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#What are the different living habits in the north and south of China?

Anyone who has studied geography should know that the Qinling-Huai River line is the dividing line between the south and the north of China. Not only are there differences in climate, topography and production activities between the north and the south, but living habits are also very different.

I'm a true southerner, and I've had many chances to get in touch with northerners, so I know a little bit about them.



The northerners do not pay attention to the minutiae, do things in a thunderous manner, and do what they say they will do. As long as he promised, will certainly put into action. Southern people are shrewd, speak and do things will leave room for maneuver, so as not to put themselves in an awkward position afterward.

Northerners like to eat pasta three times a day. A bun and a raw onion, they can also eat a lot. There is a northern family in the compound where I live, and their family buys a big bag of steamed buns every day, and they hardly eat rice. Southerners, of course, is still mainly rice, a wide variety of dishes, family and friends get together, talking and laughing, so lively.



Many northerners don't like to take a shower, even in the summer. I once knew a woman who came from the north and was about my age. After years of living on this side of Chihuahua, she still couldn't change her habits. In the summer, everyone is sweating and can't wait to take a bath several times a day. However, that woman doesn't change her clothes for four or five days, which is hard for me to understand.

Both southerners and northerners are the best sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. Respect each other's customs and habits, refrain from regional discrimination and regional attacks, and create a harmonious society.

To answer this question, the first thing to do is to find out what is the boundary between the south and the north of China, and that line is the Qinling-Huai River. Based on this demarcation line, my hometown of Anqing City, close to the north bank of the Yangtze River, is still considered the south. So what are the different living habits in the north and south of China!

1, in terms of character

The character of the South is gentle and subtle, the North is rude and bold, do not cover up. 南方人性格温顺,北方人性格直率,就如南方的雨,淅淅沥沥,滴滴答答,绵绵不绝;北方的噼里啪啦,狂风骤雨,说听就停。

2. From the point of view of agricultural production and people's living customs

The difference between the north and the south of Qinhuai is even more obvious. In the north, the arable land is dryland, and the main crops are wheat, soybean and miscellaneous grains, which are biannual or biannual; while in the south, it is mainly paddy land, and the crops are mainly rice and oilseed rape, which are biannual or biannual.

It is precisely because of the differences in traditional crops that the eating habits of the north and the south vary so much.

Southerners like to eat rice, northerners like to nibble on big buns; in terms of cooking, southerners have light tastes, cooking, good taste, exquisite and delicate; northerners are accustomed to thinning a pot of stew, do not pay attention to the color combination and color and taste.


I think it probably has something to do with the character of people in the north and south. Southerners focus on the mood of life and pay attention to details; northerners focus on the real and do not pay attention to details.

With China's massive population mobility, such as the north and south of the farmers into large and medium-sized cities to work, intellectual talent among the economically developed cities in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the living habits of the south and the north are constantly integrating, the gap is getting smaller and smaller. However, regardless of the South and the North, we are all descendants of the Yellow Emperor, and we can proudly say "we are all Chinese" when we leave the country!

1. Northern people take dumplings as a treasure, important festivals, friends visit, eat dumplings, that is called respect. For southerners, eating dumplings when friends visit is called shabby.

2. Northern people have heat in winter, wear a short-sleeved inside, outside the set of a coat, southerners do not have heat, cold, add a dress, add to the back, into the dumplings.

3. Northern men will be laughed at if they do housework and report their children, try it if you don't do housework in the South.

When I think of the south and north of China, I think of the differences between the southerners and northerners, and then I think of the differences in their lives. Southerners and Northerners can be said to "hurt each other" rather than "love each other". Northerners don't like southerners too much, southerners don't understand northerners too well, northerners say southerners are "southern barbarians", southerners say northerners are "northern aborigines", southern barbarians mean that people don't understand what they are saying, northern aborigines mean that they speak in a more rustic manner, and they really dislike each other. They really dislike each other. What are the different living habits between the north and the south of China? This is too much, in the end, what are the differences it take a look at it together in the eyes of everyone in the south of the north of the people in life is how it.

First of all, in terms of eating, people in the north like to eat pasta, and pasta contains more, such as buns, steamed buns, noodles, dumplings and so on. Southerners also seem to just like rice. Northerners exaggerate by saying they eat steamed buns three times a day, and southerners exaggerate by saying they eat rice three times a day. If the northerners eat rice more than three or five times a month, it is estimated that they are not accustomed to eat and can not stand, if the southerners do not eat a day of rice is estimated that they can not stand, feel a day with the same as not eat. This aspect of life is the difference between the diet of the South and the North.

