What does Jiangxi laobiao mean?
Jiangxi laobiao, among which laobiao is also written as laobiao, has a certain intimacy. Cousin Jiangxi has also become a kind name for Jiangxi people from other provinces. In addition, some immigrants from Jiangxi to other provinces from Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times also maintained the title of "old cousin".
In Hunan, northern Fujian, southwestern Anhui and other places, there are two opinions about the origin of "Jiangxi Laobiao". One argument is that Hunan people think that their ancestors and Jiangxi ancestors are cousins, so they call Jiangxi people "Jiangxi cousins". 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".
Jiangxi laobiao folk proverb
At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, many areas in eastern Hunan were deserted by war, and a large number of Jiangxi people moved to Hunan. Later, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of Jiangxi people moved in, and even nine out of ten households in some places came from Jiangxi. When these descendants of Jiangxi people who moved to Hunan returned to Jiangxi to pay homage to their ancestral graves, they liked to call local Jiangxi people cousins, meaning cousins. This is the legend of Guan Hu Guang in Jiangxi, and it is also the most popular statement about the origin of the word Lao Biao.
Taoism and geomantic omen have prevailed in Jiangxi since ancient times. People in nearby provinces like to invite Mr. Feng Shui from Jiangxi to see Feng Shui. As feng shui masters, dials are necessary, so mainlanders call these feng shui masters from Jiangxi cousins. Over time, it is also used to address all Jiangxi people.