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Descendants of Hubei immigrants talk about immigration.
2026-05-28
In the Suizhou region of Hubei, a folk song is still passed down: “The mountains of Shanxi, the waters of Shanxi, and the ancient locust tree of Shanxi are all part of my hometown.” The locust tree is big, the big locust tree—under the big locust tree we live. Two little toes,
With your hands behind your back, stay far from the great locust tree in Shanxi. Child, child, don’t cry, Shanxi has my big locust tree. Generation after generation, we’ve lived in Shanxi, and the children have grown up here. “I’ll go back when I’m older.”
Li Changxin, Suizhou, Hubei
My family lives in the northern part of Zaoyang County, Hubei Province; according to the elders, it is… They migrated from under the Great Locust Tree in Hongtong. The people who migrated from under the Great Locust Tree are numerous. Most of them live along the border between Hubei and Henan provinces.
Zhao Guangkuan, Wuchang City, Hubei Province
Here, the surnames Qiu, Shen, Wang, Zhang, and Wang were all migrated from Hongdong. It has arrived. In the second year of the Hongwu era, Wang Shihua (Lin Yu), holding a military post, arrived… After Wang Dian’s death, his descendants settled here; the couplet on the family temple reads: Luo The mountain’s lineage stretches far and wide, and the rain of grace endures through generations. This is the ancestral home— The Luo Shan people of Hongtong’s Great Locust Tree trace their origins to Linyu, who is their founding ancestor.
Wang Yugen, Suixian County, Hubei Province
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