As a Hokkien, how do you think about Fujian?

The saying that Guangdong people rely on ideas, Shanghai people rely on methods, and Fujian people rely on means is something we have always been familiar with. In some people's impression, Fujian people are particularly stingy, there is a saying that they will bring two umbrellas when it rains, use one for themselves and then sell one. In fact, Fujian men are optimistic by nature, not sticking to small things and very diligent. They are good at constantly accumulating funds for a solid career; they are enterprising, unwilling to be dictated by others and have a hot-blooded character; they have great patience and perseverance, and are formidable business rivals; they are forthright in heart, and have the spirit of organization and cooperation.

Fujian has always been a strange place in my mind. Anciently known as the Eight Min, Fujian was inhabited in ancient times by the indigenous people known in ancient books as the Baiyue people, also snake-eaters with their own magical and swashbuckling way of life. Subsequently, the Han Chinese of the Jin, Tang and Song dynasties continued to move into this treacherous landscape and intermingled with the local natives, gradually forming the unique character of the Fujianese people.

Fujian men seem to be mostly inarticulate, almost awkward in their Min-flavored Mandarin. But if it is the hometown between the narrative is as if the machine gun as the speed of speech amazing, sound. I have a college friend who is from Fujian, from his body can be seen a lot of the character of Fujian people. He is a man of few words, but occasionally his words are so shocking that they make people laugh. He says little but does much, and does not make a big deal out of it. On the surface, he is cold, with a cool expression, but at critical moments he strikes without saying a word, showing a sense of loyalty and righteousness. Focusing on friendship and dignity, they stand up to aggression and insults and resolve them by force. All these seem to exude an unyielding indigenous style.

The impression of Hokkien men always seems to be veiled, with little consistency. What's even better is that you can hear very different comments about Fujian men from different people. For example, when you say "Min man", someone will immediately take the word "Min" to make an article, what is the "worm in the door", but you soon realize that the impression of Fujian men are able to break into the world, so much so that in Europe, where ten Chinese, nine are from Fujian. You want to say that the Fujian people are short, look is relatively weak, but in fact Fujian has always been out of sports stars, such as Ni Zhiqin was 2.29 meters to break the men's high jump world record is a Fujianese; Chen Yanping is also a Fujianese, the 11th Asian Games, if it is not the super wind speed, his triple jump fell to 17 meters 50 outside of the score has long been a new Asian record; and dominant in the summer of China's gymnastic genius! Cai Huanzong, almost synonymous with Chinese men's gymnastics at the time. As for the uncrowned king of the world's badminton world, Tang Xianhu, and table tennis world champion Guo Yuehua and Chen Xinhua, etc., Fujian origin of the sports elite countless. 20 years later to lead the women's volleyball team to get the world champion of the coach Chen Zhonghe is also a fujian.

The number of Fujian men in Shenzhen is not small, but of course, compared with those who have gone overseas, it is a bit small. Most of the earliest Fujianese men to venture into Shenzhen knew about the Overseas Chinese Mansion (also known as the Overseas Chinese Travel Agency) near the Shenzhen Railway Station, which is also known as a long-established hotel in Shenzhen. Not too luxurious, but has been a thriving business, because the beginning of reform and opening up, those who went to Shenzhen to struggle to start a business in Fujian Jinjiang, Shishi area of businessmen like to stay there, you just live there, will be in a trance thinking that it is in Southern Fujian, upstairs and downstairs, restaurant and bar speak Southern Fujianese guests more than those who speak Cantonese, and even the chef cooks burned dishes are authentic Southern Fujian flavors. However, perhaps because the market in Shenzhen has become more mature, it seems that now the business has been less seen in the figure of Fujian men, but the Shenzhen Tea House, called "Anxi Tea House" can be seen everywhere, almost all of them are opened by Fujian people. Fujian has been a famous tea town since ancient times, producing oolong tea, and the most precious and famous one is produced in Wuyi Mountain rock tea "Dahongpao", the other is produced in Quanzhou Anxi "Tieguanyin". Fujian men are cheerful and optimistic by nature, and they are the kind of people who can be covered when the sky is falling. That's why Fujian men like nothing better than to get together with their friends and go to a teahouse for half a day or even a whole day, without doing anything, to enjoy their leisure time. This kind of nature seems to be difficult to link with the phenomenon of "smuggling", but in fact, Fujian men were the first to travel overseas to work as laborers to earn money to support their families. In Changle City, for example, apart from farmland, the largest number of houses are detached villas designed in the style of a foreign house, and most of these "mansions" were built by Changle people who sent money home from abroad. Overseas immigrants are said to send back to their hometowns in Fujian as much as 500 million U.S. dollars a year, which is an important source of foreign exchange for Fujian.

