The custom of Li Cheng and xiang yuan people laughing and slapping.

The custom of Li Cheng and xiang yuan people laughing and slapping.

In Licheng County and Xiangyuan County in the southeast of Shanxi Province, since ancient times, people in the two counties have been laughing and fighting after meeting, and they are not angry when they say ugly words. This custom has been passed down to this day. This custom only exists between people in these two counties, and people in other surrounding counties have no chance.

People in Licheng can make jokes when they meet people in Xiangyuan, whether they know them or not. No matter how old the men in Licheng are, they dare to call Xiangyuan's "brother-in-law", while Xiangyuan's people, no matter how old they are, don't resent or condemn this kind of address, just smile or give each other a nickname. If a group of Xiangyuan people meet a group of Licheng people, they will abuse each other, but they will not hurt their feelings. If a group of Licheng people meet several Xiangyuan people, they will even take off all the clothes of Xiangyuan people except "brother-in-law". On the contrary, Xiangyuan people will do the same when they meet a few Licheng people.

What's even more surprising is that between men and women in Licheng and Xiangyuan, Licheng people not only call Xiangyuan women "sisters" and "sisters", but can even touch, strip off their clothes and fight. On the other hand, xiang yuan people can play jokes on Licheng people in an equally surprising way.

This kind of joke on each other has not been studied for many years, at least in the Qing Dynasty. Local people have all kinds of rumors about this special interpersonal relationship between Licheng people and xiang yuan people. These rumors, no matter how many there are, boil down to one thing, that is, there is a special in-laws relationship in history, and this in-laws relationship has become a situation in which Licheng people and Xiangyuan people are laughing and slapping each other, unrestrained and unrestrained.