Where did the ancestors of the Chaoshan people come from? Is it She?

The ancestors of the Chaoshan people can be traced back to the southern coastal areas of ancient China, including the She, Slang and Han Chinese. These people have lived and multiplied in the Chaoshan area since ancient times.

In the Tang Dynasty, the She people were active in this area, and the Slang people were distributed in present-day western Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. The Han Chinese began to migrate south to the Chaoshan area in large numbers during the Southern Song Dynasty, and gradually became the main ethnic group in the Chaoshan area during the wars and political turmoil of the past dynasties.

Today's Chaoshan people are formed by the integration of many ethnic groups, among which the Han people are the main ethnic group of the Chaoshan people, and the influence of the She people on Chaoshan culture is also reflected to a certain extent.

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.

Chaoshe culture is distributed in the Chaoshan area of the indigenous culture, Chaoshan area is the origin of She culture, She gradually transformed into Chaoshan is also slow, Chaoshe culture in accepting the culture of the Han people in southern Fujian embarked on the road of sinicization, at the same time She culture has gradually entered the Chaoshan area of the southern Fujian culture, in such a process of mutual exchange and mutual absorption, the Han Chaoshan Han people have also absorbed many beneficial elements from the She people, so that the culture of various ethnic groups has appeared You have me, I have you, It is difficult to distinguish the extent of each other.

Chaoshe culture.

Chaozhou is located in a remote area and was developed late. Before the Tang Dynasty, from Han Yu's "Chaozhou Please Place Township School", it can be seen that there is already a certain population and a certain economic scale. But after all, the population is sparse, the natural environment is harsh, the productivity is low, and it is still in a relatively backward wilderness.

And Chaozhou was originally a place where barbarian fangs lived, and the Book of Sui recorded: "Nanban miscellaneous, and the Chinese live in a staggered manner, said meander, said badger, said slang, said fang, said drag, have no king, live with the cave, the so-called Baiyue in ancient times." Its vulgar hair tattoos, good to attack, immersed in weak, slightly belonging to China, are listed as counties, the same Qi people, no more details.

Chaozhou is also often war-torn due to barbarian roars, so it has been in slow development for a long time. It was not until after the Tang Dynasty that Chen Yuanguang pacified the barbarian rebellion and founded Zhangzhou, and then Chang Gon, Han Yu and others revitalized education and developed Chaozhou, and Chaozhou's economy and culture made significant progress.