A Glimpse of Chinese Spring Festival Migration

[Yizhi]

Very interesting. One can actually conduct sociological-based research just on studying a cohort in how their migration from one part of China to another part , can study how language (dialects), educational background, and social support structures can predispose to success or at least find any correlation to that dependent variable (or not, in the event we have to accept the null hypothesis).

I guess one thing i've never thought of is how these train systems , or overall transportation systems in China, can pave the way to a neo-migration dynamic in China especially from the countryside to the urban areas. Notwithstanding one can see a miscegenation of cultures as Northern Chinese come down to the south (and vice versa; Southern Chinese go to the North) or Easterners going to the west to find greater opportunities. And with this migration, can change the local culture and dynamic!

Really interesting stuff.

you sound like an anthropologist, lol.
indeed. before modern transportation systems different regions of China were rather isolated and each with localized subculture. it would be interesting to observe and study how all these regional cultures communicate, compete, then merge or coexist with one another. if we look at historical Chinese internal migration waves, they were closely connected to the creation of Han identity and its new adaptions thus contribute to the formation of Chinese identity which is rather unique compared with Europe and the more scattered European identities.
modern China could be dreamland for sociologists. i'm really curious of how future historians would write about our time.

Have you met the same problem of internet? I couldn't get access to PDF for several hours


Hubei is where the 1911 Revolution took place, a province of pioneering spirit .Most of Chinese generals during wartime came from Hubei and Hunan( hu means lake, Hubei=north to the lake, Hunan=south to the lake, within a single province before)

same problem.

無湘不成軍, it's talking about you guys, lake people stronk! lol.

 

[birdy]

Story one: Back home(Nanjing-Wuhan-Huangshi)
By Sunny

Chapter 3
This is it, Nanjing South Railway Station.
The entrance is on the second floor.

Get my tickets with ID card.

D3003: from Nanjing South Railway Station to Wuhan Railway Station.
C5513: from Wuhan Railway Station to Huangshi North Railway Station.

C5513 reads chengji 5513 in Chinese, which stands for Metroplitan Area Express Railways.

There are already 5 such area railways in China, including Shenyang Metropolitan Area Intercity Railways, Zhongyuan Area Intercity Railways, Greater Wuhan Area Intercity Railways, Zhusanjiao Express Railways and Greater Chengdu Area Railways.

These Railways link thoese cities which very close between each other.

 

[Aepsilons]

Wonderful pictures indeed.
盆means basin,踊 means jump upward or a shoe of someone who is punished with Yue( strike off a foot or two). What does this word mean in Japanese?

盆踊 --- Lantern Festival Dance

 

[powastick]

Celebration vary from province to province, like in Malaysia Cap Goh Meh(lantern festival) is a hokkien celebration while Yee Shang is a cantonese thing.

 

[Aepsilons]

無湘不成軍, it's talking about you guys, lake people stronk! lol.

i think the polandballs have gotten to you, bro. LOL

i think @SvenSvensonov 's Sweden bork got to you.

 

[AndrewJin]

Story one: Back home(Nanjing-Wuhan-Huangshi)
By Sunny

Chapter 3
This is it, Nanjing South Railway Station.
The entrance is on the second floor.
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Get my tickets with ID card.
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D3003: from Nanjing South Railway Station to Wuhan Railway Station.
C5513: from Wuhan Railway Station to Huangshi North Railway Station.
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C5513 reads chengji 5513 in Chinese, which stands for Metroplitan Area Express Railways.

There are already 5 such area railways in China, including Shenyang Metropolitan Area Intercity Railways, Zhongyuan Area Intercity Railways, Greater Wuhan Area Intercity Railways, Zhusanjiao Express Railways and Greater Chengdu Area Railways.
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These Railways link thoese cities which very close between each other.

Sunny/birdy, you are using the same HSR map i'm using

I could sum the Malaysian's Chinese New Year migration in one picture.

From 3 hours became 6 hours.

Malay politicians celebrating Chinese New Year.

That's much better than G4 expressway in China, several hours for 100 metre

i think the polandballs have gotten to you, bro. LOL

i think @SvenSvensonov 's Sweden bork got to you.

You both lost me.

 

[Yizhi]

i think the polandballs have gotten to you, bro. LOL

i think @SvenSvensonov 's Sweden bork got to you.

Sweden bork? ....xixixixixixixixi....

 

[AndrewJin]

Sunny/birdy, you are using the same HSR map i'm using


That's much better than G4 expressway in China, several hours for 100 metre


You both lost me.

Btw. how to @?

Sweden bork? ....xixixixixixixixi....

you guys are totally bewildering me.

 

[Aepsilons]

you sound like an anthropologist, lol.
indeed. before modern transportation systems different regions of China were rather isolated and each with localized subculture. it would be interesting to observe and study how all these regional cultures communicate, compete, then merge or coexist with one another. if we look at historical Chinese internal migration waves, they were closely connected to the creation of Han identity and its new adaptions thus contribute to the formation of Chinese identity which is rather unique compared with Europe and the more scattered European identities.
modern China could be dreamland for sociologists. i'm really curious of how future historians would write about our time.

It is , indeed, a psychologists' and sociologists' dream to do research in China.

There is only one country that I can compare China's net internal migration with -- in breadth and expanse -- and that is the United States. The criss cross of Westerners moving to the East Coast, Southerners to the Midwest, or Northern to Midwest, South or West to midwest --- is just amazing.

For example, we have one American member @SvenSvensonov who's from Utah (i think if my memory serves me right) and now he's in Virginia. For me my port of entry to the US was in California, then now I'm here in New Jersey (east coast). My gf (she's Italian-American), her family originally came to the US through New York City back in the early 1920s, but now they're here in New Jersey, tho she has a lot of relatives in Chicago (Midwest), and also in Florida (South).

So yes, seems like Chinese net migration from north to south, south to north, east to west, west to east, central to east, central to west, south to central etc etc --- is similar to US. Its good because like you said there is a cultural dynamic here. I can only imagine what this means in terms of food and cuisine adaptations, local language, religion practice, family raising patterns et al !

You both lost me.

Hahahaha you are new, in time, you will know what i'm talking about.

 

[birdy]

God, I don't know how to reply below others' comments.

 

[Aepsilons]

Sweden bork? ....xixixixixixixixi....

ha ha ha ha! don't laugh too hard now, your mom and dad might ask you what's wrong. hahahaha!

 

[AndrewJin]

Celebration vary from province to province, like in Malaysia Cap Goh Meh(lantern festival) is a hokkien celebration while Yee Shang is a cantonese thing.

Hokkien and Cantonese and Hakka, southern China is too multilingual, a village 10km away speaks another one. People from northern Fujian cannot comprehend southern Fujian's Hokkien dialect.

 

[birdy]

Ok, will get it going tommorrow. Thank you guys.

 

[AndrewJin]

God, I don't know how to reply below others' comments.

Ok, will get it going tommorrow. Thank you guys.

You sleep so early today, it's your style

 

[Yizhi]

ha ha ha ha! don't laugh too hard now, your mom and dad might ask you what's wrong. hahahaha!

you should be desu desu desu !

Btw. how to @?


you guys are totally bewildering me.

polandball comics, 波兰球
Funny Polandballs et al !