明代移民后人的迷雾——以顺天府文安县西码头村陈氏问源为例

Mystery of the Immigrants in the Ming Dynasty: A Case Study of the Chen Family's Source in Ximatou Village, Wen'an County, Shuntianfu

寻根问源已成为今日国人的普遍文化现象,对于京津冀一带的移民后人,由于诸多历史原因,多数已基本难以厘清本族从何时、由何地、因何故迁来本地。明初迁至顺天府文安县的陈氏一族,清初时始修族谱,几经变更,至今仍未明确族源始末。这既与明初洪武、永乐时的社会变动有关,又与移民政策相联,还与移民家族自身际遇密不可分。以个别家族的溯源来考察明初移民,可以充分体现以小见大的微观史研究的价值与作用。

Searching for roots has become a common cultural phenomenon of today＇s Chinese people. Due to many historical reasons,most of the post-immigrants in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have digiculties in finding out when, where, and why they immigratedinto this region. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Chen family was moved to Wen＇an County of Shuntiafu. At the beginning of the QingDynasty, they started to write the genealogy. After several changes, the origin of the ethnic group has not yet been clarified. This is in-separable with the social changes in the early Hongwu and Yongle periods, the immigration policy and the experiences of the immigrantfamilies. To examine the origin of individual familiesto study the immigrants in the early Ming Dynasty will fully reflects the value androle of the micro-history research