"Ask me where my ancestors? The first time I saw the movie, I was in the middle of the movie, and I was in the middle of the movie. What is the name of the ancestral home? The old stork's nest under the big locust tree." Over the centuries, this ballad has been passed down from generation to generation in vast areas of China, known to women and children. An ancient locust tree, the soul of many generations, over the centuries, Hongdong County, the ancient locust tree relocation site, was at home and abroad, many Chinese descendants of the metaphor for "home", called "ancestor", see as "roots

The ancient Samuel Tree migration site has been called "home", "ancestor" and "root" by many Chinese descendants at home and abroad, and has become the hometown in the hearts of people.

Ancient locust tree, also known as Hongdong locust tree, located in Hongdong County, two kilometers northwest of the village of Jia west of the locust tree park, where Hongdong, although there is no grandiose buildings, but whether it is cold in winter or hot summer, tourists have been endless, there are poems and lyrics, lyrics, "drinking water thinking of the source of the" feelings, there are! Looking up at the ancient acacia, hovering attachment, long refused to leave.

Jinan is a densely populated place in Shanxi, and Hongdong was the largest and most populous county in Jinnan. According to records, the Ming Dynasty in Hongdong City, two miles north of Jia Village, west of a Guangji Temple, the temple is grand, the temple is lofty, many monks, visitors. Temple next to a "tree body a number of circumference, shade over a few acres '" of the Chinese acacia, horse and cart avenue from the shade of the trees through. Fen River beach in the old harrier nesting in the trees, scattered, very spectacular. The Ming Dynasty government set up a bureau in Guangji Temple to centralize the immigrants, under the locust tree became the immigrant gathering place.

Late fall, the acacia leaves withered, the old crow's nest looks very eye-catching. Immigrants on the way out, gazing at the tall acacia, perched in the branches of the tree between the old harrier constantly issued a sound wailing, so that the immigrants away from their homeland weeping, often look back, can not bear to leave, and finally can only see the acacia tree on the nest of the old crane. For this reason, the Great Sophora Tree and the old crane's nest have become the symbol of the immigrants' farewell to their hometown. "Ask me where my ancestors came from, Shanxi Hongdong locust tree. What is the name of my ancestor's hometown, a crow's nest under the big locust tree." This ballad has been widely circulated in many parts of China for hundreds of years.

The immigrants who moved out from Hongdong, Shanxi at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty were mainly located in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei, with a few moving to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. The immigrants who moved from Shanxi to the above-mentioned places later moved to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and the northeastern provinces. Such a long time large-scale organized large-scale migration, in our history is rare, and will be the people of the party scattered around, only one example. Ming government to implement the policy of migrant reclamation and revitalization of agriculture, although its purpose is to consolidate the rule of the feudal dynasty, but objectively ease the social conflicts, mobilized the farmers' enthusiasm for production, so that agricultural production is gradually restored, the border consolidation, social stability.

There are also some stories about migration circulating here. After the Xinhai Revolution, Yuan Shikai ordered Shanxi governor Zhang Xiluan rate Lu Yongxiang third town soldiers attacked the Shanxi Revolutionary Army, wherever they went, wantonly looting. To Hongdong, the soldiers came to the ancient locust tree, have dismounted Luo worship, rumor has it: "back to the old locust tree." Not only did not loot, and will be the property offerings in the locust tree. The tree's ability to "protect against disaster" has been praised by the people.

Legend has it that when the immigrants, the officers and soldiers used a knife to cut a knife in each person's little toenail as a mark. So far where the small toenails of the descendants of the locust tree immigrants are compound (two flaps). "Who is the person who migrated from the ancient locust tree, take off your shoes and check the shape of your little toenails." If you are interested, you may want to check yourself.

The ancestral hut is labeled with a "table of surnames of the descendants of the ancient locusts", which *** has four hundred and fifty surnames and enshrines their tablets, which is much more than a hundred surnames. They are six hundred years ago immigrated to all parts of the country, after collecting and organizing, open to the wall, in order to find the roots of the query. In recent years, the mainland people compete to repair the genealogy, overseas compatriots searching for their roots, have to query their own blood relations with the Great Samuel Tree.

Young six hundred years past, the Han Dynasty ancient locust has ceased to exist, disappeared in the dust of history, while the same root breeding its side of the third generation of locust trees, but the branches and leaves flourish, full of vitality. Sophora's descendants have been spread throughout the country more than twenty provinces, more than four hundred counties, and some are still far away in some countries and regions in South Asia.

Thinking of the year when the ancestors of the old and the young, away from home, in the frequent return to look back at the Great Sophora Tree and the old pigeonholes, spilled how many tears of sadness, may the Great Sophora Tree and compatriots at home and abroad will always be rooted in the roots of, and heart to heart.

Couplets

Aroma churns up the line and leaves a quick drink;

Shade clear the old road leaning against the slanting sun.

The tea can be drunk, the blue milk is clear and the flavor of the world is known;

The pavilion can be a trace of the building, the green acacia is a path to recognize the hometown.

Willow to the acacia, to this should be born out of the country;

Water source wood, in the present is still moving the hometown grace.