Why is Pan County called "Panzhou"?

Pan County was renamed Panzhou after Pan County was removed from the county and established as a city. This is the first county in Guizhou to remove the county and establish a city after the "removal of counties and establishment of cities" was frozen for 20 years and then reopened. . With its rich coal resources, Pan County has made its economic status become the largest county in Guizhou by promoting the integration of coal-to-electricity, coal-to-aluminum, coal-to-electricity and steel, and has successfully ranked among the top 100 economic counties in the country. This time, after the county is removed and a city is established, Panxian County will have greater room for its next development.

Pan County was removed from the county and established as a city. The name was not called "Pan City", but was renamed "Panzhou City". I believe that such a name will arouse the interest of many friends in Guizhou. Why is it called "Panzhou City"? If you call it "market" directly, it doesn't sound very good. People who don't know it think it is a stock market trading place. Therefore, renaming it according to its most representative stage title in history is more in line with the temperament and cultural connotation of Pan County itself.

For a long period of history, Pan County did not have the most historically representative title, because its current geographical area historically belonged to several surrounding prefectures, or was different from the current one. The neighboring counties are combined into one place. To say that the most representative historical title of Pan County is "Puan", because in its history of thousands of years, it has been "Puan Road", "Puan Mansion", "Puan Prefecture", "Puan Hall" ", but if "Puan" is used, it will overlap with Pu'an County in southwest Guizhou. Therefore, we can only choose a more representative name, and that is "Panzhou".

Before the Tang Dynasty, Pan County and neighboring Pu'an County were the settlements of the ancestors of the Gelao people. The Gelao people were formerly called "Pu (Pu) people", and there are still people living in the two counties today. There are a large number of place names named after the "pu" sound. "Pu" and "Pu" have the same pronunciation, so they are both written as "Pu". "Pu" and "Pan" are phonetically consistent in the language of the Yi people who later ruled the area, and "Pan" is named after Panjiang. There are relationships. Therefore, Pan County and Pu'an County have the same historical origin, and this is also the case. Before the Qing Dynasty, the two counties belonged to the same place, and they were separated into different organizations later.

According to the records of Qing Dynasty King Yuelin in "Puan Prefecture Chronicles Preface" (Qianlong): "Puan Prefecture was called Zangda in the Han Dynasty, Panzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and Yu Yabu in the Yuan Dynasty. It was formerly Mingzhou and Weibin. Suppose there was a local official who headed it, but the local official was not eliminated even though he was transferred to another state. During the Kangxi period, the guards were dismissed and returned to the state. Later, the local official was changed to the local official, and the local official was actually eliminated. Therefore, Pu'an Prefecture was merged with Zhongtu Prefecture. County, etc." This roughly outlines the outline of Panxian and Pu'an counties.

The Han Dynasty established Zangqi County, which included most of the original Yelang Kingdom. It can be said that the territory of the original Yelang Kingdom was changed into Zangqi County under the direct administration of the imperial court. This was because King Xingzai of Yelang competed with neighboring small countries for land and did not obey the mediation of Chen Li, the governor of Xangqi County, which was directly under the imperial court. Therefore, Yelang Kingdom was destroyed. In fact, the Yelang Kingdom at this time was not the Dayelang Kingdom that had "one hundred thousand elite soldiers" before the early Han Dynasty, but a small vassal state that had surrendered to the Han court, that is, a vassal king. Its fiefdom was roughly in the present-day Pan County and Pu'an areas. After the Yelang Kingdom was destroyed, its fiefdom was naturally classified as a county system and included in Zangda County. Therefore, during the Han Dynasty, it was called Zangqi County, but at this time Pan County and Pu'an were only a small part of the southwest of Zangqi County.

During the Shu-Han Dynasty, part of the original Zangqi County was divided into Xinggu County and Jianning County. At this time, Pan County and Pu'an became the junction of the three counties and belonged to the three counties. After the Jin Dynasty, there were frequent wars and great changes in counties. Panxian and Pu'an were established as Xiping County in a short period of time. Later, the ancestors of the Yi people gradually entered the area and became the actual rulers of the area. They were called Dongcuan Wuman. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Dongcuan Wuman attached themselves to the imperial court. In the second year of Emperor Wude of the Tang Dynasty, the area was established. It is an economical state in Xiping. At this time, Xiping Prefecture included Panxian, the northwest of southwestern Guizhou, the southwest of Anshun and part of the east of Qujing. Its main parts were mainly Panxian and Pu'an. In the eighth year of Emperor Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, Xiping Prefecture was changed to Panzhou. The name Panzhou was not abolished until the tenth year of Emperor Xuanzong's Tianbao period. During the Tang Dynasty, the name Panzhou existed for more than a hundred years.

