In order to publicize Sichuan Hakka culture and carry forward the enterprising spirit of immigrants, at 9:00 a.m. on March 21, the Chen family of Guihu in Xindu District, Chengdu held the "Sichuan Hakka Immigration Pioneer Chen Junyuan 300th Anniversary Conference and Sichuan Hakka Research and New Capital Guihu Chen Academic Exchange Meeting" at the Red Star Kang Park in Xindu District.
Present at the meeting were Su Donglai, associate researcher of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences and secretary general of the Sichuan Hakka Research Center; Qiu Jinnan, former deputy director of the Xindu District Radio, Film and Television Bureau and editor-in-chief of the television station; Liu Fengting, former vice chairman of the People's Congress of Mulan Town, Xindu District and special researcher of the Sichuan Hakka Research Center; Xu Shoujie, former director of the Xindu District Target Office and former director of the Cultural and Historical Committee; and Chen Shaozhang, former manager of the Xindu District Materials Bureau's Raw Capital Company.
Chen Junyuan (陈俊元), also spelled Zijin, had four sons: Chen Zuochen, Chen Youchen, Chen Yichen, and Chen Xinchen. In the sixtieth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1721), Chen Junyuan and his family set off from Zengkeng Laoyuwo in Xingning County, Guangdong Province (present-day Xiansheng Village, Xinpi Town, Xingning County) into Sichuan. In the third year of Yongzheng (1725), Chen Junyuan returned to Laoyuwo and brought Chen Zuochen and Chen Youchen to xindu. Chen Junyuan became the ancestor of the Chen clan of the new capital Guihu. For 300 years, the Chen family of Guihu in Xindu has been full of talents for generations, and has now become a famous family in Xindu.
The commemorative meeting first organized the Chen family to visit the tomb of Chen Junyuan, and the worship activity was presided over by Chen Guohui, president of the Chen Family Association. Then, an academic exchange meeting on Hakka studies was held. The exchange meeting was presided over by Chen Dianzhu, a member of the Chen family, and Chen Guohui summarized the public welfare activities done by the Chen family in recent years. Special guests Su Donglai, Liu Fengting, Xu Shoujie, Chen Shunjian and Chen Shunxiang of the Chen clan spoke separately.
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The life of Duke Junyuan of the Chen clan
After decades of war in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Sichuan territory was depressed, although the Qing court repeatedly issued edicts to invite the remnants of Sichuan to return to their homeland, but with little success. In order to restore Sichuan's social economy and meet the tax needs of the imperial court, it became inevitable to attract immigrants to other provinces. The vigorous "lake fills Sichuan" immigration campaign was launched.
At this time, the Guangdong region, especially the coastal areas of eastern Guangdong and Fujian, because Zheng successfully divided Taiwan and intended to counterattack, the Qing court, in order to protect itself, implemented a harsh policy of "moving the border", blocked the coastline, and moved the residents inland for 30 miles, making the life of the coastal people increasingly difficult.
Since ancient times, the Huizhou region of eastern Guangdong (Divided into Jiaying Prefecture in the Yongzheng Period) has had few mountains, poor land, dense population, and great pressure to survive. From the middle of the Kangxi Dynasty to the middle of Qianlong, natural disasters in the Huichao area were frequent, with ten droughts and nine floods, so that grain prices soared and people's grievances boiled. Many areas, especially Changle (present-day Wuhua County) and Xingning County, were the most affected by the largest population among the counties, reaching the point where grass and trees were eaten up and mourned. The Hakka people, who originally took "relocating the land and relocating" as their survival concept, had to abandon their former homes in large numbers and enter Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Hunan to make a living by working as hard laborers under the sheds.
Hearing that the land in Sichuan was empty after the war, and the government was particularly kind to immigrants, many hakka families in eastern Guangdong were impressed. Therefore, after the Kangxi 1950s, a large number of people in eastern Guangdong Hakka (Huizhou capital Longchuan, Yong'an, Heping, Changle, Xingning, Chengxiang, Chaozhoufu Zhenping, Pingyuan, Tai Po, Haifeng, Lufeng) supported the elderly and children, carried bags, and flocked to each other, supporting each other and entering Shu Kaiji.
