Today, many of China's place names are handed down in history, in ancient times to name a place, often according to the name of the surrounding mountains and rivers, or directly with the name of the mountains, or in the name of the direction relative to the mountains, so often will be named with the principle of "mountains and rivers north for yang, mountains and north water south for yin", such as: Luoyang, Jiyang, Jiangyin, Huaiyang, Huaiyin, Hanyang, Hanyin, Huayin, Shanyang and other places. Among the names of these places, Huaiyang and Huaiyin are obviously named after the Huai River, Huaiyang is located north of the Huai River, and Huaiyin is located south of the Huai River.
Location map of Huaiyang, Huaiyin and Huaihe Rivers, the blue area is water
Huaiyin during the Song and Jin dynasties was south of the Huai River
From the map, although the Huaiyin area has been difficult to distinguish whether it is located south of the Huai River due to the impact of the Yellow River's diversion to seize the estuary of the Huai River, according to the analysis of the data before the Yellow River diversion, it is in the Linhuai River and south of the Huai River.
The distance between Huaiyang and Huaihe is more than 150 kilometers
Cities and counties through which Huaiyang to Huaibin County pass
But Huaiyang County in Zhoukou City, Henan Province is different, from the satellite pictures it is more than 150 kilometers away from the Huai River in a straight line, separated by 3 or 4 prefecture-level cities and 5 or 6 counties, why is it called Huaiyang so far away? Could it be that when it was named, there were no other place names between it and the Huai River that could be called Huaiyang? Let's take a look at these things.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Huaiyang and Huaiyin are basically named in the same period, but there is a difference! </h1>
Both places are named after the Qin Dynasty, but one is a county and the other is a county.
Huaiyang County (Chen County) and Huaiyin County in the Qin Dynasty
Huaiyin was originally a county
According to relevant sources, Huaiyin County was set up after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms and adopted the county system, and this point is recorded in the "Chronicle of the Marquis of Huaiyin": "The Marquis of Huaiyin Han believes, huaiyin people also", pointing out that there was Huaiyin before the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, and later it is recorded: "Constantly send food from the head of the Nanchang Pavilion in the countryside", Han Xin sent food to the home of the village Nanchang Pavilion chief because he could not eat in the city. The following han dynasty counties are townships, pavilions, and li, ten miles are one pavilion, and ten pavilions are one township. This comparison shows that Huaiyin was a county level before the Western Han Dynasty. And later because Han Xin was named the Marquis of Huaiyin as the founding hero of the country, Huaiyin became the State of Huaiyin.
Huai'an Province of the Qing Dynasty
Huaiyin County in the long history of the river, from qin to Yuan, after several times of withdrawal and restoration, the Yuan Dynasty to the 20th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1283), Huaiyin County was merged into Huai'an Road's annex guo county Shanyang County, after the Ming and Qing dynasties have never recovered.
The city of Huai'an and Shanyang County with Guo
Huaiyang was originally established as a county
Huaiyang was first divided by the State of Chen by the Zhou Dynasty before the Qin Dynasty, and later because it was adjacent to the State of Chu in the south, it was destroyed several times by the State of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, but after it was initially destroyed, it would be supported by Chu to support a puppet regime and restore the state, but in the twelfth year of King Hui of Chu (478 BC), after the State of Chen was destroyed, it was set up by the State of Chu as Chen County, becoming a permanent county of the State of Chu. In the late Warring States period, in order to avoid the offensive of the Qin state, King Xiang of Chu also moved the capital of the State of Chu to Chen in the nineteenth year (278 BC), and then to Shouchun in 240 BC, and Chen served as the capital of the State of Chu for nearly 40 years.
Chen County of the Qin Dynasty, now researched, should be Huaiyang County, named after the north of the Huai River
According to the Huaiyang Local Chronicle, Huaiyang was Chen County during the Qin Dynasty, and there are also records of "from Chen to Pingyu" in the "Records of History" and "Book of Han", but there is no record of Huaiyang County, so it is believed that Qin set up Chen County in Huaiyang. However, judging from the modern excavated documents, the possibility of huaiyang county here is extremely high, and there is a family letter in Qin Mumu, where Yunmeng sleeps tiger land: "Heifu and others directly support Huaiyang, attacking and opposing the city for a long time", and "attacking and rebelling against the city" occurred in the twenty-fourth year of the first emperor, indicating that Huaiyang County was placed before qin unified the world. Therefore, it can be considered that the Qin Dynasty placed Huaiyang County, and the time of the establishment of the county was earlier than before the implementation of the county system, the county name was "Huaiyang", and the county was governed by "Chen" County. After the implementation of the county system, it became one of the thirty-six counties of Qin.