Just focusing on the operation of tea and cafes in Shenzhen, Fujian men seem to be very unobtrusive, in fact, this is exactly the Fujian men's shrewdness, and look at the Hengan, Seven Pearly Wolves, Anta, Fugui Bird, Guiren Bird, seven cards, spelling and other well-known enterprises in Fujian, are not doing anything very big business, but the Fujianese have money and the right to rival the Beijing people. For example, the annual advertising revenue of CCTV 5 is about 500 million RMB, 300 million of which is contributed by Jinjiang, a county-level city in Fujian. The recent boom in brand image spokespersons has allowed companies in Jinjiang City to hire all of the country's biggest sports stars! This shows the wealth of the Fujian people. In fact, do not look at the "Anxi Tea Village" signboard of the private sector daily retail turnover is not high, and some even only a few hundred dollars, in fact, tea is a high-margin goods, retail gross profit margin of up to 100% (that is, 1 yuan of goods can be sold for 2 yuan). So, in fact, Fujian men have quietly monopolized a highly profitable industry in Shenzhen.

Enthusiasm and rough

Wearing a short pants, slippers, or shoes off crookedly lying in a chair, while talking also rubbing his feet, not elegant, in addition to the manner of speech more or less a little bit of "wantonness", this is the impression of many people in Fujian men, and this person will often be a big! The company's business is a very important part of the company's business.

And in the TV to see the scene is the Fujian man hand wearing a thick gold ring, neck hanging with a thick gold necklace, mouth inlaid with thick gold incisors, speak a mouthful of hard Mandarin, two cups of wine began to call brother. They may be vulgar, in fact, blunt and lovely. They are easy to sympathize with people, understand people, no more words to comfort you, only to persuade you to have another drink. Fujian men are hospitable, like to call friends to the family dinner, meals between the hooting and hollering, it seems that the Fujian men live in the red, angry and at ease. Fujian men have some people, the old-fashioned warm-hearted, as a friend and colleague is too good to say, belonging to the "something you say" category, as long as the greetings, can immediately appear to help you solve problems. But this kind of fujian man once become husband, that can be bad luck. This type of men, everywhere in the interests of others first, everything to friends and righteousness. But where the interests of the family and the interests of friends conflict, the sacrifice must be the former. Friends to borrow money, generous; wife to buy clothes, but catty. A friend a phone call, late at night and immediately left, completely ignoring the wife is still sick at home. You do not have to expect them to be willing to share their wives or how careful and considerate, such as going out with the opposite sex, will first let the opposite sex in and out of the elevator, for the opposite sex, such as tea, etc., they are not no gentlemanly manner, just that they do not pay attention to this kind of "small things".

Fujian men are sometimes very childish, immature, narrow-minded, self-righteous, often say some ridiculous things, talk boring, to and fro, not to talk about the TV series, is to talk about what happened in the company. Sometimes the lack of common sense, often make jokes without realizing it, really a bit like "frog in the well". Nevertheless, Fujian men speak a mouthful of rough Mandarin, all the time not around themselves to create a warm atmosphere of life is still very much some of the women wandering in Shenzhen.

Hometown awareness

Schoolmates and hometown resources can be regarded as the most important two external resources for most entrepreneurs in Shenzhen. Living in a different place, *** with the same human geographic background, will make the hometown has a natural sense of closeness. Zeng Guofan with soldiers only like to use the Hunan people, China's history, the two most successful business gangs, Hui merchants and Jin merchants wherever they go, are the hometown gangs, groups of people. So for a long time, a person to start a business in Shenzhen, the hometown is still one of the most favorable conditions. This is the reason why there are many Hunanese in Shenzhen in recent years, in fact, in this regard, Fujian men have always had such a tradition, the most of which is in Shenzhen, Fujian tea merchants. Fujian is the number one tea-producing province in the country, with one in every ten people operating in the tea industry. In Shenzhen, Fujianese people account for the vast majority of tea merchants. In fact, in many industries, can be seen in Fujian men out of the sense of hometown and the natural formation of the plate industry, for example, Fujian people do ceramic tile business, will immediately continue to open up, the formation of ceramic tile industrial village. Clothing villages, sneaker villages, umbrella villages, stone villages ...... and so on abound. As a whole, the formation of a complete processing industry group, both specialized and full, which may be Fujian men can successfully based on Shenzhen and even an important factor in the global bar.

