Southeast, northwest, these four words mean much more to China than just to guide the direction. It was not only given the role of surveying feng shui treasures by the Chinese, but also introduced into the names of our provinces. Chinese pay attention to the combination of yin and yang, the way of symmetry. So when they named the provinces with the four words southeast and northwest. Pay attention to the north and south opposite, east and west are commensurate. What makes people wonder is that among China's 34 provincial-level administrative regions, there are Guangdong Guangxi and Hubei Hunan, but only Jiangxi has no Jiangdong. This is obviously not in line with traditional Chinese culture.
In fact, in China's history, there is the concept of Jiangdong. The protagonist in the words "Jiangdong's sons are talented and talented, and their comeback is unknown", Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, is a Jiangdong person.
In ancient China, there were two major factions, the Han chinese and ethnic minorities. The Han chinese mostly live in suitable climate, fertile land, and live by planting, which is called the Central Plains. Ethnic minorities mostly live in arid, barren lands, and live on nomadic herders, which is called the land of barbarians. Therefore, most of the conquest wars in ancient China were carried out around the Central Plains. The seven volumes of the history book record: ancient central plains as the center, the South of the Yangtze River as the outside, the outside is the table, so jiangnan is called "river table". The area around the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is called Jiangdong, and because the ancients took the east as the left, they also called it Jiangzuo.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Huiji County, Danyang County, Yuzhang County, Luling County, and Lujiang County were collectively known as the Six Counties of Jiangdong. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Quan established the Wu state in the Jiangdong area, and the State of Wei and the Shu Han Dynasty were in a three-legged position. Since then, Jiangdong, as an important base of the Wu state, has developed into China's wealth and power. After that, the Jiangdong region experienced major wars such as the Sima Yan Rebellion, the Eight Kings' Rebellion, and other major wars. Under the leadership of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Jiangdong region developed into a new political and economic center in the Central Plains. Since then, the economic status of China's north and south has begun to reverse.
During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of Tang re-divided the administrative system and divided the country into 10 provinces. Bounded by the north-south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Jiangdong is part of Gangnam Province. Later, Tang Taizong felt that the administrative division was too large and that local officials were not easy to manage. The previous 10 provinces were changed to 15 provinces, and Gangnam Province was divided into Gangnam East Province, Gangnam West Road, and Qianzhong Province.
With the change of dynasties, the title of Jiangdong was abolished in the geographical division of the Ming Dynasty. Since then, the title of Jiangdong has never been the same in China's administrative divisions.