China's northern and southern cultures are roughly bounded by the Yangtze River. The north of the Yangtze River belongs to the northern culture, and the south of the Yangtze River belongs to the southern culture. These two cultures are completely different. The southern art is elegant and the northern is vulgar. North-south direction of the building; The southern costumes are beautiful, and the northern costumes are simple; The diet is sweet in the south and salty in the north, and so on. And these are often more poetic in literati's works. South is misty rain castle, spring flowers and autumn moon; There are long rivers and sunsets in the north, deserts beyond the Great Wall and iron horses. Southerners are lingering, gentle, slender and indecisive, while northerners are generous, hearty, rough and simple. ...
Barker said: There are four main natural factors that determine human life and destiny, namely: climate, food, soil and terrain. In addition, the long-term inheritance and precipitation of cultural genes have greatly affected the cultural differences between the north and the south of China. This cultural difference between the North and the South is obvious in the character of the North and the South: northerners are tall, accustomed to simple and simple thinking and hard life, heroic, enthusiastic and humorous, generous and heavy, careless, and arrogant, which is different from southerners, so people are used to calling northern men "men", like Shandong men and Hebei men. But for men in the south, I'm afraid many people will think of those beautiful men with fair skin, beautiful face and tall waist in youth stories. Southerners are petite and lovely (reminiscent of beautiful and moving Jiangnan women), well-developed, thoughtful, smart and sentimental. Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, pointed out the personality differences between southerners and northerners in one sentence: "Southerners are indifferent and withdrawn, while northerners are enthusiastic about joining the WTO." Southerners like fantasy, while northerners value practice. "
The cultural differences between North and South make China culture more colorful, so many scholars have been interested in it since ancient times. On China's National Temperament by Kang, Northerners and Southerners by Lu Xun, and Southerners and Northerners by Zhao sleepless talk about their own views on the cultural differences between North and South. A hot topic related to this is the difference between Beijingers and Shanghainese. Yi Zhongtian said in his "Beijingers and Shanghainese": Beijingers mostly live in dreams and epics. This makes them unrealistic, but it is also magnificent; Although it is inevitable to be self-righteous, it is really round. The life of Shanghainese is secular, practical, cautious and steady, naked and straightforward but cautious. From the characteristics of these two cities representing the north and the south, we can appreciate the differences between the north and the south.
Cultural differences between North and South make people infatuated with culture. However, I also look forward to strengthening cultural exchanges and integration when the North and South cultures bloom their unique beauty, so that China's culture can appear in front of the world in a more colorful form.