Southerners pay a lot of attention to clan ancestral halls, why are there almost none in the north?

Why do southerners focus on clans, while northerners have almost none? It's an interesting question, is it because southerners are more united than northerners? So let's talk about why today.

Let's take a look at the differences between the north and the south, the clan concept in the north is mainly based on the "five suits" as the boundary, and the "five suits" cannot be regarded as relatives.

In the south, clans are based on villages, for example, in "Icebreaker", Tazhai Village is such a village, when the people in the village are at fault, they can ask the group to stipulate.

Why is this happening?

From the geographical point of view, the southern geography of the feudal dynasty political center, the Song and Yuan Dynasty immigrants entrusted the ancestral tablet, when taking root in the south, due to the complex topography of the south, the mountains and rivers are blocked, and the impact of war or war is relatively small.

After a long period of development, the single-surname family filled the geographical border, that is, a village has a surname, and they are all one ancestor.

Collective ancestor worship and genealogy increase cohesion and sense of mission.

Collective ancestor worship is like a National Day, so that everyone understands that they are a family, and the genealogy is like a monument, the south is very serious when writing the family tree, whoever goes to college, someone has become a big official, they have to write it down, and leave it for future generations to admire.

For the north, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, read all the history books, each dynasty will be subject to very serious wars, at most stable for more than 200 years, it will be scattered again, and these areas often suffer from various natural disasters, so the population is highly mobile.

After a period of development, the village will scatter and flee, and when the ecological and social environment is stable, it will come back, and it is not necessarily the original people who fled the famine to rebuild their homes.

It's not that the North didn't have it, but that the North was liberated earlier than the South, and the South was more humane when it was liberated.

The ancestral hall in the north was distributed to the poor people in the clan with feudal surplus property during the land reform, and the ancestral hall has been abolished. The South retained ethnic property, and it was the Communist Party that made its policies more humane in the future.

In the past few years, I have been calling for the rebuilding of the family property, and the inheritance will be orderly. Restoring a harmonious family culture is beneficial to both the country and the people.

Personally, I think that the geographical problems are mostly in the northern plains, and it is easier for people to migrate, but the geographical situation in the south is complicated, and migration has brought great difficulties to people. Therefore, in the south, many villages have only a few surnames in a village, and the clansmen have lived together for generations, and the people are very closely connected with each other, and they can better protect the interests of their own people when they are united, and the establishment of ancestral halls is also a practical need.

Mainly because there are a lot of wars in the north, and there are many natural and man-made disasters, and the Han people in the south help a little more, so they will attach great importance to these etiquette, and there are relatively more overseas Chinese in the south.

Because the southerners pay great attention to worship, they do not burn paper money to pay tribute to their ancestors, while the north likes to burn paper money to pay tribute to their ancestors during the New Year's holidays.

This is because temples are more worshipped in the north, so temples can be found everywhere in the north, and there are differences in this cultural practice between the north and the south.

Probably because there is no such custom in the north, and the northerners do not take this kind of thing seriously.

Because of the frequent wars in the north, the economy is relatively backward.

Compared with the south, the northern ridicule Wang Fang was a political center for a long time, and the frequent wars were one of the reasons for the decline of the ancestral hall culture. Although the Chinese civilization originated in the Central Plains, the Central Plains has always been invaded by northern nomads. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was harassed by the Dog Rong and the Xiongnu; The Han Dynasty was threatened by the Xiongnu, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought against the Xiongnu many times.

The Tang Dynasty was invaded by the Turks, the Ming Dynasty was seized by Wara, etc., and the north has been in the midst of war and instability. At the same time, the war will also bring about a sharp decline in the population, and many ancestral halls with villages as units will often be wiped out in the war.

In ancient times, China belonged to an agrarian society, and people's dependence on agriculture was very high. In the context of the underdeveloped society of water conservancy in ancient times, all economic booms and declines have a strong connection with God. The economic foundation of the construction of the ancestral hall is the most fundamental constraint.

Policies affect ancestral culture:

As a political center in the past, the north has also been seriously affected by policies. Another fundamental reason for the lack of ancestral halls in the north is the "Breaking the Four Olds" movement in the sixties and seventies of the last century, which was very badly smashed, and almost all the ancestral halls in villages and towns were demolished.

