Why do southerners attach importance to clan ancestral halls, but few in the north?

In fact, almost every village in the south has several ancestral halls, but few in the north. In fact, the main reason for this scene is historical reasons. First of all, we all know that the north has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, so there are many wars, so people have to move south in order to take refuge, so on the one hand, population migration makes the original ethnic groups disperse constantly, so the clan concept in the north is not as strong as that in the south. Moreover, after moving to the south, we have to fight against the local aborigines. Therefore, in order to unite, a ancestral hall was established in the south to stabilize the clan forces with the same surname and avoid being bullied.

Secondly, it is the problem of food and clothing. In fact, before the Qing Dynasty, there were still many ancestral temples in the north, which were basically ordinary. The grand ancestral hall, as shown in TV series, is only available to some famous families in the north, but in the late Qing Dynasty, it can be said that there were various natural and man-made disasters, on the one hand, droughts and locusts, and the Yellow River flooded. On the other hand, bandits are rampant in the north, and warlords everywhere are fighting. Therefore, due to natural and man-made disasters, people's own food and clothing and survival have become problems, and naturally they can't take care of their ancestors. Therefore, the ancestral temples in the north are gradually abandoned except for some places.

There is also the fact that the north belongs to the political center. After the founding of New China, it has experienced many twists and turns and has been greatly affected, especially? Broken old four? During this period, it can be said that many ancestral temples in the north were destroyed because of the attack on many feudal superstitions at that time, so there were fewer and fewer natural ancestral temples in the north, and the ancestral teachings in the ancestral temples were more useful than the law because they were far away from the political center in the south, especially in some closed remote areas, and there were more ancestral temples in the south. Another point is the issue of faith. There are many faiths in the south, especially various gods, so they believe.

Finally, there is the issue of overseas Chinese. After China's reform and opening up, many overseas Chinese and compatriots will return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors. Basically, most of these places are in Fujian and Guangdong. These overseas Chinese can be said to have donated money to build ancestral temples, but there are fewer overseas Chinese in the north, so naturally there will be no such large-scale construction of ancestral temples, so there will be fewer in the north than in the south.