Zhao Yan land refers to where?

Zhao Yan refers to Hebei Province today. The ancient sites of "Zhao Yan" also include Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning and some areas around Zhao Yan in Shaanxi, northern Henan, southern Inner Mongolia and northern Datong River in North Korea.

According to China's earliest geographical work Yu Gong, "Zhao Yan" belonged to Jizhou in ancient times. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was Yan and Jin, and in the Warring States Period, it was Yan, Zhao, Zhongshan, Wei and Qi. Qin set up Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Dai, Julu, Handan, and Hengshan counties. Since the Han Dynasty, it has been officially named Youzhou and Jizhou. Sui set up the manager of Youzhou.

The Tang Dynasty called Hebei Road, and the Song Dynasty divided Hebei into east and west roads. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, as the capital was located in Beijing, Hebei was an important part of both capital and capital city, which belonged to Zhongshu Province in Yuan Dynasty and North Zhili in Ming Dynasty, and Zhili was established in Qing Dynasty. Zhao Yan controls the Great Wall in the north, the Yellow River in the south, the Taihang in the west and the Bohai Sea in the east.

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The main body of Zhao Yan lies in the Yellow River in the south, the sea in the east, Taihang Mountain in the west and Yanshan Mountain in the north. Geographically, it is a plain, belonging to the northern part of North China Plain, and can also be called Hebei Plain independently. It is an alluvial plain and the soil belongs to secondary loess. Crossing the plain, you often walk for hundreds of miles without seeing the ups and downs of mountains. Yanzhao culture is a plain culture.

Zhao Yan has always been famous for its agriculture. From the culture of Cishan and Peiligang 7000 years ago to An Lushan's reclamation in Hebei during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, it shows that agriculture here has a long tradition and a prosperous situation. Water conservancy irrigation was actually initiated here, but it was not popularized and continued, and it was subdivided. The agriculture here mainly uses dry land farming instead of artificial irrigation. Yanzhao culture is an agricultural culture and a dry farming culture.

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