Hunan and Guangdong provinces are adjacent, why do they always feel so far apart?
Due to the different geographical conditions and historical development process, there are considerable differences between Hunan and Guangdong provinces.
Especially since the reform and opening up, the fate of Guangdong and Hunan provinces has undergone historic changes. Guangdong has become the vanguard of China's economic construction. However, Hunan did not catch this train while the reform and opening-up economy developed rapidly, and its position in the national comprehensive strength was once more and more backward.
Hunan and Guangdong provinces are close to the mountains and rivers, and they are called "Huguang" in history. However, in recent years, due to the differences in economic development, living habits, ways of doing things and language characteristics between the two places, people feel that the distance between the two places is getting farther and farther. The so-called "close at hand" is probably this feeling.
But now that Hunan is working hard, "Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan" is attracting the world's attention, looking forward to the day when Hunan breaks its cocoon and becomes a butterfly.
I am from Liyi, Hunan. Move your golden finger and click on the top right corner. Please pay attention and communicate more. Thank you! In fact, geographically speaking, although Hunan borders Guangdong, it is two provinces after all. For example, according to the tradition of China people marrying their daughters, it is far away to get married outside the city. Although with the development of traffic level, intermarriage in the same province has become very common, there will still be a feeling of being far away ideologically after crossing provinces. Moreover, the area of one province in China even exceeds that of many European countries, so geographically speaking, the two provinces have actually crossed a lot.
But more important is the population location of Guangdong and Hunan. Before the industrial civilization was developed, Chu culture in Hunan was mainly in Dongting Lake Plain. Although there are many Cantonese people working in Hunan at present, the city at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong is mainly Chenzhou in the south. The main population gathering place in Hunan is the Dongting Lake Plain where Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, Hengyang, Yueyang, Shaoyang and Changde are located, and the Dongting Lake Plain is located in the northeast of Hunan Province. As we all know, the most developed area in Guangdong is the Pearl River Delta in the south, so workers in Hunan basically have to travel from northeast Hunan to south Guangdong, not as simple as border cities.
In addition, it is also influenced by the terrain. Many people went to the north by train from Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Entering Shaoguan and Chenzhou, you have to cross many tunnels. The reason is that there are many mountains at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong provinces High mountain barriers will make people think that there is a gap between the two places, and communication belongs to cross-regional action. Perhaps from the map, there is no obvious boundary between the mountains here, but we can think about the long and narrow boundary mountains of Qilian Mountain in Gansu and Helan Mountain in Ningxia.
Finally, there are cultural differences. The lingnan vocabulary in the famous poem "300 lychees a day, don't hesitate to grow up to be a lingnan person" means that the traditional "South of the South" passes through Yuechengling, Dupangling, Zhu Meng, Qitianling and Dayuling, all of which are lingnan areas. The culture in Lingnan area is unique and different from that in Hunan, so it will also make people feel far away.
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According to the satellite image above, Changsha, Xiangtan and Zhuzhou, the main cities in Hunan Province, form an urban agglomeration, which is located in the northeast of Hunan Province, while Chenzhou, the southernmost city in Hunan Province, is relatively close to Guangdong Province.
Let's take a look at the satellite map of Guangdong Province. The main cities in Guangdong Province are in the south of Guangdong Province. The main cities are the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration consisting of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan and Zhuhai. The economy here is particularly developed. If foreigners go to Guangdong to work, they will basically go to these cities, and Shaoguan, the northernmost city in Guangdong Province, is closer to Hunan Province.
Measured by satellite map, the distance from Changsha, Hunan Province to Guangzhou, Guangdong Province is 575 kilometers, and the distance from the northernmost city in a northern province to the southernmost city in a southern city is still quite far.
However, in recent years, with the opening of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway, the journey from Changsha, Hunan Province to Guangzhou 1000 Li only takes 2 hours and 40 minutes, which greatly shortens the distance between the two places.
Hunan and Guangdong are closely adjacent on the map, but in fact the distance between the two provinces blocks a series of mountains, which is also known as Qitianling, one of the five mountains. Hunan is in Lingbei, and Guangdong is in Lingnan.
In fact, the two provinces are neighbors, but why do they feel so far away?
It is natural for two close friends, especially boyfriend and girlfriend, to stand within one meter or closer face to face, but it is extremely uncomfortable for two strangers to stand within one meter face to face. This is actually a psychological reaction. It's natural between relatives and friends, but it's embarrassing because others are strangers.
Hunan and Guangdong are far apart, but the real reason is psychological distance. Because Hunan people and Cantonese people are completely different in customs, diet, language and living habits. Therefore, when Hunan people go to Guangdong or Guangdong people go to Hunan, there is always a sense of strangeness in a foreign land.
According to the traditional understanding of Guangdong people, Hunan is a "northern" where it snows and freezes every winter, and the dialects spoken are completely out of touch with the three major languages in Guangdong (Cantonese, Hakka and Chaoshan).
Secondly, Hunan people's diet is not spicy or unpleasant, which is incompatible with Guangdong people's light Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese prefer to drink herbal tea.
