Border"; Jilin City has been called the "new frontier" ("secondary sea") in the north since Kaiyuan Northeast. Therefore, there are folk sayings of "border people" and "border people".

3. Influence

Breaking through the Kanto is a tragic history and an immigration feat. "De-orientalization" has a specific route and a specific background. Therefore, it is a social and historical migration phenomenon with spontaneous objective factors and internal political influence. "In essence, Shandong people's crusade to the east is a spontaneous and unstoppable tragic movement for the survival of poor farmers on the verge of death." Japanese Obuchi Hiranaga 1899 recorded the real historical picture of that year in Travel Notes of Manchuria: "From Fengtian to Xingjing, I saw my husband on the road with a unicycle and a woman sitting on it. If a child cries, my husband pushes from behind, my brother pulls from the front, the old man leans on a stick, and the girl has something to rely on. On the way, my husband scolded his young woman and mother. Teams always enter Tonghua, Huairen, Hailong City and Chaoyang Town, opposite each other. From Fengtian to Jilin, Shandong immigrants slept all the way ... ". As the largest ethnic group in the world-the Han nationality, hundreds of years of people's pressure has caused the Han nationality to spread to the surrounding areas: to the west, down to Southeast Asia, and Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang have also become places for Han immigrants. Then, going to the east becomes a balance between population and economy.