Also, buying food is also different, southerners are small, cooking are small plates and bowls, northerners seem to be bigger, are like to eat with pots. Southerners buy a scallion or a few cents, buy food according to a number of counting, the North buy food on pounds, buy things to buy a few pounds, in the North to buy food in the North to sell food moncler jackets sale also do not forget to send you a few scallions do not want to money, so southerners do not understand that northerners to buy food, why the North to sell food moncler jackets sale will send a little scallion.

There are also differences in culture, and the northern cultural heritage feels deeper than the southern.

There are also different geographical environments of the northern and southern climates, so that the southerners and northerners live very differently, to the university is estimated to be significantly different, southerners to go to school in the northern universities, very surprised that there is no single room for bathing, we are frankly, bathing are going to the big bathhouse. And northerners in the winter three to five days or even a week to take a bath, southerners take a bath every day. In fact, the southern bath is a shower, the northern bath is rubbing ash scrubbing. Southerners do not understand why the north bath in a large bathhouse bath, northerners do not understand why the southerners are so shy, bathing also get a single room, please see case.

In fact, in terms of going to the toilet in the north and south life is also a big difference, the public toilets in the north are frank and open, the public toilets in the south are individual each pit there is a separate small door.

And if we are talking about the snow situation, the northerners don't use umbrellas in the snow, and the southerners have to hold umbrellas in the snow. If in the winter the southerners are not willing to open the air conditioning, the northerners open the air conditioning or use the heating in the winter. As the saying goes, southerners are cold inside the house, warm outside the house, so southerners say the house is too cold, often say we go outside to warm up and sunshine. In the South, it's cold everywhere but outside, and in the North, it's cold everywhere but inside the house and outside the bed.

There is also the height of southerners generally short, although short, in life, work, business, southerners are good at business, will be calculated. Northerners are generally taller than the southerners, so that pull down the national average height is the southerners. 北方人身高高,生活中一点的鸡毛蒜皮小事不放心上,没有南方人这么喜欢精打细算。


In fact, it is a fact that people in the south are generally short, working in the cities of Jiangsu and Zhejiang you will find that people there are not very tall! But especially good at business.

Due to cultural differences and many other differences in the habits of life in the north and south of the different aspects of life, the people of the north and south of the people were born from the same root, so do not spray each other, the people of the north and south of the people to understand each other, each other love. In addition, then you understand the north and south of China have different habits?

The difference between the South and the North, before I did not go to college, I think the biggest difference between the South and the North is the language, and then went to college after the contact with some of the South students, and after work and some of the South colleagues contact found that the South and the North people's living habits, eating habits, personality is really not very different.

(1) Personality, northern people have a big personality and speak loudly. Southern people are relatively gentle, even male coworkers speak very gently, the voice is very calm.

(2) Eating Habits~~Southern people have a more refined diet.

Dinner in a Southern home is a few dishes, a small plate of the same, with all kinds of vegetables sauteed separately, and a little of each dish eaten .

Northern people at home in the evening two dishes are enough, because the dishes are basically served in pots, the majority of stews, and the majority of meat dishes. Rough.

(3) Eating Habits ~~ Taste

Southern tastes, light, like to eat spicy, which spicy is not accepted by the children of the North

Northern tastes, greasy, like meat, spicy will eat, but basically a side dish, not much.

(4) Eating Habits ~~ Drinking

When Southerners drink, they like to drink yellow wine in small sips from a small glass.

Northerners drink, preferring beer and white wine, and must drink all of it from the end of the glass.

(5) Diet ~~ Lettuce

Southerners dishes are cooked and eaten.

It is customary for Northerners to eat cucumbers, cabbages, green onions, fresh, with dipping sauces. This one thing was made fun of as rude by my southern roommate.

(6) Living Habits ~~ Bathing

Southerners, who generally just take showers, have never even seen what the hell a scrubby towel is.

In the north, it takes more than one hour before and after the bath, foot bath, and scrubbing afterward to make it OK.

(7) Living environment

Southern winter, humid, room outside a temperature, in fact, the southern partners are more resistant to freezing a little. Northern people go to the south in winter truly can not stand.

It's cold and dry outside in the winter in the north, but the rooms are warm. But southern partners feel happy when they come to the northeast in winter.

Based on a few years of studying in the north and then returning to the south for a few years of work, I'd like to take a closer look at the different living habits in the north and the south:

The first one is bathing. Well, see here north and south students have the same feeling. Often asked by students in the north: why do people in the south take a bath every day? Often asked by the southern students: northern people a week to take a bath is not difficult? In fact, I would like to say that the southerners are very happy to take a bath every day, northerners feel very happy to take a bath once a week. Many northerners like to rub the bath, that is, a bath can be rubbed off a week's accumulation of bath mud. The north is dry, so a day without a bath is not a thing; the south is humid, ah, a body of sweat if you always let you have a sweaty feeling, do not take a bath how can it?

