I. Geographical factors

Anhui is divided into two parts by Wanshan, and the northern part is actually mainly influenced by the Yellow River culture and the Central Plains culture. Like Bozhou and Fuyang, the whole area is influenced by the Great Henan Circle, and that place also belongs to the Yellow River flood area. Affected by the Yellow River flood in this area, people will naturally pursue personal interests and survival and development, which will become realistic, so they have shaped a very strong personality, which can be said to be martial, tough, rough and straightforward.

Influenced by the Yangtze River culture, the south has a relatively superior natural environment. Both sides of the Yangtze River in southern Anhui have been the main rice producing areas since the Three Kingdoms and Wei and Jin Dynasties. Take Wuhu in southern Anhui as an example. In the northern song dynasty, it became? The land is twice as large as other counties, and the goods of fish, shrimp, bamboo, reed and persimmon are fully self-financing. Its victory at home is also a miracle of the world. Land of plenty. Wuhu is located in the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, with convenient land and water transportation. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was a historical record of building granaries to transport grain.

And under the stimulation of commodity economy in Ming dynasty, Wuhu became? Traveling by boat, department stores get together? Rice produced in central and southern Anhui, an important town along the Yangtze River, gathers and disperses here. With its unique geographical location and abundant rice resources, Wuhu has been able to take advantage of the situation. /kloc-In the second half of the 9th century, it was listed as the four largest rice cities in China along with Wuxi, Changsha and Jiujiang. Even in the hilly areas of southern Anhui, a powerful group of Huizhou merchants was formed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In this rich and beautiful environment, people in the south are very calm and delicate.

Second, historical reasons.

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Anhui really formed an overall administrative division. During the pre-Qin period, there were also many vassal States in Anhui Province. Anhui belonged to different counties such as Huiji, Jiujiang, Surabaya and Lujiang in Qin Dynasty. Is it? Status? After the emergence of the first-level supervision units similar to administrative divisions, Anhui is still divided into Yangzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou. The Three Kingdoms, sixteen countries in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, ten countries in Five Dynasties, and the confrontation between Song and Jin Dynasties, Anhui belonged to different and even hostile regimes. It is these two reasons that make the customs between north and south Anhui have formed great differences. While the north worships martial arts, the atmosphere of Chongwen in the south is more prosperous.

What is worth mentioning here is Huizhou culture distributed in southern Anhui. Huizhou merchants are the driving force and development of Huizhou culture? Catalyst? . Huizhou merchants, as the top ten business gangs in Ming and Qing Dynasties, have a good tradition, which is to pay attention to the accumulation and investment of cultural knowledge. Although they are engaged in a vast business sea, they are good at Confucianism and worthy of the name. In the hearts of Huizhou people: the best thing in the world is reading? .

After Huizhou merchants became rich, they not only invested in the education of their children and grandchildren, but also did not forget to repay their hometown and society, paying special attention to the cultural education in their hometown. To this end, they spend a lot of money to establish schools and academies, encourage reading and cultivate talents. For example, Bao Zhidao, a big salt merchant in Shexian County in Qing Dynasty, once donated 8,000 taels of silver to Ziyang Academy in this county. In Huizhou, there is a proverb, namely? Three generations without reading is like a litter of pigs? 、? Jiaozi doesn't love books, but books become pigs? . Huizhou merchants' concern for the construction and development of Huizhou culture directly promoted the prosperity and development of Huizhou culture.