In the twelfth year of Han Gaozu's reign, Huaiyang County, the southern boundary was still the Huai River
Qin "Huaiyang County" is located in the north of the Huai River, in line with the naming convention of "shannan and water north for yang", this county was a large area at that time, its east reached today's Anhui Woyang, Lixin, northwest to today's Henan Luohe, Fugou, its north to The Qin Dynasty Sanchuan, Yan County, its west to the Qin Dynasty Nanyang County. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, was eleven years old, Lizi "You" was the king of Huaiyang, and at this time the Huaiyang Kingdom had two counties of Qinhuaiyang and Yingchuan, and huaiyang county or the southern boundary of Huaiyang state was still Huaihe.
After Emperor Wen of Han, the southern boundary of Huaiyang County had left the Huai River, and Ru'nan County was separated from it
In the fourth year (176 BC) of the Han Dynasty, with his son "Wu" as the King of Huaiyang and the Twelfth Year King of Huaiyang as the "Liang", the area of the Huaiyang Kingdom was adjusted at this time, first the three cities north of Huaiyang were assigned to the Huaiyang Kingdom, and then the counties in the south of the Huaiyang Kingdom plus some counties in the eastern part of Nanyang County were placed as "Runan County", the area of the Huaiyang State was greatly reduced, and the most important point was that the Huaiyang Kingdom was far away from the Huai River, and the southern boundary was roughly in shangcai County, Henan Province, and the first city in Anhui Province. There was a Runan County separated by Huaiyang and Huaihe, and it was at this time that the name "Huaiyang" seemed to be unworthy.
After the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when Xinmang was in power, the state of Huaiyang was changed to Xinping. The Ming Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty took chen county ruled by Huaiyang County in the former Qin and Han dynasties as the name of the country, changed Xinping to "Chen Guo", and by the time of Emperor Zhang, it was "Chen County", and the name of Huaiyang did not appear in history after that, Chen County has been "Chen Prefecture" from the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was promoted to the prefecture, named "Chen Prefecture".
Huaiyang County of the Qing Dynasty
In summary, the fate of these two ancient names is: the name of Huaiyin ended in the Yuan Dynasty, and the name of Huaiyang ended earlier, in the Xinmang period between the two Han Dynasties.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the early Republic of China, the two ancient names were used again. </h1>
Huaiyin County
Due to the implementation of the "abolished fucun county" in the early years of the Republic of China, the seat of administration of Shanyin County was cut off, leaving Shanyin County, but Shanyin County was renamed the same as Shanyin County in Shaanxi Province, and in January of the third year of the Republic of China, it was changed to Huaiyin County with the ancient name of the county in history.
Huaiyang County
Chen Prefecture was chen prefecture in the Qing dynasty, and its vassal guo county was Huaining County, which was abolished in the first year of the Republic of China and directly administered by Chen Zhoufu. In February of the second year of the Republic of China, it was restored and changed to Huaiyang County under the name of the ancient county.
Huaiyang County during the Republic of China period
Map of Chengguan Street in Huaiyang during the Republic of China period
Satellite view of Huaiyang County in the late 1960s
In this way, the two ancient names of Huaiyang and Huaiyin, which were named during the Qin Dynasty, disappeared in history for several years and were reapplied. However, "Huaiyang" was originally the name of the county, named after its immediate proximity to the Huai River and north of the Huai River, but today it is used in the name of the county, and Huaiyang County and the Huai River are still far apart. It is also like this that many people are confused about Huaiyang, which is 300 miles away from the Huai river, but is still called "Huaiyang", and even launched a question under an article in "Grand Canal Time and Space", hoping that this article can answer your doubts.
Netizens' doubts
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