What do you mean, the village is gone?

Xiangbie, Changsha dialect, refers to Xiangbie, which means country bumpkin and describes people's rusticity. According to the Geo-Linguistic Study of Chinese Dialects from Changsha to Ningxiang, the word "Xiangbie" appeared in the 1980s, when the economy developed rapidly and the gap between urban and rural areas widened. Most citizens living in Changsha had better material conditions than rural people, so they felt superior. As for the "poor" rural people who come to the city to work in "dirty, tired and poor" jobs to make money, urban people have nicknamed the rural people who come to the city "Village".

The origin of other villages

In the 1970s, Changsha people called the villagers "farewell to the countryside". But at that time, few people from the village came to the city because there was no money. At most, only a few sporadic people from the surrounding villages come to the city to sell some odds and ends, such as "Ding Ding Ke" and "Mud Calling Pig" (whistle made of mud, which hippo chefs liked to play at that time).

In the1980s, more rural people entered cities, which accelerated the formation of a social atmosphere that discriminated against rural people. I remember when I was young, in the early 1960s, there was a popular song on the streets of Changsha, called "Village Maids Entering the City".