What is the origin of the name Jiangxi Laobiao?

There are two kinds of popular sayings that Jiangxi people are old cousins.

One started in the early Ming Dynasty. In order to compete for the world, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought fiercely in Poyang Lake. At that time, swords and shadows were everywhere on the 800-mile lake with rippling blue waves. On one occasion, Zhu Yuanzhang was defeated and pursued by Chen Youliang. Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was cornered, a kind fisherman appeared. He took Zhu Yuanzhang to the boat and hid him, then rowed to the middle of the lake. Zhu Yuanzhang escaped safely.

When he left, he said to the fisherman with tears in his eyes, "Thank you for saving his life! If I become emperor after conquering the country, you will go to Beijing to find me. If courtiers and guards are not allowed to see you, you can say that my cousin Jiangxi has come. "

A few years later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally defeated Chen Youliang and put on the imperial robe as he wished. The fisherman took several fellow villagers to visit the son of heaven today. Sure enough, no matter who you meet inside or outside the palace, just say "we are relatives of the emperor, cousin of Jiangxi", and the green light will be clear all the way. Jiangxi cousin was called away from now on. Cousin Jiangxi, a relative of the emperor, shows how noble and enviable this title is.

The other is the relationship with Hunan. Jiangxi and Hunan are not only very similar in landscape, but also connected with each other, making people blind date. According to statistics, about 64% of Hunan's more than 60 million people are originally from Jiangxi. In this way, a historical blood relationship has been formed. Coupled with the long-term marriage between people in the border areas of the two provinces, their descendants are commensurate with their cousins.

Cousins are blood relatives. As Jiangxi is an ancestral home, Hunan people gradually respect Jiangxi as an old cousin. Over time, the word "brother" was simply omitted as an old cousin. So my cousin became synonymous with Jiangxi people.

Similarities between Jiangxi and Hunan

Geographically, Jiangxi and Hunan belong to the central region, neither living in the inland nor in the coastal areas. Although the Yangtze River flows through two provinces, a careful observation of the map shows that the Yangtze River flows through these two provinces as if it were passing by, instead of running through the whole province like Anhui and Hubei. Therefore, in terms of the port advantages of the two provinces, Yueyang is the only Yangtze River port city in Hunan and Jiujiang is the only Yangtze River port city in Jiangxi.

From the map outline of the two provinces, Jiangxi and Hunan are also very close. Both of them look like heads, and the junction is like a kissing couple.

More interestingly, Jiangxi and Hunan have many similarities. Hunan and Jiangxi are surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the north is connected with other provinces through lakes and the Yangtze River. The topography of these two provinces is like an inverted funnel, and the north has become the only access to the outside world, which led to the relative closure of Jiangxi and Hunan in ancient times.

Similar terrain also breeds similar scenery. There are 5A scenic spots in Xiangxi, such as Fenghuang Ancient City, Zhangjiajie and Wulingyuan, which are surrounded by mountains and waters. In western Jiangxi, there are also many popular scenery in the whole network, such as Wugong Mountain, Mingyue Mountain and Jinggangshan. On the bank of Xiangjiang River in Dongting, there is Yueyang Tower, which is "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later". On the banks of the Ganjiang River in Poyang, there is Wang Tengting, "Sunset and Lonely Qi Fei, Autumn Water Grow Together".