Southerners attach great importance to clan ancestral halls, why are there almost none in the north?

Why do southerners pay attention to clan, while northerners hardly do? This question is very interesting. Are southerners more united than northerners? So let’s talk about why today.

Let’s first take a look at the differences between the north and the south. The concept of clan in the north mainly uses the "five clothes" as its boundary. After the "five clothes", they cannot be regarded as relatives.

In the south, clans are based on villages. For example, in "Operation Ice Breaking", Tazhai Village is such a village. When people in the village make mistakes, they can ask the group to make regulations.

Why does this happen? From a geographical point of view

The south was the political center of the feudal dynasty. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the memorial tablets of ancestors were supported by the immigrants. After taking root in the south, due to the complex terrain and obstacles of mountains and rivers in the south, it was affected by wars or wars. Relatively few.

After a long period of development, single-surname families have filled up geographical boundaries, that is, a village has only one surname, and they all have the same ancestor.

Group worshiping ancestors and revising genealogy increase cohesion and sense of mission

Group worshiping ancestors is like a National Day, letting everyone understand that they are a family, and revising genealogy is like Monuments, the South is very serious when writing genealogy. Whoever goes to college or becomes a high official must be written down for future generations to admire.

As for the north, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Shanxi, if you read through history books, each dynasty will suffer from serious wars. At most, it will be stable for two hundred years before it will be broken up again. Moreover, These areas often suffer from various natural disasters, so the population is highly mobile.

When a village develops for a period of time, it will disperse. When the ecological and social environment stabilizes, they will come back. Those who rebuild their homes may not necessarily be those who fled.

It’s not that the North didn’t have it, but that the North was liberated earlier than the South, and the South was more humane when it was liberated.

During the land reform, the ancestral halls in the north were used to distribute feudal surplus property to the poor in the clan, and the ancestral halls have been abolished. The South retained the ethnic property, which made the Communist Party's future policies more humane.

In the past few decades, I have been calling for the reconstruction of the family property and its inheritance in an orderly manner. Rebuilding a harmonious family culture is beneficial to both the country and people.