Native place refers to birthplace, which is a modern concept. In ancient times, nationality and consistency were two different things. In ancient history books, when a person's native place is mentioned, only "Guan" or "hometown" and "Li" are mentioned, but "Ji" or "native place" are not mentioned.
"Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi" "Those who have no experience and don't like the compilation of households in Zhangxian County are called wanderers."
Bai Juyi's poem "Xinfeng Folding Arm Weng": "Weng Yunguan belongs to Xinfeng County, living without fighting."
The "Guan" in these two examples refers to the native place and birthplace, that is, the native place in the modern sense.
Native place means native place. What does that mean?
Nationality is also related to the place of birth, but it does not represent the place of birth. Membership refers to the kind of corvee that a person's family undertakes to the court, that is, his occupation. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, the person in charge of salt production was called a "pavilion household". After the Five Dynasties, it was also called "kitchen household", "pot household", "well household", "pawn household" and "salt household". And take "salt household" or "kitchen household" as its general name.
Domestic service marked by membership system appeared very early. There were scholars in the Three Kingdoms; In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were envoys, military households and Lingluo households; In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to pavilions, there were silk weavers, craftsmen and other people of all colors. There are 50 kinds of households of various colors recorded in the literature in the Ming Dynasty. The household affairs of these households are their nationality, that is, their household registration.
All households in the same domestic service are compiled into a book. There are all kinds of domestic services, and local officials collect services according to the books. In ancient times, all the people in the world belonged to the courtiers of the emperor and were included in a book as courtiers. All kinds of households are registered, and the government appointed corvee as a profession, cooking salt as a stove, working as a craftsman, being a soldier as a military discipline, and doing business as a business ... The system of the dynasty was "full of service", and once the household registration was determined, it could not be changed at will. People with kitchen credentials have to cook salt for the imperial court from generation to generation, and people with military credentials have to fight for the imperial court as soldiers from generation to generation. It is not difficult to understand that Mulan's family was drafted into the army and was recruited by the court.