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What are the characteristics and personalities of Chaoshan people?

The characteristics and personality of Chaoshan people mainly include the following points:

1, Chaoshan people are superstitious.

In Chaoshan area, you can see a temple every short distance. Chaoshan people are superstitious, and even stones on the roadside can be worshipped as gods. Even if you say so in front of them, there is no scientific basis. They won't believe it either, because they would rather believe it.

2. Unwilling to start from the bottom.

At present, Chaoshan people don't like to start from the bottom (of course, there are special people), but Chaoshan people like to work with relatives or friends because they can get some care and don't do very bottom-level work.

Chaoshan parents don't want their children to do the same industry.

Chaoshan people generally don't like their children to do the same job. If there are two men at home, they will arrange for one person to study, one person to work or two people to study in schools with different majors, but a few people will arrange for their children to study in the same major.

4. The ability to accept things is very high.

Chaoshan people's adaptability to accept foreign things is so strong. For example, in their superstitions, they can worship the gods of different religions. Generally, as long as there is a god, you can accept and worship him.

Chaoshan people are very modest.

When people praise Chaoshan people, they always like to say "Where?" "Are you better than me?" "If I am good, you are not invincible" and so on. Sometimes, Chaoshan people are obviously stronger than others, and they will say that the other party is stronger.

6. Chaoshan people are very filial.

As we all know, there are many ancestral halls in Chaoshan area, all of which are dedicated to ancestors. Someone once commented on the saying that Chaoshan people "would rather build ancestral halls than schools". If someone pays to build a school, the old people will come out to oppose it. When someone pays for the ancestral temple, the old people will not object, but will actively help.

7. The brain of business.

Chaoshan people have a tradition of doing business since ancient times and have a strong sense of business. Tide gangs have flourished for 500 years. Chaoshan people think that as long as they don't steal guns, they can do anything. "Starving to death without work" is specifically aimed at Chaoshan people.

Chaoshan people should work hard to be bosses even if they have only a few tens of dollars on them. Many Chaoshan people learned the skills of doing business very early when they were teenagers, helping the family to look after the shop and do business, or helping the villagers in the shop. In the evaluation of Chaoshan, the people of Chaoshan are most proud of Engels' evaluation. Engels pointed out in his magnum opus that Shantou is the only commercial city of China in the Far East.