The famous host Dou Wentao raised such a question on the "Round Table Pie", why is there less entrepreneurial group in the south and less in the north? Ma Weidu gave him a clearer answer, that is, because of the influence of clan culture. The south is seriously affected by the clan culture, so most of the enterprises are clan enterprises, if there is any setback, there will be the help of the entire clan, so that the ability to resist risks is relatively strong.
The influence of clan culture in the north is not serious, so most of the entrepreneurs in the north are single-handed, and not only no one helps when encountering risks, but even there may be a falling stone, because of the family property competition and lead to the bankruptcy of the enterprise. Combined with what Ma Weidu said, many people have once again asked why the southern clan culture is strong, but the north is not?
Southerners actually migrated from the north
From a historical point of view, in fact, the birthplace of Chinese civilization is in the Yellow River Basin, the entire population development is also from the Yellow River Basin to the surrounding areas, the Central Plains and Guanzhong region have developed to a certain extent, most of the areas south of the Yangtze River are still in the sparsely populated stage.
With the continuous development of the Central Plains and the northern region, resources have been seriously scarce, so people in order to compete for resources, is always prone to various wars, such as in the Xia Shang Zhou period, once a large-scale war occurs, the suffering must be the people, the people in the north can not stand the impact of war, they migrated to the deserted southern region on a large scale.
At first, they did not think that after coming to the south, the environment was actually more suitable for survival than the north, so they began to take root in the south and develop steadily, and when the development reached a certain level, the south became the foundation of Chinese civilization, for example, we will see the Qin and Han Dynasties, and have begun to call the people in the north Xiongnu (the Xiongnu lived in the northeast and Heilongjiang regions).
Because the southern population is migrated, so the initial stage of the hometown in the north is still more missed, so the southerners began to set up some ancestral halls, used to remember their hometown relatives, over time, this culture has formed a clan culture, in a clan room, as long as there is a big event, will always go to the ancestral hall to worship, whether it is marriage and funeral, or what a big event, will go to the ancestral hall to worship.
When the clan culture develops to a certain extent, the operation of society basically relies on the clan to maintain stability, for example, we will find that in some literature records of the Han and Tang Dynasties, whether it is the record of the pension or some legal records, the key figure of the clan patriarch is mentioned.
A clan will always choose a respected old man to come out of the position of patriarch, in the historical period of strong clan culture at that time, many times the power of the patriarch is far higher than the power of officials, in the Han and Tang Dynasties, if a person does not filial piety to the parents or does not provide for the elderly, the patriarch will directly interfere, light punishment, heavy directly expelled from the clan, once a person is expelled, no matter where he goes, he is not welcomed, after all, in that era, the clan is the group, A village or even a county may belong to the same clan, and the influence of the clan seriously exceeds the influence of the government.
This is also the fundamental reason why the selection of officials in the initial stage uses the system of filial piety, because the influence of the clan is too large, and only one person can be elected through the recommendation of the clan to serve as an official, otherwise it is impossible to serve the public, and the official who is not recognized by the clan cannot be managed even if he becomes an official.
With the continuous development of history, after the Song Dynasty, the folk clan culture was not as serious as before, but for some high-ranking officials and nobles or relatives of the emperor, the clan influence was still relatively serious, such as some of the clan systems established during the Zhou Dynasty, which fully explained everything.
The eldest son inheritance system divides the clan into large and small sects, the so-called great emperor is also the line of concubines, for example, in the emperor's family, the sons born to the empress belong to the concubines, and if you want to inherit the throne, you basically have to choose from the concubines first, which is the emperor, in addition to the concubines, the concubines, collectively known as the xiaozong.
Inside the clan, in addition to the royal family has a special genealogy, generally a little bit of influence of the big family, but also pay more attention to the family tree, in the family tree we can easily see the difference between the large sect and the small sect, in the large sect, in addition to the inheritance of the family property, the rest of the distribution is different, these are part of the clan culture.
It can be said that in the process of the formation of ancient Chinese clan culture, accompanied by too many factors, because the factors of environmental migration are only the factors that promote and lay the foundation, it is precisely because of migration that people will live in the south, and with the stable life in the south, the clan culture can continue to be passed on.
Life in the South is relatively stable and there are fewer wars
Looking at the history, we will find that the capitals of many dynasties are in Xianyang, Chang'an, nanjing, and the dynasties in Beijing are actually not many, so why choose the southern capital as the capital? In fact, from the historical background at that time, the main reason was because the south was relatively stable.
We can look at the role played by the north in history, whether it is the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties, or the Turks in the Tang Dynasty, or even the Jinguo and Western Xia people in the Song Dynasty, the Mongols and Jurchens in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, some of whom lived in the north, and some of whom were close to the north, so there were often wars.
In the war-prone northern regions, it is already a luxury for people to even live because of the war, let alone use the only resources to worship their ancestors. Without the habit of worship for a long time, the clan culture will become more and more diluted, and over time, the north will naturally not have such a strong clan culture atmosphere.
Perhaps now we all have a feeling that people in the northern region are more martial, and people in the southern region are more re-literate, which is caused by the historical precipitation at that time, coupled with the influence of environmental factors, this problem is basically difficult to change.
Since there are few wars in the south, and most of the dynastic capitals are in the south, there will be more powerful families in the south, and these large clans are naturally the key to the formation of clan culture, as I said at the beginning, in the royal family and the families of high-ranking officials and nobles, the clan culture is the most obvious.
The reason for this obvious phenomenon is that on the one hand, after having an economic foundation, people will pursue spiritual sustenance, on the other hand, there are many people in the rich and powerful families, and it is difficult to manage them without a unified institutional standard or belief to constrain it.
In the ancient magnate clans, if there is no major mistake, the life of these famous and prestigious families will be very long, such as the Dugu family in the Sui Dynasty, and the Yang family, these families have a large time span in history, and there are many outstanding figures, if there is no influence of clan culture, it is estimated that it is difficult to do.
Of course, in addition to these influencing factors, the cleaning of ancestral halls and clan culture in the northern region in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was also an important reason for the serious impact on the clan culture in the northern region, when the south was far from Beijing, the degree of impact was not serious, and the clan culture was preserved.
Later, as many rich people in the south were influenced by the clan culture, donated money to continue to build ancestral halls, over time, the number of ancestral halls in the south is more, the clan culture atmosphere is more intense, all this seems to be a process of continuous promotion, the stronger the clan culture, the higher the enthusiasm for the establishment of the ancestral hall, the more the establishment of the ancestral hall, the stronger the clan culture!
epilogue
Chinese culture is broad and profound, a simple clan culture, in fact, has contained too much of the inheritance of the Chinese nation, it is the clan culture, the Chinese nation of the world of the idea of conveying, but also the clan culture to tell more people to not forget the original intention, it can be said that the clan culture to a large extent has become a family cohesion, but sometimes, clan culture will also become the biggest obstacle to the development of a family!
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