What is the ancient place name in Xinhuang County, Hunan Province?

Xinhuang County, Hunan Province was called Yelang Country in ancient times.

Xinhuang: Make every effort to create "Yelang"

Experts believe that Xinhuang is the ancient city of Yelang.

The preface of Huangzhou Tingzhi says: "Huangzhou ancient Yelang country is the border of Chu and Guizhou."

In March 2003, Fei Xiaotong, a world-famous sociologist, anthropologist and former vice chairman of the National People's Congress, wrote inscriptions for Xinhuang: "Journey of Yelang-Xinhuang, Hunan Province", "Yelang's hometown-xinhuang dong autonomous county, Hunan Province" and "Yelang's search for roots at the end of Chu Dynasty". Fei Lao's qualitative evaluation aroused the enthusiasm of many experts for academic research. For a time, they wrote articles to clarify history and restore its true colors in the dispute.

Mr. Hong Zheng, Counselor of Hunan Provincial Government, has written many articles, such as "West Huaihua-the birthplace of ancient Yelang" and "Textual research on the ancient city of Xinhuang Yelang". The textual research is informative and convincing.

The name of Yelang first appeared in Sima Qian's Biography of Southwest Yi: "The Yelang is the biggest in the southwest Yi." Next, describe its history: "When Chu Weiwang started, were you a general?"? The soldiers will go down the river, slightly west of Bashu and Guizhou. " There is an obvious clerical error in the article, that is, Chu Weiwang is out of date, and it should be Qing Xiang, the king of Chu. Secondly, Tai Shigong cherished ink like gold, and did not say that the river name of Chu Army was "downstream", nor did he say that Yelang was cut down, just to let readers naturally understand the context. It is clearly written in Fan Wei's "The Biography of Nan Man Southwest Yi": "When Chu Qing was king, Zhuang Hao stayed and fought from Shui Yuan to Galand, and the ship fought on the rock." Changqu's "Huayang Guozhi Nanzhongzhi" is written in great detail.

From about 370 BC, the state of Chu had a county in central Guizhou, which was ruled in Yuanling, Hunan, and the patriotic poet Qu Yuan had arrived in Xupu when he was exiled in 296 BC, it can be seen that the ancient Yelang tribe that the Chu army wanted to conquer must be in the upper reaches of Yuanshui River and its tributary, Wushui, west of Huaihua City. The question is where the Chu army landed and where is Lan?

However, not only does ancient Galand not know where it is now, but ancient Galand and Galand counties established in the Western Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty also have different opinions in several important dictionaries. "Ci Hai" said: "Now near Guiyang, now northwest of Kaili." China Dictionary of Historical Place Names says: "In Fuquan County, Guizhou Province today." The former is adjacent to the dancing water, and the latter belongs to the upper reaches of the dancing water.

At present, most Yelang researchers only start with Galand, which was established in Han and Jin Dynasties, but ignore the important premise that its land could be "rock climbing by boat" at that time. Even avoid saying "Cut Yelang from Shui Yuan" or renaming Shuiyuan. As a matter of fact, the scholar from Guizhou, who is highly praised by modern Yelang researchers, only said in "Questions and Answers of Six Counties in Zhang Yu" that "Lan was born in Yuanshui without water, and those who go back to Yuanshui today can go straight to Zhenyuan." Zhenyuan was a government at that time, and the government ruled in today's zhenyuan county, bordering on today's Xinhuang and far from Fuquan. In the Qing dynasty, it was only downstream, and it was barely feasible to pull fibers from Xinhuang by boat in non-flood season. It was a huge fleet at war with the Chu army. The original river channel more than 2000 years ago has never been cleaned, so it is completely incomparable.

Zhao Yi, a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty, sailed down the river from Zhenyuan in Mayang, where he couldn't get up. In his "Dancing on a Boat", it is described as a dangerous cloud: "The rapids are rushing, a bunch of angry waterfalls ... the waves are dying, and the sound is like tears. I hate the danger of the sky and make it cool. " In the twenty-fourth year of Jiaqing, Lin Zexu went to Yunnan as an examiner and wrote the poem "The Road to Zhenyuan". At the beginning, I said, "Two mountains and one water are evil." Because he can't go up by water, it's hard to avoid "it's nothing to do." When Ge Yilong, the chief secretary of Guizhou Province, an official in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, took office, he also arrived in Zhijiang by boat (then Xinhuang was under the jurisdiction of Zhijiang) and landed on land. His poem "Ciping City" has a cloud: "The words are fragrant and close to the river in five days. Go to danger together, admire, and force you to review. " It took five days to walk from Zhijiang to Yuping. If the ship can go up smoothly, why should he work so hard!

History and facts show that Galand, where Yelang of Chu Army landed during the Warring States Period, could never be Fuquan in Guizhou, or even Zhenyuan, but only between China and Xinhuang in the west of Huaihua, Hunan. Xinhuang is the base of ancient Yelang tribe.