Sure, here is the translation of the given content into English: "South people North North people South"

Author: Yu Qiujiu
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: There is a saying in physiognomy that people from the north with southern features or people from the south with northern features are noble. I believe this is not an empty statement. Those from the north with southern features are both profound and clever, while those from the south with northern features are undoubtedly clever and profound. The "noble" of the ancients was merely success in their time, while now, it means accomplishing beneficial deeds. This is a small path of self-renewal for the Chinese people. — Lu Xun
Gu Yanzhou's Notes on Daily Knowledge critiques the scholars of the north and south with "indifference" and "liking petty cleverness": "Those who eat all day without thinking are pitiful indeed—today's scholars of the north. Those who gather all day, speaking of nothing meaningful, and like petty cleverness are pitiful indeed—today's scholars of the south." Wang Guowei critiques the scholars of the south and north with "dialectical thinking" and "practicality": "Southerners excel in dialectical thinking but lack practicality, while northerners excel in practicality but lack dialectical thinking."
The distinction between the north and south has existed since the pre-Qin era. It deepened due to the 350-year-long confrontation between the north and south during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Militarily, northerners often won and unified the south, while southern invasions into the north mostly ended in failure. Only Zhu Yuanzhang truly defeated the north and unified the country.
The characteristics of northern and southern folk are roughly "northern mixed and southern linear, northern handsome and southern graceful, northern solemn and southern relaxed." Northerners have a "tragic sense of knowing what cannot be done yet doing it," while southerners often have a "melancholic acceptance of what cannot be done as fate." However, exceptions exist: those with northern features but southern appearances, or southern features but northern appearances, often combine cleverness and depth, avoiding the weaknesses of the north and south, and thus frequently achieve "success in their time" or "accomplish beneficial deeds." In Lu Xun's words, they find a "small path of self-renewal."
There are northern elements in the blood of southerners, and southern elements in the blood of northerners—this is called "southerners with northern blood, northerners with southern blood." There are northern influences in the temperament of southerners, and southern influences in the temperament of northerners—this is called "southerners with northern temperament, northerners with southern temperament."
The distinction between the north and south has existed since the pre-Qin era. It deepened due to the 350-year-long confrontation between the north and south during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Militarily, northerners often won and unified the south, while southern invasions into the north mostly ended in failure. Only Zhu Yuanzhang truly defeated the north and unified the country.
The characteristics of northern and southern folk are roughly "northern mixed and southern linear, northern handsome and southern graceful, northern solemn and southern relaxed." Northerners have a "tragic sense of knowing what cannot be done yet doing it," while southerners often have a "melancholic acceptance of what cannot be done as fate." However, exceptions exist: those with northern features but southern appearances, or southern features but northern appearances, often combine cleverness and depth, avoiding the weaknesses of the north and south, and thus frequently achieve "success in their time" or "accomplish beneficial deeds." In Lu Xun's words, they find a "small path of self-renewal."
There are northern elements in the blood of southerners, and southern elements in the blood of northerners—this is called "southerners with northern blood, northerners with southern blood." There are northern influences in the temperament of southerners, and southern influences in the temperament of northerners—this is called "southerners with northern temperament, northerners with southern temperament."
Gu Yanzhou's Notes on Daily Knowledge critiques the scholars of the north and south with "indifference" and "liking petty cleverness": "Those who eat all day without thinking are pitiful indeed—today's scholars of the north. Those who gather all day, speaking of nothing meaningful, and like petty cleverness are pitiful indeed—today's scholars of the south."
Liang Qichao's On the Grand Patterns of Chinese Geography critiques the north and south with "grandeur" and "elegance": "Northerners often have grand scale, vast momentum, and a majestic spirit, like a hawk soaring through clouds, dominating the northern deserts." "Southerners often have elegant scale, subtle momentum, and a gentle spirit, like a moonlit boat with slow, graceful singing and dancing."
Lin Yutang critiques the north and south with "simplicity and purity" and "worldliness": "On one hand, we see northern Chinese accustomed to simple and pure thinking and hard living, tall and strong, with a passionate and humorous personality, who love garlic and jokes. In the southeastern frontier, south of the Yangtze River, we see another type of person. They are accustomed to comfort, diligent in self-cultivation, worldly-wise, intelligent but physically frail, fond of poetry and comfort. They are smooth but underdeveloped men, slender but neurasthenic women."
Wang Guowei critiques the north and south with "dialectical thinking" and "practicality": "Southerners excel in dialectical thinking but lack practicality, while northerners excel in practicality but lack dialectical thinking."
Pan Guangdan critiques the north and south with "cleverness" and "stupidity": "Those who have little goodwill toward the Chinese say that southerners are very clever but easily emotional, unreliable, and even let emotions cloud judgment, forgetting themselves. Northerners, however, are utterly foolish to an indescribable extent but are relatively honest and reliable."
Zhang Renfu critiques the north and south with "brutish" and "frivolous": "Generally speaking, northerners have broad minds, are straightforward and self-confident, with a rough and unrestrained temperament of bravery and fierceness; southerners have a twisted nature, are weak but sometimes decisive, timid but sometimes frivolous, though they may lack a rough temperament, they rarely show a fierce one."
Lu Xun critiques the north and south with "depth" and "cleverness": "From what I have seen, the strength of northerners lies in their depth, while the strength of southerners lies in their cleverness. But the flaw of depth is ignorance, and the flaw of cleverness is cunning. Therefore, a certain scholar once pointed out their shortcomings: northerners are 'those who eat all day without thinking,' and southerners are 'those who gather all day, speaking of nothing meaningful.' For the leisure class, I think this is largely correct."