More than 300 years ago, a wave of "de-orientalization" swept across Shandong. Farmers in Qilu pushed carts, shouldered burdens and used their two legs to blaze a trail full of blood and tears. A word "Chuang" has boiled their lives and shaped their character. At that time, when the light gradually faded this history, a TV series "Crossing the East" awakened people's dusty memories. Zhu Kaishan, the hero, seems to be a retrogression of their time.
What is the life of the descendants of the "de-orientalization" crowd now? Is it really as wise, brave, loyal and upright as Zhu Kaishan? ...... The reporter walked into this group along the route of "going to the East" that year.
Whether it is the Zhou brothers more than 200 years ago, or Yin Jinghai and Kou Qiantang nearly 50 years ago, they are like a group of "western cowboys", riding guns and horses and breaking into the world; They eat meat in chunks and drink in big bowls, full of pride and national justice; Their bitter and exciting history is the heroic nature of Shandong people from generation to generation.
The TV series "Going East" reproduces the immigration tide of that year.
From the two brothers to Qianren Village, quite a few people went to Kanto by sea, went out to sea from Shandong, drifted to Dalian, then landed along the coast of Lushun and Jinzhou, and then went north to find fertile land. Therefore, Dalian is an important transit point in the process of "eastward crossing".
In Lushunkou District of Dalian, there is a village called Zhoujiaweizi. Most villagers are surnamed Zhou, and they all have a common ancestor-Zhou. After several generations of reproduction, the descendants of Zhou turned this village with only two families into a big village with more than 2,000 people. Nowadays, the villagers have divorced from the farming life of their ancestors. Here, the reporter found Zhou, who is in charge of genealogy revision in the village.
Zhou lives in a small three-story building, and the architectural style is similar to that of a European villa. Zhou said with a smile: "The village is now dominated by processing industry. Many factories have been opened, and the villagers' pockets have swelled. Compared with our ancestors at that time, we are all rich now. "
Zhou lit a cigarette, and the sunlight shone on his wrinkled face through the glass. He mused, opened the dusty memory for more than 200 years-
In A.D. 17 15, that is, in the fifty-fourth year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Dexin and Zhou Dechun, two brothers who went to the gatehouse village of the state capital (now Penglai, Shandong Province and its surrounding areas), decided to "travel eastward" from home because of their poverty.
"There are gold, fertile soil, ginseng and mink outside the customs." This is really tempting for the Zhou brothers. So, they scraped together a sum of money, found a small fishing boat and prepared to go to the customs by sea.
At that time, there were no mechanized ships, no satellite positioning and navigation system, no radar, no searchlights, and even no cabins to rest. There is only a small junk, and the boatman has many years of sailing experience.
Before going out to sea, the Zhou brothers didn't know that they would face a life-and-death adventure ―― according to relevant data, since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, many people who took a boat to "cross the Kanto" because of the change of sea breeze drifted to North Korea, Japan and other places; As for those who capsized at sea, it is even more difficult to count.
The sea is heartless. The waves can overturn the boat in the sea at any time, or even just an ordinary monsoon change, which may make the Zhou brothers never go back to their hometown. But they have made up their minds to go and begged the boatman several times, "Even if death is worth it, just send us to the customs." The boatman was moved. On a windy night, they quietly left the Dengzhou Wharf.
Brother Zhou, who is deadly, arrived safely in the northern sea-Lushunkou. When the Zhou brothers set foot on the beach in Lushunkou, they had a new name-"Hainan Lost" (in Jiaodong, Shandong, people called it "Shanghai North" and made a living by boat; In Dalian, people call people who "rush to the East" from the sea "lost in Hainan".
The Zhou brothers then settled in Lushunkou village, married and had children, worked as farmers and weavers, and went to the old man to have grandchildren. If we look at this life track, perhaps the "going east" of the Zhou brothers has passed quietly. However, surprisingly, the adventurous spirit of the Zhou brothers was inherited and carried forward by their grandson Zhou.
In A.D. 1776, Zhou came to Zhoujiaweizi with his wife Qu. At that time, Zhoujiaweizi was not a village, and only one Cai lived there. Therefore, Zhou and his wife settled down here, cultivated the land and had children. By the 14th year of Jiaqing (AD 1809), Zhou had five sons and more than 10 grandchildren, thus forming a big family.
Zhou kept a family separation book of that year, which read: "Zhou was willing to split up because of his many families and inconvenient life, and was assigned to two straw houses ... October 22, the fourteenth year of Jiaqing." At that time, Zhou separated a big family with just over 200 words. But he didn't expect that it was this separation that actually created the century-old glory of Zhoujiaweizi Village.
Zhou's children began to build their own families. As a result, it gradually prospered, new life was born, new land was reclaimed, and people joined it again.
From the Zhou brothers to Lushun, to the Zhou generation, the Zhou family has multiplied 12 generations. 197 1 year, the village demolished the Zhou family's grave and all the graves. Young Zhou suddenly had a worry: "Where will future generations find their ancestors?"
From that day on, looking at the "Letter from Home" left by our ancestors, Zhou's idea of seeking roots grew stronger every day. "I want to know who my ancestors are and where they come from. More importantly, I want to understand and inherit the character and spirit of my ancestors. "
Zhou began his journey of seeking roots. In his diary, he recorded in detail the root-seeking routes he had traveled in those years: Qufu, Penglai, Qingdao ... Everywhere he went, he asked the locals-"Is there a Menlou Village in Dengzhou?" The result disappointed him and he had no clue.
1984, Zhou, who has been a million households, still has not given up his roots. "At that time, everyone called me' burning treasure' and said I was stupid and had everything," but Zhou didn't care. 1989, he finally found a Shandong native named Zhou Keyu and saw a family tree preserved for many years. He excitedly opened the Yellow Book and found that there was a line on it that made him extremely excited-"In the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, Zhou Dechun's Zhou Dexin brothers crossed the sea to the north and settled in Xiajia Village, Lushun Shuangdao."