Many people (including people with different surnames) mentioned that their ancestral home was Sophora japonica in Shanxi. What about Sophora japonica?

Five hundred years ago, we belonged to the same family.

"Ask me where my ancestors came from, Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi", this folk song is a true historical fact. During the Hongwu-Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, within 47 years of 1370- 14 17. During the period from Zhu Yuanzhang to his son, Prince Judy, an earth-shattering event with great influence in the history of China took place under the pagoda tree in Hong Tong, that is, the largest, longest-lasting, largest, most extensive and far-reaching immigration movement in the history of China. Immigrants under the pagoda tree have been passed down from generation to generation, and their descendants have thrived in China, all over China and Southeast Asia.

The immigrants in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty involved Beijing, Nanjing, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Qin, Shu, Hebei, Liao, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces and cities. The great migration of Hongdong started from the late Yuan Dynasty to the period of mindfulness and lasted until the Yongle period. After a lapse of nearly 50 years, it became the longest migration in the history of China. According to historical records, there are two reasons for the great migration in the early Ming Dynasty: one is the 40-year-long rain and drought at the end of Yuan Dynasty, which caused a great decrease in the population of Shandong and Henan. In A.D. 1344, the Yellow River burst, resulting in serious population losses in Cao Zhou and Bianliang. At that time, there were only several counties in Henan, such as Fengqiu, Yanjin, Yanshi and Dengfeng. Northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, Shandong and Hebei along the Yellow River are desolate, depressed and uninhabited. The second reason is that there were many uninhabited areas and villages in the Central Plains, including Beijing, Shaanxi and Jiangzhun, because of the constant wars in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties and the cruel repression and killing by the authorities in the Yuan Dynasty. At this time, Shanxi's political situation was stable, disasters were rare, and population reproduction was normal, with a total of more than 4 million. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, accepted the advice of Su Qi, the governor of Zhengzhou at that time, Dr. Liu Jiugang and Song Na, imperial academy, and carried out large-scale immigration, focusing on Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Nanjing and Beijing. At that time, the starting point of Shanxi immigrants was next to the big locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 18 collective immigrants, and the number of immigrants exceeded 1 10,000, and they migrated to 18 provinces and cities and more than 500 counties and cities. Among compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese, there are many immigrants under the locust tree. For more than 500 years, the ancient Sophora japonica has been holding the hearts of descendants of Sophora japonica in many countries and regions in Southeast Asia. In some counties of Hebei Province today, there are six villages called Shanggeng. As a local folk proverb says, "The six villages on Shanggeng are all from the edge of ancient trees". There are Changziying, Zhaochengying, Hongtong and Zhou Pu camps in the suburbs of Beijing. The ancestors of these villagers moved from Zhangzi County, Zhaocheng County, Hongtong County and Puzhou City in Shanxi.

According to the Records of Zanhuang Place Names, from Hongwu and Yongle in Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, the residents who moved to Zanhuang from Hongdong in Shanxi Province were scattered in 18 townships and 65 villages, mostly on the banks of Huaihe River and Jihe River. Hebei folk genealogy "Zhang Nianpu" contains: Zhang Zhidong "the ancestor of Hongdong in Shanxi, moved to Sanguo in the second year of Ming Yongle, and spread to the East Gate of Duannanpi".

The expansion of today's root-seeking culture

In this ancestral culture, the most influential and powerful product is the root-seeking ancestral court in Hongtong County.

Founded in 1984, formerly known as "Dahuaishu Park". 1998 changed its name to "Dahuaigen ancestral garden". Starting from 199 1 year, 14 "Root-seeking Festival" is a great exhibition and promotion of the root ancestor culture. In recent years, more and more people go to Hongtong County to seek roots and worship their ancestors. Among them, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and Beijing have the most people. As a descendant of immigrants in the Ming Dynasty, it is natural to have an unusual feeling of ups and downs when you come to the "Big Sophora Tree Rooting Ancestor Garden". People look for their origins, surnames, hometown and hometown in ancestral temples. ...

The shadow wall of the word "root" became the brand symbol of the root-seeking ancestral home, and the root-seeking ancestral home culture was released and promoted here. The word "root" is huge, which is intended to add scenery and profoundly reflect the meaning of thinking about the source. And the construction of the archway of "meeting spring in ancient times" has deepened this kind of heavy feeling. 199 1 year, tourist facilities such as "Qin Wangting", "Rose Garden", "Lotus Pond", "Rockery" and stone steps were added. 1998 "root-seeking ancestral hall" was built, with forest of steles in front of it. More than 10,000 descendants of Sophora japonica from all over the country donated 49 monuments, covering all provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In April, 200 1 year, the newly-built landscape of Wanshou forest of steles is 36 meters long and 2.87 meters high, with * * * inscriptions 1 10. Wanshou stele forest is engraved with thousands of longevity words with different shapes, which is another great measure to spread the culture of ancestors. At the same time, it also built a folk exhibition hall, the unloading place of Su San cangue, the exhibition of Sophora flavescens and many other landscapes. At present, the newly-built and expanded project of Root-seeking Ancestor Garden has been implemented. The total investment of this project is 80,665,438 yuan, covering an area of 20 hectares with a total construction area of 32,000 square meters. In 2005, three scenic spots will be built, namely, historical sites, ancestor worship activities and scenic spots.