Hunan people's ancestral home is generally in Jiangxi, so where did the original Hunan people go?
The ancestral home of Hunan people is generally in Jiangxi, and the original Hunan people's population has dropped sharply in the long-term wars in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, so some of the native Hunan people died in the war, and some of them merged with the Jiangxi people who migrated over.
At present, most of the people in Hunan are not native Hunan people, but many people whose ancestral home is Jiangxi. I believe that many people have heard the phrase "Jiangxi fills the lake and Guangzhou", which means that the population of Jiangxi has migrated to Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong in large quantities. In history, jiangxi people migrated in large numbers twice, once at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and once in the early Qing Dynasty. Therefore, there is the term "Jiangxi old watch", because for the two lakes and one wide area, most of them have moved from Jiangxi, so Jiangxi people are the same root as them, and when they see Jiangxi people, they are called old watches.
An area is only that big, if there are a large number of outsiders migrating here, then where did the original people go? In fact, Hunan historically belonged to the Central Plains, and before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were not many people in this area, and this area would become a battlefield for war in each dynasty, so the population that was already small was even smaller. During the revolt of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyi during the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, Hunan also became a garrison for rebel armies, most of whom were Hunan and Jiangxi. They fought the government's army here, which led to a sharp decline in the population of Hunan.
Because the population decline in Hunan has become a fertile area for the earth and rare earth, after the stability of the Ming Dynasty, the population of other provinces was encouraged to migrate to Hunan, because the geographical conditions of Hunan were superior, as a large part of the population of Jiangxi at that time, a large part of the people moved to Hunan with their families, and the local people who existed in Hunan at this time accepted the migration of the foreign population and then integrated into the foreign population.
As far as Jiangxi is concerned, this province was a large population province in ancient times, and the economy of this province is also highly developed, like Jiangxi's colleges account for 30% of the country, jiangxi has more than 50 people who are prime ministers in the imperial court, but most of the Jiangxi area is mountainous, coupled with the increase in population later, the land in this area is no longer enough to use, so many people have migrated to Hunan.