What do you mean by going west? Where does Xikou refer to?

Going west is "the five most famous population migrations in China's modern history". In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Xiang Zhong, the provincial judge of Shaanxi Province, went to Yulin and decided to open the border wall of northern Shaanxi, allowing the soldiers and civilians of Yansui Town of Shaanxi Province to go out of the Great Wall Pass along the Great Wall and reclaim the forbidden land outside the Great Wall. This is the beginning of a vigorous "Journey to the West" in history.

Xikou, in a narrow sense, refers to the mouth north of the Great Wall, including Shahukou in Shanxi; Fugukou, Shaanxi; Dushikou, Hebei Province, is the intersection of people from northern Shanxi, northern Shaanxi and Hebei Province moving westward. Xikou is a place where Shanxi merchants and Shaanxi merchants pass customs and trade with Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia.

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Shaanxi people began to farm on the black land within 50 miles north of the Great Wall, and soon some people ignored the restrictions of the imperial court and secretly crossed the black land or entered the wider Ordos for land reclamation. This initial development wave of "Westward Journey", which lasted for more than 400 years, is a historical picture painted by Shaanxi people, and the desolate folk song "Westward Journey" in northern Shaanxi has also spread throughout most of China.

"Westward Journey" is a bitter history of immigration, but also a history of hard struggle and entrepreneurship. Groups of immigrants left their homes and came to Mongolia outside Beikou to develop Inner Mongolia.

Phoenix. Com- Shaanxi story: The first ancient tea-horse road was first westbound in Yulin, Shaanxi.

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