Open the map, densely packed with place names, and the stars are huge. Water has a source tree and roots, and local names have their own reasons. The history of the name of Zhenyuan County has a long history.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhenyuan County was subordinate to Gongchang Province, later changed to Pingliang Province, and in the 42nd year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1777 AD), it was changed to Jing Prefecture. At the beginning of the Republic of China, it was changed to Jingyuan Province. In 1926, it was directly under the Gansu Provincial Government, and in 1928, it belonged to the Xifeng Special Office of the Third District of Gansu Province. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it belonged to the Qingyang District Commissioner's Office of Gansu Province, and in 1956, Pingyang and Qing were merged and subordinated to the Pingliang Special Office.
In 1962, the Qing and Ping divisions were reverted to the Qingyang Special Bureau. In 2002, it was subordinated to Qingyang City.
According to the "Yuan Geographical Chronicle", in the seventh year of the Mongol Dynasty (1270 AD), Zhenrong Prefecture merged with Yuanzhou, taking the "town" of Zhenrong Prefecture and the "original" of Yuanzhou, named Zhenyuan Prefecture, and the prefecture was fixed in Linjing County, which is now the county seat of Zhenyuan County. Zhenyuan Prefecture had jurisdiction over four counties at that time: Linjing, Pengyang, Dongshan, and Sanchuan.
The predecessors of ZhenwonJu, Zhenrong Prefecture and Wonju, were built in the same year, and the score is two points.
The predecessor of Zhenrong Prefecture was the Zhenrong Army. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Xia gradually became stronger, and the Longshan area became the junction of the Song and Xia, and its strategic position became more and more important. At first, the Song Dynasty adopted the old system and built Weizhou (present-day Pingliang), Jingzhou (present-day Jingchuan), and Wonju (present-day Zhenyuan) in the mountains. In the Song Dynasty, the Battle of Haoshuichuan and DingchuanZhai occurred, and the Song army lost one after another, which attracted the attention of the government and the public. The Song court accepted Wang Yaochen's superiors, strengthened the military strength along the border between Song and Xia, and established a military and political institution equivalent to a county-level military and political organization that integrated military and government and combined peacetime and wartime and wartime with the army, in order to protect the border and the people. In the third year of Emperor Taizong's reign (997 CE), he carved out Pinggao County, which belonged to Wonju, and established the Zhenrong Army, which was based on Pinggao Castle.
As early as the Yao Shun era, the territory of present-day Zhenyuan County was part of the territory of Yugong Yongzhou, which was a multi-ethnic area, and the Rong people existed for a long time, successively "Rong Zhai", "Kun Rong", and "Peng Rong Guo". The "Chronicle of Qingyang Province" records that in the eighth year of King Ding of Zhou, that is, in 461 BC, Qin, Han and Wei "cut off Zhu Rong", but in fact they were not destroyed. The Chronicle of The Chronicle of The Land records that "the three prefectures of Ning, Yuan, and Qing were the land of Yiqu Rong, and Zhou Zu did not live in liu juzhi." In the thirty-fifth year of King Ding of Zhou, Qin Ligong cut down Yiqu Rong, and when Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of Qin, Meng Tian led his troops to plunder the land and went west to qun Rong. After the Tang Dynasty, especially after the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, due to years of war, famine, and migration, the Han nationality entered the Qing, Yuan, and Ning prefectures in large numbers, and the han nationality gradually formed a region dominated by the Han nationality. The name of the Han dynasty originally originated from the Western Han Dynasty, when the military was strong, foreign countries called China "Han", and later the Chinese also called themselves Han, and gradually formed the Han nationality. By the 22nd year of the Jin Dynasty (1182 AD), the Zhenrong army was upgraded to Zhenrong Prefecture (镇戎州), unifying the two counties of Dongshan and Sanchuan, 822 years ago. The ruins of Sanchuan County are located in the ping terrace on the south bank of the intersection of the ancient city natural village of Yangqianyuan Administrative Village in Kaibian Township, Present-day Zhenyuan County.
Tubo was a national regime established by the Tibetans on the Tibetan Plateau in China in the 7th century AD. During the reign of Tang Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang gave Tubo Songzan Gampo to Princess Wencheng, his daughter, and Tang and Bo had friendly relations. After the Anshi Rebellion, the situation was reversed, and Tubo took advantage of the emptiness of tang's northwestern border to continuously capture Tang and control the Longyou region. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty and the fourteenth year of the Gregorian calendar, Tubo forced Tang to recognize the Tang territory it occupied. In the third year of Zhenyuan (787 AD), Tubo robbed the alliance at Pingliang, and the relationship between Tang and Bo further deteriorated. Tubo did not keep the promises of several alliances, and repeatedly provoked military conflicts, at that time Weizhou, Yuanzhou, Huizhou, etc. were the destinations for Tubo to enter and occupy, coupled with the corruption and incompetence of the Tang court, the eunuch Yu Zhao'en controlled the military power, the border defense was weak, the border land was lost, and the county administration was uncertain. In the sixth year of De (756 AD), Tubo attacked Wonju, and Jingyuan Jiedu made Ma Xuan report that he had moved the seat of the original state to Baili City. In the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (758 AD), it was restored to Pinggao. In the nineteenth year of Zhenyuan (803 AD), the office was moved to Pingliang County. In the third year of Tang Xianzong's reign (808 AD), he moved to Linjing. In the third year of Da Zhong (849 AD), Guanlong was recaptured, and the state was restored to Pinggao. After the first year of Emperor Guangming of Tang (880 AD), Pinggao fell to Tubo, and the state administration was moved to Linjing. At the time of the five generations, Yuanzhou was still in Linjing, and Yuanzhou had jurisdiction over Linjing and Pinggao Counties. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yuanzhou had jurisdiction over Linjing and Pengyang County, as well as xincheng and Liuquan towns, and the five villages of Kaibian, Xidao, Ping'an, Suining and Jing'an.
The word "原" in Wonju originated from the Zhou Dynasty, and the Pingliang Fu Zhi records that Dayuan was "Zhenyuan County Ancient Dayuanye", and Dayuan Lizhou was called Wonju.
From the numerous historical changes, we can see that the name of Zhenyuan County has gradually evolved and formed after a long historical period. The "original" character in the three characters of "Zhenyuan County" is the oldest, inheriting the "original" character of Taiyuan in the Zhou Dynasty, that is, The Great Plain, dating back to about 3,000 years ago; "Zhen" is the "town" character that inherits the "Zhenrong Army", dating back to 1007 years; the "county" of ancient Linjing County, dating back to 2200 years, so Zhenyuan County is one of the ancient counties with a long history under the jurisdiction of Qingyang City today.