Why is chaozhou people so powerful?
People study Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants. They have become a thing of the past, but Chaozhou businessmen seem to be more and more active in the domestic and international economic arena. People are amazed at the specificity of Lingnan culture. The people who speak Cantonese, Hakka and Chaozhou dialect are the largest, and the three are the same. When representatives of hipsters at home and abroad get together in their ancestral home for the first time, they should visit chaozhou people.
This year1from October 8 to 20, nearly 3,000 representatives of hipsters gathered in their ancestral homes for the first time. Unusually, there are more than 20 million villagers in Chaoshan, and 10 is scattered in a "global village" that is not small.
Due to their economic strength and vitality, as well as maintaining their native cultural traditions, hipsters are attracting more and more attention.
It is said that hipsters can easily distinguish each other. An exaggerated saying is that two Chaoshan people can smell each other even if they are 20 miles apart. Now they are trying to make themselves easily recognized by the world.
In fact, the international conference of hipsters has been held for nine times since 16, and the international symposium on hipsters has been held for the second time in four years, which shows that hipsters are trying to establish their self-awareness and international image for better survival and development.
Influx people, neither a race nor a nation, began to stand out from the world population, just like Shantou was hit by the Han River three hundred years ago or hundreds of years ago.
This is rare. Because hipsters are unique.
Relationship and Credit: Four-word Formula for the Success of "Oriental Jews"
For a long time, hipsters are famous for being good at business. Generations of hipsters go abroad almost empty-handed and penniless. The most commonly used words in related memories are: take a "red-headed boat", a piece of water cloth (a specialty of hipsters, usually 0.5 meters wide and 2 meters long), which is widely used, such as bathing, covering the body, making packages, etc. Now it has disappeared), and I often carry a handful of soil from my farm house and make a fortune.
The influence of hipsters in the world mainly comes from their economic achievements: according to the list of China billionaires in the 6th issue of Hong Kong Capitalist (1995), according to their ancestral home, Chaoshan people have the strongest economic strength.
It is said that a king in Thailand first called hipsters "Jews of the East". Some scholars have pointed out that this statement is derogatory at first, but it also reflects that hipsters occupy a dominant position in Thailand's financial circles, have investments in various fields, and play an important role in Thailand. Chaozhou dialect is Thailand's second language.
Xue Shan, an 80-year-old scholar, attributed the success of hipsters to the fact that there is always a silver lining behind the dark clouds. Hipsters go abroad to work as coolies. They are diligent, intelligent and honest, and dare not rob the dock. It is the local people who trust you and cooperate with you to take root and develop.
Relationship and credit are four-word formulas for the success of hipsters summarized by French orientalist Han Lin.
According to Han Lin's observation, among overseas Chinese, Shang Chao businessmen value relationships and credit most, so that they don't need banks, and relationships and credit are enough to guarantee them.
Q: Why did Li Ka-shing succeed? Because he is chaozhou people.
Tsung i Jao, a master of Sinology in the world, even singled out the word "credit", arguing that Chaozhou businessmen inherited their ancestral teachings and applied them to business, thus forming business ethics. This is the biggest key to their success, especially worth inheriting and spreading.
Chaoshan people are also famous for their shrewdness and calculation. Wang Lixin, a young observer of Shantou Economic Commission, made a comparison: Shanghainese are also good at calculating, but they are getting smaller and smaller, and Chaoshan people are getting bigger and bigger. Hakkas are also good at calculation, but Hakkas are good at politics and have many high-ranking politicians, while Chaoshan people are good at business and have many industrial and commercial tycoons.
Some scholars have also noticed this difference. According to a professor from Shantou University, Chaoshan people have a typical marine character. They fish, bake salt, take risks at sea, and even buy and sell pirates and opium. The professor found that if Chaoshan people were Yang Bailao among white-haired girls, they would not die, but chose to run away. Because Huang Shiren forced the debt, not your death.
On the other hand, Wang Lixin said that the ocean showed them the bold side of Chaoshan people's character.
Hipsters who survive in the rough sea can even create miracles immediately. In the 1970s, hipsters who fled Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and lived in France, the United States and Canada were very successful. Their society held the 6th and 7th international conferences on Chaozhou dialect, which was personally presided over by Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris and now French President. President Clinton sent a congratulatory message, and many presidents sent special envoys to address the meeting; Canadian Prime Minister Chretien also sent a congratulatory message to this annual meeting.
The main points that these world politicians praise hipsters are similar: the ability to integrate into the country of residence, industrial and commercial achievements, and the contribution to the cultural diversity of the host country because of maintaining their own traditions.
Chaozhou Dialect, Chaozhou Opera and Kung Fu Tea: The Basin of Traditional Culture
Chaoshan people themselves admit that when they hear someone speak Chaozhou dialect, they will think that the other person is "one of their own".
Overseas hipsters often keep their mother tongue and have other customs. This is a mysterious umbilical cord, which is constantly cut off from the mother. As a mother, Chaoshan area has a mysterious umbilical cord with the ancient tradition of the Chinese nation.