At that time, on the main roads and trails from Guangdong to Hunan, day and night, there were hundreds of Hakka poor people, old and young, old and young, trekking over mountains and mountains. Its route mostly passes through Chenzhou in southern Hunan, north to Hengyang, Jingzhou, into Guizhou or Enshi, Hubei, either passing through the Three Gorges or crossing the rugged mountains of Guizhou. Many people sleep in the open, endure hunger, stay in a foreign country, and the sky should not be. Many people are dying on the way, or they have no money in the middle of the way, and sell their children and daughters in order to live full life. Such situations abound in Hakka in Sichuan, and they are unbearable.
Duke Junyuan of the Chen clan is one of the above Hakka ancestors.
Although the Chen clan is a famous family in Xingning, under the natural disaster, the family is old and young, waiting to be cared for, and it is difficult for the people in the clan to help. Instead of sitting still and waiting, don't break into the business. Therefore, he resolutely led his wife to bid farewell to the ancestral spirits, set off with tears, all the way to and fro, like duckweed, nine deaths and a lifetime, and finally arrived in Sichuan.
At that time, Huguang immigrants arrived earlier than Sichuan immigrants because they were close to Sichuan, and occupied a lot of land. When Junyuan Gong and others arrived in eastern Sichuan at the end of the Kangxi Dynasty, there was not much fertile land to cultivate, so they went to western Sichuan and searched east and west to find tenants in Xindu County, Chengdu Province. Because Junyuan Gongke was diligent and thrifty, hard-working and hard-working, after several years of hard work, he accumulated silver money and slowly improved his family's situation, so he bought some land from others.
Compared with eastern Guangdong, the price of goods in Sichuan is relatively low, rice is not more than a few dollars, and the rent system is widely implemented, and the rent is low. With the hard work of tenants, it was easier to buy land from the landlords. Therefore, after a few years, Junyuangong's life became better and better.
Thinking of the hometown in Guangdong, the ancestral mausoleum is still there, and it has not been sacrificed for a long time, and I am deeply disturbed, and I also think of a wife and two sons in the old mansion in Guangdong, and my life and death are uncertain. During the Yongzheng period, Junyuan Duke returned to Guangdong on foot, traveling thousands of miles and working tirelessly. Back in Xingning, Guangdong, the clansmen saw that the public heart was wide and fat, like a statue of wealth and nobility, and asked about the situation in Sichuan. The public was generous and generous, and one by one, the clans heard about it, and one after another there were motions to enter the Sichuan Kaiji. Gong resolutely agreed and helped the clan to enter sichuan to start a business.
As a result, lao Yu Wo Dian Yang Duke 4 sons, into the river 3, Ting Yang son, Junzhe Duke 6 sons, into the river 5, Zeng Pit Chen clan into the River descendants of dozens of people, in Chengdu and the surrounding prefectures, dotted with scattered, expenses fall leaves, mutual solidarity, all rely on the grace of the Duke of Junyuan.
After Junyuan Gong's relatives, he returned to Xindu with his wife and two sons, settled down properly, and continued to actively work hard in this land to start a business. After a few generations, the family business became richer and richer, the people prospered, and the imperial examinations came out one after another, becoming a local famous door.
It is worth mentioning that the Junyuan gong faction, during the "Republic of China", benefited from the Chinese Hakka master - Mr. Xingning Luo Xianglin, who was famous all over the world, and once became the first example of experts and scholars paying attention to Sichuan Hakka.
Luo Xianglin, because of his study of Hakka, happened to meet the Xindu Chen clan and wrote a letter to get in touch with Chen Bihangong, the chief editor of the Junyuan Gong Genealogy, who was generous and generous and paid the Xindu genealogical information to Luo Xianglin one by one, so that the Hakka family in Sichuan could get the attention of the academic community. Luo Xianglin wrote the immigrant story of the New Capital Chen Junyuan Duke into his famous book "Hakka Origin Examination", making this period of history a good story in the academic history of Hakka.
(Textu/Chen Shunxiang)
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