The origin of Guangdong and Guangxi

In the early Tang Dynasty, counties were established. The 45 States of Lingnan belong to Guangzhou, Guizhou, Rongzhou, Yongzhou and Annan (also known as Lingnan Five Houses). After 655 years, all the five governments were assigned to Guangzhou, and the governor called them five governments (governors), and Guangzhou secretariat concurrently held the post. In 756 (six years from Su Zong to Germany), he was promoted to be the economic envoy of the five governments in Lingnan. In 862 (three years in Xian Tong, Zong Yi), Lingnan Road was divided into east and west roads, Guangdong belonged to Lingnan East Road and Guangxi belonged to Lingnan West Road.

Since ancient times, Guangdong and Guangxi have been connected by mountains and rivers, and people are connected. The division between Guangdong and Guangxi began in the Song Dynasty. Bounded by ancient Guangxin (Guangxin, the capital of Jiaozhou in Han Dynasty, is located in the intersection of Wuzhou, Hezhou, Guangxi Fengkai and Hejiang. In recent years, experts and scholars have confirmed that since 106 BC, Guangxin, as the political, economic and cultural center of Lingnan, has been known as the "ancient capital of Lingnan" for more than 300 years, and is the earliest birthplace of Lingnan culture and Cantonese. )。 The east of Guangxin is called Guangnan East Road, namely Guangdong. To the west of Guangxin, it is called Guangnan West Road, which is Guangxi. Guangdong and Guangxi were officially named in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Lingnan can be called Guangdong and Guangxi from now on. Song Dynasty is an important dynasty in the historical development and evolution of Guangdong and Guangxi.

First of all, let's talk about how Lingnan was incorporated into the territory in the Northern Song Dynasty. After replacing the Five Dynasties and the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty inherited the strength of unifying the world laid by post-Zhou Shizong. After the Southern Tang Dynasty was leveled, Shu was destroyed, and wuyue, Nanping and Chu became puppet vassal regimes at the same time, Song Ting decided to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty and completely solve the problem of separatist regime in the south, thus putting the main operational direction in the north and facing the most powerful enemy, the Khitan.

In 19971year, Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu sent troops to attack Nanhan. At that time, under the brutal rule of the last monarch of the Southern Han Dynasty, Lingnan was already very decadent, unable to resist the attack of the heavenly soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Southern Han Dynasty perished. Lingnan was reintegrated into the central territory. In this way, the separatist forces in the south were basically eliminated by the Song Dynasty, and the last few kingdoms were relieved of power by the Northern Song Dynasty in a peaceful way. The Northern Song Dynasty stopped its military activities in the south and concentrated on dealing with the catastrophe in the north-Liao and its puppet Northern Han. Because the center of gravity of military forces looked north, the Northern Song Dynasty recognized Annan's independence and awarded him the title of King Annan. Annan officially changed from his homeland to a vassal state.

In this way, in the late 1970s, after the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty and unified most of China, Lingnan was included in the area where the administrative divisions of the Song Dynasty were changed. The reform of administrative divisions in the Northern Song Dynasty mainly defined the highest administrative division as "Dao", renamed all localities, and adjusted counties. Lingnan is divided into two roads, namely "Guangnan East Road" and "Guangnan West Road", referred to as "Guangdong" and "Guangxi".