So southerners basically belong to a subspecies with Southeast Asians, while northerners belong to a subspecies with North Korea, South Korea and Japan.
Judging from the differences in character and literature and art between the North and the South, it is mainly because northerners are more generous and southerners are more delicate. The south is the south of the Yangtze River with apricot blossom and spring rain, the south is soft and gentle, the north is the ancient road, the west wind and the north is heroic and heroic. We can look at typical musical instruments. Southerners like playing the flute. When they play the flute, they will bow their heads and squint Yusheng should be quiet and not noisy. This is the style of playing the flute. Northerners blow the suona, and when the suona blows, they look up and stare, their voices are loud and passionate, and they twist their necks and shrug their shoulders with great movements. This is the personality difference between North and South. I like the waist drum in the north, and I pay attention to swinging the hammer hard, kicking hard, turning hard and jumping hard, which makes people look energetic and listen imposing. A very famous painter painted a shot of a waist drum, blowing and dancing. In my hometown of Jiangnan, there is a drama called Yue Opera, which sings like crazy, like a fish in the water, like crying. Butterfly lovers is a traditional play. Up to now, the performers in butterfly lovers are all women. Women love women, because this kind of tune is suitable for women to sing, and men can't sing well. This is a traditional drama. But in the north, it's completely different. In the north, it is a typical Shaanxi opera, not singing, but yelling. The people said that a loud roar of Shaanxi opera scared the old ox on the hillside, and the eight-foot man burst into tears and married his daughter back. Its folk customs bear its character, and its roar is like the rushing of the Yellow River, the preciseness of Huashan Mountain and the profundity and solemnity of the yellow land. There is a kind of music in the south called pingtan. The first ten minutes of pingtan is very common, and there is a long string at the beginning, which reflects the character of southerners. There is also a school in the north called Shandong Kuaishu, which is completely different from Pingtan. Cut to the chase, the song "Song Wu Da Hu" came up, that is to say, "No gossip, a table is good for Hanwu Jiro", and the topic was immediately pointed out, especially the song "The Truth". That sentence is true, "Spring breeze blows, lights are lit when it is dark, rats make holes, wheat pushes noodles, sesame polishes oil, a head grows on the neck, and the casserole leaks." Shandong people are generous and frank, and there is nothing crooked and secretive. This is what we call south softness and north rigidity.
But I think the biggest difference is that the north is politically and militarily active and the south is economically and culturally developed. Let's have a look. Historically, the capital of China is mainly in the north, which means that the north is very active politically and militarily. There are actually two of the six ancient capitals, one is Xi 'an and the other is Beijing, which was in Xi 'an before the Tang Dynasty, moved to Beijing after the Tang Dynasty, was in Xi 'an a thousand years ago and was in Beijing a thousand years later. Kaifeng and Luoyang are six ancient capitals, also in the north, and the time is very short. Nanjing and Hangzhou are also six ancient capitals. As an ancient capital, when the north and the south were divided, they were all called Pian 'an small court. There is a saying that "Nanjing is dedicated to the late Lord", and the late Lord is the king of national subjugation. Chen Houzhu and Li Houzhu are both in Nanjing, which is not unified. Therefore, since the reunification of Qin Shihuang, our capitals have been mainly in Xi 'an and Beijing for two thousand years, representing the great political and military influence of the North. Why is the capital mainly in the north? First, we can look at the deployment of the army. During the reign of Tang Tianbao, the deployment of troops was basically in the north, but also in the south, rarely in Guangzhou and Chengdu. The deployment of the "nine strategies" of the Ming army is equivalent to our field army today, and nine field troops are arranged on the first line of the Great Wall. Why are the troops here? Because, in the history of China, the first line of the Great Wall is a natural border, an economic border between agriculture and nomadism, a national border, a place where nationalities meet and merge, a place where ethnic conflicts occur, and a place where wars frequently occur, so the troops are deployed here. The ancient emperor wanted to rule the army and manage the whole country. Only by building a capital near the military center could he control the army and the whole country and make the country rich and the people safe. This is the first reason why the capital is in the north. Second, because we are a big country, there are often divisions in history, but after the division, we are unified. After a long time, it will be divided. This is our history. There is a division law, which is basically the division between north and south. There is also a unified law, basically from north to south. In this process from north to south, Qin Shihuang first unified the six countries. Qin Shihuang's birthplace is in Xianyang, Xi 'an, Guanzhong, in the north. Then Liu Bang and Xiang Yu competed for the Han and Chu Dynasties. Liu Bang represents the northern forces, and his base area is Pei County at the border of Jiangsu and Shandong, and Xiang Yu's Chu State represents the southern forces. Finally, Liu defeated Xiang Yu. This is the second time. For the third time, the three kingdoms were returned to Jin, Jin Wei represented the northern forces, Liu Bei and Sun Quan represented the southern forces, and finally the north unified the three kingdoms and became the Jin Dynasty. The unification of the Sui Dynasty originated in Taiyuan. Zhao Kuangyin was born near Shangqiu in Song Dynasty, and he himself was from Zhuoxian County, Hebei Province. Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty certainly came from the northern desert. Manchu was introduced from the northeast. This is a process that we have repeated, a historical process. There is another exception here, that is, the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang unified the whole country and drove away the Mongols. His capital is in Nanjing, and Zhu Yuanzhang's tomb is still in Nanjing. This is one of the few examples of building a capital in the south during the period of national reunification. But the study of history shows that this period of history ended in tragedy. Because Zhu Yuanzhang knew that military towns and activities were in the north after he established his capital in Nanjing, he sent his fourth son Judy to Beijing to mobilize troops and control Nanjing. According to the current words, it is the commander of the Beijing Military Region. By the time Zhu Yuanzhang died, according to the hereditary practice of emperors in feudal society, it was passed on to his eldest son and grandson. His eldest son has passed away, so he passed it on to his grandson, who was a child and later became an emperor. Then his fourth son had a conflict with his eldest grandson. Finally, Judy drove her eldest grandson away and moved to Beijing, and then settled in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, which lasted for 24 1 year. This explains why the political center and the military center should be combined to be stable, because the army is the foundation of politics.
But on the other hand, we should also see that in our country, especially in modern times, many advanced ideas were spread from the south to the north. During the Reform Movement of 1898, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were from Nanhai and Xinhui, Guangdong. In the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen was born in Xiangshan, Guangdong Province, and Xiangshan is now renamed Zhongshan. The four special zones of reform and opening up are all in the south, and later Hainan was added, still in the south. Advanced ideas and culture come from the south, which is a very important phenomenon in our country. A reporter traveled all over the country and finally summed up two sentences, which were very profound. He said, "There are many roadside advertisements in the south and many street slogans in the north." This means that there is a certain ideological gap between southerners and northerners, that is, southerners think more about economy and northerners think more about politics. This North-South difference has formed 100O in China for many years. Generally speaking, during the Anshi Rebellion in the mid-Tang Dynasty, a large number of northerners moved south, and the economy and culture of the south began to surpass the north. Before the Anshi Rebellion, the cultural center was in the north. We can have an indicator to show that in the past 1000 years, the culture in the south was relatively developed. This is our ancient imperial examination. From the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty and then to the Qing Dynasty, we can see the number of top scholars by place of origin. There are many in the south. What is the approximate proportion? With the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River as the boundary, the south has accounted for 79% of the total number of top scholars in China since the Southern Song Dynasty, and the north is 2 1%. Although the capital is in the north, the top scholars are in the south. The densest one is near Suzhou in Taihu Lake basin, so we call Suzhou the number one scholar in history. This is the regional difference of our ancient culture. Let me show you the distribution today. We can also take a typical cultural indicator-professor to express it. 1987 The State Education Commission published a very thick list of professors, including more than 6,000 professors in the higher education system 1000 universities. After three months of analysis, I finally made a picture. Taking the Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains as the line, professors in the south account for 69% of the total number of professors in China, and professors in the north account for 3 1%, among which Taihu Lake basin and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are the most densely populated. If you compare the pictures of top scholars with those of professors, the similarity rate is very high. One is ancient and the other is modern. What does this mean? It shows that culture has a strong inheritance and there are genetic genes in it. In addition, we can see where professors from famous universities in Beijing come from, and then look at Peking University. The doctoral supervisors of Peking University are mainly from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are only five real Beijingers. This illustrates a problem, that is, the contribution of many places in the south to the country is not only material and financial resources, but also talents. Southerners play an important role in any research institute and any important university post. This is the reality of our country.