The second is about eating spicy food. Hunan people love to eat spicy national civilization, but many northerners also think they can eat spicy, but this is completely two paragraphs okay? Northern eating chili is to eat fried dried chili, some with a little bit of hemp, but Hunan people's spicy, that is, spicy scalp numb, without adding pepper and sesame spicy. Similar to rubbing chili peppers this kind of food, northerners look at it may think it is dry firewood it.

There is also the issue of pasta and rice. I still remember the words of one of my northern classmates, who, before he went to college and met the southerners who ate rice with every meal, thought that the TV episodes in which they ate white rice three times a day were staged. Southerners admire northerners can make different patterns of pasta, different flavors, and eat it with special vigor. However, from the northern people eat noodles, the southerners always feel that not fine enough, what dishes are poured into the noodle soup, the whole hodgepodge. How about a bowl of rice, chewing and tasting the various dishes, the only such food can not be lived up to.

There are also a lot of detailed habits, such as the fact that many people in the rural north like to squat against the wall at meals. I've been trying to understand this habit for a few years, but I really don't know why they don't sit at the table and eat. A row of people squatting against the wall with big bowls, eating noodles, this scene, so comical.

North! Life Likes! Eating favorite is spicy! Sauerkraut! Smoking! Drinking! Stew! Copying vegetables! Drink black tea!

South! Love sweets! Spicy hot pot! Hot pot! Drink flower tea! Green tea! Beer!

The difference between the north and the south is still quite big, the winter in the north is a physical attack, which can be solved by warmth; the winter in the south is a magical attack, which is said to rely on the quilt, but in fact relies on the will ......



For example, the big winter northerners have a bathhouse southern no, there is a winter in the north of the weather is colder for a reason, many people are a few days to take a bath, a bath is one or two hours, will also rub each other's backs, a lot of people like to soak in the bath, to the point that many northern areas still retain the public bathhouse.



Southerners do not have this habit, a day without bathing uncomfortable. The north has a heater, many southerners do not know what it is, and do not know what the principle of the heater. Life on the southern friends buy food by the individual, northern friends buy by the ton ...... Northern people cooking gives the impression of a one-pot stew! And large portions! The truth!



Southerners are more sophisticated in their cooking, with small plates and food arranged in a nice way. In general, there is a wide variety of food in the South, and you can eat a lot of different flavors in a variety of ways. In the North, people don't care so much about cooking, they just throw everything into a pot and simmer it!



Northerners on New Year's Eve on New Year's Eve will have to eat dumplings, in the South on New Year's Eve to eat dumplings on New Year's Eve to do a superb dinner and hit the side of the stove. Usually three meals in the north most of the people to noodle-based, southerners four meals a day of rice, rice porridge in the morning, steamed rice at noon, steamed rice at night, rice porridge at night.



When it comes to business, southerners are patient and value the spirit of contract. Northerners attach importance to the relationship, subterfuge big. South and North to understand each other more communication, there will be less misunderstanding, here I wish you all the New Year everyone rich want to know more wonderful content remember to pay attention to Inspector Chen, thank you for your support!


Himself grew up in the north, on the university side of the southern partners, as for what is obviously different habits, really did not find, in fact, the difference between the north and south is not very big. But our northern people obviously love to eat steamed bread wheat, the South is love to eat rice, which may be related to the cultivation of crops in the North and South.



Another thing is that people in the north like to love to sleep on the dirt beds that they make themselves at home, while people in the south like to sleep on wooden beds. This is really interesting. Other than that, it's possible that southerners love spicy food, but the rest of it really isn't very different from northerners.

Southerners buy things, all like to plan ahead, buy enough for a day to eat or once to eat. But when people in the north buy things, they buy less, earn trouble, and usually buy enough for at least a week, or even a month, such as cabbage, turnips, or whatever.

Crops are different. In the south, rice and oilseed rape are mainly grown on paddy fields, and the crops are biannual or triannual. In the north, for example, in our family, which is mainly dry land, wheat is planted in the winter of the previous year, harvested in the summer of the following year, and then corn and sweet potatoes are planted.

Similarly the south eats mostly rice, while the north eats mostly noodles and steamed buns.

Southerners are refined and Northerners are atmospheric. Southerners like to study small things, seriously to the extreme. The Northerners, on the other hand, like to talk about matters of national importance.

Luo Zhenyu said in one of his speeches that Beijingers in the entrepreneurial circle are planning to do big things, such as making platforms. Shenzhen entrepreneurs, on the other hand, focus on making products, maximizing them and occupying a niche market.

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