Why are Jiangxi people called "old cousins"?

Jiangxi people like to say "cousin". At first they were confused and thought there must be a reason. That's true. There are three main reasons why Jiangxi people are called "cousins": First, Hunan people are descendants of Jiangxi people, and Hunan people think that they and Jiangxi people are cousins, so they call Jiangxi people "cousins". Jiangxi is their parents' land and Jiangxi people are their relatives. So calling Jiangxi people "cousins" is very popular among Hunan people. Gradually, after hundreds of years of widespread dissemination by Hunan people, all China people probably know that Jiangxi people are "cousins" of Hunan people. 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". It is said that most academic circles agree with the latter statement. Although the legend is a bit bizarre, judging from the time and events described in the legend, there have been events in history that are roughly consistent with the legend. As for the third statement, it is also widely circulated that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was seriously injured when he fought Chen Youliang, who was entrenched in Jiangxi, in Jiujiang. The kind farmers in Jiangxi saved him and took care of him. After he was grateful, he made a promise that if one day he became an emperor and Jiangxi people had any difficulties, they could go to see him as a cousin (ancient cousins and other relatives were closely related, so far in some areas of Jiangxi). Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang won the world and was rich in Nanjing, which is now Nanjing. He created the famous Ming Dynasty in history and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Soon, Jiangxi suffered a natural disaster that never happened in a hundred years, so someone suggested sending representatives to Beijing to meet the emperor. After seeing Zhu Yuanzhang, Jiangxi people were treated well. Zhu Gang won the world, in order to win the hearts of the people, and then in order to repay the kindness of the people of Jiangxi, he reduced taxes in Jiangxi. And allocate funds for disaster relief. Zhu Yuanzhang's actions were soon widely known in China. At that time, all China literati were happy to talk privately, and Jiangxi people were also happy to call themselves "cousins" of the emperor when they went back to illustrate the close relationship between Jiangxi people and the emperor. Over time, it became synonymous with Jiangxi people. However, there are indications that the source of Jiangxi's old table name should be the first. But it is worthy of recognition that this term first appeared in the Ming Dynasty. References:

1364 (from yuan dynasty to twenty-four years), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, sent general Xu Da to attack Changsha, and fought a bloody battle with the old army of Chen Youliang and the remnants of the yuan dynasty for four years, with a crushing defeat. Finally, it won in 1368 (the first year of Hongwu) and established the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Changsha. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, this kind of successive war disasters made the rural areas of Changsha barren, the people scattered, Lusheng was the city, and many places were barren. As a result, the Ming Dynasty moved a large number of Jiangxi immigrants to Changsha (Hubei and Hunan, when the two provinces were one province, called Huguang Province), which made "farming" play a grand epic of "Jiangxi filling Huguang" in history. During the Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty, due to the peasant uprising of Zhang, there were frequent wars in Deyang area. In the sixteenth year of Kangxi, the Qing army killed innocent people in order to destroy the rebels, and the population was exhausted and deserted. According to the decree of the Qing court, many residents in Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei were forced to move. People call this great migration "Jiangxi fills Huguang and Huguang fills Sichuan". Centuries have passed, and in the long history of China, Jiangxi people have played an important role in the five major migrations. In the grand symphony played in time and space, the ancestors of Jiangxi, like tenacious seeds, fell on the avenue of Dayi and scattered in the hinterland until they took root and sprouted. Hunan people come from all corners of the country, and most of them are from Jiangxi. After Jiangxi people moved to Hunan, they mainly cultivated and cultivated. In order to avoid a long journey, most people from southern Jiangxi moved to southern Hunan and most people from northern Jiangxi moved to northern Hunan. According to Mr. Tan Qixiang, as early as the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants entered Hunan, but in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the number of immigrants was relatively large, and the scale of immigrants was the most unprecedented in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Mr. Tan Qixiang pointed out in particular that before the Southern Song Dynasty, almost all the immigrants who raided Hunan were from Jiangxi. It can be seen that Jiangxi ancestors migrated several times in history, and now many people in Hunan are bleeding from Jiangxi. Dialect experts say that only from Guiyang County, Hunan Province, Liu, Li, Yuan and other major surnames have migrated from Jiangxi, but the time of moving in has come first, and their ancestral homes are also different. Most people in Guiyang County, Hunan Province moved in from other places after the Tang and Song Dynasties, including 10 from Jiangxi and 9 from Taihe County, Jiangxi Province.