What are the characteristics of Henan people?

1, Henan has long been dominated by agriculture, and the farming economy has been quite developed since ancient times. Most people have the concept of "valuing agriculture over commerce". This self-sufficient small-scale peasant life has created simple folk customs and natural and cordial homesickness, but it has also developed a closed and conservative consciousness of sticking to the rules and not making progress.

2. With the development of social economy, this ancient awareness of small farmers is gradually being diluted. Henan people are no longer satisfied with the rural family life of "a cow in 30 acres of land, and a wife doll is hot". They actively participate in market competition and reshape the image of Henan people.

3. Henan people pay attention to etiquette, regardless of meeting, greeting, borrowing, celebrating, giving birth, adulthood, marriage, birthday, funeral, etc. They all pay great attention to etiquette and appearance. People who understand books and are reasonable are respected. There is a saying that "many people are not strange".

4. Henan people love Shaolin Kung Fu. People in Henan are bold, which leads to many desperate people.

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The reasons why Henan people are discriminated against.

First of all, those humiliating experiences

Xia was born and raised in the Central Plains, and his ancestral home was in Henan. In other words, my classmates and fellow villagers also know a lot, most of them are Henan children studying abroad. Such people can be found all over the country. But when we go back to our hometown for a party, everyone * * * reacts to the same problem: Henan people have a bad reputation and are discriminated against outside.

The discrimination of foreigners against Henan people is closely related to the following negative keywords: liar, thief, crime, dirty and poor. The most prominent is a liar, but fortunately he is not lazy. Moreover, this bad reputation is national. In fact, no province has a negative image, but there is really no second province that has been criticized by the whole country like Henan.

Second, the population size.

This discrimination is related to the population size of Henan. After Chongqing was separated from Sichuan, Henan became the most populous province in China, with a population of1060,000. This is equivalent to one-fifth of the total population of Europe. Henan is poor, specifically, the farmers in rural areas of Henan are really poor, and the number is huge. In short, Henan has produced a large number of migrant workers. They have no wealth and skills and belong to the pure proletariat.

In China, class discrimination and racial discrimination are unconstitutional: class discrimination shakes the foundation of the production party, and racial discrimination will directly lead to the division of the country. Therefore, these two kinds of discrimination have been strictly prohibited. Therefore, the role of regional discrimination as an export is more obvious.

Third, geographical location.

Henan has called itself the Central Plains since ancient times, which means that it is in the world. Contrary to China people's general division of north and south, Henan people do not identify themselves as southerners or northerners, but tend to identify themselves as "Central Plains people".

Anhui people love to go to Shanghai, Hunan and Hubei may prefer the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta, while Hebei people are preoccupied with Beijing. For Henan people, going to Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan, Pearl River Delta or Yangtze River Delta is an acceptable choice, and there is no obvious order among the three choices. The homogeneity of this choice is not only determined by its no obvious gap with the three places, but also by its cultural identity of non-South Africa, North Africa and East Africa.

Therefore, there are a large number of Henan migrant workers in the three developed areas of China. Considering the huge population base of Henan itself, its presence in various places is even stronger than that of migrant workers in neighboring provinces. This all-round flow trend is probably the fundamental reason why Henan people are famous all over the country.

However, the unique cultural identity of Henan people also makes it different anywhere. In Beijing, Henan people are considered to be similar to southerners; In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Henan people are regarded as intruders in the south of the Yangtze River. In the Pearl River Delta, Henan people are northerners through and through. Compared with neighboring provinces and cities, Henan people are more distant everywhere, so they are more like "outsiders".

In the end, it even became a representative type of "outsider". In the minds of people in developed areas, "outsiders" and "migrant workers" are almost synonymous. The reason for this is that Hong Kong film and television works in the 1980s and 1990s always set it as a Shandong accent when expressing the "uncle" of the mainland.

To make matters worse, this reputation exists in three places. Any kind of understanding that is so widely recognized will almost inevitably gain legitimacy. Henan people's increasingly famous "migrant workers" have concentrated all the embarrassment, sin and anger that migrant workers in the country have to bear. This is the price of being the target of public criticism.

Fourth, the vitality of civilization.

Xiao Xia's previous analysis seems to be defending Henan people. It seems that the discrimination of Henan people is an accident. Not exactly.

Toynbee put forward a very famous conclusion in his masterpiece Historical Research: the central area of civilization will eventually be conquered by the frontier of civilization and eventually become the frontier of new civilization. His assertion comes from western history.

For example, ancient civilizations were mainly two river basins and Egypt, and its frontier was Greece. Later, with the rise of Greece, ancient civilization declined to the forefront of the Hellenistic era. The successor of Greece is Rome, and the rise of Rome has made Greece a frontier again. And after that? After that, the center of western civilization shifted from the peninsula to the western part of the mainland, western Europe rose, and Rome became the frontier.

In his book, Toynbee believes that western civilization is undergoing changes in the center and frontier of civilization, that is, the United States is about to become the center of western civilization and Western Europe is about to become the frontier. I have to say that Toynbee's point of view is reasonable.