The migration under the big locust tree: the largest migration in the world
In the history of human migration, the migration under the big locust tree in Hongdong is undoubtedly the most extensive, largest and most tragic. This immigration has its historical background and reasons.
The Yuan Dynasty only ruled China for 89 years. Although it was very prosperous for a while, it "only knew how to bend a bow and shoot a big eagle." By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the brutal exploitation and oppression of peasants by Mongolian nobles and feudal landlords, class Contradictions and ethnic conflicts are increasingly intensifying, causing continuous wars in successive years. During the reign of Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, Prime Minister Boyan of the Yuan Dynasty petitioned the court to kill all the people with the five surnames of Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao (these five surnames were the most common among the Han people at that time) because Zhu Guangqing and Bang Hu, the leaders of the peasant uprising, were Han Chinese. . This bloody terrorist policy finally inspired the peasant uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty.
In addition to wars, floods and plagues also occurred one after another. The Yellow River, Daqing River, Xiaoqing River, etc. burst out many times, causing the Central Plains to be flooded with fields and houses, countless people died, and many villages and cities were reduced to ruins. "The roads are all blocked and the population is cut off" is a true portrayal of the Central Plains region at that time.
In addition to floods, locust plagues are more harmful. From the first year of Zhizheng to the 25th year of Zhizheng: there were 18 major locust plagues. In the 13 years from the third year of Yuantong to the end of Zhizheng, there were 15 major famines in the Central Plains. In the 19th year of Zhizheng, the tragic situation of "people eating locusts and people eating each other (people eating people)" occurred in Shandong.
In addition, the "Battle of Jingnan" that occurred during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty also had a great impact on Shandong. The four-year war intensified the desolation of the Qilu land, and there were "no cockcrows for a thousand miles", The tragic situation of "extinction of human habitation".
The "Genealogy of the Li Family" written in the 40th year of Guangxu's reign in Zhaicun, Linqing City, Shandong Province records that in order to compete for the throne, King Zhu Di of Yan launched a war against the Nanjing regime, which lasted for four years. Over the years, countless people were killed and looted. I think at that time, they were either killed, mutilated, or fled, so that "the roads were blocked, the fields were overgrown, the villages were covered with grass, and the souls were crying and ghosts were crazy." "It was six to seven hundred miles from east to west, nearly a thousand miles from north to south, and it was almost a ruin."
When there was famine, epidemic and war in the Central Plains at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi was in a different situation. The war and various disasters in the Central Plains rarely affected Shanxi. There was Taixing Pingfan in the east and the Pingfan in the west. With Luliang as a shield, there have been no major floods, droughts or insect disasters in most areas of Shanxi. The weather has been good and the harvests have been good year after year. Compared with neighboring provinces, the society is stable, the economy is prosperous, and the population is prosperous.
In order to maintain the feudal rule of the Ming Dynasty and decide on the war route of immigrating to farmland, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and his son Yongle Emperor Zhu Di successively implemented a large-scale immigration policy. When the balance of population in China was seriously imbalanced, Zhu Yuanzhang and his successor Zhu Di, who were known to be talented and strategic, would inevitably set their sights on Shanxi and southern Shanxi, where large-scale immigration would inevitably occur. A large number of people were forcibly relocated from Shanxi's war-free, prosperous and economically prosperous areas to 18 sparsely populated provinces such as Henan, Hebei, and Shandong. "One is left for a family of four, two for a family of six, and three for a family of eight." From the first year of Hongwu (1368) to the fourteenth year of Yongle (1416) of Zhu Di, in the past 50 years, such large-scale Immigration, 18 times before and after! It involves more than 800 surnames and tens of thousands of families, including the three major ethnic groups of Han, Mongolian and Hui.
As a result, the Han locust tree that was not outstanding next to Guangji Temple and on the bank of Fen River walked into the wind and rain of history and the vicissitudes of time with an unparalleled appearance. Entering into the memory of a nation.
Ancient legends remember the pain of immigration
There are many legends circulating among the people about the large-scale immigration organized by the Ming government. Although there is no way to verify it, it bears in mind people’s unspeakable pain towards the Great Migration.
“The immigrants from Hongdong Dahuaishu are not just people from Hongdong. Hongdong Dahuaishu is a gathering place for immigrants from Shanxi, and the residents who moved out are from Taiyuan and Pingyang (now Linfen). According to rough estimates, there were at least millions of people living in the five prefectures of Ze, Lu, Liao, Qin and Fen. "Liu Zhongping told reporters, "At that time, there were records of immigrants, specifically recording where all immigrants came from and where they moved. Where, it was a pity that it was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. "
"As for the reason for the Hongdong immigration in the early Ming Dynasty, the most widely spread legend among the people in Henan and Shandong is the revenge of Hu Dahai." Liu Zhongping said. .
