Why most of the ancient place names have a "state" word, with other instead of bad sound?

Because in ancient times our country was called the nine states, later divided more and more, that time the state has become the name of the local administrative unit, with the progress of history, to the North and South Dynasties period, because each vassal state is very important to save face, they don't know how big their own land area, but will find a way to put their land on the They didn't know how much land they had, but they would find a way to divide their land into states to make it look like they had more land under their control, and that's how it went on, there are hundreds of state names in our country, and some of them have been used up to this day.

Many people know that in China, some of the cities in the name of the back with the state, compared to Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, and so on, the name of these cities are often not small, has a certain historical and cultural heritage, why there are so many places with the state of the word, in fact, in the early days, the great land of China has been reputed to be the nine states, of course, and now Japan's nine states, the state of the world. , of course, and now the Japanese island of Kyushu has nothing to do , at that time, that is, nine places united into the Huaxia, so so called.

But later, the name with the state of the place is more and more, to the North and South Dynasties, basically there have been more than a few hundred, why all of a sudden will be divided into so many? Because at that time, the Northern and Southern Dynasties was a period similar to the Warring States period, there were very many vassal states, and these vassal states were rivals, they all hoped that they could write some powerful, so they divided their own territory into more states, which is equivalent to the current forcible division of a place into several, because there was no concept of the size of the area at that time, so it was assumed that the number of states I ruled over was higher, and my territory was stronger. more, my territory is stronger.

Afterwards, some of these states' names have been used until now, but some of them are still different from the ancient ones, for example, the Yangzhou in ancient times actually referred to the Jiangnan area, but now it is basically the city of Yangzhou, and the jurisdiction of Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms period was not the same as that of Jingzhou in Hubei province, but it was just a change of the administrative organization on the original territory. The area under the jurisdiction of a state at that time was much larger than that of a prefecture-level city now.