Wen Shijun once heard the older generation say that the family of this family was relatively large back then, and there was also a very prominent ancestral hall in the village, and the annual New Year's worship and sales activities were very grand. It's just that it was also destroyed in the movement to break the four olds.

Clan culture is our ancestral culture, and it is also the meaning of our life continuity. Nowadays, many people feel that life is meaningless, on the one hand, it is the loss of self-worth, and on the other hand, the shallowness of clan culture, and there is no sense of responsibility and mission. Reviving the clan culture and protecting the ancestral hall is also one of the historical sinology cultures that we uphold and inherit.

In Chinese history, the north was waging war, and the northerners had to avoid war, so they had to migrate. Therefore, in the history of the northern experience, the movement of many people, such as Shaokong, west, west, etc., the frequent migration will be fixed. Ethnic groups continue to disassemble, which also leads to the fact that northerners are less powerful.

Compared to the north, the southern region was relatively stable, the wars were relatively small, and historically, the northern nomads rarely had to cross the Yangtze River (mainly because the northern soldiers were not adapted to the southern climate).

The relatively stable living environment, coupled with the many streams of water in the south, was rich in property, and the south went through generations of people who remained fixed in a fixed place, which helped to form a fixed clan strength, and generations after generations also continued. After the reform and opening up, the power of the southern region has gradually opened up, especially in the keen area, many Chinese overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwanese compatriots have returned to their hometowns to explore their ancestors, and donated money to repair the house of Qian ancestor. Rushed to the northern regions, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan compatriots of the Chinese overseas Chinese are relatively small, and the northerners did not repair their ancestors.

Chinese culture is profound, because there are some things in history, there are south-south, such as martial arts, southern boxes, boxing in the south is often received, and the legs in the north are also very strong. In some customary cultures, there are many different pumpkins in the south and north. For example, the South is very concerned about its own clan and ancestral culture, so when it comes to the North, there are few buildings and customs similar to ancestral halls.

You know why?

In ancient societies, the people of the North were forced to migrate to the South due to the frequent wars in the North and the relative stability of the South, where they sought their livelihood. In the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the Jin army, the Northern Song Dynasty, and many princes and pillars of Song Gaozu also followed the south. It was still because of the South, and then it also settled in the South.

The feudal society of the feudal society is very strong, people think about the family, remember their roots, let the future remember their roots, so they built an ancestral hall to pay tribute to their ancestors, thinking of their hometown, they do not forget their roots.

Because the southerners have basically lived together for generations, and the influence of race and culture is more serious, and in the war years, the impact is relatively small.

Because there are more big families in the south, they attach more importance to this kind of thing. And there are fewer big families in the north, so they don't pay much attention to it.

This is because of the cultural differences between the north and the south, the southerners are particular about the family, and the north is not very particular.

It seems that only Shanxi in the north attaches importance to ancestral hall culture.

The ancestral hall of the clan can be said to represent a symbol of Chinese culture, which not only represents the honor and disgrace of the whole family, but also represents the spirit of the family. But we often find a strange phenomenon, that is, the South pays more attention to this aspect, but the North does not. This is because in ancient times, people were displaced due to years of war in the north, while there were fewer wars in the south, the economy was developed, and there were more Han people, so this culture was inherited.

First, because the war situation between the north and the south in ancient times was different, in the history of ancient China, the north of China was often in war, so people had no fixed place to live, and in order to escape the war, they continued to move, so it caused a large flow of people, and the concept of clan was not profound. Coupled with the war, many ancestral halls have been destroyed, which is also a factor that there are relatively few ancestral halls in the north; However, there were relatively few wars in the south, and the personnel were basically in a fixed area, so a strong clan ideology was formed. At the same time, the economy of the south is relatively developed and rich in products, which is very suitable for people to reproduce and survive from generation to generation, so the strength of the clan has been consolidated and continued to develop.

2. Because of religious reasons, in ancient times, most of the people in the north were children born of intermarriage between Hu and Han, and they did not attach much importance to the traditional culture and etiquette of the Han people. Therefore, it also led to the fact that the north did not accept the concept of clans, so that the ancestral hall could not develop in the north; At that time, many people fled to the south to escape the war, and at the same time, many traditional Chinese culture and etiquette were retained. As a result, the clan mentality in southern China, especially in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, is much stronger than in other regions.

