Little Yunnan: Gone with the wind for 600 years, where is my root?
1985, Shi Zhiban, Tiexi District, Anshan City, visited Bajiazi, Taoguantun and other earliest natural villages in modern Anshan when compiling local chronicles. Many local residents claim that their ancestral home is "Little Yunnan", but there are different opinions about the origin of "Little Yunnan", either Penglai in Shandong or Dengzhou in Shandong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Hu Xin, who participated in the compilation of local chronicles, made a big question mark.
1986 Tomb-Sweeping Day, Hu went back to his hometown Xintaizi Village, Liaoyang County to sweep the grave. A family of 22 people got together to recall their genealogy, and the elders in the family vaguely remembered that the old man once mentioned that his hometown was in "Little Yunnan", while the young man was like a book in heaven. Hu is determined to make it clear.
Later, Hu went to Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences and Beijing Library to consult experts and consult ancient books, but found no information about "Little Yunnan".
Wan Li has been running for 20 years, but he will always regret it.
Despite the difficulties, Hu was not discouraged. He knows that all the young Yunnan people with him are as eager to know where their roots are as he is. 1986, Hu went to Shandong for the first time and went to Penglai County Archives Bureau to learn about the situation. The reply from the staff of the county records office is disappointing: in the past and now, there was no place name "Little Yunnan" in Shandong Province. Penglai county archives bureau has also made an investigation on this, but there is no result. Many old people in the streets of Penglai County also told Hu that their ancestors came from "Little Yunnan".
1In August, 988, Hu went to Yantai, Shandong Province, and looked up the Penglai County Chronicle, which was revised in Taiwan Province in 1962 by the last Penglai County Governor of the former Kuomintang government 1962 according to the Penglai County Chronicle he took with him when he went to Taiwan Province Province. After a bright light, "Little Yunnan" finally surfaced.
According to the "Penglai County Records Draft", "In the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, Shandong fought for the important place of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty slaughtered Chang Yuchun in Shandong Province, killing the population of Shandong Peninsula and leaving few indigenous people. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants began to migrate to the peninsula. Most of the local population moved from Wushawei, a small province in Yunnan, twice in the fifteenth year of Ming Hongwu (1382) and the second year of Yongle (1404). "
Hu also consulted the geographical records of the Yuan Dynasty, the Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Geographical Names in China, the Northeast Local Records and other materials, and confirmed that Wushawei was a place name in the Ming Dynasty, which was located in the border area between Yunnan and Guizhou, namely Zhenxiong in Yunnan and Weining County in Guizhou.
A grand history, a long song.
Another puzzle appeared: Yunnan and Guizhou were historically inhabited by ethnic minorities in China, while most people from southern Liaoning who claimed to be the ancestors of Little Yunnan were Han people. Hu checked the genealogy of Penglai surname and found a reasonable explanation. Penglai's Liu Family Tree records that its ancestors were from the Central Plains and descendants of the Yellow Emperor. In order to escape the war, they went south to "Little Yunnan" and were called refugees.
Under Hu's combing, a magnificent historical picture gradually became clear: the ancestors of southern Liaoning, whose ancestral home was "Little Yunnan", originated in the Central Plains of China and were descendants of the Yellow Emperor. Later, due to years of war, they went south to Yunnan and Guizhou and spent a long time in the south of the motherland. Later, in the early Ming Dynasty, he traveled thousands of miles to Shandong Peninsula and lived and worked in peace and contentment for more than 260 years, covering almost the whole Ming Dynasty. Finally, during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, I set foot on the land of southern Liaoning.
Hu's historical research achievements have been recognized by relevant experts in Anshan. Hou, executive vice president of Anshan genealogy research association, who has studied the origin of "Little Yunnan", also agrees with Hu's statement. Among the current viewpoints, Hu's explanation is the most reasonable from any angle.