Don't try to understand Nanyang, but we may be able to understand this "southern Henan" through some Nanyang people.
Is Nanyang north or south?
Nanyang men are honest. In Nanyang, I invited a friend to dinner. I hung up the phone on this side of the car, and the car over there will soon drive to you and your son.
Speaking of drinking, of course not.
Eating and drinking are major events in Nanyang people's lives. Look at the topography of Nanyang. Wudang Mountain, Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain are on three sides, and Nanyang is surrounded by three mountains.
Is it like a bowl? Bowl for eating. Although eating is very important, it still needs romance, so it has become a "million". This is also the origin of Nanyang's ancient name "Wan". This word is beautiful and full of atmospheric ancient meaning.
The topographic map of Nanyang in Qing Dynasty presented a perfect "ten thousand" shape, which was also one of Nanyang's temperament. You can directly say that Xiangyang, Hubei, which is adjacent to it, is the authentic north, but you can't tell whether Nanyang is the south or the north.
In China, the Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains is of extraordinary significance. It is not only a mountain that runs across the east and west, but also a long river that stretches for thousands of miles. It is also the dividing line between north and south of China. South of Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains is the south of China, and north of Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains is the north of China.
The boundaries between the north and the south are clear, and the customs of cultural life are also very different.
Most importantly, this involves a technical problem, whether there is heating or not.
The magic of Nanyang is that many people may think that Henan Province belongs to the north of China at first, and Nanyang City under its jurisdiction should naturally belong to the northern city. For example, he has no heating.
In fact, although most of Henan is located in the north of Qinling Huaihe River Line, it belongs to the typical north, but a small part of its south is located in the south of Qinling Huaihe River Line, belonging to the south of China, and Nanyang is in this small piece.
If strictly divided by geography, Nanyang can be counted as the south. But Nanyang is not "south". Judging from the boldness of drinking and fighting, it is completely "north".
Then why is Nanyang called South? Where is he in the south?
According to the ancient Chinese classification method, "the north of Shan Zhinan water is the sunny land", which is located in Funiu Shan Zhinan and the north of Hanshui River, where "South" refers to the orientation and "Yang" refers to the terrain.
However, this is actually superficial.
Nanyang is called Nanyang because it is "the South of China".
This China is not China in the modern sense. At that time, in the Xia Dynasty, "South" had the meaning of orientation. The Yellow River Basin is called the cradle of the Chinese nation, which is not for nothing, because many dynasties and vassal states have been established on both sides of the Yellow River. In the ancient concept, this area was called "China".
Since "China" represents the center, there must be a periphery in the southeast and northwest. Nanyang was located in the south of China, so it means "south".
Doesn't that sound great? Southern China! Oh!
Do you know why traditional Chinese medicine in Nanyang is so developed? You can buy Chinese herbal medicines in any supermarket.
It is because there are many mountains and waters and the climate is suitable. As a basin topography, Nanyang is mostly located in the south of Qinling Mountains. The warm and humid airflow in the south is blocked by the Qinling Mountains all the way up, thus forming a relatively humid climate condition in Nanyang.
There are 2,356 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine plants in Nanyang, among which the most famous ones are Flos Magnoliae Nanzhao, Cornus officinalis and Rhizoma Gastrodiae in Xixia, Platycodon Tongbai, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae in Fangcheng, Huangjiangda in Neixiang, Eucommia ulmoides in Zhenping, Ophiopogon japonicus in Dengzhou, Gardenia in Tanghe and Radix Isatidis in Sheqi.
Looking for Chinese herbal medicines in a treasure, most of them can be seen that some of them are from Nanyang.
After all, Zhang Zhongjing and the compulsory treatise on typhoid and miscellaneous diseases at the beginning of all Chinese medicine hospitals have created an awesome realm.
Speaking of the relationship between Nanyang's landscape gas field and talents, three days and three nights are endless.
The boundary between north and south beauty
Specialty is talent.
As we all know, Zhang Zhongjing, the "medical sage", is from Nanyang. It is said that he also invented the earliest jiaozi. For details, please click on Yu Ji's previous article: Eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter is to commemorate a Nanyang man.
Leonardo da Vinci, who spread abroad on the Internet a while ago, was an all-rounder who dabbled in astronomy and geography. His style, beauty, mathematics, physics and chemistry are all inclusive.
