A Study On The Migration Of Mainland To Taiwan In Kangxi Period

Immigration history is an important part in the history of China, the mainland to Taiwan immigration is an important part of immigrant history. Emperor kangxi in the qing dynasty, dynasties also has the phenomenon of the mainland to Taiwan immigrants, but on a smaller scale, more indigenous people in Taiwan.Kangxi period, due to the ruler’s subjective push the prompt and social economic conditions, and people’s willingness to take risks in southeast coastal especially for instance China humanities spirit, jointly contributed to the mainland to Taiwan during this period the peak of immigration.Kangxi period is the major source of immigration, quanzhou, zhangzhou, etc in minnan region and north guangdong(commonly known as hakka) area, from the initial motivation to see immigration, have a plenty of strives for the survival, have a plenty of development; From the point of migration patterns, have a plenty of legal migration, have a plenty of illegal immigration.Class structure of kangxi period in Taiwan, mainly in the countryside is composed by the landlord class and the peasant class, in the city is mainly composed of businessmen and dude, artisans, and there are some individual craftsmen and a large number of homeless people. In terms of the structure of professional, kangxi period, Taiwan also has, agriculture, industry and business people from all walks of life, but due to the limitation of social development level, from all walks of life within the composition is simple. Homeless is one of the important class, this kind of person in kangxi period, Taiwan occupies a considerable proportion in the society. Homeless not producing, depend on begging, theft, robbery, inciting and also often from looting, has negative impact on social life and social order, this is one of the structure characteristics of Taiwan immigrant society. Taiwan immigrants and the relationship between the indigenous people in general is good, the common people on both sides cultivated land, developing agricultural economy, as well as exchange of needed goods, also have certain fusion between ethnic groups. But there are some contradictions, there are signs of classification of duels, but this is not the mainstream of cross-strait exchanges.Immigrants have the effect of continuity, during this period laid the groundwork for more large-scale immigration, have contributed to the Taiwan region’s economic development and social progress. Immigration is directly affect the growth of the population, the population growth at the same time also the yantie river basin begin to a lot of land, promoted the growth of agricultural economy. For Taiwan, the entry of advanced agricultural productivity, directly changed its original vulgar way of agricultural production. Taiwan’s industrial level from the neolithic age, in hundred years, quickly promoted to the level of modern. At the same time promote the formation and development of the economic region and business, particularly in terms of foreign trade, gradually from international trade era to era of inland coastal trade circle., of course, the immigrant society in Taiwan, it gradually formed four group of contradictions: class contradictions landlords and peasants, officer of the people(the people and the government), ethnic contradictions(with) between ethnic groups and han soil contradiction(the han nationality and the indigenous peoples). These contradictions, difference exists and cross each other, and then became Taiwan root of social unrest.