Advocate Etiquette And Uphold Brave:the Study On The Shaping Of Local Personality

Advocate etiquette and uphold brave are self-evaluations of the village and clan personality by the Xizhanghei Village and the Jin family in Liuzhuang Township,Zhangqiu District,Central Shandong Province.However,other villagers within the scope of Liuzhuang Township refer to the two as insulting nicknames"acid Zanghei"and "The tough surnamed Jin".People from other villages believe that the etiquette of Xizhanghei Village is cumbersome and their words are picky,making fun of Xizhanghei Village as a "acid Zanghei";People from other villages believe that the Jin family in Xizhanghei Village is arrogant and powerful towards the outside world.,so they nicknamed the Jin family "The tough surnamed Jin".Accompanied by the spread of two nicknames,the local personality of Xizhanghei Village is particularly impressive in Liuzhuang Township.During casual conversations in leisure time,Xizhanghei Village is ridiculed as a local knowledge.For these two major nicknames,while feeling offended,the villagers of Xizhanghei Village have established a set of historical explanations for the shaping of the village’s personality.The self explanation of villagers focuses on two levels:cultural and economic.From a cultural perspective,Xizhanghei Village interpreted sourness as the intervention of imperial ceremony by promoting that in history,the imperial aunt(daughter of Emperor Chongzhen)fled to marry the Jin family members in the village,bringing in royal blood;Promote the emergence of bandits,lawyers,and officials from the Jin family in the village during the Qing Dynasty,and explain the tough stance towards the outside world as having capable members of the family.From an economic perspective,since the late Ming Dynasty,Xizhanghei Village has started to annex the land of adjacent villages,which borders its own village.This economic advantage was formed by digging coal wells in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.The land annexation and coal mining since the Ming and Qing dynasties have made the economic level of Xizhanghei Village higher than other villages in Liuzhuang Township in history.The wealth and luxury in life undoubtedly became the economic capital that supported its advocate etiquette and uphold brave.The method and process of shaping the personality of Xizhanghei Village demonstrate to us that the generation of local personality is not just groundless,it is closely related to the construction of self historical narrative and the development of local economy.The construction of village history has established a sense of pride and superiority for Xizhanghei Village in terms of culture;The annexation of land and coal mining have created Xizhanghei Village,which has provided capital protection for this sense of pride and superiority.With the soft power of cultural construction and strong economic strength,Xizhanghei Village has shown a unique local personality in Liuzhuang Township.