1) One saying is that Hunan people think that their ancestors and Jiangxi people are cousins, so they call Jiangxi people "Jiangxi cousins". ?
2) Another way of saying it is that the ancestors in Jiangxi believed in geomantic omen, and it was easy to master the direction when they migrated. They always love to carry a watch (an ancient compass), so mainlanders call Jiangxi people "old watches".
2. The current "Jiangxi Laobiao" refers to Jiangxi people, but it does not include Wuyuan in Jiangxi and Wuyuan District in Shangguangyu. Similarly, writing "old cousin" is the name Jiangxi people call their fellow villagers in the same province, with a certain sense of intimacy. Cousin Jiangxi has also become a kind name for Jiangxi people from other provinces.
In addition, some immigrants from Jiangxi to other provinces from Ming and Qing dynasties to modern times also maintained the title of "old cousin", such as Hunan, northern Fujian, southwestern Anhui and other places.
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Other folk sayings about the origin of "Jiangxi laobiao";
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.
This is the legend of Guan Hu Guang in Jiangxi, and it is also the most popular statement about the origin of the word Lao Biao.
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 an old cousin.
3. Originated in the Hakka area in southern Jiangxi, Cantonese who moved from eastern Guangdong called the local people "old cousins" (because both places are Hakka), and later spread to the whole of Jiangxi, becoming 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 geomantic magician, the dial is necessary, so mainlanders use their old watches to call these geomantic omen in Jiangxi. Over time, it is also used to address all Jiangxi people.
5. In villages named after surnames in Jiangxi, such as "Wang Jiacun, Li Jiacun, Zhangjiabao, etc.", most men in the villages share the same surname and clan, and there is an ancestral hall in the village, while women have the custom of marrying far away, which leads to more distant cousins in neighboring villages. Foreigners call it "cousin Jiangxi", which means that the more complicated the relationship, the closer it is.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Jiangxi laobiao
Sina. Com: Why do you call us Jiangxi Coupon?