Talking about Southern Shaanxi (2) Boys and Girls in Southern Shaanxi

This is the south in the eyes of northerners and the north in the eyes of southerners.

When it comes to southern Shaanxi, people in southern Shaanxi must be mentioned.

When I was a child, I followed my father to visit the grave before the Spring Festival. I found that the graves buried in rural areas are different, and there are roughly two forms: one is that the graves are sunken inward and presented in a hug posture; The other is a tomb protruding inward, which is displayed in a bound posture. My ancestral graves are displayed in hugs, which is different from that of most neighbors.

This aroused my curiosity. After asking my father, my father told me that in the early years, local people migrated from other places. Generally, voluntary graves are concave, hugging, and forced graves are convex, indicating coercion. It is said that our ancestors migrated from Guangdong, not forcibly but voluntarily, so the tomb is concave. I wonder if this explanation is true or not. Personally, the most important point is that the shape of the tomb is mainly to commemorate the great migration at that time.

There is also a beautiful legend that our people settled in southern Shaanxi. It is said that the ancestor moved from Guangdong to southern Shaanxi at the request of the government. He likes to grow flowers and run a flower business. After entering southern Shaanxi, he continued to sell flowers for a living. Today, I came to the east of Ankang, where I settled, got married and had children. Now there are eight sects of my own here. I once met an old man from my own family. He told me that my family tree was treasured at home. He hopes that as a junior, I will have time to study at his house. I readily agreed, but in the end I missed the opportunity and didn't have the honor to witness it.

I just want to explain that most people in southern Shaanxi come for migration, which I learned after consulting history. Because in history, southern Shaanxi is the border area between Sichuan and Shaanxi, with frequent wars and population displacement. In addition, southern Shaanxi is mostly mountainous, with dense river networks, frequent natural disasters and sparse population. The most famous migration event in southern Shaanxi in history is "Huguang filling Sichuan and Shaanxi". There was chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng started an uprising in Shaanxi. Due to the suppression of the Ming army, Li Zicheng was unable to defeat the enemy and led his troops to southern Shaanxi. As the Ming army was pressing hard, Li Zicheng led the rebel army to retreat into the carriage gorge in Hezhen, Ankang County by mistake, and was besieged by the Ming army. After Li Zicheng's successful surrender, it became a famous "fake surrender" event in Li Zicheng, which was just an example of war.

Due to the sparse population, local officials wrote in succession, and Kangxi ordered the population to be moved from Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places to Sichuan and Shaanxi, so a large number of immigrants appeared in southern Shaanxi to cultivate land. This is the famous event of "Huguang filling Sichuan and Shaanxi", where many people from southern Shaanxi came from.

If people in southern Shaanxi are compared with people in northern Shaanxi, they have obvious characteristics, just like regional differences. People in southern Shaanxi are shorter than those in Guanzhong and northern Shaanxi, perhaps like most southerners. Because southern Shaanxi is the intersection of Jingchu culture and Bashu culture, people in southern Shaanxi are feminine in character and similar in appearance to people in Sichuan and Hubei.

Different from the folk songs in northern Shaanxi and the Shaanxi opera in Guanzhong, people in southern Shaanxi are popular with Chinese operas and flower drums, and have their own unique "folk songs in southern Shaanxi". Tea-picking girls in southern Shaanxi are a window to learn about girls in southern Shaanxi. For example, girls in southern Shaanxi fall in love with tea:

"Xiao Lang loves me to pick tea, and I love Xiao Lang to grow crops", "When the sun goes down, my sister dresses up and sends tea", "If you love your sister, you will love her when she is in the tea garden", "When the tea forest meets, my sister sends Brother Lang as the Red Army" and "My sister sends tea" and so on.

Due to the influence of traffic congestion, people in southern Shaanxi have created the character of "going out to make a living". Compared with people in northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong, people in southern Shaanxi are not among the "wives and children fever", especially since the reform and opening up, more and more people in southern Shaanxi have gone out to make a living, especially young people born after 1990, and boys and girls in southern Shaanxi are becoming more and more "international". People in southern Shaanxi are also embarrassed to go abroad because of culture. Speak Mandarin like a northerner, speak dialects, and outsiders say you are from Sichuan. If you tell others that you are from Shaanxi, in the inherent impression of outsiders, Shaanxi people are mainly pasta, while people in southern Shaanxi like rice food, and the dishes are mainly Sichuan food.

Next, let's talk about the "face value" of boys and girls in southern Shaanxi. Someone described them like this:

Men in southern Shaanxi are generally not tall, not as big as those in northern Shaanxi, and most of them are handsome, with rhombic or pentagonal faces, high foreheads, deep eyes, prominent mouths and copper skin color. His temperament is not as simple and straightforward as that of northern Shaanxi people, but he is more shrewd.

Women in southern Shaanxi are petite, white and moist, delicate and lovely, and gentle in character, but they are not shy of women in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, nor simple of women in northern Shaanxi, but gentle and generous, delicate and capable, and especially able to bear hardships.

The above description is not "Wang Po sells melons", but the image of Shannan people formed by Shannan people themselves in their lives. "Boys and girls in Shannan are joining hands with Shannan to" catch up "with the future.