Looking for the Li family who moved from Liuyang, Hunan to Shaanxi during the Ming Dynasty, the ancestor was born

In the pre-Qin period, Li's activities began in Henan. By the end of the Warring States period, Li's activities had expanded to Shanxi, Hebei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei and other places. The Qin and Han Dynasties were an important stage in the migration of people with the Li surname to various places. When Qin Shihuang pacified Nanyue and Xiou, the surname Li first entered the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. The descendants of Li Er entered Gansu and developed into a prominent family with the surname Li in Longxi. Those living in Hebei became famous families with the surname Li in Zhao County. It reaches Shandong in the east, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the southeast, and the South China Sea and Beibu Gulf in the south. The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the Li surname. There were 19 emperors in the Li dynasty in Longxi, which lasted for 289 years. The Li surname became the national surname. There were royal relatives of the Li family everywhere, and the population of the Li family expanded rapidly. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, people with the Li surname began to enter Fujian and Hainan in large numbers. During the Ming Dynasty, the surname Li entered Taiwan.

During the 600 years, the degree and direction of population flow with the surname Li were very different from those during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. In particular, the return migration from the east to central and northern China was greater than the migration from north to southeast. , at the same time, migration to the southwest and northeast has become an important flow direction.

The Tang Dynasty was a period of rapid expansion of the Li family. The descendants of the Zhaojun Li family, the Longxi Li family, the given Li family, and the Tang clan had many officials and nobles. The polygamous life made the Li family Ding Xingwang had become a popular surname across the country at that time. However, with the changes in government affairs, many people with the surname Li were demoted to the south in the Tang Dynasty, and many people fled to the country to avoid harm, making the surname Li spread throughout the country.

After the Tang Dynasty, due to various reasons, the surname Li moved more frequently and spread more widely. Among them, the largest number of people moved south during the "Jingkang Incident" in the Song Dynasty.

During the regime changes at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the "Battle of Jingnan" in the Ming Dynasty, the main battlefields were deployed in parts of western Shandong, Hebei, and northern Henan. The delay lasted for decades, and the people were in dire straits, causing the people to They ate when they could, and fled in all directions, leaving nine out of ten rooms empty.

After the Ming Dynasty stabilized its political power, it carried out large-scale population migration from Pingyang and Taiyuan areas in Shanxi (the genealogy of the Li family compound, the richest man in Shanxi merchants can prove the prosperity and stability of the area) to the barren areas of North China (" The Ming Dynasty Jinshi Enrollment Record and the Yangquan Li family genealogy can be supported).

The Li family's migration overseas began in the early Ming Dynasty. Those who went to the Ryukyu Kingdom were all Fujianese and settled in the Kume Village area on the outskirts of Naha City, Okinawa. According to "Ming Hui Yao" records, in the 25th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty granted the Ryukyu Kingdom "thirty-six surnames of Fujian people who are good at boating, and ordered them to pay tribute", among which was the surname Li. Many of the commissioners sent by the Ryukyu Kingdom to the Ming and Qing Dynasties were surnamed Li, and they were all Chinese who immigrated to Ryukyu from Fujian.

After many years of war in Sichuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, in the seventh year of Kangxi (1668), Sichuan governor Zhang De wrote to the court, requesting the court to mobilize people from all over the country to migrate to Sichuan. Most people with the surname Li in Sichuan came from Huguang. When Baoqing Mansion and other places moved in, "Huguang filled Sichuan" was formed.

During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, more Li people immigrated overseas.