Chaozhou dialect is recognized by linguists as a living fossil of middle ancient Chinese, which was handed down by ancient Zhongyuan people who moved to Chaoshan. Scholars claim that it retains ancient characters and tones, is simple and elegant, and sounds like a foreign language to outsiders, even Hakkas and Guangfu people, but it is still the first communication language of modern hipsters.
A newspaper editor in Shantou once asserted that Chaozhou dialect is the best business language. Journalists dare not comment, perhaps we can see the resilience and vitality of Chaozhou dialect.
Chaozhou dialect is used in Chaozhou opera with a history of about 500 years. Chaozhou Opera has changed from the north to the south, which is one of the top ten operas in China. Chaozhou opera entered the theater from the square, and some experts were worried about its future.
However, Ying Ge, a Chaozhou opera, is still a lively square art, with unprofessional actors. It is used for festivals and celebrations, and there is no music in the group dance. It only shows the section of "The Water Margin" attacking Daming Mansion, which changes endlessly and even forms many schools. The reporter watched English songs and drums in Chaoyang City, with jy, Lu, Sun Erniang, Gu Dasao and other women disguised as men.
According to an English song coach, English songs have been used in history to cover up folk martial arts against Yuan Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, and accompanied by temple musicians who sacrificed to caves.
Chaoshan kungfu tea embodies the highest state of China tea ceremony and the hometown of tea. What is even more surprising is that kungfu tea is still a necessity for hipsters, and even tea is called "MC Davi" in Chaozhou dialect.
Although the lifestyle is full of traditional spirit, scholars even see that the Chaoshan heritage, known as "Zou Lu on the seashore", still exists.
Chaozhou people attached importance to the clan, rebuilt the genealogy, built ancestral temples, and returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors with splendor, while people talked about feudal consciousness, while scholars looked at obedience to Confucianism. Chaozhou people believes in Buddhism, worships mountains and worships God whenever he sees him. Some people say it is feudal superstition, while some scholars point out that it belongs to religious consciousness.
Scholars' research shows that it is the consanguinity, geography and fate of * * * that connects hipsters at home and abroad, so that they can survive together without losing their roots.
There is also narrowness: the exclusive collective unconscious.
The influx of people has become the accumulation basin of traditional culture, which stems from their fate: fleeing to a foreign land and encountering an exclusive humanistic environment. In order to survive and develop, they must take care of each other and help each other. Chaozhou people's ancestral home used to be the "corner at the end of the province". Chaoshan is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea, which endows chaozhou people with the vitality of overseas colonization. A high sense of identity with tradition and extraordinary cohesion with each other are the needs of hipsters to survive.
The other side of the extraordinary cohesion of hipsters is the exclusiveness that has been criticized.
When talking with a taxi driver from Shantou, Henan, the reporter said that Shantou people are good at everything except xenophobia. And then prove it with personal experience.
At this Chaozhou research conference, scholar Chen Jingxi analyzed the legend that "the forest destroys Chaozhou geomantic omen", and also came to the conclusion that hipsters have exclusive collective unconsciousness.
The outline of the legend is: Fujian official Lin destroyed the geomantic omen in Chaozhou, and a cultural hero in Chaozhou avenged Lin's hometown with Lin's help.
Chen believes that this legend, which has spread from the Ming Dynasty to the present, directly shows the influx of people's sense of regional groups and reveals people's prevention and even hatred of people outside the regional groups.
Chen quoted the customs report of Chaozhou Customs and Taxation Bureau as saying: Chaoshan people "even unite with the smallest excuse to crowd out an outsider", which shows that chaozhou people's xenophobia left a deep impression on British tax officials a hundred years ago.
Chen Jingxi analyzed that the closed region and unique social factors in Chaoshan area limited the vision of the influx of people, and also formed the collective psychological characteristics of the influx of people who were narrow, conservative and exclusive.
Li Ka-shing: "I'm a hipster, but I'm from China."
However, the Excellence of hipsters has already surpassed them. Li Ka-shing is the representative.
When the reporter interviewed Li Ka-shing in Shantou University, he asked: hipsters are proud of you. Are you proud of being a hipster?
Li immediately replied: "As a China person, I am even more proud." He said: it's not that I don't have a local concept. I'm a hipster, but I'm from China.
Li Ka-shing has invested more than 60 billion yuan in Chinese mainland and 4 billion yuan in Shantou. As soon as Li arrived in Shantou, he declared to the party and government officials: He just came to Shantou University, so don't look for him for business matters. He doesn't want to make money in his hometown.
Later, I couldn't beat my hometown friendship. In the winter of 1992, I got a "Shantou first city" through negotiation. Five minutes before signing, Li thought about what to do, because he said he wouldn't come to his hometown to make money. Then he said he would leave for three minutes. After returning, he said the decision now: the word still needs to be signed, but all the profits should be set up in a fund, all of which will be used for Shantou University.
It is Li Ka-shing's obsession to "exceed the limit of life" to support the educational development in his hometown and even in the mainland free of charge.
Li Ka-shing may be a typical hipster. He was poor as a teenager and didn't read any books. His success depends on diligence and wisdom. He can also speak very good "Mandarin".