There is no unified "Fujianese" in Fujian, but only dialects. The dialects that cover a wide area are Fuzhou dialect, Minnan dialect, Hakka dialect, Minbei dialect, Putian dialect, Sanming dialect, and there are a lot of differences among them due to different regions. For example, the pronunciation and intonation of Quanzhou, Xiamen, and Zhangzhou are different from that of Southern Min. The pronunciation of Yongding, Changting, and Wuping are also different in the same Hakka dialect. Sometimes, the pronunciation is different even if they are only separated by a mountain. Sometimes, a single county has a unique language system. That's why it's difficult for Fujianese men to communicate with each other in foreign countries. It is also very difficult to communicate between Hokkians in their own dialects. Perhaps because of this "language barrier", the Fujianese have developed a habit of emphasizing their actions over their words. They believe in one principle in the world: less talk, more action, and focus on practical work. This is one of the reasons why the Fujianese men in Shenzhen are so low-key.

Savvy bargain

Doing business with Fujian men without bargaining is not normal. I once asked a Fujian man if he wanted his customers to cut prices, and he began by saying, "Of course I hope they don't cut prices, it's easy to make money." After a short pause, he added: "However, this kind of business is quite meaningless. Bargaining, although business is tiring, but there is fun in it, wisdom is also enhanced. When the other party cuts the price, they always have to find some kind of reason, such as other places selling at a lower price, etc., so that we can also learn some market information. Sometimes they are very picky about the goods, will be on the quality, packaging and so on to put forward all sorts of views, which invariably gives us a wake-up call. Next time we buy goods, we will also be more careful gatekeeper." In the opinion of Fujian men, a customer who does not know how to bargain is just too stupid to be cute. If you marry a wife, you can't marry such a; marry a husband, you can't marry such a, because you won't live.

Love of hard work will win

Fujian men's fortunes, has always been like a mystery, many people's concept of Fujian's wealth comes from "smuggling, policy, overseas relations and geographic location", in fact, Fujian men do things there are lesser-known "secret weapon! "

People are not aware of this.

People say that Wenzhou people are great, it is because the Wenzhou people have a natural economic mind and local resources, Fujian people have nothing, to be honest, a lot of waist of hundreds of millions of Fujian men do not know how to read. That's why the Chinese call Wenzhou entrepreneurs "bosses" and Fujian entrepreneurs "bosses". In the early 1990s, the song "酒干倘卖无......", which floated in karaoke halls in major cities, was known as the "Fujian Song" at that time. Bosses of entertainment venues would be all over the place when they met their Fujian bosses, and they would talk to them with honey on their faces, in order to get more money than they could ever count. The social commentary is mixed, but it also reflects the boldness of the Hokkien people outside the commentary.

The book "Love Spells Win" has been popular across the country in the past two years, and the word "spell" has been used to spell out hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, and a disrespectful but very effective business model for Fujian men. In front of Fujian men, some of our shrewdness seems cowardly. And Fujian bosses have a more frightening "wild", recognized the dry, on the fight! It doesn't matter if you lose your family's money, it doesn't matter if you play with your life, it doesn't matter if you raise a huge debt to start a business, your heart doesn't even skip a beat! These in our view is incomprehensible, barbaric. But in Fujian, where there is no talent and no resources, Fujian men have created their own unique model of private enterprise.

Wenzhou people's shrewdness, Fujian people's courage, Fujian men are using these to accumulate their original capital.

Fujian men, although outside the Fujian men have been singing "love will win", but in fact there are still quite a lot of Fujian men in the heart is weak and can not withstand the setbacks, they are very realistic, good and bad gains and losses calculated clearly, there is no benefit of the thing, they do not bother to do. Self-protection is too strong, not too trusting of people, often suspect that people want to cheat their money, which is also the impression that Fujian men give people petty. This is also represented by Fuzhou men, they sometimes play some small family calculations, such as how to work less overtime to get more overtime pay, how to move some of the company's surplus small things more to their own home. And then is not all day long to study how to win the lottery these chicken skin no name, so that Fuzhou men in the minds of the people left a few years ago Shanghai men only have the name of the vulgar: career does not want to forge ahead, life is not to understand the style, but also feel good about themselves, especially easy to satisfy the status quo.

But the Fuzhou people have a great advantage: women are more important than men. As many people know, the men of Fuzhou are "good in the kitchen, good in the hall". Therefore, since ancient times, Fuzhou is the world's women happy life "blessed", "big womanism" is a sign of the prevalence is, for a long time, most of the women in Fuzhou pampered not to do housework. In the past, Fuzhou people have been using toilet and urinal at home for a long time, and most of those who carry the urinal at night are men in Fuzhou. Fuzhou people are famous for their hygiene. Some people describe the floors of Fuzhou homes as even cleaner and tidier than the pots and pans in the kitchens of many northern homes.

