Where are the roots of Pingliang people?

Blog auspicious moment! People in Longdong and Pingliang have heard or sung "Ask where my ancestors are" since childhood. Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi. What's your ancestral home? The folk song "Old Wo Wo under the Big Sophora Tree". It seems that we Pingliang people are all from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, and our roots are under the big locust tree. "Half a bottle" is not a folklorist, so it is impossible to verify the accuracy and authenticity of these statements. But one thing, according to word of mouth handed down from generation to generation, we can generally be sure that this legend is not fabricated, but has certain credibility. Pingliang people, including some people in the northwest, walk with their hands behind their backs and go to the toilet to relieve themselves. In this regard, some Pingliang history and folklore researchers believe that if you want to know the origin and "back hand" and "hand hand" of folk songs, you must turn over old scores. He said that this folk song was related to the great immigrants of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, some immigrants from Hongdong and other places in Shanxi went to Henan and Hubei, and some moved to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, including Pingliang. Today, in some places in Pingliang, going to the toilet is called "relieving oneself", which is actually evidence of the difficult course of Shanxi immigrants coming to Pingliang. It is said that in order to prevent immigrants from escaping, they were all tied behind their backs and connected with a long rope. If you want to urinate, you must report to the officers and men and untie the rope in your hand, so you have the word "relieve yourself". The anti-binding action of immigrants has also evolved into the habit of northwest people walking back hand in hand. There are only some Pingliang people under the big locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. Because these people came to Pingliang earlier and their cultural customs were deeply rooted, which had a great influence on later immigrants. Many non-Pingliang people in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, under the influence of this folk song and folklore, began to gradually accept and agree that their roots are also under the big locust tree. According to local folklorists, Pingliang, as an important frontier in ancient times, was constantly in war and its population was constantly flowing. The earliest aborigines were mostly ethnic minorities, such as the Yi people in Jingchuan, the Qiang people in Lingtai, and the indigenous people in Zhuanglang, as well as the northern Bians, Xirong, Xianbei, Turkic and Uighur (also known as Uighurs) who once merged into Pingliang. Although they once occupied individual sites in Pingliang, in the long-term war, production and life, they gradually absorbed and merged with other ethnic groups or Han people and became part of the "old Pingliang people". But these people are not the mainstream of Pingliang people now. The great immigrants of the past dynasties, the foot soldiers who came to Pingliang from the north and south of the great river and inside and outside the Great Wall, were all part of the "old Pingliang people". Among them, the large-scale immigrants in Ming Dynasty were the largest, and the population in Pingliang and its surrounding areas was the largest. Shanxi immigrants were the mainstream of these immigrants. This is also the reason why later, regardless of whether the "old root" is from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, it is said that it is a person from the big locust tree. During the period of 1989, when "Half Bottle" was working in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, she heard the story of a big pagoda tree told by local people. Sophora japonica is located in Jia Cun, northwest of Hongtong County, where a "Sophora japonica Park" has been built. Every year, people from all over the country come here to seek their roots and ancestors. As for whether Pingliang people have ever been under the big locust tree, it is not known. Speaking of the roots of Pingliang people, we can't help but say that the most prominent group of people in Pingliang history-Wang. When these prisoners came to Pingliang to enjoy the fief, they also brought a large number of servants, officials, guards, witch doctors and singers from Jiangnan, and these people became another kind of immigrants. After these immigrants with high cultural literacy entered Pingliang, they not only brought their food, clothing, housing, language, production methods and customs into Pingliang, but also indirectly affected the original humanistic atmosphere of Pingliang to some extent, laying the groundwork for today's local cultural madness. Of course, among Pingliang people, the Hui nationality, as the mainstream population, is second only to the Han nationality. A few of them are related to the "big pagoda tree", but they are only "hazy memories" after national integration. According to textual research, some Hui people in Pingliang are descendants of soldiers who believed in Islam in the Western Regions in Yuan Dynasty, and they are called Hui people because they are mostly classified as "pro-army in the Western Regions", "Hui people's army" and "visiting Ma Hongjun". After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Hui militia belonged to the local people, "and compiled the people, etc." That is, they are registered and naturalized and become new immigrants-Huimin households. So it was at this time that some Hui people in the present Kongtong District and Huating County settled down in Pingliang. To say "old roots", today's Hui people in the northern and southern tablelands of Kongtong District should mostly come to Pingliang from Shaanxi after the uprising of Tongzhi Hui people in the Qing Dynasty. Today, some Hui villages still use the name of "hometown". Most of the Hui people in Xinmin Road, Nantai, Shangsitai and Xinghezhuang in Pingliang City came from Henan and other places in the 1930s and 1940s. Of course, the level of "half bottle" is limited. As for the roots of Pingliang people, we can only record a little according to the existing historical materials or legends, which is not necessarily accurate. You can think of it as a random biography. In fact, this is not very important for people living in this land today. We all drink the same water, eat the same food and say the same things regardless of our native place or nationality, so we are Pingliang people. Roots are here, hearts are here, feelings are here, and this is our home.