Therefore, in ancient China at that time, there were more wars in the north than in the south, so the ancestral hall buildings were destroyed and people were relocated. Moreover, most of the people in the north are Hu people, and they do not pay attention to traditional Chinese etiquette. Therefore, the clan concept did not continue well in the north.

Therefore, how to carry forward the carrier of culture and be well inherited and developed is inseparable from a stable current situation and a developed economy. A strong country can better develop and sustain culture.

Because southerners are more feudal and superstitious, southerners pay great attention to clan ancestral halls, while northerners are not feudal and superstitious, so there are almost no in the north.

This is a difference between regions, from ancient times to the present, the southerners have attached great importance to the ancestral halls of the clan, so it has been handed down, while the north does not have this custom.

In the past, there were many wars in the north and people were displaced, while the south was relatively stable, and the genealogy passed down from generation to generation was also continued, and many clan ancestral halls were also destroyed in the wars in the north.

Isn't Taimiao a royal ancestral hall?

Southerners attach great importance to clans and ancestral halls, especially in the Fujian and Guangdong regions, but not in the north, and many young people do not know what ancestral halls are all about. Why is this discrepancy? Today we're going to talk about it. South, North, Family, History, Tradition.

There are many wars in the north, natural disasters and man-made disasters are frequent, and many ancient buildings, temples, ancestral halls and even genealogies have been greatly damaged, which is an important reason for the lack of ancestral halls in the north. The southern region has many rivers and abundant products, and has survived for several generations and still lived in fixed places, which is conducive to the formation of a fixed clan strength.

Because there are no clans living in the north, there are usually many surnames in one village.

The main reason is that natural and man-made disasters in the north, wars occur from time to time, and the proximity of the north to the political center has caused many ancestral halls to be damaged.

In fact, in the south, almost every village will have several ancestral halls, and in the north, there are basically very few, in fact, the main reason for such a scene is the historical reason, first of all, we all know that the north has been a place of war since ancient times, so there are a lot of wars, so people have to choose to move south in order to take refugeTherefore, on the one hand, the migration of the population has made the original ethnic groups continue to be dispersed, so that the clan concept in the north is not as strong as in the south, and after migrating to the south, they have to fight against the local natives, so in order to unite, they will establish ancestral halls in the south, to stabilize the strength of the clan with the same surname, in this way it is also to avoid being bullied.

The second thing is the problem of food and clothing, in fact, before the Qing Dynasty, there were still more ancestral halls in the north, which were basically common, and the big ancestral halls like those in the TV series would only be owned by some famous families in the northHowever, in the later period of the Qing Dynasty, it can be said that all kinds of natural and man-made disasters continued, on the one hand, drought and locust plagues, as well as problems such as the flooding of the Yellow River, on the other hand, bandits in the north were more rampant, coupled with warlord fights in various places, so the people had problems with their own food and clothing and survival due to natural and man-made disasters, so naturally I can't take care of my ancestors, so slowly the north is also in addition to some places, and the rest of the ancestral halls are gradually abandoned.

There is also the north belongs to the political center, after the founding of New China has also experienced a lot of twists and turns, the impact is relatively large, especially in the "breaking the four old" period, it can be said that at that time to crack down on a lot of feudal superstition behavior, resulting in many ancestral temples in the north were destroyed because of this, so the natural north ancestral halls are also less and less,Because the south is far away from the political center, the scope of the impact is relatively small, especially in some closed remote areas, the ancestral teachings in the ancestral hall will be more useful than the law, and there are more ancestral halls in the southAnother point is the issue of faith, there are many beliefs in the southern region, especially for all kinds of gods, so believing in ancestors is also a kind of spiritual sustenance.

The last word is the problem of overseas Chinese, after China's reform and opening upMany overseas Chinese and overseas compatriots will return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors, and most of these places are basically in Fujian and GuangdongThere are relatively few overseas Chinese in the north, so naturally there is no such large-scale construction of ancestral halls, so the combination will make the north less than the south.