"Virtuous" is definitely not an overstatement when it comes to Fuzhou men. The men of Fuzhou take care of their families, love their wives, know how to do housework, and many of them can also cook a good meal. Fuzhou women are spoiled by Fuzhou men, lazy and famous, so in Fujian "scolding" a lot. Quite modern urban sense of Fuzhou women advocate freedom, equality of family life, they do not care about the main internal, not lack of shrewdness, there is a strong sense of diplomacy. So the basic housework fell on the Fuzhou men, women eat a good meal in groups to play mahjong to go, the men are carrying baskets of vegetables on the grocery store to buy food. Women may even take time out from the table to look up and order a couple of dishes, and the men promise to go to the market and bargain with the vendors.

Fuzhou men are not as petty as Shanghai men, and their mouths don't speak sweet words, but they are afraid of their wives, and they pay their salaries every month, and take the initiative to do the big and small jobs at home. The Fujianese have a saying that "Fuzhou men are full of chauvinism, Minnan women are the typical warm and gentle, if the Fuzhou men and Minnan women combined into a family, must be a model family".

Possibly Fuzhou is really a blessed place, with a mild climate, fertile land, mountains and the sea, mountains and seafood and everything, so that Fuzhou people do not have to spend too much effort to enjoy the gifts of nature. "Small wealth is peace" is the characteristic of Fuzhou men. "Small wealth is peace" also created the narrow vision of the Fuzhou men, "seven slip eight slip, not away from Fuzhou", like to keep a wife and children family, completely do not appreciate the outside world has been how colorful.

Idle and comfortable

To put it mildly is idle and comfortable, to put it mildly is lazy, these two words are actually very difficult to distinguish. The word is "lazy", and it refers to the men of Hui'an. In southern Fujian, the husband's position in the family is unquestionable, it is this kind of macho chauvinist style of doing a "good woman not married to Putian Lang" said. In the past, Hui'an men went out to make a living or fishing, women naturally became the main force of production and labor, today, even if they do not go out to sea, men still seem to retain this "inertia". Living in the Quanzhou area of Hui'an men absolutely happy, where the reputation of the women have long been out of the Fujian region, running to the hearts of men across the country, they are out of the house is the "field force", into the house is the housewife, inside and outside a hand, sisters in groups, down the field to the sea. The man is not the main labor force, living a good life of clothes and food.

And in Xiamen, the city's qualities are lethargic, so Xiamen's men are also with lethargic temperament, although they also have a good reputation for being hardworking and docile, which the southern Fujian people **** have. Xiamen men will never exist between the so-called trend, foreigners come not crowded, singers come not chase, just anything in Xiamen can not form a craze. They have a kind of commonplace, don't care about the faction - to any trend are indifferent.

Interesting Hokkien sayings

Seven sits, eight crawls, nine teeth: seven months for a child to sit, eight months for a child to crawl, nine months for a child to grow teeth.

Feeding the children regardless of the meal, feeding the parents to count the meal: raising children is very generous, but feeding the parents to count the meal.

The child has ears but no mouth: to teach a child not to talk too much.

Shed feet standing for a long time is someone else's: reminding people to beware of letting someone else live in the house, and it will be someone else's if they live there for a long time.

If the head of the tree is there, don't be afraid of the wind and the typhoon at the end of the tree: to tell people that if the roots are firmly planted, they will not be afraid of being blown down by the typhoon.

Money without two rounds won't ring: the metaphor is that both sides of an argument are at fault and must examine themselves.

The tiger is no match for the monkeys: it advises one to know oneself and know one's enemy, i.e., the dragon that crosses the river is no match for the snake on the ground.

There is a seam even in a dense egg: a metaphor for saying that one day one's bad deeds will be uncovered.

Buying and selling counts points, treating each other no matter what: Teaching people to do business can count every cent, but treating guests should be casual and not counted.

The tomato is delicious, from where it starts: it describes that one must think of the source of water.

Outdated selling calendar: missed the opportunity.

The crooked-headed chicken wants to eat good rice: describes a person who is self-indulgent.

The green and close chicken pecked at the worm: describing the luck of a blind chicken to peck at the worm.

Eat inside the bowl, wash outside the bowl: to scold someone for eating outside the bowl.

Watermelon leaning on the big side: scolding people for being snobbish.

Spit saliva to the chicken to eat, the chicken also died: a metaphor for a person's bad luck.