Third, Guangdong is located in the coastal area, with a hot and rainy climate and often sweating all over. You must take a bath every day, and if you don't wash it for a day, you will "salted fish", but Hunan people don't have this habit.
This difference alone is enough to distinguish Hunan people from Cantonese people very clearly. This sense of distance makes people between the two provinces feel completely from a distant place, and the difference is too great. Even if I live next door, I feel a completely different world from myself.
According to statistics, Hunan has the highest proportion of migrants in Guangdong, followed by Guangxi. With the development of Hunan people living in Guangdong, many people have gradually adapted to Guangdong's climate and eating habits, and their sense of foreign land will gradually decrease.
At the same time, many Hunan people have settled in Guangdong and intermarried with Cantonese people, and this sense of alienation will eventually recede. Then, one day, people in the two provinces will feel that Hunan and Guangdong are really neighbors, so close!
Geographically, Guangdong and Hunan are adjacent. In my impression, the cultural differences between Hunan and Hubei are small and close, while Guangxi and Guangdong seem to be closer.
Why do you feel that Hunan and Guangdong are far apart? In fact, Yongzhou and Chenzhou in Hunan border Guangdong, but only the Pearl River Delta is developed in Guangdong, and most Hunan people prefer to work in Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong.
Many cities in Hunan are hundreds of thousands of miles away from Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Although many cities in Hunan have high-speed rail, the coverage rate is not high. Most areas are blind areas of high-speed rail, and buses are the main means of transportation for migrant workers. Take Shaoyang as an example. It usually takes about 8 hours to get to Guangzhou by bus, or even longer if there is traffic jam on the road. The backwardness of traffic also gives people the feeling of being far apart. Like other developed cities in the north, it doesn't take that long to fly between the two places.
In addition, Hunan people eat spicy food, while Guangdong people don't like spicy food. Different accents in Hunan, different sounds in ten miles and Cantonese all give each other a feeling of long-distance love to some extent.
Seeing this problem, I remembered the first time I took a train from Zhangjiajie to work in Guangdong many years ago. I remember it took 3 1 hour to get to Guangzhou. I really feel that Hunan and Guangdong are really worlds apart! How far is it! Personally, we feel very far away because it takes us a long time to get from one city to another, resulting in a sense of distance. If we arrive in a few minutes from Chenzhou, Hunan to Shaoguan, Guangdong, we will feel that Hunan is so close to Guangdong! Do you think so?
Hunan is adjacent to Guangdong. Why do they feel so far away? My answer is: this is not surprising. Strangely, the openness of Hunan people is really not as good as that of Guangdong people. Don't disobey me, I can take my time. The first is geographical advantage. A friend said that Hunan's central consciousness is in Changsha-Zhuhai-Xiangtan, which is in the north of Hunan, but the center of Guangdong is in the south, including Guangzuo, Foshan, Zhuhai and Shenzhen. The boundary between north and south provinces is unknown (taking Beijing-Guangzhou Railway as an example). It's about 26 kilometers from Guangzuo and 340 kilometers from Changsha. Only people from the border are there. That is to say, the wages of ordinary workers (before the reform and opening up) are different at the same level in Guangdong and Hunan, and Chenzhou, Hunan is also different from other cities, which means that the consumption level in Guangdong has always been higher than that in the whole country. Farmers' agricultural and sideline products in border areas (before the opening of Beijing-Guangzhou double track) will choose to sell in the direction of Guangzhou, but they are not willing to sell in Hengyang or north of Chenzhou at all, which is nothing more than a matter of consumption power. Second, the traffic problem. In the early days of reform and opening up, highways were not very developed, and there were only Beijing-Guangzhou railways in the north and south. By the early 1980s, the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway was opened to traffic again, but the passenger station of the fourth-class small station was cancelled, which brought great inconvenience to the sale of agricultural and sideline products from southern Hunan to Guangdong. Even Yizhang, the southernmost gate of Hunan, and the border areas have to be sold to Hengyang and Chenzhou, places with surplus agricultural products. The gap between the rich and the poor has led to the rapid widening of Guangdong and Hunan. Third, Guangdong has become the first frontier of reform and opening up, and a large number of overseas Chinese and foreign-funded enterprises have touched Guangdong. At this time, Hunan people still can't figure out "what is the consciousness of reform? Thousands of years of agricultural products can no longer be invested, and industrial products seem to be less popular day by day (for example, a considerable number of state-owned and collective enterprises in Hengyang can not survive and close down). At this time, there has been a "tide of working in South Guangdong". Originally, Hunan was adjacent to Guangdong, but I'm going to work in Nanyue, hundreds of kilometers, and it will take a year or months. Can you not feel far? The most important thing is that (for example, Hengyang and Chenzhou) used to be frequent business visitors in Guangzhou (three shifts every five days or one shift every two days). This reform has suddenly become a wage earner in Guangdong, and this job has been going on for 30 to 40 years, so the history of several generations (working history) goes down in history. Who do you think will take part in this process? Fourth, awakening can shorten the distance, and policy is fundamental. Now the number of migrant workers in Guangdong is decreasing year by year. Huxiang children know the blueprint of the road to reform and opening up. The policies of the central government and Hunan are already narrowing the distance between Huguang and Hunan. I believe that the feeling of "far away" will "slowly disappear".