It is said that in the late Yuan Dynasty, there was a beggar wandering in Henan. He was tall and thick, ugly in appearance, wearing a shawl, unkempt hair, and as strong as an ox but doing nothing. He was despised by the villagers and people shunned him. Like an evil spirit, he will not give alms even if there are leftovers.
As soon as he appeared, every house closed its doors. One day, he suddenly broke into a rich man's house and stretched out his furry black hands to ask for it. In order to humiliate him, the old woman wiped off a big oil cake for her grandson, threw it to the dog to eat, and then ordered the dog to bite it out of the door. This beggar is Hu Dahai. Hu Dahai deeply felt that the people in the Central Plains were too evil, so he secretly vowed that one day when he became successful, he would come here to avenge himself. Later, Hu Dahai abandoned the army and joined the army under Zhu Yuanzhang. Hu has extraordinary physical strength and a murderous nature. On the battlefield, he cursed Buddha and his ancestors, and pulled out teeth from the tiger's mouth. Due to his outstanding military exploits, a beggar rose to heaven in the daytime and became the founding father of the Zhu Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Hongwu ruled the world in Nanjing and rewarded the heroes. Hu Dahai refused gold, silver, property, farm and house servants but refused, and reported revenge to the court. Zhu Hongwu knew that Hu was the murderous demon king, so he hesitated again and again, and only allowed Hu "a place to kill with one arrow." When Hu led his troops to Henan, he saw a goose flying in the sky. Hu was secretly happy, he bent his bow and fired an arrow, and the arrow hit the goose's tail. The goose flew south with the arrow, flew over Henan, and then turned around and flew to Shandong. Hu ordered his troops to follow the goose and kill them. The two provinces of Henan and Shandong were so directly killed that "the bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crowing for thousands of miles"? Therefore, they had no choice but to immigrate.
Another theory is that Zhu Yuanzhang was angry with the Shanxi people because he repeatedly failed to conquer Shanxi. He vowed to conquer the world in the future and had to move the Shanxi people to other places.
"Actually, these legends cannot be verified, but they are talked about by the people." Liu Zhongping said.
Zhang Qing, director of the Hongdong County Chronicle Office, believes that "the great immigration of the Ming Dynasty was a tragic history filled with blood and tears. How could our ancestors leave their hometowns and say goodbye to their homeland without being heartbroken, so the big locust tree became However, the positive effects of the immigration policy cannot be denied, which gradually restored agricultural production in the Central Plains, prospered handicrafts and commerce, and caused rapid population growth. It has played a huge role in promoting survival and development, and has laid out the living space of the population more reasonably."
"Most of the ancestors of Shandong people can be traced back to the big locust trees in Shanxi"
To Shandong. There are only two official records of immigration in the Ming Dynasty. According to the "Records of Ming Taizu", the first immigration to Shandong was in the 21st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1388 AD), "moving to Linqing"; the second time was in the 22nd year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, "moving to Dongchang" (Today's Liaocheng)". So why are the descendants of immigrants spread all over Shandong later?
According to records of official history and notebook historical materials such as "History of the Ming Dynasty", "Records of the Ming Dynasty", and "Zhi Lu Zhi Yu", the Hongdong Sophora Tree immigrants are distributed in 30 provinces and cities, and 2,217 counties and cities. At that time, the largest number of immigrants to Shandong were Dongchang Prefecture (today's Liaocheng), Jinan Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, and Qingzhou Prefecture, which are now distributed in more than 100 counties and cities.
However, there are only two official records of immigrants to Shandong. According to the "Records of Ming Taizu", the first immigration to Shandong was in the 21st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1388 AD), "moving to Linqing"; the second time was in the 22nd year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, "moving to Dongchang" (Today's Liaocheng)". So why are the descendants of immigrants spread all over Shandong later?
