The ancestors of Cantonese people lived in Nanxiong Zhuji Lane.

Speaking of Zhuji Lane, our generation doesn't know much about it, but it is often taken by parents to find roots and ancestors in Nanxiong Zhuji Lane, Shaoguan.

Yes, Zhuji Lane is located in the northernmost part of Guangdong, which can be said to be in the hinterland. For those of us who grew up in the rich Pearl River Delta, we don't want to believe that our ancestors came from poor mountainous areas.

Don't laugh at this mentality, you have to admit that no one likes poor relatives.

However, my genealogy is clearly written in Nanxiong Zhuji Lane. Later, it was found that the genealogy of most families in the Pearl River Delta region was recorded from Nanxiong Zhuji Lane, which proved that my family was not a special case.

Is this a coincidence?

I prefer to believe that this is a coincidence, because I believe that my ancestors could not have come from wasteland.

Generally speaking, coincidences do not happen again and again. There are Zhuji Road in Guangzhou, Zhuji Street in Dongguan, Zhuji Port in Jiujiang, Nanhai and Zhuji Street in Pingnan County, Guangxi.

Do these streets named after Zhu Ji imply the authenticity of genealogy?

All kinds of coincidences happen to coincide. Did the ancestors of the rich Pearl River Delta really get into the wasteland from Zhuji?

Searching for roots and ancestors stems from human curiosity about where I come from. In the history of mankind, people have been constantly asking questions, constantly exploring, never stopping, and trying to find the answer in one sentence.

As a result, ancestor worship culture developed and became a strong belief in China people's life. In fact, in the final analysis, it is the spiritual pillar of clan combination, which makes the clan form a strong cohesive force and solves the natural problem of where I come from.

Therefore, we often hear a leading group and an overseas Chinese delegation go to Nanxiong Gu Xiang to seek their roots. This is a strong expression of ancestor worship culture. Otherwise, why do celebrities from all walks of life go to Wan Li to find their roots and ask their ancestors? It can be seen that China people attach great importance to their roots.

Since former Guangzhou Mayor Li Yu/KLOC-0 arrived in Nanxiong Gu Xiang in 1995, celebrities from all walks of life have gone there in succession. At present, there are more than 40 million descendants of Zhuji Lane in the world, and more than 300,000 people come back to seek their roots every year.

They have one thing in common, that is, turning over the genealogy of each family to record that their ancestors came from Zhuji Lane, which began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. There is a man named 153 who moved to the south from the Central Plains and lived here. It is an important settlement where Central Plains people moved to Lingnan, the birthplace of residents in the Pearl River Delta and the ancestral home of countless overseas Chinese.

Why can a small bamboo chicken lane in the mountainous area of northern Guangdong become the birthplace of Guangfu people? It is necessary to turn over the map of Lingnan. Intuitively, the terrain in northern Guangdong is steep and not suitable for living, but it is the most suitable place to escape. In ancient times, Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden recorded an isolated rural world with mountains as its natural barrier. Recently, the National Government of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression moved its capital to Chongqing, a mountain city, taking the mountain as a natural barrier to avoid the killing of war. In a word, the most effective way to meet the inevitable man-made war is to flee to the mountains.

In ancient Lingnan, the natural environment was quite bad. Put yourself in the other's shoes. If there were no fatal right and wrong, who would have moved to Lingnan, so all the residents who came to Lingnan fled.

Escape, of course, to the mountains, the better.

Just past the natural barrier of Dayuling, it is a barely survivable basin, so I decided to open up farmland in Zhuji.

There is only one isolated peach blossom garden, and war will still happen. Then, the Central Plains people who take refuge in the war will definitely find such a peach blossom garden.

The population of Zhuji Lane has accumulated from generation to generation, so it is conceivable that the population will definitely be full, so there will inevitably be families moving out of Zhuji Lane and continuing south. Unexpectedly, the farther south they go, the more open and fertile the land becomes. This is the Pearl River Delta.

In the subsequent southward migration, there were nearly 65,438+10,000 villagers who moved directly from Zhuji Lane and surrounding villages in the Southern Song Dynasty, and each time it was almost tragic. Man-made and natural disasters caused countless villagers to flee, either killed, starved to death or drowned. It is said that there are 153 kinds of Zhuji immigrants in 29 cities and counties in the Pearl River Delta, and there are tens of millions of immigrants.

It can be said that without Zhuji Lane, there would be no Pearl River Delta.

Gu Xiang, Zhuji, my hometown.

The sentence "My hometown is in Gu Xiang, Zhuji" is engraved on the gatehouse of Zhuji Lane. It can be seen that everyone can find their own ancestral temple in Gu Xiang, Zhu Ji, which is the hometown of * * * *.

This strong surname culture has formed a peculiar utopian scene. A group of people who spoke different dialects gathered under the ancestral hall with the same surname. The phrase "I would rather abandon my ancestral fields than forget my ancestral words" has been completely eliminated in Zhuji Lane. Indeed, it is difficult for people to identify with their ancestors who spoke different dialects. Today's Nanxiong Zhuji people,

Under normal circumstances, Hakkas and Guangfu people can't understand the language when they go to Zhuji Lane. I can't find any trace of local accent, but people who go to Nanxiong Zhuji Lane to find their roots and ask their ancestors are still in an endless stream.

Even because of the strong ancestor worship complex, I believe many Cantonese people will still have some doubts when they worship in Zhuji Lane. Everyone says "My hometown is in Gu Xiang, Zhuji", but I can't understand the dialect of my hometown at all. Can this hometown really be regarded as my hometown?

Once again, when we spread out the map of Lingnan, there are still mountains, which separate people from everything, including dialects. This theory can also explain that dialects in southern China are very different and communicate like foreign languages.

It is conceivable that our ancestors went all the way south from Nanxiong Zhuji Lane, over mountains and mountains, and walked more than 400 kilometers to the fertile land of the Pearl River Delta. A hundred years later, they changed their local accent, changed their lives, carved Zhuji Lane in their hometown into their genealogy, and may never go back. But to let future generations know that our roots are in Zhuji Lane, they can go back.

Of course, even if I go back, it doesn't mean much. It can be said that it is commemorative. My birthday is even more memorable. You said it was meaningful to remember. It is more worth remembering the soldiers who fought bloody battles.

So I think the only meaning of returning to Zhuji Lane is to meet a relative I have never met before and say, Oh, your surname is X!