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In the field of ancient chinese literature and history, Jiangdong is a very frequent occurrence, many poems and historical events, will find the geographical term "Jiangdong", then, the historical Jiangdong, where is it located today?
The origin of Gangdong
In the pre-Qin era, rivers and rivers. It belongs to the category of proper nouns. In the pre-Qin era, "jiang" often referred specifically to the Yangtze River. Other rivers are often described as "water", such as "easy water", "Han water" and so on. Even in the "Notes on the Water Classics" written during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there are records that use "river water" to specifically describe the Yangtze River.
The Yangtze River flows through the vicinity of present-day Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and there will be a relatively large change in direction. Therefore, the Chinese ancestors used this Section of the Yangtze River as a coordinate to establish the concept of Jiangdong and Jiangxi — but jiangxi in ancient times and Jiangxi province in today are not a concept. Moreover, because of the different dynasties, the scope of Jiangdong has also changed, but in general, the Yangtze River is used as a reference.
Jiangdong of the Wu Kingdom
During the Three Kingdoms period, the basic disk of the State of Wu was Jiangdong at that time, the famous Mei ZhouLang, who also served as the governor of Jiangdong in Sun Quan's regime. At that time, there were the so-called six counties of Gangdong.
The so-called six counties of Jiangdong refer to the six counties of Huiji, Danyang, Luling, Yuzhang, Wu and Lujiang at that time.
Among these six counties, the oldest is Huiji County, because the legend is that the ancestor of the Xia Dynasty, Emperor Yu, was buried in Huiji, and left a lot of footprints with Huiji, in addition, during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Wuyue princes competed for hegemony, and Huiji was also an important historical coordinate.
At that time, the six counties of Jiangdong roughly covered most of today's Zhejiang Province, as well as Jiangsu Province, southern Anhui Province, and parts of Jiangxi Province.
The State of Wu existed for only a few decades before it was annexed by the Western Jin Dynasty, but the scope of Jiangdong had a general range in this era, and almost all subsequent dynasties and dynasties used this as a blueprint to divide the jiangdong range.
Jiangdong of the Tang Dynasty
During the reign of Tang Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the concept of "Nineteen Prefectures of Jiangdong" was divided in the Jiangdong region. In the Tang Dynasty, the geographical scope of Jiangdong was expanded to a large extent compared to that of the Wu State—to some extent reflecting the huge territory of the Tang Dynasty in the Xuanzong era, so in terms of local governance, the scope of Supervision of Jiangdong was expanded, thereby reducing the administrative pressure of the imperial court.
Jiangdong in the Tang Dynasty basically encompassed the scope of the Wuguo Jiangdong, and at the same time, on the basis of the wuguo Jiangdong, the entire Fujian Province today was included in the scope of Jiangdong.
With the advent of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Jiangdong region of the Tang Dynasty was also divided among many political powers, such as the State of Min, the State of Wu of Qian Miao, and the State of Wu (later Southern Tang) of Yang Xingmi.
Song Dynasty and later Jiangdong
After the Northern Song Dynasty partially unified China, it established the "Jiangnan East Road" in the Jiangdong region.
Jiangdong in the Song Dynasty was significantly narrower than that of the Tang Dynasty: Jiangdong in the Song Dynasty only included the southern regions of today's Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and its scope was even much narrower than that of Jiangdong during the Wu Dynasty.
Dynasties after the Song Dynasty did not make an official Jiangdong concept division in terms of geographical division. However, in the Qing Dynasty, it was customary to believe that the scope of Jiangdong included present-day Anhui, southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang and northern Jiangxi. The scope of Jiangdong in the Qing Dynasty was not as large as that of the Tang Dynasty, nor was it as small as that of the Song Dynasty, and generally continued the framework of Jiangdong in the Wu Dynasty. This geographical concept continues to this day.