Many people think that Guangdong is only connected with Guangxi, otherwise there will be no so-called "Guangdong and Guangxi" and "Guangdong and Guangxi are one family". In fact, there is far more than one provincial administrative division adjacent to Guangdong. In addition, there are famous Hong Kong and Macao, less important Hainan, farther Fujian, and Hunan and Jiangxi, which are most easily overlooked by Cantonese.
So that when Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangdong are adjacent, many Cantonese people will be surprised: What! Hunan is connected with Guangdong? Jiangxi is connected with Guangdong? Although this is funny to mainlanders, it does exist in Guangdong Province. The reason why Hunan is adjacent to Guangdong makes people feel so far away is mainly due to the following reasons:
1. Historically, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan belong to the same cultural circle:
Guangdong has always had more contact with Guangxi and Hainan, and less contact with Hunan and Jiangxi. Because in history, Guangdong has been an organic whole with Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macao. The reason why there is a saying that "Guangdong and Guangxi are one family" is because Guangdong and Guangxi have always been a family in history.
Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hongkong and Macau all belonged to Baiyue region of China in the pre-Qin period. In the Qin Dynasty, * * * belonged to the "Lingnan Three Counties"; At the beginning of Han Dynasty, * * * belonged to the vassal state-Nanyue State; In the middle and late Han Dynasty, * * * belonged to the secretariat department of Jiaozhou; * * * The Tang Dynasty belonged to Lingnan Road; In the early Song Dynasty, * * * belonged to Guangnan Road; During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, * * * was under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
It can be said that Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan have always been closely linked and constantly linked in history, and even honor and disgrace and * * * are interdependent. In modern times, Guangdong had frequent contacts with Hong Kong and Macao, and was known as "Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao". Especially Guangdong and Hong Kong, modern Guangdong was deeply influenced by Hong Kong in many aspects, such as economy, finance, culture, catering and customs.
2. Guangdong and Hunan belong to different cultural circles in history:
On the other hand, the relationship between Hunan and Guangdong is much stranger in history. Historically, Hunan has always played more with Hubei and less with Guangdong and Guangxi. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, both Hunan and Hubei belonged to Chu, a great vassal state. During the Han Dynasty, both Hunan and Hubei belonged to Jingzhou Secretariat. In the Yuan Dynasty, both Hunan and Hubei belonged to Huguang Province.
It can be said that Hunan and Hubei belong to the "Chu Cultural Circle", while Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan belong to the "Yue (Yue) Cultural Circle". Therefore, Hunan and Guangdong belong to different cultural circles at all, which naturally makes people feel that they are two adjacent provinces, but they are far apart.
3. Other differences between Guangdong and Hunan:
1. Geographical differences: Guangdong and Guangxi belong to Lingnan area in history and South China in modern times. Hunan, like Hubei, belongs to Central China.
2. Different landforms: Guangdong and Guangxi both belong to hilly areas, but there is a vast Wuling Mountains (Dayu Mountain, Qitianling, Dupangling, Zhumengshan and Yuechengling) between Hunan and Guangdong. It is the Wuling Mountains that naturally separate Guangdong from Hunan, making Cantonese feel that Hunan is far away, and Hunan people feel that Guangdong is far away.
3. Different water systems: Guangdong and Guangxi belong to the Pearl River system, while Hunan and Hubei belong to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. All the rivers in Hunan flow into Hubei, and all the rivers in Guangxi and Guangdong flow into the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong. You know, in ancient times, most people traveled by boat. Hunan people go out to Hubei by boat, while Guangxi people go out to Guangdong by boat.
Therefore, the exchanges between Hunan and Hubei are frequent, and the exchanges between Guangxi and Guangdong are frequent, but there is no communication between Hunan and Guangdong, so it is difficult to communicate. Because there are vast Wuling Mountains (Dayu Mountain, Qitianling, Dupangling, Mengzhuling and Yuechengling) between Hunan and Guangdong, Guangdong ships cannot sail in Hunan, nor can Hunan ships sail in Guangdong. About "Hunan and Guangdong provinces are adjacent, why do they always feel so far apart?" Welcome to leave a message, discuss and pay attention in the comment area.
In Hunan and Guangdong provinces, the government rarely contacts the news, but the people do not. But compared with Guangxi and Fujian provinces, the contact is a little different? Hunan is not the main province of folk development in Guangdong, or there is little communication between Cantonese. The main reason is development. Maybe Hunan people come to Guangdong more, and Guangdong people go to Hunan less, much less. I turned it off.
Shaoyang City, Yongzhou City is also close to Guangzhou, but it takes less than ten hours by ordinary air-conditioned train, because everyone needs to detour from Chenzhou. Now the opening of Erguang Expressway has made many people feel closer and more convenient to the Pearl River Delta, and the traffic jam is not as bad as before. If the Guangzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway can be built in the future, it will not only promote the exchanges between Hunan and Guangdong, but also shorten the spatial distance and promote the economic development of southwest Hunan and northwest Guangdong.