“Most of the ancestors of Shandong people can be traced back to Dahuaishu, Shanxi! This is because in addition to direct migration, there were many indirect migrations.” Liu Zhongping said, “In addition, because of the initial migration to Shandong The immigrants are mainly distributed in the areas of western Shandong, northwestern Shandong and southwestern Shandong. Most of these places are flooded by the Yellow River, with poor soil and suffering from floods. This has become an inherent reason for the spontaneous re-migration of immigrants in Shandong. The residents' rejection of the outside population also became a factor in the relocation of immigrants. In the early Ming Dynasty, the court stipulated that "people with the same surname and the same clan cannot move to the same place", which caused many families with the same surname and the same clan to live in different places, creating difficulties for future generations. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty officials also organized multiple migrations within the province based on the actual situation. For example, in the 25th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1392), the landless residents of Dengzhou and Laizhou were relocated. 5,635 households were moved to Dongchang Prefecture; in the 28th year of Hongwu, 1,051 households and 4,666 farmers from Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Jinan with more than five households and no land were moved to sparsely populated areas. Regions, etc.”
The Place Name Office of Jiaxiang County, Shandong Province found in the place name census that 70% of the natural villages in the county were set up for immigrants from Shanxi during the Hongwu and Yongle years.
The Tengzhou City Place Names Office also found during the place name examination that there are more than 1,200 natural villages in the county, of which 687 were established in the Ming Dynasty. Among the 425 existing tribal genealogies and inscriptions, 225 tribes are clearly recorded as having moved from Hongdong County during the Hongwu and Yongle years.
Of the nearly 3,000 villages in Guan County, nearly 1,700 were established in the Ming Dynasty; among the more than 1,300 villages in Yuncheng County, 535 were established in the Ming Dynasty; and more than 1,000 villages in Dingtao County were established in the Ming Dynasty. There are 386 villages whose ancestors came from Hongdong County.
Folk genealogy records the origins of ancestors
The origins of ancestors are recorded in folk genealogies and genealogies in many areas of Shandong. Some immigrants agree with their families to use certain items as marks as physical evidence for future generations to find relatives, but more people use locust trees to commemorate this immigration.
The "Wang Family Tree Preface" from Caoxian County, Shandong Province records the story of the "One-Gun King". It is said that Wang Liang, the founder of the Wang family, moved his family here from Hongdong in the 25th year of Hongwu. Since Wang Liang always carried a spear along the way, he named Zhuangzi "The One-Spear King". After reproducing for more than 20 generations, they still compete for honors and titles, and their clans are prosperous. From "King of One Gun" to "King of Thousands of Families".
The "Preface to the Zhang Family Genealogy" from "Wanzi Zhang" Village in Dingtao County, Shandong Province records that the ancestor Zhang Sanlao originally lived in Yangcheng County, Zezhou, Shanxi Province, and moved to Dingtao County during the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty. . At that time, the family received mats and farming tools from the government and came from the southeast, traveling thousands of miles across mountains and rivers. Finally we arrived 1 km north of Shashan Temple. At that time, this place was completely a wasteland, so we had to build a shed with mats, dig a pit for a stove, and barely build a home. The shack is surrounded by vast grass and no human beings. There are only a few foxes and rabbits that occasionally appear in the grass. On the night they first arrived, the family looked at the stars in the sky and thought about their hometown thousands of miles away, and felt extremely uncomfortable. Unexpectedly, at five o'clock in the morning, I suddenly heard a rooster crowing in the southeast. Zhang Sanlao thought: "Where there are chickens, there is a family." As soon as it was light, he went to the place where the roosters crow to look for it. Sure enough, there was a family. It was Li Qing, the ancestor of the Li family, and Zhang Sanlao's cousin. So "the fellow villagers burst into tears when they saw the fellow villagers." The cousins ??hugged each other and cried, and then moved to another place.
The "Wei Liu Clan Genealogy·
Preface" written by Liuzhuang, Caoxian County, Shandong Province also records: Yu nationality was from Hongdong County, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi Province, in the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369) Under the edict to relocate the people, the terms were met and the laws were strict. Anyone with the same surname was not allowed to live in the same village. The two ancestor brothers couldn't bear to be separated from their brotherhood for a while, so they had no choice but to change their surnames to the two names. The bronze Buddha is in memory of them, and it has been passed down to this day and still exists over 500 years ago. According to later generations' memories, the two founder brothers were named Guangzu and Liangzu, and the bronze Buddha may be two Buddha statues of the same appearance. But more people use locust trees to commemorate this immigration. To this day, locust trees are planted in the areas where many descendants of immigrants live. This is the best example.
Why do they all start from Hongdong Big Sophora Tree?
“At that time, the Ming Dynasty officials selected Hongdong County as the gathering place for large-scale immigrants, taking into account many factors, such as population density, geographical location, transportation conditions, etc.” Liu Zhongping told reporters.
