What is the real Jiangnan area?

Jiangnan geographically refers to the Yangtze River Delta, including Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Wuxi, Danyang, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou,

Huzhou, Shaoxing and other large areas. Culturally, Jiangnan has a wider range, including southern Anhui, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and other places.

Jiangnan, refers to the geographical area, as the name suggests, meaning the south of the Yangtze River, in the concept of human geography refers to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River south. During the pre-Qin period, Jiangnan belonged to the nine states of the Han Dynasty, and was called "Wu Yue" by the Central Plains? [1]? Jiangnan is famous for its talented people, affluent water towns, prosperity and development.

Jiangnan is a person of great talent, mountains and water, from ancient times to the present "Jiangnan" has been a constantly changing, stretching regional concept, but always represents the beautiful and fertile water town scene; so far is also superior natural conditions, rich in resources, commodity production, industrial categories, is China's comprehensive The developed area with the highest economic level.

In different historical periods, the literary imagery of Jiangnan is not the same. Jiangnan first appeared in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. In the Eastern Zhou period, it was the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River where the vassal states of Wu and Yue were located, i.e., the area south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, such as present-day Shanghai, Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, and the eastern and northern parts of Jiangxi Province (taken from the CCTV documentary "Where is Jiangnan").

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History of Jiangnan

"Jiangnan" has always been an ever-changing, scalable geographical concept, the geography of Jiangnan in a narrow sense refers to the Taihu Lake basin south of the Yangtze River near Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou, Jiaxing, and the Yangtze River.

The scope of Jiangnan in a broad sense also includes Nantong (Tongzhou), Yangzhou and Taizhou in Jiangsu; Jinhua, Lishui, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Quzhou and Wenzhou in Zhejiang; Huangshan, Wuhu, Xuancheng, Ma'anshan, Chizhou and Tongling in southern Anhui; and Shangrao, Wuyuan and Jingdezhen in northeastern Jiangxi.

The meaning of "Jiangnan" is varied in ancient literature. It is often a word with the "Jiangbei", "Central Plains" and other regional concepts side by side, and ambiguous. Historically, Jiangnan has been both a natural geographic region and a socio-political region.

Broadly speaking, Jiangnan includes the area south of the Yangtze River in six provinces and cities of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan. Jiangnan in the broad sense of the vast area, diverse landscapes, and is often regarded as the "big Jiangnan", which is roughly consistent with the scope of the meteorological Jiangnan. Jiangnan four big rice market, Jiangnan three famous buildings are in the scope of the big Jiangnan.

The region includes the famous three mountains, three rivers and three lakes--Qiantang River and Taihu Lake in Huangshan Mountain, Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake in Lushan Mountain, and Xiangjiang River and Dongting Lake in Hengshan Mountain, which are the birthplaces of Wuyue culture, Ganpao culture and Hunan culture respectively. The definition of Jiangnan started from the ancient district (Jiangnan Road) and was often described in literary works. For example, Du Fu's "Meeting Li Guinian in Jiangnan" was written in Changsha. Weather forecasts refer to Jiangnan is also roughly the broader Jiangnan zone.

From the Yuan Dynasty onwards, in the official geography, the word "Jiangnan" is also used in administrative divisions, but the division is often not representative of Jiangnan. The Southern Tang of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Jiangnan Road (Jiangxi) of the Song Dynasty, the Jiangnan Road (Xiang Gan) of the Tang Dynasty, and Suzhou of the Qing Dynasty represent the Jiangnan region well.

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