Today s Chaoshan people are from ancient times

The Chaoshan people are an important part of the She people, and the records of the snake worship customs of the Chaoshan people are reported to be still unchanged among the Chaoshan people. The Han people did not worship snakes, on the contrary, the general Han people have a kind of hatred and fear for poisonous snakes and beasts. However, after the Chaoshan ancestors settled in the coastal border area, they got along with the indigenous people for a long time, and gradually accommodated and accepted the custom of snake worship.

The outstanding performance is that the Snake King Palace has also become.

The objects of worship of the Chaoshan people, the Sheteng Temple of the Spirit Snake Mountain, and the Waiter Temple of the Sanping Mountain are plugged with the incense of the Chaoshan people. They also endowed the snake king and the snake god with the character of punishing evil and promoting good, and judging like gods; Or personify the snake god as a beautiful and kind white snake lady, or worship the snake god as a noble and majestic Youtian Emperor. This shows that the snake worship of the Chaoshan people is indeed inherited from the ancestors of the She nationality, and it also shows that the religious beliefs of the Chaoshan people are indeed transformed and evolved from the religious beliefs of the indigenous people of the She nationality.

Most of the ancestors of the Chaoshan people fled from the ancient Central Plains to Putian, Fujian, and then migrated to the Chaoshan area. The ancient Central Plains refers to Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong and other places. Before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, most of them were Henan people, and most of them were Fujian people from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, and after the Southern Song Dynasty, there were gradually Chaoshan people.

According to research, about 90% of the Chaoshan people are Han immigrants from the Central Plains, and a small number of others are descendants of local indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities and foreigners.

Most of the Hakka and Chaoshan people in the Lingnan region are descendants of Henan people, and they will hold an annual trip to Henan in the Central Plains to seek their roots and worship their ancestors.

The main reasons for the migration of the Central Plains to the south were natural disasters and wars, and in order to escape these disasters, people had to carry out large-scale migrations.

The Chaoshan people originated in the Central Plains and multiplied in Chaoshan. It refers to the descendants of the early Han people who moved south from the Central Plains to Fujian and then moved into eastern Guangdong. Most of the contemporary Chaoshan people speak Teochew dialect as their mother tongue, and now they are gathered in nearly 60 countries and regions at home and abroad.

There are about 10 million people living in Chaoshan, more than 10 million people living in other parts of China, and about 15 million people living overseas.

Chaoshan people dare to break through, good at business, with the motto of "love to fight to win", they have made remarkable achievements in major fields, especially in the business world. Therefore, as early as the beginning of the last century, it was known as the "Oriental Jew".

The Chaoshan area where the Chaoshan people are located was called Chaozhou Mansion in ancient times, and now the Chaoshan area mainly refers to: Chaozhou City, Shantou City, Jieyang City and Fengshun County, the original Chaozhou capital.

<> Chaoshan people are concentrated in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province and their ancestral hometown, mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other places along the Lingnan coast of China, and since the Song and Yuan dynasties, a large number of people have migrated to more than 100 countries and coastal areas in the world, such as Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, France, the United States, and Canada. Chaoshan overseas Chinese were inscribed on the Memory of the World Register.

Social Sciences: Chinese studies master Jao Tsung-i, famous economists Xu Dixin, Xiao Zhuoji, Chen Yulu, Liu Zunyi, famous philosophers Du Guozhen, Chen Weishi, Zhao Tingyang, Pan Shimo, famous writer Qin Mu, founder of Chinese journalism history Fang Hanqi, famous scholar Xu Dishan, famous scholar Chen Pingyuan, etc. At least 33 people have been approved to be named as representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage.