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What places do the "Hedong, Hexi, Hanoi, and Hetao" often mentioned in ancient books refer to?

I mentioned "Guan" last time - what places do the "Guan Nei, Guan Wai, Guan Zhong and Guandong" often mentioned in ancient books refer to? , this time let’s talk about “river”. In fact, in the previous article of the editor, the two mountains, two rivers, two lakes, and what the "mountains, rivers, lakes and Guang" in Guangdong and Guangxi refer to respectively have been talked about a little bit. This time I will take it out and talk about it.

River generally refers to the Yellow River in ancient times, while other rivers are generally called water, such as Weishui, Zhangshui, etc. /c2cec3fdfc039245764df6c78c94a4c27c1e2579?x-bce-process=image/resize, m_lfit, w_450, h_600, limit_1/quality, q_85

Yellow River

Hedong, Hexi

Comparison Henan and Hebei, simply understood, generally refer to the east and west of the Yellow River. But their meanings changed in ancient times.

Hedong, I am afraid the first thing you think of is "Hedong Lion's Roar", because the heroine of this story is surnamed Liu, and Hedong is the county head of the Liu family, so it is called this. This is the same as Han Yu being called "Han Changli". /d31b0ef41bd5ad6e740173228acb39dbb7fd3c79?x-bce-process=image/resize, m_lfit, w_450, h_600, limit_1/quality, q_85

Stills from the movie "Hedong Lion Roar"

Referring to Hedong County during the Qin and Han Dynasties The land is in the present-day Yuncheng and Linfen area of ??Shanxi Province. After the Tang Dynasty, it generally referred to Shanxi. Gu Yanwu, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, said in Volume 31 of "Rizhilu": "Hedong, is Shanxi the same place?" For example, Liu Zongyuan, one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was born in Shanxi, so the world also called it "Liu Hedong". , "Mr. Hedong". /472309f790529822621c2f0bdcca7bcb0b46d4ce?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85

Hedong County

Hexi, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, refers to The area west of the southern section of the Yellow River between present-day Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces is approximately Hancheng, Heyang, and Dali in today's Shaanxi Province.

In the Han and Tang Dynasties, it mostly referred to the area west of the Yellow River in Gansu and Qinghai provinces. This area was under the jurisdiction of the Hexi Jiedu envoy established in Liangzhou during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. /f7246b600c338744f7ea39b45a0fd9f9d62aa0ce?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85

Hexi County

In addition, in history or geography books we can often I saw a word - Hexi Corridor. /4b90f603738da977e3d791e3bb51f8198718e37a?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85

Hexi Corridor

It is the main road from mainland China to the Western Regions , a long and narrow stacked plain in the northwest of Gansu Province, located east of the Qilian Mountains, west of the Heli Mountains, north of the Wushaoling Mountains, and south of the Gansu-Xinjiang border. It is about 1,000 kilometers long and several kilometers to nearly 200 kilometers wide. It has been a land of prosperity since ancient times. , a military powerhouse.

Hanoi

Of course this Hanoi is not that city in Vietnam. The river in Vietnam refers to the Red River, the cross-border water system between China and Vietnam.

It is recorded in Sima Qian's "Historical Records? Biography of Huozhi": "In the past, the capital of the Tang Dynasty was Hedong, the capital of the Yin Dynasty was Hanoi, and the capital of the Zhou Dynasty was Henan.

The three rivers in the world are like a tripod, where kings often live, and the founding of a country is hundreds of thousands of years old. "So Hedong, Henan and Henan are collectively called the "Three Rivers", which are among the world and synonymous with the "Central Plains". /f2deb48f8c5494ee97b018d126f5e0fe98257e63?x-bce-process=image/resize, m_lfit, w_450, h_600, limit_1/quality, q_85

The "Three Rivers" region

Of course, "Three Rivers" can be divided into broad and narrow senses. In a broad sense, Hanoi refers to the area north of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which is approximately equivalent to the current northern Henan region. In the narrow sense, it refers specifically to Hanoi County (today's Qinyang).

Another point: In ancient my country, yin and yang can be used to refer to directions. Mountains, south and water are north, and vice versa, such as Qinyang. That is to the north of Qinshui.

The reason is that in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and north of the Tropic of Cancer, there is no direct sunlight all year round, and the sun only shines from the south, so the south side of the mountain has sunlight; The north side is yin. /2fdda3cc7cd98d104dfb1af92a3fb80e7aec90ce? Because due to the relationship between the earth's gravity and the topography, the penetrating power of the river water makes the south bank easily eroded and becomes relatively "wet", so the south side of the water is called Yin. This saying later spread to the entire China. . This also reflects the ancients' understanding of temperature and humidity.

Hetao

Beginning in the Ming Dynasty, it refers to the entire Ordos Plateau that is surrounded by the Yellow River in the shape of a "ji". and part of the Loess Plateau. Because the area has been famous for its abundant water and grass throughout the ages, there is a folk saying that "the Yellow River is full of dangers, but only one is rich." The "History of the Ming Dynasty" describes it as "the land is two thousand miles away." It is surrounded by rivers on three sides. "/a71ea8d3fd1f413410a512b62e1f95cad0c85e63?x-bce-process=image/resize, m_lfit, w_450, h_600, limit_1/quality, q_85

Hetao area