Xiying Village's Xiying Xiying surname

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, due to years of war, the population of the whole country dropped sharply, especially in the Central Plains. At that time, the total population of Nanyang was only over 20,000. Dengzhou is even worse, with only four or five hundred people left, resulting in a large area of land being barren. In order to change this situation, the Ming government moved people from Shanxi, Jiangxi and Taihu Lake to the Central Plains. One of them, Xi Sijing, came from Xingan County (now Xingan County), Linjiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, and then moved to Yan Zili, Dengzhou, Henan Province (now Xiying Village, Shilin Town) to farm. After more than 600 years of reproduction, the surname Xi has now developed into a noble family with thousands of people. Not to mention the descendants of Xi Sijing who moved to Xichuan and Tongbai counties and to Hubei, Sichuan, Qinghai, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Beijing, Gansu, Xinjiang and other provinces and cities, there are more than 2,600 people left behind in Shilin and Zhang Cun towns of Dengzhou alone, among which the number living in Xiying Village of Shilin Town is the largest, reaching 1300. These descendants of Xi Sijing respect Xi Sijing as the first.