Why do northerners pay attention to genealogy and southerners pay attention to ancestral temples?

Ancestral temples are places where ancestors are sacrificed, which we can often see in TV dramas. For example, if the clansmen make mistakes, the patriarch will punish them in front of the ancestral tablets and clansmen, but there are many ancestral temples in the south, and there are several in almost every village, and few in the north, but the north pays attention to genealogy. In fact, the most important thing is the war, because there have been many wars in the north since ancient times. Therefore, because of the population migration caused by the war, people set up ancestral temples in the south, on the one hand, because of cohesion, so that they would not be bullied by local people, and also because of ancestor worship. In the north, because of the destruction of a large number of buildings caused by the war, ancestral temples are naturally included, so people can only record them in writing, which makes it easy to save information, so the north will pay more attention to genealogy.

There are more Han people in the south, and they pay attention to ancestral halls. We all know that Han people attach great importance to traditional culture because of the influence of Confucian culture, and ancestor worship is actually a very important part. In fact, the Han people in the south migrated during the Qin and Han dynasties, so they kept the most authentic worship concept, while people in the north were close to the customs area, so they married more foreigners, so their natural lineage was not as pure as that of the Han people. Therefore,

Secondly, after the founding of New China, in the 1960s and 1970s, because the north belonged to the political center, the impact was more serious than that of the south. However, it can be said that the crackdown on feudal superstitions destroyed many cultural relics and historical buildings, so natural ancestral temples were also included, resulting in the destruction of ancestral temples in many places in the north. In the end, only some genealogies were preserved, while the south was far from the political center, so the scope of influence would not be too great, so many areas in the south.

Finally, after the reform and opening up, many overseas Chinese returned to China to visit relatives, and many cities in the south belong to coastal areas, so there are also many local overseas Chinese. So the first thing these people do when they return to their hometowns is naturally to donate money to build ancestral temples, which also leads to the fact that ancestral temples are more common in the south, while there are fewer overseas Chinese in the north, so if there are few people, naturally no one will donate money to build them.