During the Song Dynasty, the imperial court was unable to manage the southwest region and allowed the local ethnic minority regimes to grow. Therefore, the imperial court adopted a policy of restraint in this region. At that time, local ethnic minority regimes such as Luo Shigui State, Luodian State, and Ziqi State maintained contact with the Song Dynasty. Panxian County belongs to the Ziqi Kingdom. The territory of Ziqi Kingdom includes today's Xingyi, Xingren, Pu'an, Panxian, Anlong, Zhenfeng, Ceheng, Wangmo and part of Luodian. The capital is in today's Xingyi Huangcao Dam. Although Ziqi State was small, it was the strongest. Later, when the Yuan army attacked the southwest, it was regarded as the bridgehead for attacking Guizhou and Guangxi from Yunnan. Later, it was destroyed by the Yuan army, and the Yuan court set up Pu'an Road here, with an area roughly equivalent to today's Panxian, Pu'an, Xingren and part of Xingyi.

In the early Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the rule of the southwest region, the area between Pu'an and Panxian was set up as Pu'an Prefecture, and later changed to Pu'an Prefecture. Tens of thousands of troops were stationed here to establish Pu'an Prefecture. Anwei formed a situation in which state and state guards coexisted, that is, local political power and military jurisdiction coexisted. It was not until the early Qing Dynasty that this situation was broken and the military garrison was integrated into the local political power. In the 18th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Pu'an County was newly established in the eastern three camps and three miles of the original Pu'an Prefecture. That is, there was one Pu'an Prefecture and one Pu'an County at this time. Pu'an Prefecture is today's Pan County, and Pu'an County is today's Pu'an County in southwest Guizhou. The two counties began to separate from each other during this period, forming today's general jurisdiction.

In the 14th year of Jiaqing, Pu'an Prefecture was upgraded to Zhili Prefecture, and two years later it was changed to Pu'an Zhili Prefecture. In the 34th year of Guangxu's reign, that is, in 1908, in order to prevent the name of Pu'an Zhili Hall from being confused with Pu'an County, it was renamed Panzhou Hall. After the founding of the Republic of China, the policy of "reforming state capitals to counties" was implemented across the country, so Panzhou Hall was changed to Panxian County in 1913. The name Panxian County has been used until now. Although its affiliation has changed several times and special zones with different functions have been established, the name Panxian County has not been changed.

Judging from the historical evolution of Panxian County, its most influential names should be as follows, namely Panzhou, Pu'an and Panxian. If Pu'an is used, it is similar to Pu'an Prefecture and Pu'an County in the early Qing Dynasty. Pu'an City and Pu'an County coexist, which is easy to confuse. If Panxian is used, its name is "Panxian City" or "Panshi", which seems a bit tacky. Therefore, it is called "Panzhou City", which is more elegant and connotative, and is in line with the historical image of Panxian County and today's vigorous development.

During a long period of history, Pan County did not have a most historically representative title, because its current geographical area historically belonged to several surrounding prefectures, or was different from the current one. The neighboring counties are combined into one place. To say that the most representative historical title of Pan County is "Puan", because in its history of thousands of years, it has been "Puan Road", "Puan Mansion", "Puan Prefecture", "Puan Hall" ", but if "Puan" is used, it will overlap with Pu'an County in southwest Guizhou. Therefore, we can only choose a more representative name, and that is "Panzhou".

For a long period of time, Pan County did not have the most historically representative title, because in different historical periods, its jurisdiction was different. The most representative historical names of Pan County are undoubtedly "Panzhou" in the Tang Dynasty and "Puan" in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, because after its establishment, it was called "Puan Road", "Pu'an Prefecture", "Pu'an Prefecture" and "Pu'an". Anzhou" and "Puan Hall", and the government office is now located in Shuangfeng Town (formerly Chengguan Town). There are South and North Panjiang in the territory, so slowly due to the local pronunciation of "pu" and "an" it evolved into "puan" eventually changed to "pan". After the county was removed and a city was established, in order not to have the same name as Pu'an County in Southwest Guizhou Prefecture, the name "Panzhou" in the prosperous Tang Dynasty was re-adopted. It was also in the hope that the motherland would be prosperous and strong, the nation would be rejuvenated, and the country would be rejuvenated. Create brilliance.

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The most important thing is that the Chinese have a strong attachment to the state. From ancient times to the present, many places in China have names with the word "zhou". Some places have been baptized by history. The state was cancelled, the city was changed to the county, and now there is a nostalgia for the past. Many places are gradually returning to renaming themselves after what state they are. The Chinese Jiuzhou has been added to many small states.