Why are Shaanxi people called Gansu people?

Shaanxi people are called the hometown of Gansu people because it is a legacy of historical development. In the long river of historical development, Gansu Province and Shaanxi Province were indeed once a family. Before the Qing Dynasty, Gansu and Shaanxi Weihe River merged, and until the early Qing Dynasty, they all had similar cultural characteristics.

There are similarities in food culture and customs between Shaanxi and Gansu. For example, there are many kinds of pasta, Chinese hamburger and Lamian Noodles, all of which are their unique similar eating habits.

Secondly, China has been running the Silk Road for a long time, and Gansu is the only road on the Silk Road, which has greatly promoted the economic development of Gansu.

Reasons for the merger and separation of Shaanxi and Gansu

In the early Ming Dynasty, when the provinces were established in the Ming Dynasty, Gansu was included in the management of Shaanxi Province. In response to the counterattack of Mongolian forces, the Ming Dynasty also set up a trilateral governor in the northwest to command the Shaanxi-Gansu garrison. Therefore, Shaanxi Province in the Ming Dynasty was very large, actually equivalent to nearly three provinces. However, in many official documents of the Ming Dynasty, Gansu was sometimes listed separately.

Gansu province was merged into Shaanxi province mainly for military defense and convenient command, but this problem was completely solved after the Qing dynasty entered the customs. Before that, the Central Plains dynasty needed to face the threat of the nomadic regime in the north. After the Qing dynasty entered the customs, it inherited obvious administrative divisions.

No changes were made at first, but after the Nanming regime was pacified, the Qing Dynasty felt that Shaanxi Province was too big. The folk customs in the northwest are tough, and for various reasons, peasant uprisings are prone to break out in the northwest.