I am from Jiaozhou. The old man said that we came from Dali during the Yongle period. In the scenery photos, the Dali people talk like us. Who knows about this?

After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the Central Plains, he launched the famous "Ming Dynasty Attack on Yunnan" from September of the 14th year of Hongwu (1381) to the leap month of the 15th year of Hongwu (1382). It turns out that after Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty withdrew from Dadu (today's Beijing), the main separatist forces entrenched in Yunnan were the late King Liang of Yuan Dynasty and the Tuan clan, who were still loyal to Mongolia. On the first day of September in the 14th year, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Fu Youde, the Marquis of Yingchuan, as the general to conquer the south, leading an army of 300,000 troops to conquer Yunnan. First conquer Qujing, then Kunming and Wusa, and finally conquer Dali (Yunnan), thus pacifying the entire territory of Yunnan. Later, various tribes in Uzzah rebelled, and they were suppressed by the army. Wusa is located at the junction of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and was an important military area at that time. After pacifying Yunnan, the Ming government began to station troops in Yunnan in order to develop the southwest and consolidate border defenses. According to historical records, the garrison at that time was mainly soldiers from Fengyang, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown.

According to Hou Wencheng's "A Preliminary Examination of Yunnan Immigration in the Ming Dynasty in Qingdao", in the early Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of immigrants from Yunnan in Qingdao. These immigrants were neither Yunnan's indigenous Han people nor ethnic minorities, but Han sergeants and their families who were sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer Yunnan. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", in September of the fourteenth year of Hongwu (1381), Zhu Yuanzhang sent Fu Youde, Lan Yu, and Mu Ying to lead an expedition to Yunnan with 130,000 troops. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu's reign, the entire territory of Yunnan was pacified, and Mu Ying was ordered to lead the army to guard the area, set up guards, station sergeants, and set up military garrison for reclamation. Since then, many enlisted soldiers have settled in Yunnan. According to the record in "Wusa Kao" in the appendix of "Dengzhou Prefecture Chronicles": "In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1404), the imperial court transferred a large number of Han sergeants and military households from Wu Sawei to Shandong. They came to Chongqing by land. , take a boat across the Three Gorges and go down the river to Yangzhou in Jiangsu, then turn north to the Grand Canal to Huaiyin, abandon the boat and travel by land, via Ganyu, Zhucheng and Jiaozhou to various places in Jimo. "The so-called Yunnan immigrants came to Shandong by boat, that is. Referring to this. According to the newly compiled "Jimo County Chronicle", more than 70,000 military households moved in during the Ming Dynasty alone due to the establishment of guards, stations and military camps. The ancestors of Yunnan immigrants in Qingdao are farmers who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the uprising, and most of their ancestral homes are Anhui, Jiangsu and other places. These immigrants brought their traditional culture and folk customs, which were combined with the local culture in Qingdao to form a unique regional culture. Some dialects and folk customs in the Qingdao area are very similar to those in the Jianghuai area. For example, pickles are called "salted" in northern Jiangsu, while radish pickles in Qingdao are called "hanging" (pronounced in dialect as "hanging") because they are hung up to dry. "Guarana"). Another example is Jiaonan’s folk Yangko flower drums, which have the charm of Fengyang flower drums in Anhui.

The historical facts recorded in the above two articles are basically consistent, and both reflect the characteristics of "the collective mobilization of soldiers to guard the border and guard the fields." So why, after repeated verification, does "Wusawei", which was established in the Ming Dynasty and is located in Zhenxiong, Yunnan and Weining, Guizhou, not have the regional title of "Little Yunnan"? The author believes that when checking "Little Yunnan" in the past, we fell into a misunderstanding, that is, treating it as a regional name, so we couldn't find the answer after a hundred searches. In fact, "Little Yunnan" is a slang term for "an immigrant group" as a whole under specific historical conditions. It is a folk name for the immigrants from Yunnan who have come all the way from Shandong. It is just like the Northeastern people calling immigrants from Shandong "Little Shandong". People from the Central Plains call people from Sichuan "Little Sichuan". The "small" here is a slang name, and "Yunnan" is a regional name, which does not refer specifically to a place in Yunnan.

If this judgment is true, the Yunnan in "Little Yunnan" refers to the Yunnan Road that was established as early as the Yuan Dynasty, and Yunnan Province, which was established as a province in the Ming Dynasty, should be the most reasonable explanation.