Editing Hainan (section)

==Settlement==
[[File:Hainan Museum 01.jpg|thumb|[[Hainan Museum|Hainan Provincial Museum]]]]
As a frontier region celebrated by such exiled poets as [[Su Shi|Su Dongpo]], Hainan acquired an air of mystery and romance. The influx of large numbers of mainlanders after 1950 – particularly in the 1970s, when young Chinese from southern Guangdong were assigned to state farms to help develop Hainan, and in the 1980s, when thousands more came to take advantage of the economic opportunities offered – has perpetuated the frontier atmosphere on the island.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

In the late 1960s, the influx of [[sent-down youth]]s (primarily from Guangdong) to Hainan island led to the use of the phrase, "being rooted in Hainan" to refer to commitment to the revolutionary cause.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Rodriguez |first=Sarah Mellors |url= |title=Reproductive realities in modern China: birth control and abortion, 1911–2021 |date=2023 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-009-02733-5 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |page=152 |oclc=1366057905}}</ref> By the early 1970s, the meaning of the phrase had evolved to refer to getting married and starting a family on the island.<ref name=":0" />