A Study Of The Population Migration In The Nanyang Basin During The Period Of The Early Ming Dynasty, 1368-1424

As the important form of expression of the population issue, population migration has important influence on the development of society of a country or a region. So population migration becomes the focus that the scholar pays close attention to in recent years. In this respect, the academia has already made the quite rich achievement. The Big Migration in the Nanyang basin during Hongwu years and Yongle years holds the remarkable status in the Chinese history of population migration, which has Large-scale and far-reaching influence. But because every scholar differ from purpose and emphasis, up to now, there is no dedicated to the immigration history of Henan.Therefore,I chose the"A Study of the Population Migration in the Nanyang Basin During the period of the Early Ming Dynasty,1368-1424"as my thesis' title, hoped to do some helpful tries in this respect.Because population migration is a complicated social historical course, we must use many kinds of methods to study. Besides adopting the traditional history research approach, the thesis will also use ethnological, sociological and anthropological research approach to carry on discussion to the research object as overall as possible. My thesis consists of foreword, main part and conclusion.At first, the foreword retrospects to achievement in research and weak point that forefathers made on the interrelation of immigrant and society change. Then I introduce the selected title source of the thesis, do brief defining to the research object, and discuss the innovation and weak point of the thesis.The subject of the thesis includes three parts:The first part describes history of population migration in Nanyang Basin During the period of the Early Ming Dynasty. The article especially analyses several factors which affect population migration in Nanyang Basin During the period of the Early Ming Dynasty. On this basis, I gave a general description to the course of population migration and summarize on some basic characteristics of population migration at the same time. In my opinion, There are three major background on the population migration in Nanyang Basin During the period of the Early Ming Dynasty: Population losses caused by the prolonged turmoil;an immigrant and exploit policy was initiated by the government of Ming Dynasty;the system of Garrisons. During the period of the Early Hongwu years, immigrants entered the Nanyang Basin, Reach a climax late. In respect to native place, immigrants entering the Nanyang Basin came mainly from Shanxi.In respect to distribution, from the mountains to the peace and gradually decreasing. In respect to immigrant's type, immigrants in Nanyang Basin relied mainly on Economic migrants and Military Immigrants, relatively speaking, political Immigrants were very few. The numbers of immigrants in the Nanyang Basin During the period of the Early Ming Dynasty were about 100,000.The second part mainly discusses the phenomenon of migrant of the Big Pagoda Tree in Hongtong in Nanyang Basin. The article pointed out a large number of Shanxi immigrants entered the Nanyang Basin indeed. There are two main reasons for these immigrants claims from the Big Pagoda Tree in Hongtong: On one hand, the Big Pagoda Tree in Hongtong has become a cultural symbol on this migration, the other hand, this is the results of a fresh understanding on their family history.The last part mainly probes into the impact of population migration on social change of Nanyang Basin. The impact of population migration on social change of Nanyang Basin is shown as mainly:Firstly, the entry of large quantities of immigrants offered the area with labor-power for the urgent-need of the region and accelerated the reclamation of waste-land, Laying the foundation for future population growth.Secondly,the entry of large quantities of immigrants have an important influence on the local culture of Nanyang Basin. Local folk culture has been enriched and development.Thirdly, population migration had influence on the relation of ethnic groups evolving deeply. Immigrants established a large number of villages, laid the layout of the village in partial degrees.The conclusion sums up and summarizes the meaning of social change causing by Population Migration in the Nanyang Basin during the period of the Early Ming Dynasty, and explains the general law that get through analyzing the case of Nanyang Basin.The innovation of the article lies in next points, first of all, the angle of the selected title is relatively novel. Though the achievement in research to immigrant's question is rich in recent years, the study on regional immigrant's history of Henan is relatively weak. Few people do this work at present that come and study the social change problem of Nanyang Basin from the angle of population migration. Secondly, I have excavated some new materials. Besides using materials among historical document, I also adopt a large amount of materials from the Local Gazetteers and Genealogies that were not used by forefathers.