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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/Frigorifico on 2023-10-06 20:27:23.

Original Title: Today we struggle with 6 million Ukranian refugees, but back in the Jin dynasty, the entire north of China collapsed and entire cities and town escaped to the south. How did they deal with such an inconceivable refugee crisis?

I was learning about the Jin dynasty and the story of how the north collapsed to the Five Barbarians sounds honestly apocaliptic. I learned a few things about the refugee crisis, like how new towns, cities and municipalities were established to house them, the problem of where to house them, stuff like that, but I kept thinking: How? Those must have been way more than 6 million refugees, in a country that didn’t have the technology or resources that we have today, how did they deal with that?