The history of family emigration is the micro-foundation of the migration history of the Chinese nation.The historical origin of the emigration of the Song family in Songjiapu,Wugong County in Ming Dynasty is of great academic value to the perspective of the huge military emigration in Shaanxi in the middle Ming Dynasty.This paper adopts the meth-ods of historical analysis and statistical analysis,trying to restore the historical truth of the Song family military settlement in the middle Ming Dynasty,and then lays a micro-foundation for understanding the formation of the Ming Dynasty in Shaanxi Province.The military migration strategy implemented in Shaanxi in Ming Dynasty stabilized the national defense,enriched the"pacification of countryside",reduced the taxes and corvee,formed a special immigration mode in Ming Dynasty,and made Shaanxi the province with the largest number of military immigrants.The bloody and tearful immigration history of Song family of two generations is the epitome of the phenomenon of military family immigration in Shaanxi in Ming Dynasty.
middle Ming DynastySong familymilitary settlement systemmilitary emigration