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Dynasties. Hu Ta-hai(胡大海), one of Ming T'ai-tsu's(明太祖) best fighters, was in his obscure days, a beggar in An-yang, where he was most unsympathetically treated by the natives. The callousness of these people aroused deep resentment in Hu Ta-hai, so he [[strikethrough]]seen[[/strikethrough]], swo^[[r]]ne that, once he should be in power, he would massacre them to the degree of "Li Ch'i Wai Pa;裏七外八", which, according to one interpretation, meant "only seven left inside, and eight outside of the city". The last phrase was also interpreted in some other ways, but there is a clinching faith among the An-yanese at present that the population in this place was almost completely annihilated in the beginning of the Ming Dynasty after this revenging massacre. The present settlers of Chang-te mostly traced back their genealogy to Hung-tung^[[(洪洞)]], Shan-si, where their ancestors were said to have been migrated from. Thus Hsiao-t'un gained its name from ^[[a]] Hung-tung emigrant with the surname Ts'ui. They were however by no means the founders of the village. The modern settlement of Yin-hsü began with a Ts'ai family(蔡姓), who in the latter part of the Ming Dynasty built a five-storied house near the northwestern corner of the present village. It is said that on the topmost story of this building the ascendent could clearly see the bank of the Chang River(漳河) forty [[underline]]li[[/underline]] away. Thus the settlement gained the name as Kao-lou Chuang(高樓莊). In the course of time, the fortune of the Ts'ai family declined, and the storied building was gradually torn away till no trace was left. The family Ts'ui became the leading gentry of the village; the village also changed its name as Ts'ui-chia-Hsiao-t'un(崔家小屯), which took place sometime in the reign of Chia-ch'in, between 1796 and 1820 A.D. But the prosperity of the Ts'ui was even more brief, and they were soon succeeded by the Ma's, and the name of the village suffered a further change by