After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the population of Jiangxi decreased by 2 million to 22 million.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the population of Jiangxi has been growing steadily, reaching 30 million.

1949, the population of Jiangxi was130,000, which was170,000 lower than that before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and170,000 lower than that in the late Qing Dynasty.

Among them, the epidemic of diseases and plagues, the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression are the three main reasons. During the ten-year civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party (1927 to 1936), there were 250,000 revolutionary martyrs with names here, accounting for one-sixth of the whole country, and the proportion of those without names was even higher, and the figures of the Kuomintang were not lower than this.

During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the Japanese army met with the fiercest resistance in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces. After the war, the population of Jiangxi decreased by more than two million compared with that before the war. In the middle period, the Japanese army slaughtered 3 10000 people and injured 654380+09000 people. Jiangxi has contributed130,000 able-bodied men to the country. There is no need to catch able-bodied men like the north. It was the people of Jiangxi who volunteered to go to disaster relief for their country.

It is only part of the truth that Jiangxi preaches that revolutionary martyrs are famous and have surnames all day, accounting for one-sixth of the country. In fact, during the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the number of Kuomintang soldiers killed in Jiangxi was not less than this figure.

During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the martyrs who died in Jiangxi accounted for one third of the national total, but even most Jiangxi people didn't know. Everyone only knows northeast anti-union, tunnel warfare, mine warfare and railway warfare. The whole people can really resist Japan, but the battlefield in Jiangxi and Hunan is fierce, but no one publicizes it. Hunan people often talk about Hunan's anti-Japanese war online, but Jiangxi doesn't talk about it online.

According to the statistics of Taiwan Province Province, the martyrs who died in Jiangxi accounted for one third of the country. The Battle of Shanggao was a complete victory of the Kuomintang in the true sense. At that time, the people of the county were mobilized. Before the people of the county were exterminated, there was no defection of the people of Cheng County like some northern provinces, and traitors were everywhere.

Of course, Jiangxi's anti-Japanese martyrs account for one-third of the country. This statistic is based on the information that the Kuomintang unilaterally grasped after its withdrawal from Taiwan. It doesn't include and can't count the number of people killed by guerrillas and Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition forces in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

But relatively speaking, the anti-Japanese scale of * * * guerrillas and Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance is very small, which basically does not have a significant impact. It is estimated that if comprehensive statistics are made, Jiangxi's anti-Japanese martyrs should account for about a quarter of the country.

During the war, the epidemic of plague warfare after the war made the population of Jiangxi unable to increase and fell sharply.

In the fierce battlefield of northwest Jiangxi in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the population of many counties here is not as good as that in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is still the case that a large number of immigrants from the Three Gorges Reservoir in Hunan and Zhejiang and refugees from Anhui, Sichuan and Henan were accepted after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Take Yifeng County as an example. Xuan Tong used to have a population of 300,000, 1949, 100, and now it has a population of 280,000.

If all parts of the country were as anti-Japanese as Jiangxi people and Hunan people at that time, especially in the industrialized northeast, then our anti-Japanese history today would not be so embarrassing! It is difficult to face future generations.

The Real Relationship among Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Anhui

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the population of Jiangxi Province was14.25 million, accounting for a quarter of the national population. Raozhou, the most populous state in Jiangxi, has a population of 4 million, which is not much less than it is now. At that time, the whole Jianghuai area was vast and sparsely populated, and Zhu Yuanzhang organized a far-reaching immigration to Jiangxi.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the number of immigrants in Raozhou reached more than two million. Raozhou immigrants reach Hefei in the east, Wuhan in the west, Xinyang in Henan and Fengyang in Anhui in the north. At present, the population west of Hefei-Yangzhou line in Jianghuai area is mainly composed of descendants of immigrants from Raozhou and its surrounding areas in the early Ming Dynasty.

Nearly 70% of the Han population in Hunan Province is also a descendant of this Jiangxi immigrant, mainly distributed in the area of Ji 'an Yichun Nanchang Fuzhou.

Generally speaking, the genetic relationship between Hunan people and Yichun people in Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province is the closest. Anhui Lu 'an, Anqing, Chizhou and Hefei are the closest to the population on the east bank of Poyang Lake, such as Leping Yugan in Poyang Lake. Wuhan, Hubei and its eastern regions are also mostly descendants of the population of Poyang Lake area in the early Ming Dynasty.