Many Chinese attach great importance to the place names of their hometowns, coupled with the history of China for so long, many places have had different place names in ancient times, so many people who are "thick and thin" will think that ancient place names are better, Hefei is a typical example, many people think that its ancient name "Luzhou" is better.
Of course, whether it is good or not is actually a very heavy subjective impression, but the place of "Luzhou" did appear very high in ancient times, because there was a bao zheng here, and a few years ago, Xu Song also had a first "Luzhou Moon", which made this place seem to suddenly have some more literary and artistic colors.
As a result, many people think that "Luzhou" has become "Hefei" is a tragedy, which belongs to the "failure to change the name".
So how did "Luzhou" become "Hefei"? In fact, it is not "Luzhou" that has become "Hefei", let alone a failure to change the name, for a long time, these two place names existed.
Let's first talk about how these two place names came from, during the Western Zhou Dynasty, the King of Zhou divided the Chao state into Lu and Chao, of which the Lu state was in Luyi, located in the northwest of today's Hefei city, and "Lu" came from this way.
The place name "Hefei" first appeared in literature in the "History of The Chronicle of Cargo Breeding" by the great writer and historian Sima Qian
"Hefei is affected by the north-south tide, leather, abalone, wood will also be lost"
。 At the turn of the Qin and Han Dynasties, Hefei was formally established
"Hefei County"
, belongs to Jiujiang County.
At this time, only "Hefei", "Hefei" is older than "Luzhou".
People who know a little about the "Three Kingdoms" should have heard of the "Battle of Hefei" between the State of Wei and the State of Wu, where the State of Wei could not cross the Huai River with 200,000 Wu troops, and "Hefei" was already a place name at this time.
"Luzhou" officially became the name of the establishment in the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty changed the Southern Dynasty's Hezhou to Luzhou, so "Luzhou" also officially became a place name, Hefei is still the following county, and it is the first county.
Yuan set up Luzhou Road here, which governed the three counties of Hefei, Liang (in present-day Feidong County) and Shucheng, as well as the three prefectures of Hezhou, Wuwei Prefecture and Lu'an Prefecture, and the Ming Dynasty changed the "road" of the Yuan Dynasty to "Fu", so the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Luzhou Fu" became a very stable establishment.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Luzhou Prefecture belonged to Nanzhili, Jiangnan Province, and Anhui Province (Jiangnan Province was later separated into Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces), and In the Qing Dynasty, Luzhou Prefecture administered four counties: Hefei County (Shou County), Shucheng County, Lujiang County, Chao County, and one Sanzhou: Wuwei Prefecture.
In the southern part of the Ming Dynasty, you can see LuzhouFu (traditional characters)
Among them, Hefei County is the "attached Guo County" of Luzhou Capital, that is, Hefei County is Also Luzhou City, but at that time, the city generally only said Hefei County, not Luzhou City, because Luzhou is a broad administrative division, not the specific name of the city; this situation is most obvious in Guangzhou, the Ming and Qing Dynasties Guangzhou Fucheng is very large, there are two attached Guo Counties, Nanhai County and Panyu County rule the same city, at this time what do you say the name of the city? It is not appropriate to call Nanhai and Panyu, and Guangzhou is a broad administrative district name, not the name of the city. At that time, Guangzhou was a treaty port, and many foreigners also asked the locals: What is the name of this city? It is also difficult for locals to say, because the locals usually call "Fucheng" directly, so foreigners use the European language "canton" as the English name of Guangzhou.
That is to say, in essence, the name of the city has not changed, that is, it is called Hefei!
In 1913, the Republic of China "abolished the province of Cun County", the name of Luzhou Prefecture was gone, Hefei County was retained, and the name of Hefei was used when setting up a city (the city at this time was not counted as the current prefecture-level city, only the city itself) was also used, which was actually normal, because the name of the city was "Hefei", Luzhou was the name of the province, and it was the name of the region.
Therefore, when the prefecture-level city later became a new second-level administrative district to manage the county, the chosen name was no longer "Luzhou", but the direct use of "Hefei", which led to a situation, the current prefecture-level city is actually similar to the previous government, but the name changed from "Luzhou" to "Hefei".
In fact, there is nothing particularly regrettable about this, because the place name of Hefei is originally much older than Luzhou, and the name of the prefecture-level city can only have one, either called "Luzhou" or "Hefei", because after the Republic of China, China has a "city" system, no longer the same as the Ming and Qing dynasties, there will be a phenomenon of "different names for prefectures and counties", and it is also normal to choose "Hefei".
Of course, some cities choose the previous "house name"? There are also many situations, some are the county name is gone, the typical is "Jiujiang Province", Jiangxi Jiujiang Province's Fuguo County is "Dehua County", but because it has the same name as Fujian Dehua County, and then because Fujian Dehua County is set earlier, so "Dehua County" was renamed "Jiujiang County", and later the name of the prefecture-level city is also Jiujiang; some belong to the city is very large, and there is more than one Attached Guo County, so when the city is set up, it uses the name of the province, such as Guangzhou City, and its Fuguo County has two, Nanhai County and Panyu County. Of course, when setting up the city, we must use the name of Guangzhou; there are also reasons that are more negative and complex, changing and changing, such as Fuzhou and Linchuan...
This process is very chaotic, so there are many cities and counties with the same name, the situation of the inversion of the prefecture and county, as far as Anhui Province is concerned, the most controversial, the most unfortunate thing is not Luzhou, but another place - the famous Huizhou Capital, "Huizhou Renaming Movement" has a lot of momentum until now.
Of course, it is almost impossible to change the name now, because first of all, there is no need, and it is used to it; the second cost is too high, and Hefei is originally the name of the city, which is justified and is actually quite good. Therefore, Luzhou is still better as a folk name for Hefei, and the locals still retain a strong cultural and psychological identity for this name.