Why is the cultural identity between north and south in Ningxia low?

Due to historical reasons, after the establishment of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 1958, the Xihaigu area in southern Ningxia was officially included in Ningxia. The historical "Ningxia" does not include the present Ningnan area. That is to say, in the subconscious of the older generation, people don't think that Ningnan and Ningbei belong to a whole, so Ningnan and Ningbei both think each other is an outsider.

Due to cultural reasons, most people in northern Ningxia are immigrants from various periods since the Ming Dynasty, while people in southern Ningxia are basically indigenous. Although there have been many exchanges and integrations in the past 100 years, there are fundamentally differences in cultural customs, which also reduces the sense of identity between the two sides.

For economic reasons, Ningbeichuan District is called Jiangnan District. Huang Hefu is known as the beautiful talk of Ningxia, and its economic level is much higher than that of the southern mountainous areas. The huge economic differences lead to some discrimination against mountainous areas in Sichuan. Although this situation has gradually improved with the development of the past two or three decades, some things have penetrated into the bone marrow and will not fundamentally change for a while.

There is more solar energy in the north of Ningxia Plain than in the south.

Weather factors. There is less precipitation and less cloud cover in the north of Ningxia, and more precipitation and more cloud cover in the south.

The average annual precipitation in Ningxia is 166.9 ~ 647.3 mm, which is less in the north and more in the south. The difference is obvious. Yinchuan Plain in the north is about 200 mm, Concentric area in Yanchi in the middle is about 300 mm, most areas in Guyuan City in the south are more than 400 mm, and Liupanshan District is 647.3 mm..