China also has such rare talents. That is Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng made great achievements in his life, including making an armillary sphere propelled by water, inventing a seismograph and a compass that can detect the direction of earthquake source, discovering the cause of the eclipse, drawing and recording the star map of 2500 stars, calculating pi to one decimal place, and explaining and establishing the cosmology of the armillary sphere theory.
In terms of literature, he created famous works such as Erjing Fu and Guitian Fu, which expanded the style and theme of Han Fu and was listed as one of the "Four Masters of Han Fu".
He created the poetic style of seven-character ancient poems and made great contributions to China culture. Zhang Heng is a respected great scientist, and his achievements are comparable to Ptolemy in the west at the same time.
The United Nations Astronomical Organization named a crater on the moon "Zhangheng Crater" and the asteroid 1802 in the solar system "Zhanghengxing".
Zhuge Liang, a wise man, needn't say, "I wear cloth and plow Nanyang." Wisdom is close to the demon. This great god who seems to have crossed the past is the embodiment of the highest wisdom of China people.
In addition, there are Shang saints Fan Li and Jiang Ziya, and Nanyang has been trying to shape the image of "Five Saints" in the past two years.
In addition to these five saints, Nanyang also produced a perfect emperor, that is, Liu Xiu who married Nanyang beauty Yin Lihua.
It is said that "Henan talent is half Nanyang", which is true. You must have heard of "Nanyang Writers Group". This "circle of friends" was formed in the 1980s, and it has always had a great influence in contemporary literary circles in China. For example, The Dead February River is the representative of Nanyang writers.
Nanyang is also rich in pilots. Among the national pilots, Nanyang's handsome little brother accounts for one seventh.
Whether in business or politics, insiders must know that Nanyang people should not be underestimated. Nanyang, which is rich in writers, also has a major called Nanyang jurist.
Fu Zitang, President of Southwest Political Science and Law; Zhang Wenxian, Vice President of china law society; Wang Yi, Dean of Law School of Renmin University of China; Fan Chongyi, Director of Litigation Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law; Guo Feng, Dean of Law School of Wuhan University; Hao Hongkui, Dean of China Criminal Police College; Wang Xinqing, Vice President of China Youth University for Politics. ...................................................................................................................................................................
Nanyang is like a center of the circle, radiating the whole of Henan. The big coffees who go out from here are happy to contribute to their hometown. They often come back for a walk, driving a group of young people to make a career outside.
Nanyang people are very supportive. You can see this phenomenon in many cities across the country. As long as a Nanyang person succeeds in a certain aspect, he will immediately attract a large number of fellow villagers and even choose their place of residence together, and will soon form a small community that speaks Nanyang dialect. If a Nanyang person is bullied, the villagers will be prepared to deal with it.
More than 20 years ago, Han Boss Jin of Zhuhai Ruijin Electronics Company made all employees kneel down, and more than 200 employees gave in, but Sun, a young man from Nanyang, flatly refused.
Outside, Nanyang Nan is a real man. They are indomitable and arrogant.
Leisure is the philosophy of life of Nanyang people.
On the other hand, it is precisely because of the special geographical location that Nanyang is neither south nor north that people here have their own philosophy of life.
I drank Yangtze River water and ate noodles like Regan Noodles noodles.
Dengzhou even has a Wozi noodle association, which is subdivided into three factions.
A bowl of Wozi noodles is Nanyang flavor.
This is the life mood you don't understand. The economy of Nanyang is far behind that of Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta. There happened to be a high-speed train passing by this year, but this situation created a state of leisure for the local people.
It is said that Danjiangkou Reservoir is the first reservoir in Asia. You can't find feelings by imagination alone. If you arrive at the center of the reservoir by boat and face the vast water surface, this title will definitely make you blurt out.
Danjiangkou Reservoir is located between danjiangkou city, Hubei Province and Xichuan County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, and is also the water source of the Middle Route Project of South-to-North Water Transfer.
The fish cooking skills of Xichuan people in Nanyang are perfect and well-known, precisely because Danjiangkou fish is famous. Even Nanyang people themselves say that the fish in Danjiangkou is good, preferring to drive to buy fresh fish.
You say Nanyang is like the south, right? Which southern city can drink more than Nanyang?
The most powerful thing is to persuade wine.
Nanyang men persuade wine methodically and persuasively, and every toast has its own statement. Every statement has a set of theories, which are secular, astronomical and all-encompassing. If you don't drink, you will be sorry for others' golden words.
Drinking with Nanyang people, if you don't insist on serving hot dishes, you may be knocked down.
However, whether it is the south or the north, whether it is good or bad, it is Nanyang unique to Henan.