Why did Jiangxi and Hunan become old cousins?

First of all, we need to explain the word "old cousin". It means the kinship relationship of cousin, cousin, cousin, etc. It is the most affectionate title and a compliment. It doesn't mean "biao" in pronunciation. It's not a derogatory term like "bitch".

The reason is that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, many areas in eastern Hunan were deserted due to war, and a large number of people from Jiangxi moved into Hunan. Later, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of people from Jiangxi moved in, and in some places, eighty-nine out of ten households came from Jiangxi. When these descendants of Jiangxi people who moved to Hunan returned to Jiangxi to pay homage to their ancestors, they liked to call the local Jiangxi people "old cousin", which means "cousin."

This is the legend related to filling Huguang in Jiangxi Province, and it is also the most popular theory about the origin of the word Laobiao.

Extended information:

Jiangxi Province is a provincial-level administrative region of the People's Republic of China, with the provincial capital Nanchang. The province got its name because Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty established the Jiangnan West Road in 733 AD, and it got its abbreviation because the largest river in the province is the Ganjiang River.

Jiangxi is located in southeast China, on the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, in East China, bounded by 113°34′36″-118°28′58″ east longitude and 24°29′14″-30° north latitude. Between 04′41″, it borders Zhejiang and Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, Hubei and Anhui to the north, and the Yangtze River to the south.

It has a total area of ??167,000 square kilometers, a permanent population of 46.221 million, and jurisdiction over 11 prefecture-level cities, 26 municipal districts, 11 county-level cities, and 63 counties. Jiangxi has a superior location and convenient transportation. Since ancient times, it has been known as "the head of Wu, the tail of Chu, and the tail of Guangdong, and Fujian". It is an "area of ??great shape" and is known as the "Land of Fish and Rice in the South of the Yangtze River".

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