阎锡山是山西省定襄县河边村人。河边村原属五台县,所以早先便称阎锡山为五台人。也因此,阎锡山主政山西之后,乡间便有“学会五台话,就把洋刀挎”的民谣流传。于是,阎锡山与位于五台县境内的五台山便有了一种“天然”的联系。事实上,他还未出生即已埋下了这种联系的“种子”。 Yan Xishan is a village in Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province. Riverside village originally belonged to Wutai County, so earlier called Yan Xishan for five people. Therefore, after Yan Xishan took the ruling position in Shanxi, the people in the country would have spread the folk saying of “learning five sets of words and putting a knife on his back”. Thus, Yan Xishan and Wutai Mountain in Wutai County will have a “natural” link. In fact, he laid the “seed” for this connection even before he was born.