Linfen has a long history, leaning against Taihang in the east and Luliang in the west. Emperor Yao once moved here and established his capital, so later generations called Linfen "the capital of Yao". Today, you can see a majestic archway at the southeast, northwest and northwest entrances of Linfen: the first capital in the world. Because it "connects to Qin and Shu in the south, Youbin in the north, Taiyue in the east, and Fenhe River in the west", due to its important geographical location, it has been an important area in Hanoi since ancient times. Hongdong is 30 kilometers north of it. The starting point of the great immigrants of the Ming Dynasty, which is famous at home and abroad, is here.
With the help of ancient post roads, Hongdong at that time connected to Youyan in the north, Qilu in the east, Qin and Shu in the south, and Helong in the west. In addition, the courtyard of Guangji Temple was wide and there was a larger temple next to it. A large-scale post station makes it easy for the government to set up bureaus, gather immigrants, and issue Sichuan investment certificates. As a result, the post station next to Hanhuai became the dispatch station and departure point for large-scale immigrants?
According to historical records, when people immigrated from Shanxi in the early Ming Dynasty, no matter where they lived, no matter what prefecture, state or county they lived in, We must first concentrate on Hongdong County. In the north of Hongdong County, there was an ancient temple called Guangji Temple, which was built in the second year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty. The temple is grand and the halls are majestic. There is a big locust tree next to the temple, "the tree is surrounded by several trees and provides shade for several acres." At that time, the only official road in Shanxi Province passed by the temple. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the government set up a post house here to handle official business between the four directions.
“Back then, the Ming Dynasty officials selected Hongdong County as the gathering place for large-scale immigrants, taking into account many factors.” Liu Zhongping told reporters.
“First of all, it is the particularity of its geographical location—Hongdong County is located in the Linfen Basin in southern Shanxi, which was the center of the country at that time. It was the best location for immigrants to various regions, and the cost was relatively low; secondly, At that time, Hongdong County was densely populated, with an average of more than 10 people per household, and had an innate population advantage; the third was transportation advantages. At that time, the only official road in Shanxi Province passed by Guangji Temple in Hongdong County; in addition, here It was also the administrative center of southern Shanxi, with a large-scale post house and the organizational foundation for organizing large-scale immigration.”
At that time, the main immigration method adopted by the Ming court was military garrison (moving the army to the city). They have also formulated a series of preferential policies, such as distributing clothing, tolls, agricultural tools, and promising to be exempted from taxes and servitude for three years, etc., but more often they adopt the method of recruiting and recruiting method of coercion.
Miss Zhang, the tour guide who searched for the roots of the big locust tree and worshiped the ancestors of the ancestral garden, also introduced a legend to reporters. "Because people were unwilling to leave their hometowns, the government spread rumors that, except for those in the Guangji Temple area of ??Hongdong County, residents in other areas must move away within a time limit." So people rushed there dragging their families with them. In the Guangji Temple area of ??Hongdong County, when tens of thousands of people gathered under the big locust tree, the government mobilized a large number of officers and soldiers to surround the people, register them, and force them to move. "Although this cannot be verified, it is known among the people. It is widely circulated.
It is said that the widely circulated saying of "relieving one's hands" and the habit of "putting one's hands behind one's back" also originated from this great migration. "In order to prevent immigrants from escaping, officers and soldiers tied people's hands behind their backs with ropes and connected them one by one. Due to the long distance and long walking time, people became accustomed to walking with their hands behind their backs. During the escort, people needed to relieve themselves. When doing so, they would beg the officers and soldiers to untie their hands. If this happened too many times, it would be simplified to 'remove hands'," said the tour guide, Ms. Zhang.
There was a folk song in Shandong that said: "Whoever has two little toenails is a child under the big locust tree." In the ancestor worship hall of the big locust tree park, there are two couplets, one It is "Where is the stork's nest now with my eyes raised, sitting and talking about the love of the mulberry family with parallel nails", and the second is "Who is the man under the ancient locust tree? Check the shape of the nails on the little toes of both feet". Couplets and folk songs, one elegant and one vulgar, all talk about the small feet. The thing about the two toes. Legend has it that after officers and soldiers surrounded the people, they cut off each person's little toe to mark it, fearing that they would escape. Later, the little toenails of the descendants of immigrants became complex.
“This legend is not believable, but it is full of people’s hatred for forced immigration.” Luo Hongling, deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture, said.
