What is the history of Lu, an immigrant under the big pagoda tree in Hongtong County, Shanxi Province?

Hong Tong Sophora japonica is located on the west side of Jia Cun, two kilometers northwest of Hongtong County, Shaanxi Province. Now it has become a big locust tree park. Legend has it that one day the government let the people of the whole county gather under the big locust tree. After coming, I was told to emigrate by the imperial court. Suddenly men, women and children cried. But the chief kept a close eye on it and was not allowed to leave. He immediately called the roll, tied his arm with a rope and set off in a string. There are officers and men guarding all the way. Immigrants can only let go of their hands when urinating. This is the origin of the word' jieshou' now. In order to prevent immigrants from escaping, the government used a knife to split the nails of everyone's little toes in two. It is said that if your little toenail has two petals (epiphysis), it must be the offspring of locust tree immigrants.

Of course, it is unreasonable to judge a person's ancestral home by whether the little toenail has two petals, because knife wounds cannot be inherited. However, the great migration of the Ming Dynasty is a historical fact. Because the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty killed too many people, and in the early Ming Dynasty, they experienced the war between the emperor and the prince Zhu Quercus, so the population of the whole country dropped sharply. Only Shanxi, ruled by the Mongolian landlord Chahan timur and his son, is relatively stable, economically prosperous and has a large population. In order to consolidate the Ming regime and develop the economy, the Ming government organized eight large-scale immigrants during the fifty years from the early years of Hongwu to the fifteenth year of Yongle. Hongdong county was the largest and most densely populated county in the south of Shanxi at that time, so it was also the place that provided the most immigrants. The Ming government did set up a bureau to deal with immigrants, so Sophora japonica became a place where immigrants gathered.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the immigrants from Hongdong County mainly moved to Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei, and a few moved to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. According to statistics, the number of descendants of immigrants going out from Shanxi today exceeds 200 million. From this perspective, it is no exaggeration that many families in China are descendants of Hong Dong. Legend has it that after the Revolution of 1911, Yuan Shikai ordered Zhang Xiluan, the governor of Shanxi Province, to lead soldiers from the third town of Lu Yongxiang to attack the Shanxi Revolutionary Army. Everywhere these Qiu Ba went, they plundered, but when they arrived at the big pagoda tree in Hongtong County, they dismounted and worshipped God, and gave all the looted property to the big pagoda tree, because these soldiers told each other that they had returned to their hometown. There is still a folk song circulating in North China and other places: "Where did my ancestors come from?" Shanxi Hongdong big locust tree. " "Ask me what's the name of my hometown? The old man's nest under the big banyan tree. "

There is a service in the park to inquire about the origin of surnames, which can easily find out the origin and evolution of about 450 surnames.

So I asked to check the origin of the surname' Lu'. The result is: Lu, a descendant of Emperor Yan, a descendant of Gong of Sun Boyi. Boyi was Yu's "minister of Lu's heart", and was later given Jiang's surname by Shun, named Lu, and named him Hou Lu, forming the Lu tribe. This Lushi tribe is a branch of the surname Jiang and belongs to the Qiang nationality. This clan named Lu came to Shaanxi, Shanxi and Shandong from Gansu. By the way, Lu and Qi are descendants of Lu Shang (Jiang Ziya), the founding emperor of Qi.

There is another Lu surname from Ji's surname. There is another one that is rarely mentioned: giving the surname.

Now there are many Lu surnames in Shanxi and Shandong. Shandong local opera is also called "Lu Opera". Generally speaking, there are still many celebrities in the Lushi family. In addition to helping Zhou Wuwang establish Lu merchants in the Zhou Dynasty, there were Lv Buwei in the Warring States Period, Lu Bu and Monroe in the Three Kingdoms Period and Lv Liuliang in the Qing Dynasty. However, although the ancient Huai in Shanxi solved my question about the origin of the Lu clan, I still didn't find out my true ancestral home. The only way to solve this problem is to go back to the small village where my father was born. My father comes from Wendeng County, Shandong Province. There should still be Lu's genealogy in the village. I didn't return to that village until I was three years old, because my grandfather was seriously ill. Since then, I have lost contact with my hometown and my father's relatives. If you go back now, it will inevitably make the villagers embarrassed to "ask where the guests come from."

By the way, ask my wife. The wife's surname is Zhang. Zhang is the most popular name. As the saying goes: Li Zhao is everywhere. Zhang is much more famous than Lu, and now he is the third surname after Li and Wang. Zhang's ancestor was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor named Bo. Legend has it that he invented bows and arrows and fishing nets, so "Zhang" means a man with a bow. Zhang originated in ancient Jizhou. The Zhang family is outstanding, certainly more than our Lao Lv family (with a large population base).

After investigating the origin of surnames, we found that Zhang was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor handed down by our ancestors, and our ancestor named Lu was the assistant minister. I finally understand why my wife has the final say in our family and I am willing to serve her. What's more, it was Lu who served Zhang. I will be dead set when I find this result, and I will never fight for leadership at home again.