Why are Jiangxi people "old cousins" in southern areas such as Guangdong and Fujian? What do you mean? How did it come from?

Every place should have an established way to express intimacy. Just like a key, a title and a gesture, you can open the gap between you and the locals. If you are in Jiangxi, especially in southern Jiangxi, which is known as the "elegant atmosphere of Zhongzhou", there is a secret of good communication with local people-call your cousin kindly! Don't underestimate this seemingly rustic title. It is a bridge between strangers in Jiangxi. Maybe the hospitable host will invite you to taste the unique "tea smashing" of Hakka people at home! Jiangxi people themselves use "cousin" instead of "comrade" and "fellow villager", which adds a little kindness to simplicity.

Jiangxi people's favor for "Lao Biao" has a long history, and the earliest statement may be traced back to the totem era. According to the examination, "table" refers to the wood of the old times, such as "Twelve Years of Gong Xuan": "The corpse will be collected under the wood tomorrow." Du Note: "Table refers to wood." However, the excavation of Wucheng site in Qingjiang River reveals that there are "hundreds of column holes of different sizes, mostly arranged in rows or staggered" in the laterite altar in Shang Dynasty. This is obviously the primitive fetishism totem pole belief of Dongyi ethnic group in the Jianghuai valley and the extension area of the south of the Yangtze River. From the middle of Shang Dynasty to the end of Warring States Period, Lao Biao was recorded in writing. Therefore, "Lao Biao" is the vernacular expression of totem list, and it is the memory residue of totem impression of Jiangxi ethnic group.

Although such totem tracing can push forward the origin of "Lao Biao", after all, it involves many ancient documents and historical research, and few people can understand and accept it. Ordinary people are more inclined to understand "cousin" as a cousin according to today's way of thinking. But is it the cousin of Jiangxi province or the cousin relationship between Jiangxi and neighboring provinces? Legend has it that there are two flowers, one for each table.

Some people say that the name "Lao Biao" was spontaneously initiated by Hakka people in Jiangxi to adapt to the unfamiliar living environment. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Han people in the Central Plains have been relegated, stationed, or looking for new living space, and moved south. Most of them settled in the mountainous areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, which are heavily blocked by Guanshan. The aborigines call themselves "sitting tigers", while the Hakkas (that is, the Han people in the Central Plains) are called "mountain tigers". The natives fight for the mountains, and the two tigers are fierce. Hakkas of different nationalities, surnames and clans cleverly use the name "Laobiao" to strengthen their feelings with other Hakkas, so as to achieve the purpose of unity, mutual assistance and interdependence. Over time, "old cousin" has become a common practice and has become a kind name for Hakka people in Jiangxi to enhance friendship and establish new interpersonal relationships.

Another statement is also about migration, but not moving into Jiangxi, but moving out of Jiangxi. "Old cousin" is a nickname given to Jiangxi ancestors by neighboring provinces. I am afraid that the historical reason is that Jiangxi has not been included in the national political map for a long time. After the Qin Dynasty, Guangzhou, Fujian and other provinces were included, and their geographical positions gradually emerged. However, agriculture is still the main industry. Because the population was saturated prematurely, most people in Jiangxi traveled around and cultivated, mostly in the hinterland. Fujian people think that only they can call Jiangxi people "old cousins"; Cantonese people also think that they are cousins with Jiangxi people; There is a legend in Hubei, that is, Hubei people were killed that year, and then handed down by three brothers in Jiangxi, and there is still a ancestral temple to commemorate these three brothers. More people have to start from Hunan. In Mr. Zou Huaheng's Hunan Genealogy, he said: "Most of the ancestors who moved to Hunan came from Jiangxi. In the genealogy of Hunan, when describing the origin, more than 60% of the genealogies claim that their ancestors moved from Jiangxi during the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, especially from Taihe, Luling and Jishui in Ji 'an, Jiangxi, Fengcheng and Nanchang in Nanchang. ..... Years of wars at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty made most rural areas in Hunan desolate, Lushe was in ruins, and a large number of indigenous residents were scattered. Subsequently, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, and especially Jiangxi people poured into Hunan in large numbers ... Folk songs circulated the saying that "Jiangxi fills the lake". Now when people in Hunan talk about Jiangxi people, they often call them Jiangxi cousins. The author doesn't know what they mean. In view of the historical origin of Hunan people, they misinterpreted it as: ideograph means cousin, which means that children born to fathers and sisters, brothers and sisters are called cousins; Ancestors are also called. Cousins are ancestors' cousins, and' Jiangxi cousins' refer to the ancestors' cousins in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, which is another name for Jiangxi people from Hunan. "