When people talk about the Northeast, what specifically are they referring to?

The northeast refers to: Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, eastern Inner Mongolia and northern Hebei.

The geographic location is: in the direction of northeastern China.

North-eastern region, is a geographic and cultural region and economic region of China, not an administrative region; "Northeast" term, first appeared in the "Zhou Li - Job Fang Shi". "Northeast said Youzhou, its town mountain said medical Wulu." The Classic of Mountains and Seas, "Beyond the Northeast Sea, in the middle of the Great Wilderness," "there are mountains, the name is not salty, there is the country of the Su Shen clan."

Expanded information:

History: pre-Qin period

Superior Han

Since ancient Han Chinese

have had their own writings, the Northeast as a region has been enshrined in the canonical books. The Shangshu - Yugong ("尚书-禹贡") was the first to include the Northeast in the canon, dividing ancient China into "nine states", of which "Jizhou", already covered the western part of present-day Liaoning Province, and "Qingzhou", placing the southern part of present-day Liaoning, mainly the Liaodong Peninsula, in the state of "qingzhou". The southern part of the country, mainly the Liaodong Peninsula, was placed under the jurisdiction of the state. According to legend, the "nine states" were set up after Yu ruled over the water, and Shun analyzed the "nine states" as "twelve states", of which the northeast of Jizhou was Youzhou, i.e., the area west of Beizhen in Liaoning Province was referred to as Liaoxi; the "northeast" of Qingzhou was Liaoqi; the "northeast" of Jizhou was Liaoqi; and the "northeast" of Qingzhou was Liaoqi. "Northeast" for the Yingzhou, that is, the area east of Beizhen called Liaodong.

The word "northeast", the earliest in the "Zhou Li - Job Square". "Northeast is said to be Youzhou, its town mountain is said to be medical Wulu." The Classic of Mountains and Seas, "Beyond the northeast sea, in the middle of the great wilderness," "there are mountains, the name of which is not salty, there is the country of the Su Shen clan."

4000 - 10000 years ago, the Northeast Hongshan culture to the Chinese civilization 1,000 years in advance, before Xia will not be only legend, Hongshan culture is one of the origins of Chinese culture, on the basis of which formed the Northeast of the first people of the Shang tribes and the ancient Yan tribes, the Northeast is the traditional settlement of the Chinese nation.

The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Sixteen Kingdoms recorded that the Shang tribe's ancestor Gaoxin's residence Gan in the Bohai Sea coast; Xunzi recorded Gaoxin's son Chee resides in Chifeng West Liaohe area, the 16th century B.C., the Shang tribe for the first time south of the Central Plains, from the west of Liaozhi across the Yanshan Mountains into the plains of North China, Shang Tang destroyed Xia, the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, ruled over the Central Plains for more than 500 years, the Shang tribe and the Xia tribes, the formation of the Huaxia Tribes The combination of the Shang and Xia tribes laid the foundation for the formation of the Chinese Xia tribes. Later, at the end of the Shang Dynasty, Min Zi returned to the northeast and was partitioned by King Wu of Zhou in the Daling River Valley, known as the Min State. Later, Min Zi led 5,000 Shang Dynasty survivors to move eastward to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, where he joined forces with the indigenous inhabitants to establish the "Min's Husbandry," thought to have been settled in the area of the Daido River Valley in the area of present-day Pyongyang.

During China's Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-221 BC), the Zhou Emperor divided the feudal lords to protect the kingdom and gave Duke Zhaodong Ji Shi of the Zhou Dynasty the northeastern Shang land of Yan, which was the ancestor of the feudal state of Yan. Duke Ji Shi of Zhou (11th century BC), also known as Duke Shao, Duke Kang of Zhou, and Duke Taibao of Zhou. His family name was Ji Shi (奭), son of King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty and brother of King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Northeast Region