Where does Huguang mean?

Huguang refers to the two lakes (Hubei and Hunan) in Ming and Qing Dynasties and later.

The Yuan Dynasty set up Huguang and other places in Zhongshu Province, which governed Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou, most of Sichuan and Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only Huguang was ruled or gave way to the north and Hunan, but the name of Huguang was still used, especially the two lakes.

During the Ming Dynasty, Huguang, the first-level administrative region, was the abbreviation of the Ministry of Public Affairs and Political Affairs. Governor of Huguang in Qing Dynasty. Generally known as Huguang and other provinces, it was a first-class administrative region directly under the central government in the Yuan Dynasty, referred to as "Huguang" or "Huguang Province". At that time, it was called Ezhou Province, Tanzhou Province and Huguang Province.

In the 11th year of Yuan Dynasty, Jinghu was designated as the provincial capital, so it was called the provincial capital of Ezhou because it was planned to take Ezhou. In fourteen years, Ezhou Province was merged into Tanzhou Province, Changsha. Eighteen years, moved to Ezhou, Wuchang. ?

Huguanghang Zhongshu Province is one of the 10 provinces in China. Its jurisdiction covers the south of the Yangtze River, most of Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Hainan and most of Guizhou, and Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong. It governs 30 roads including Wuchang, Yuezhou, Changde, Lizhou, Chenzhou, Yuanzhou and Xingguo. Today, Hubei, western Hunan and southwestern Shaanxi are under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province.

Huguang fills Sichuan

It refers to a large-scale immigration in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that residents of more than a dozen provinces such as Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangxi are among the immigrants.

At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, Sichuan experienced war and its population dropped sharply. Therefore, officials at all levels from the central government to local governments have taken a series of measures to attract foreign immigrants, among which Huguang Province has the largest population, and Hakka immigrants are the second largest immigrant group after Huguang people. Huguang immigrants and Hakka immigrants accounted for 40% and 33% of the total population of Sichuan at that time, respectively.

Take Chengdu as an example. The census in Chengdu in the late Qing Dynasty once described that "Chengdu people today are all from other provinces", including Hubei 15%, Hunan 10%, Henan-Shandong 5%, Shaanxi 10%, Yunnan-Guizhou 15% and Jiangxi 65438.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Huguang.