What's the name of the old watch?

Jiangxi cousin is from Jiangxi. (Not including Wuyuan, Shangguang and Wuyu areas in Jiangxi) Laobiao, also written as "Laobiao", is the address of Jiangxi people to fellow villagers in the same province, with certain intimacy. Cousin Jiangxi has also become a kind name for Jiangxi people from other provinces. In addition, some people who immigrated from Jiangxi to other provinces from Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times have always maintained the title of "old cousin", such as Hunan, northern Fujian, southwestern Anhui and other places. There are two theories about the origin of "Jiangxi Cousin". One argument is that Hunan people think that their ancestors and Jiangxi ancestors are cousins, so they call Jiangxi people "Jiangxi cousins". There is also a saying that the ancestors of Jiangxi believed in geomantic omen, and it was easy to master the direction during migration, and they always loved to bring a watch (ancient compass), so mainlanders called Jiangxi people "old watches".

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Jiangxi people's favor for "Lao Biao" has a long history, and the earliest statement may be traced back to the totem era. According to textual research, "table" refers to the old wood, such as "Twelve Years of Gong Xuan": "Tomorrow, to show it, it will be restored under the wood." Du Note: "Table refers to wood." However, the excavation of Wucheng site in Qingjiang River reveals that there are "hundreds of column holes of different sizes, mostly arranged in rows or staggered" in the laterite altar in Shang Dynasty. This is obviously the primitive fetishism totem pole belief of Dongyi ethnic group in the Jianghuai valley and the extension area of the south of the Yangtze River. From the middle of Shang Dynasty to the end of Warring States Period, Lao Biao was recorded in writing. Therefore, "Lao Biao" is the vernacular expression of totem list, and it is the memory residue of totem impression of Jiangxi ethnic group.

There are many kinds of folk sayings:

1. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, many areas in eastern Hunan were deserted due to war, and a large number of Jiangxi people moved to Hunan. Later, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of Jiangxi people moved in, and even nine out of ten households in some places came from Jiangxi. When these descendants of Jiangxi people who moved to Hunan returned to Jiangxi to pay homage to their ancestral graves, they liked to call local Jiangxi people cousins, meaning cousins. This is the legend of Guan Hu Guang in Jiangxi, and it is also the most popular statement about the origin of the word Lao Biao.

According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang was killed and rescued in Jiangxi at the end of Yuan Dynasty when he was not an emperor. In order to repay the kindness of Jiangxi people, he promised that if he won the world, Jiangxi people could directly find him in the name of his cousin.

3. Originated in the Hakka area in southern Jiangxi, Cantonese who moved from eastern Guangdong called the local people "old cousins" (because both places are Hakka), and later spread to the whole of Jiangxi, becoming another name for "hometown".

4. Taoism and geomantic omen have prevailed in Jiangxi since ancient times. People in nearby provinces like to invite Mr. Feng Shui from Jiangxi to see Feng Shui. As a feng shui master, the dial is a necessity, and mainlanders call these Jiangxi feng shui with old watches. Over time, it is also used to address all Jiangxi people.

5. In villages named after surnames in Jiangxi, such as "Wang Jiacun, Li Jiacun, Zhangjiabao, etc.", men in the villages are mostly of the same surname, and there are ancestral halls in the villages, while women have the custom of marrying far away, which leads to more distant relatives in neighboring villages. Foreigners nicknamed "Cousin Jiangxi" because the more complicated the relationship, the closer the relationship and the closer the relatives.