Why did Shandong people go northeast when they went to Kanto?

The first reason is that Russia at that time assumed a posture of robbing the Northeast. 1858, China lost about 600,000 square kilometers of territory north of Heilongjiang and south of Xing 'an Mountains. 1860, the Qing government was forced to cede about 400,000 square kilometers of territory east of the Wusuli River (including Sakhalin Island).

The gradual advance of the Russians naturally frightened the Qing government. It turns out that after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Han Chinese were forbidden to enter the northeast? The land of Longxing? The emperor shunzhi once warned Manchu aristocrats, What is Kanto? Where did the ancestors trace back to the prosperity of the king? Now the Manchu people are pouring into Shanhaiguan pass, and the population of Kanto has decreased sharply. If Han Chinese are allowed to enter, the northeast will no longer be Manchu northeast, but Han Chinese northeast.

Therefore, from Shunzhi to Kangxi, Qing built two fences in the northeast, the first from Shanhaiguan to the south of Fengcheng via Kaiyuan and Xinbin, and the second from Kaiyuan to the north of Jilin. Han people are forbidden to climb over the wall.

However, at present, the northeast is about to be completely occupied by the Russians. After weighing the pros and cons, the Qing government finally banned land reclamation in the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860) and allowed Han people to enter parts of Kanto. 1897, all banned.

So, where do people go to the Northeast in particular? First, Hebei people, this is easy to understand and close! The other is from Shandong. What is this for? Because there was a large-scale flood just before the lifting of the ban, the water transportation of the Grand Canal could only be changed to sea transportation. At that time, many people in Shandong used to live by water, and they lost their jobs. The northeast has just opened at this time, so going to Guandong, which is sparsely populated, has become the choice of Shandong people.

So? From Fengtian to Xingjing, I saw my husband holding a unicycle, a woman sitting on it, the child crying and sleeping, my husband pushing from behind, my brother holding from the front, the old girl leaning on a stick and the girls leaning against each other. From Fengtian to Jilin, all the people who slept together were Shandong immigrants? This passage is from the Japanese Travel Notes of Manchuria.

Japanese Obuchi Hiranaga 1899 recorded the real historical picture of that year in Travel Notes of Manchuria: from Fengtian to Xingjing, I saw her husband holding a wheelbarrow, a woman sitting on it, the child crying and sleeping, her husband pushing from behind, her brother holding from the front, the old girl leaning on a stick and the girls leaning against each other. From Fengtian to Jilin, all the people who slept together were Shandong immigrants?

Dalian, the first stop for Shandong people to enter Kanto, is the choice of most Shandong people. They went out to sea from Shandong, drifted to Dalian, then landed along the coast of Lushun and Jinzhou, and then went north to look for fertile land. This is reflected today, that is, more than 60% of Dalian's population is descended from Shandong (fourth national census data 1990). Dalian cuisine is actually composed of Shandong cuisine, Jiaodong cuisine and Northeast cuisine.

Shandong people come to the northeast, in fact, to engage in some high-risk jobs that Manchus and indigenous Han people in the northeast are unwilling to do, such as gold panning. There was a saying in those days? Laojingou panning for gold, Manchu people don't do it, locals don't do it, Shandong people do it! ? Seven or eight of the ten gold prospectors are from Shandong. It is these Shandong people who came to Kanto from the mainland, climbed mountains and mountains, waded through mountains and rivers, and fought wild animals and bandits.

In the end, these men from Shandong became the main part of the Northeast people.