Jiangxi people's favor for "Lao Biao" has a long history, and the earliest statement may be traced back to the totem era. According to textual research, "table" refers to the old wood, such as "Twelve Years of Gong Xuan": "Tomorrow, to show it, it will be restored under the wood." Du Note: "Table refers to wood." However, the excavation of Wucheng site in Qingjiang River reveals that there are "hundreds of column holes of different sizes, mostly arranged in rows or staggered" in the laterite altar in Shang Dynasty. This is obviously the primitive fetishism totem pole belief of Dongyi ethnic group in the Jianghuai valley and the extension area of the south of the Yangtze River. From the middle of Shang Dynasty to the end of Warring States Period, Lao Biao was recorded in writing. Therefore, "Lao Biao" is the vernacular expression of totem list, and it is the memory residue of totem impression of Jiangxi ethnic group.
There are many kinds of folk sayings:
1. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, many areas in eastern Hunan were deserted due to 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. What is that? Regarding the origin of the word "old watch", the legend of filling Huguang in Jiangxi is also the most popular statement.
According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang was killed and rescued in Jiangxi at the end of Yuan Dynasty when he was not an emperor. In order to repay the kindness of Jiangxi people, he promised that if he won the world, Jiangxi people could directly find him in the name of his cousin.
3. Cantonese people who originated in Hakka areas in southern Jiangxi and moved from eastern Guangdong called the locals "old cousins" (because people in both places are the same? Hakka), later spread throughout Jiangxi, became another name for "hometown".
4. 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 a feng shui master, the dial is a necessity, and mainlanders call these Jiangxi feng shui with old watches. Over time, it is also used to address all Jiangxi people.