Why "cunning" has become the inherent impression of Gannan Tibetans on Minxian people.

In the south of Gansu Province, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Minxian County, which belongs to Dingxi City, are connected by mountains and rivers. There are frequent economic and trade activities and close personnel exchanges between the two places. A Taohe River runs down from Gannan Luqu, leaving adjacent Min County and Zhuoni only separated by water. Moreover, Min County, Zhuoni and Lintan have always been areas where Tibetan, Han, Hui, Qiang and other ethnic minorities live together in history, and there are many similarities and implications in the cultural atmosphere.

For Minxian people, Gannan Tibetan area is a snowy plateau and a sacred paradise around them. When people in Min County are asked, most people will tell any famous scenic spot in Gannan without thinking, even the Tibetan culture in Kan Kan. Minxian people also have a soft spot for Tibetan food. Many people from other places have a good impression of Gannan, such as butter tea, Tibetan steamed buns and delicious beef and mutton. Minxian people like it, and the generosity of Tibetans.

Compared with Minxian people's goodwill towards Gannan, Gannan Tibetan people's goodwill towards Minxian people is even worse. Simply put, it is a word, cunning, and surprisingly, the area with the heaviest concept is Zhuoni, which is separated from Minxian by a strip of water. Although a Taohe River connects the two places closely, with similar accents and cultures, most people here have deep prejudice against Min County. People in the two places drink the same river, but for various reasons, they have formed two totally unacceptable customs and humanistic ideas. Differences produce the aesthetic feeling of distance, as well as estrangement, even misunderstanding and misinterpretation.

I have worked and lived in Gannan for many years, and I am particularly impressed. The reasons for people's understanding of Min County's "cunning" in southern Jiangxi are complicated, but on the whole, there are traces to follow.

One thing impressed me deeply. One year when I was in Xiahe, my colleagues at work sent me videos and photos of begging in Labrang Temple on the fifteenth day of the first month on WeChat. As can be seen from dialects and costumes, a large part of them are from Min County. When local people forward these photos and videos in the circle of friends, they usually add a sentence-"Don't give them money, they are all liars, and their families are very rich ..." My colleagues at work even joked with me: "Where are you lonely? Just set up a team in the temple and form a beggar gang ..." These words are said with a smile in your ear, but it is difficult to chew after being ridiculous. Who can hear the ridicule of his hometown and be indifferent? Even if these taunts and jokes are not directed at yourself, I still feel bad. What is outrageous is that there are always some professional beggars from their hometown who give up their dignity, forget their shame, discredit themselves and their hometown for a little charity ... so that in the eyes of local people, they are almost as ironic and degraded as Minxian people without thinking. It can be said that the behavior of professional beggars pretending to be poor and begging has made a bad first impression on people in Min County, southern Jiangxi.

At the same time, compared with the simplicity of Gannan Tibetan area, Minxian people are "smart". Due to the geographical proximity of the two places, Min County has attracted many people from neighboring areas to shop and play in Min County because of its slightly prosperous economy. In this communication process, the behavior of some profiteers also affected the impression and goodwill of Gannan people to Minxian people. However, nothing is absolute, including people's own problems in Min County, as well as misunderstandings caused by educational factors and differences in living environment. It cannot be said that all Gannan people are simple and honest, nor can it be said that all Minxian people are cunning.

However, the reason why such misunderstandings and stereotypes can be caused is to learn to reflect.

As far as my personal experience of growing up and living in Min County is concerned, people in Min County have an unavoidable common shortcoming, that is, they love greed and petty gain. Of course, I mean universality, not everyone. Perhaps this shortcoming comes from the contradiction of small land and large population and huge competitive pressure in Min County, or from the complex population structure in Min County. As we all know, Gannan has a population of about 700,000, and Minxian has a population of nearly 500,000, which does not include the foreign population. In recent years, due to the improvement of traffic conditions and location advantages, the floating population in Min County has continued to increase. At the same time, different cultures from the southeast and northwest are slowly changing and influencing Minxian people. Compared with Gannan, where the population flow is relatively slow, people in Min County have gradually become "cunning" under the influence of various cultures and the competitive pressure brought by the population base, or out of commercial calculation or under the pressure of survival.

On the other hand, Min County has a large population and relatively scarce educational resources, which leads to a low cultural level and overall quality of the whole people. In addition, Minxian people do not have the same religious beliefs as Gannan Tibetans, which leads to the deviation of their impressions of each other.

But in any case, as a person who often travels between Minxian and Gannan, I don't want people from both places to misunderstand each other. I hope everyone can break the stereotype, communicate more, learn from each other and tolerate each other. I don't want those drivers to prejudice and discriminate against me again because I am from Minxian when I get to and from work by bus.

The endless Taohe River has nurtured Gannan people and Minxian people. People living by the river should abandon prejudice, understand and respect each other and live in harmony on the beautiful Taohe River.