Old cousin is the name of Jiangxi people for fellow villagers in the same province, with certain intimacy. Cousin Jiangxi has also become a kind name for Jiangxi people from other provinces. In addition, some people who immigrated from Jiangxi to other provinces in modern times also maintained the title of "old cousin", such as northern Fujian and other places. Why are they all called Jiangxi cousins? Bian Xiao, an interesting website, introduces the origin of Jiangxi's old watches.

The origin of Jiangxi old watch

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.

There are many kinds of folk sayings:

Report 1

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, many areas in eastern Hunan were deserted by war, and a large number of Jiangxi people moved to Hunan. Later, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of Jiangxi people moved in, and even nine out of ten households in some places came from Jiangxi. When these descendants of Jiangxi people who moved to Hunan returned to Jiangxi to pay homage to their ancestral graves, they liked to call local Jiangxi people cousins, meaning cousins. This is the legend of Guan Hu Guang in Jiangxi, and it is also the most popular statement about the origin of the word Lao Biao.

Statement 2

According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang was killed and rescued in Jiangxi at the end of the Yuan Dynasty when he was not an emperor. In order to repay the kindness of Jiangxi people, he promised that if he won the world, Jiangxi people could directly find him in the name of his cousin.

Statement 3

Taoism and geomantic omen have prevailed in Jiangxi since ancient times. People in nearby provinces like to invite Mr. Feng Shui from Jiangxi to see Feng Shui. As feng shui masters, dials are necessary, so mainlanders call these feng shui masters from Jiangxi cousins. Over time, it is also used to address all Jiangxi people.

The development of the word "old watch"

The word "old class" has developed to the present. Compared with people in Jiangxi province, some places in Jiangxi province also contain certain derogatory meanings. In Jiangxi province, there are fewer and fewer people using the word "old class", and it is rarely used in cities. In some towns and villages, this word is still used frequently, but it is usually said when the family uses the local dialect. Because of this, "old school" contains ". At the same time, the homonym of the old "watch" is also easy to be associated with (you know). Jiangxi people sometimes call names, saying that that person is the same as his cousin, which means that he is very rustic and has never seen the world! So up to now, this word has a new meaning, but it has become a derogatory term. But the meaning of derogatory terms is unknown to many people from other provinces, but people from Jiangxi know it.