What does ancestral land mean?

Gushi County is honored by Chinese at home and abroad as "the hometown of Tang people and the ancestral land of Fujian and Taiwan" and is also known as "one of the most cherished holy places for Chinese in the world". Gushi, as the origin and distribution center of Zhongyuan people's southward migration in past dynasties, has experienced two large-scale migration movements in history. One was during the Wuze period of the Tang Dynasty. In 686 AD, Chen Yuanguang, a native of Gushi, Gwangju, established Zhangzhou, which is now Fujian Province. This was the beginning of large-scale cultivation of Minnan by Han people in the Central Plains. The second time was in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Wang, a native of Gushi, Gwangju, unified Bamin and established the state of Fujian. These two migrations to the south brought advanced farming civilization in the Central Plains to Fujian, which profoundly influenced the development of the Maritime Silk Road in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Minnan people came to Taiwan Province Province, and they were the earliest developers in Taiwan Province Province. According to the official statistics of Taiwan Province Province in 1953, among the most popular 100 surnames at that time, the genealogy of 63 surnames recorded that their ancestors came from "Gwangju Gushi" in the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, the poor in the old city of Fujian and Guangdong also traveled across oceans, and went south to Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia to seek a new life, which was called "going down to Southeast Asia".

For thousands of years, Fujian people have been thinking about their ancestors and will regard Wang Zun as the "holy king" and "the founder of Bamin". Today, there are still many people in Fujian, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries who offer sacrifices to the king.