‘瓦屑壩’ 移民: 傳說인가 史實인가

Abstract

Recently, in the academic circles began to emerge a trend that is raising strong questions about basic historical fact of the history of the immigration of the China. At first, such questions raised in the Huanan(華南). These studies revealed that some clans in the Pearl River(珠江) delta, who claims that they are descendants of Han Chinese who moves from north through Nanxiong(南雄) ‘Zhujixiang’(珠璣巷) during the Song dynasty, were in fact native people of these region and even some of them were “Danmin(蛋民)”. The cause of fabrication of the origins was some kinds of trick for obtaining some advantageous terms in dispute about lands in the mouth of the Pearl River(珠江). After these studies, scholars began raising questions about another region's legend of immigration. For example, Zhao-Shiyu(趙世瑜), while acknowledge basic historical fact about immigration, pointed out that legend about immigration in the Huabei(華北) region have many fictional elements by studying legend about ‘Dahuaishu(大槐樹)’ in the Hongdong(洪洞), Shanxi(山西). In the Chinese immigration history, so many legends about immigration have emgerged same time with ‘Dahuaishu(大槐樹)’, but Jianghuai(江淮) and Sichuan(四川) were never been neighboring with another races. Recent interpretation about ‘Dahuaishu(大槐樹)’ can't make an application for ‘Waxieba(瓦屑壩)’ and legend of another regions because feud between races never been exist in the these regions. This article, based on the institution and historical fact that found in legends, is an attempt to prove that immigration to south of the Huaihe-River(淮河) was organized by central government and to certify hypothesis about "immigration channels" by example of the ‘Waxieba(瓦屑壩)’. And last, this article is an attempt to make new hypothesis and prove about ‘Waxieba(瓦屑壩)’ in genealogical records and immigration registers.