僵湖

Jiang Hu

In the 33rd year of the Kangxi reign, Emperor Kangxi issued an edict titled “Edict on Recruiting Settlers to Populate Sichuan in the 33rd Year of Kangxi,” ordering a large-scale migration of people from Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, and other regions to Sichuan. This became known as the famous “Huguang Settlement of Sichuan” event. Was the once-prosperous “Land of Abundance” truly laid waste by war? There is also a theory that a certain “object” once appeared in Sichuan… (Source: Tencent, translated)