Why do southerners attach importance to clan ancestral halls, but few in the north?

In the first issue of Tao Round Table School, Tao raised such a question: Why are there more entrepreneurs in the south and fewer entrepreneurs in the north? Ma Weidou thinks this is the result of clan culture.

Ma Weidou said that clan culture is still prevalent in Guangdong and Fujian. Everyone has a strong sense of identity within the same clan. Can they do it at the specific business level? Raise a glass to celebrate if you win, and save your life if you lose. Therefore, enterprises in the south can easily tide over the difficulties and grow into large enterprises.

He went on to say that the north is different. He has witnessed several large enterprises fall apart in the process of robbing property when they are in trouble. The clan culture in northern society has already disintegrated, and everyone takes family as the core. When enterprises in the north encounter difficulties, they think more about personal interests. There are more people watching jokes and fewer people helping.

Wendu Tao feels the same way. He said that he had a friend from the coast. They were a group of people when they went out. This friend came to Tao's house. As a result, a group of people came and Tao felt very unaccustomed. Later, I learned that in clan culture, everyone is a whole regardless of each other. For example, Tazhai Village in the TV series "Action to Break the Ice" is basically like this. Although the Lins are also divided into several imperial families, they can be consistent with each other.

Clan culture is a very important adhesive in the history of China, which not only maintains local autonomy, but also serves as a stabilizer for the country. The lowest official is the county magistrate. Institutions below the county level are all family autonomy, and clan culture plays a core role.

In ancient history, due to low productivity, people could only survive by holding groups. Family plays a very important role. In a big family, the division of labor is clear, who is engaged in agricultural production and who is engaged in business. In order to protect the interests of the family, some people will be sent to study as officials, thus becoming the umbrella of the family.

About the Song Dynasty, there was a blowout of talents in the south. On the one hand, this is because the South is economically developed and has money to provide education for more people. On the other hand, the role of the family, the north is relatively poor, so there are not so many people admitted to Jinshi.

In fact, this is the beginning of social change, but it is not obvious yet. After the founding of New China, clan culture was regarded as decadent culture and began to be liquidated. Because the whole north is close to Beijing, the political center, with strong radiation, the final liquidation is more thorough.

In this case, the clan society in the north disintegrated and completely became a social unit with the family as the core. Because Guangdong and Fujian are far away from the political center, they are less impacted by political forces, and this tradition has been preserved until now.

Experts who study clan culture believe that the places where these clan cultures are relatively intact are generally in mountainous areas and relatively barren areas. In the face of harsh environment, fierce beasts and barbarians, even evil officials, can only form a strict organization to maintain the operation of the family.

Under such conditions, the patriarch and squire in the clan will make each family hand over a part of their property and let the most promising people in the family go to school and do business. These people will return to the support and cultivation of the family, rely on the resources of officialdom to provide shelter for the family, and rely on the rolling development model to expand the family.

In the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian, there are still many clan cultures. If you come to these places, you can also see many ancestral temples. In the north, ancient ancestral temples were either destroyed or turned into offices such as schools.