What are the great migrations in history?

There have been six population movements in history.

1, "Yongjia mourning" period

During the Yongjia period of the Western Jin Dynasty, the decadent rulers brutally exploited and oppressed people of all ethnic groups, which led to the displacement of people in the Yellow River basin and forced them to move to the Jianghuai basin on a large scale (mainly into Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan and other places).

The population moving south is about 900,000, which has changed the pattern of large population in the north and small population in the south since Qin and Han Dynasties. The population in the south has increased rapidly, which has promoted the rapid economic development in the south. This is a landmark event that the population distribution center of China has shifted to the Yangtze River basin. So it's called "Dressing South".

2. "An Shi Rebellion" Period

In the Tang Dynasty, about 6,543,800 people moved south, which fundamentally changed the population distribution pattern in China with the Yellow River basin as the center of gravity, and the population distribution ratio between the north and the south of China reached a balance for the first time. ?

3. During the "Jingkang Rebellion"

It happened in the Northern Song Dynasty. 1 125, Jin destroyed Liao and began to attack the northern song dynasty in the south. The Yellow River basin has become the main battlefield. Every major war has caused a large number of residents in the Yellow River basin to migrate to the Yangtze River basin, mainly to Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei and Sichuan. This is the biggest stage of population migration in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

4. Jin Yan Hong Liang period

1 16 1 Jin tore up the contract with the Song Dynasty and invaded the south on a large scale. The Huaihe River basin became the main battlefield, forcing the residents of the Huaihe River basin to move south to the Yangtze River basin, mainly to Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan and Jiangxi.

5. The period of "Mongolian soldiers invading south"

After Kublai Khan and others arrived at Khan's position, 1273, a large number of Mongolian soldiers invaded the south and launched a war to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. The main battlefield is in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In order to escape the war, a large number of local residents moved to the Pearl River Basin, mainly in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian.

6. During the period of "going west and going east"

/kloc-In old China in the late 20th century, after the invasion of Russian and Japanese imperialism, the two countries competed to expand their power in the northeast, build railways and plunder resources, which required a lot of labor, forced North China to go bankrupt, and farmers moved to the northeast, especially Shandong and Hebei provinces.

During 1923- 1930, 3 million people moved to the northeast, and in 1937, the number reached 700,000. In addition, there are many farmers in Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang in the northwest, such as Henan and Shaanxi provinces.

After liberation, China's population flow is frequent and huge, which has a strong impact on politics, economy, culture and people's normal life. There are three times when it exceeds10 million people. Namely: the Great Leap Forward Movement from 1958 to 1962 and the streamlining and decentralization during the three-year temporary difficult period; The educated youth's movement to the countryside ranged from 1968 to1980; Migrant workers' mobility since the mid-1980s.

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Causes of Population Migration in New China Period

Population migration during this period mainly includes the following situations:

1, resettlement of unemployed and idle labor migration;

2. Support population migration and build new industrial bases;

3. Immigrants reclaim land to support the construction of new agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry bases in the frontier areas where people migrate;

4. Distribution of university relocation, enrollment and population migration;

5. Population migration caused by new water conservancy projects and immigrants in the reservoir area;

6. Population migration caused by shrinking urban population;

7. A small amount of spontaneous migration.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: China's Population Migration