In the genealogy of a family named Liu in Caoxian County, Shandong Province, it is recorded that their ancestor is "Grandpa One-Ear". Grandpa One-Er had one ear cut off by officers and soldiers because he escaped many times during migration.
Hongdong Big Sophora Tree
The ancient Sophora japonica tree, also known as the Hongdong Big Sophora japonica tree, is located in the Big Sophora japonica Park on the west side of Jia Village, two kilometers northwest of Hongdong County. , although there are no magnificent buildings in Hongdong here, no matter whether it is a cold winter or a scorching summer, there is an endless stream of tourists. Some of them wrote poems and inscriptions to express the sentiment of "drinking water and thinking of the source", and some looked up at the ancient locust trees and lingered in nostalgia for a long time. Refuse to leave.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan government continued to use troops abroad and implemented ethnic oppression at home. In addition, continuous floods and famines occurred in the Huanghuai River Basin, which finally triggered the Red Turban Army uprising that lasted for more than ten years. The Yuan government brutally suppressed them, and desperate battles for territory occurred from time to time. Seventy-eighty percent of the people in Lianghuai, Shandong, Hebei, and Henan died. The wounds of the war in the late Yuan Dynasty had not yet been healed, and the "Battle of Jingnan" in the early Ming Dynasty followed one after another. The regions of Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui were severely affected and became almost uninhabited land. During the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Shanxi, the "mountain and river outside and inside" ruled by Chahan Timur and his son, the armed Mongolian landlords, had a different scene. It was relatively stable, with good weather and good harvests year after year. Compared with neighboring provinces, Shanxi's economy is prosperous and its population is prosperous. Furthermore, a large number of refugees from other provinces also flowed into Shanxi, making Shanxi a densely populated area. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, in order to consolidate the new political power and develop the economy, eight large-scale immigration activities were organized in more than fifty years from the early years of Hongwu to the fifteenth year of Yongle.
Southern Shanxi is a densely populated area in Shanxi, and Hongdong was the largest and most populous county in southern Shanxi at that time. According to records, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a Guangji Temple on the west side of Jia Village, Erhuali, north of Hongdong City. The temple was grand, with majestic buildings, many monks, and endless pilgrims. Next to the temple, there is a Chinese locust tree, which is "several in size and provides shade for several acres." The avenue of carriages and horses passes under the shade of the tree. The old harriers on the Fenhe beach build nests in the trees, which are dotted all over the place, which is very spectacular.
The Ming Dynasty government set up a bureau in Guangji Temple to centrally handle immigration, and the place under the big locust tree became a gathering place for immigrants.
In late autumn, when the locust leaves fall, the old crow’s nest looks very eye-catching. When the immigrants were leaving, they stared at the tall ancient locust trees. The old harriers perched among the branches of the trees kept wailing, which made the immigrants shed tears when they left their homeland. They looked back frequently and couldn't bear to leave. In the end, they could only see the big locust trees. The old crane's nest. For this reason, the big locust tree and the old crane's nest have become symbols of immigrants' farewell to their hometown. "Ask where my ancestors came from, it's the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi. What's the name of my ancestor's hometown? It's the old bird's nest under the big locust tree." This folk song has been widely circulated in many areas of our country for hundreds of years. (According to the villagers in my hometown, our village was moved from Dahuaishu at that time to strengthen the northern border defense. It was also from that time that the family tree in the village was remembered.)
From the early Ming Dynasty Immigrants from Hongdong, Shanxi and other places are mainly distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places, with a small number moving to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. The immigrants who moved from Shanxi to the above-mentioned places later moved to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and the Northeastern provinces. Organized large-scale migration over such a long period of time and over a large area is rare in the history of our country, and this is just one example of dispersing people from one place to other places. The Ming government implemented the policy of immigration to reclaim wasteland and revitalize agriculture. Although its purpose was to consolidate the rule of the feudal dynasty, it objectively eased social conflicts, mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production, gradually restored agricultural production, consolidated border defense, and stabilized society.
