Huguang refers to the present Hunan Province and Hubei Province. The Central Committee of the Yuan Dynasty set up Huguang and other provinces to run Han books, that is, Huguang province or Huguang province, which governed Hunan and Hubei, parts of Guangxi and Guangdong, most of Hainan and Guizhou, and parts of Sichuan. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only two lakes were managed, namely Hunan and Hubei.

Years of wars at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty made the rural areas of Changsha desolate, scattered, Lusheng a city, and many places deserted. As a result, the Ming Dynasty moved a large number of immigrants from Jiangxi to Changsha (Hubei and Hunan, then two provinces were one province, called Huguang Province).

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was a wave of Jiangxi population migrating to Hunan and Hubei in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. People are commonly known as Huguang in Jiangxi. However, according to the latest historical discovery, this national migration movement did not begin in the Ming Dynasty.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the first batch of Jiangxi immigrants who filled lakes and Guangzhou appeared, reaching a peak in the late Ming Dynasty. Nowadays, the descendants of Jiangxi immigrants account for 60% of the immigrants from the five neighboring provinces in the two lakes region.