Which place is Laobiao called?
Jiangxi Laobiao is a native of Jiangxi. (Excluding Wuyuan and Shangguangyu Wu-speaking areas in Jiangxi) Laobiao, also written as "Laobiao", is the name Jiangxi people call fellows from the same province, with a certain degree of intimacy. Jiangxi laobiao has also become a more affectionate name for Jiangxi people from other provinces. In addition, some immigrants from Jiangxi to other provinces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times also maintained the title of "Laobiao", such as Hunan, northern Fujian, southwestern Anhui and other places. There are two academic theories about the origin of "Jiangxi Laobiao". One theory is that Hunan people believe that their ancestors are cousins with the ancestors of Jiangxi people, so they call Jiangxi people "Jiangxi old cousins". There is also a saying that the ancestors of Jiangxi believed in Feng Shui. In addition, they always carried a watch (an ancient compass) to help them grasp the direction during migration. Therefore, people from other provinces call people in Jiangxi "Laobiao".
Origin
Jiangxi people have a long history of favoring "old watches", and the earliest statement may be traced back to the totem era. According to research, "Biao" often referred to wood in the old days, such as "Xuan Gong Twelve Years": "Tomorrow, to express it, all will be recovered under the wood." Du's note: "Biao refers to wood." And Wucheng in Qingjiang The excavation of the site revealed that the red clay altar of the Shang Dynasty "is distributed with hundreds of pillar holes of different sizes, mostly arranged in rows or staggered." This is obviously the original fetishistic totem pillar of the Dongyi people in the Jianghuai River Basin and the Jiangnan Zhanyan area. Belief. From the mid-Shang Dynasty to the end of the Warring States Period, "Laobiao" had written records. So there is a saying that "Laobiao" is originally a folk saying for totem poles, and it is the memory residue of the totem image among Jiangxi ethnic groups.
There are many folk theories:
1. 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.
2. It is said that in the late Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was rescued from an accident in Jiangxi before he became emperor. In order to repay the kindness of the people of Jiangxi at that time, he promised that if he conquered the world, the people of Jiangxi could come to him directly in the name of his old cousin if anything happened. .
3. Originating from the Hakka area in southern Jiangxi, the Cantonese who moved from eastern Guangdong called the locals "Laobiao" (because people in both places are Hakka). Later, it spread to the whole of Jiangxi and became "Laobiao". Another name for "fellow fellow".
4. Taoism and Feng Shui have been popular in Jiangxi since ancient times. People from nearby provinces like to hire Feng Shui masters from Jiangxi to see Feng Shui. As a Feng Shui magician, dials are a must-have, and people from other provinces call them laobiao. Jiangxi Feng Shui Master. Over time, it was also used to refer to all Jiangxi people.
5. There were many villages in Jiangxi that were named after their surnames, such as "Wangjiacun, Lijiacun, Zhangjiabao, etc." Most of the men in the village belonged to one surname and one clan, and there were ancestral halls built in the villages. , and women have the custom of not marrying far away, resulting in more distant cousins in neighboring villages. Foreigners jokingly call them: "Jiangxi old cousins", which means that the relationship is more complicated and the closer they are, the closer they are.