走西口（Go west）.doc

走西口（Go west） Edit this paragraph of Zou Xikou culture geographical position Xikou, Shahukou, located in the northwest of Shanxi city of Shuozhou province Youyu County, is now a showcase of Xikou culture of the famous scenic area. Concrete meaning From Shanxi Zou Xikou roughly route map, starting from the central and Northern Shanxi, the west, the Shahukou exit into the Mongolian Chinese customs An ancient grassland; to the East, Datong, Zhangjiakou customs in Mongolia. Folk say go west in the West is Shanxi County of Youyu province Shuozhou city Shahukou. Out of the west, to the domestication and Suiyuan by the people of Shanxi swept the world of former business (hereinafter referred to as Guisui), Kulun, Uliastai and Khovd and Toronto and Xinjiang area. Shahukou is an important commercial route to Mongolia Kiakhta and Russia and other places of business. The rise and fall of Shahukou also reflects the history of the development and decline of Shanxi merchants. cultural background The Qing Dynasty was an important period in the history of Chinese population development. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty through the recovery and development of Kangxi to Qianlong III, the countrys population exceeded three hundred million mark. The sharp contradiction between people and land, a large number of mainland poor life under pressure, go west, northeast or Nanyang, the formation of the modern three big waves of immigrants. Go west since the Qing Dynasty is the tens of thousands of Shanxi, Shaanxi and other local people into the city, Turmert, Chahar and naturalized Ordos etc. living migration. Go west this migration has greatly changed outside the Mongolia social structure, economic structure and way of life. At the same time, immigration accounted for high proportion of immigrants from Shanxi, as the main carrier of cultural transmission, the Shanxi Jin culture brought to the central and western regions of Inner Mongolia, the local formation of rich local characteristics