In the second year of the Republic of China, Jing Daqi, a native of Jia Village in Shandong Province, retired and returned to his hometown. He raised funds to build stele pavilions, teahouses, etc. The stele pavilion was built on the site of the original ancient locust tree. Although the pavilion is not large, it is exquisitely decorated with carved beams and painted pillars, cornices and brackets. There is a bluestone tablet erected in the pavilion, engraved with five official Chinese characters "at the ancient locust tree". On the back of the stele pavilion, there is an inscription engraved on it, briefly describing the immigration story. On the west side of the pavilion, there are three teahouses built for tourists seeking their roots to have a rest and drink tea. The lintel plaque of the teahouses has the inscription "Drinking water and thinking of the source". There is an archway built more than 20 meters south of the monument. The banner is engraved with "Yu Yanjia tree" and the other side is engraved with "Shade all living things". In the early 1980s, the Hongdong County Government renovated and expanded Dahuaishu Park.
There are also some stories about migration circulating here. After the Revolution of 1911, Yuan Shikai ordered Shanxi Governor Zhang Xiluan to lead Lu Yongxiang's Third Town Army to attack the Shanxi Revolutionary Army and plunder wherever they went. After arriving at Hongdong, the soldiers came to the ancient locust tree, dismounted their horses and bowed to each other, saying to each other: "I have returned to my hometown of the big locust tree." Not only did they not rob, but they also donated their belongings under the big locust tree. The large locust tree is praised for its role in "preventing disasters".
It is said that when the immigrants immigrated, the officers and soldiers used a knife to cut each person's little toenail as a mark. To this day, the little toenails of all descendants of immigrants from the big locust tree are compound (two petals). "Who is the immigrant from the ancient Sophora japonica? He took off his shoes to check the shape of his little toe." If you are interested, you may wish to check it out yourself.
At that time, in order to prevent the immigrants from escaping, the officers and soldiers tied them up behind their backs, connected them with a long rope, and escorted the immigrants on the road. People turned back step by step. The adults looked at the big locust tree and told the children: "This is our hometown, this is our hometown." To this day, the descendants of immigrants, no matter where they live, all say that the place where the old locust tree is is their hometown. . As the immigrants' arms were tied for a long time, their arms gradually became numb, and they soon got used to it. Later, most immigrants liked to walk with their hands behind their backs, and their descendants also followed this habit.
During the escort process, due to the long journey, people often needed to urinate and had to report to the officers and soldiers: "Master, please relieve yourself, I need to urinate." The more times this happens, the more verbal requests become simpler. , as long as you say "Master, I relieve myself", you will understand that you need to urinate. Since then, "relieving one's hands" has become synonymous with peeing.
When the immigrants arrived in a new place of residence, a wilderness, they had to use their hard-working hands to build houses, open up wasteland and cultivate land. No matter what they did, they would be reminded of the mountains and rivers of their hometown. In order to express their nostalgia for their hometown, most people plant a locust tree in the yard of their new home and at the gate to express their nostalgia and nostalgia for their hometown. Some immigrants named their villages after their place of origin after they moved to their places of origin. For example, in the suburbs of Beijing there are Zhaochengying, Hongtong (Hongdong)ying, Puzhouying, Changziying, etc., indicating that these residents came from Zhaocheng, Hongdong and other places. Relocated.
There is a "surname list of descendants of ancient Sophora japonica" posted in the ancestor worship hut. There are 450 surnames on the list, and their tablets are enshrined, which greatly exceeds the number of surnames of hundreds of families. They all immigrated to various parts of the country six hundred years ago. After being collected and compiled, they were published on the wall for the purpose of tracing their roots.
In recent years, mainland Chinese people have competed to compile family trees, and overseas compatriots have searched for their roots and worshiped their ancestors, and have inquired about their blood relationship with the giant locust tree.
More than six hundred years have passed, and the ancient locust trees from the Han Dynasty no longer exist and have disappeared into the dust of history. However, the third-generation locust trees growing next to them with the same roots have lush branches and leaves, full of vitality. Descendants of Huaixiang can be found in more than 20 provinces and more than 400 counties across the country, and some are even as far away as some countries and regions in South Asia.
Thinking back to the days when our ancestors supported the old and the young and left their hometowns. When they looked back frequently to look at the big locust tree and the old pigeon nest, how many sad tears were shed. May the big locust tree and the compatriots at home and abroad stay rooted forever. , heart to heart.
Big locust tree couplets
Fragrant sticks are left on the lapel to drink quickly;
Yinqing ancient road leans against the setting sun.
Tea can relieve drinking, and the green milk and clear fragrance can bring out the taste of the world;
The pavilion can be seen as a building, and the green locust trees line the road to recognize the nostalgia.
When the willows come to visit the locust trees, you should feel a sense of leaving the country when you come here;
The water source is woody, and the kindness of your hometown is still felt today.
It is a good tree that can provide shade to all living beings.
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