What does native place mean to an individual?

You often have to fill in your birthplace on some forms. The dictionary says: native place is ancestral place or personal birthplace. This is a scribbled explanation. Distant rural sounds, lush ancestral graves, hanging stilts with slightly inclined walls, increasingly delicate childhood songs, and self-contained rural customs. These have become the most powerful evidence of native place, which implies various spatial depths and cultural habits behind a person's identity. I have read a genealogy of Chen family and a yellow thread-bound book. According to the book, Chen Zu was born in Jiangxi. In the early Ming Dynasty, he moved to a place called Baima Temple in Jiangling, Hubei Province. Three hundred years ago, some ancestors fled the war and scattered in Changyang. In the late 1950s, Dalongping moved from Changyang to Wufeng. It is a long and uncontrollable process that a foreign land gradually becomes a hometown. Now I can only fill in "Five Peaks" in the column of native place, but I can't fill in Changyang or Jiangling or even anywhere else in Jiangxi. As a symbol, native place blinds too many historical sites for textual research.

As the spatial background form of a person's birth, native place is easy to enter the archives and begin to become a symbol. Whether from the pile of old paper or from real life, we can find its rich connotation. Politicians in history often take their native places as factions, and naturally form various political factions, such as Chang 'an School. In military history, there are even brave "Xiang Army" and "Chuan Army" with a pipe in one hand and a rifle in the other. At this point, even intellectuals can't avoid customs. For example, the famous Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics and Tongcheng Prose School, whose artistic styles are branded with regional marks, maintain an amazing tacit understanding with the spirit and blood flowing inside.

The division of native place has a subtle relationship with its comparative spatial background. Generally speaking, when you arrive in a city, the same county becomes your hometown; In the provincial capital, the same city has also become a fellow villager; Out of the province, we are called Hubei people. Hubei people won the title of "nine-headed bird" by virtue of their own cleverness. However, when I return to the province, I will draw a class 369. The first time I heard that "adultery with Huang Bei, treacherous filial piety, treacherous cunning, is Hanchuan." I admire the intelligence of Hanchuan people. Later, I learned that there was an article that said, "Three Hanchuan guys can't catch up with Heaven (Gate) and Yang (Yang)." It turns out that Tian Mian is the real child prodigy. Those are the people who can pick the tooth worm the size of a rice grain out of a person's mouth with three sticks and drums. These stories are similar to human jokes. If we don't think about them carefully, people tend to ignore the origin or the connection between them.

The trademark function of native place is often more impressive. If the word Wenzhou is added in front of the businessman now, there will be a very touching sentence: Wenzhou businessman. At the beginning of reform and opening up, Wenzhou businessmen who sold "three-step" rat poison everywhere made mainlanders look down on them, thinking that they were shallow in culture and poor in writing, like chicken feet; Speak vaguely, like a potato in your mouth. It is this group of Wenzhou people who have never tossed enough, but have created a business miracle that attracts worldwide attention. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan have just become wharves for Wenzhou businessmen to try their hand. In recent years, "Wenzhou House Purchase Group" has become a team that makes the real estate industry in China rush. Now even the authoritative media should quote the word "Wenzhou Shoe Merchants" when commenting on the "shoe burning incident" in Turkey. Looking ahead, didn't the businessman in Pingyao, Shanxi, "My brother went to the Western Heaven, but my sister couldn't stay" also create the "Rising Prosperity" called "Grandpa in the Country" of modern commercial banks? Shanxi banks all over the country have to be amazed that they are "a drop in the ocean". Yu Zeng elaborated in the article "Shame of Shaanxi". In the business empire, native place has become an intimate element involving Bob in Shang Yexing. How to sum it up in one sentence?

According to the newspaper, China will further promote urbanization in the next few years, which means that a large number of rural people will become urban residents, and more new immigrant cities like Shenzhen will emerge. After several generations, their native place will change. The popularization of Putonghua will gradually drive the local accent out of our language communication system. A few years later, the dialect slang that stings the countryside may become the object that must be studied to understand, just like Tang poetry and Song poetry. With the continuous acceleration of personnel flow, the column of native place will disappear completely from all kinds of tables, and homesickness related to native place can only become the sigh of ancestors hiding in rural graves.