Guizhou immigrants in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Every great migration in history is mostly accompanied by war or famine. For example, people in Shandong, Hebei, and Henan had to enter the northeast for a period of time to make a living and import a large number of people. Jiangxi people moved to Guizhou, but they were official immigrants, and most of them happened during the Ming Dynasty.

During the Han Dynasty, Jiangxi was still a barren land with few people. However, with the war in the Central Plains, many people moved to Jiangxi to escape the war. By the early Yuan Dynasty, the population of Jiangxi had exceeded160,000, which was horrible, almost the sum of the population of Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Yunnan. Since then, population migration has begun.

When Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in the early Ming Dynasty, the country was not at peace, and there were resistance forces in many places, especially in Northeast China and Yunnan. Zhu Yuanzhang, based in Jiangxi, constantly sent troops to Yunnan-Guizhou area. Later, the remaining troops were still stationed in the same place and began to train troops in other places. Because ancient times was an era of cold weapons, the most important factors of war at that time were money and people. The constant tax of rocking service made Jiangxi people miserable, but the first thing in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was to appease the people, so Zhu Yuanzhang relaxed the policy of "two lakes", which led to a large number of Jiangxi people flowing into the two lakes region.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the most prosperous period in China, farmers were greatly oppressed. Those who are timid and have no livelihood should consider fleeing to Hubei and Hunan, where the population reached saturation as early as the early Ming Dynasty, leaving only Yunnan and Guizhou for migration.

For various reasons, large and small, a large number of Jiangxi people did move to Guizhou, but no matter how they moved, we all lived in China, and we were all descendants of the Chinese people.