What is the abbreviation for Henan Province?

In costume dramas, we often hear these words? Central Plains area, Central Plains people. In fact, in ancient times, the Central Plains was where Henan Province is today. A long time ago, most of the original land area of ??Henan Province was located south of the Yellow River, which is also the origin of its name.

Henan has a long history and cultural heritage, and many dynasties chose to make their capital in Henan. For example, Luoyang was the capital of thirteen dynasties; Kaifeng was the ancient capital of eight dynasties, Anyang was the ancient capital of seven dynasties, and Zhengzhou was the ancient capital of Xia and Shang. Even today, many people come here just to visit this ancient cultural capital.

Many provinces in China have their own abbreviations, so the question is, why is the abbreviation of Henan Province Henan Province?

In ancient times, the ecosystem at that time was good, the vegetation coverage rate was high, and the amount of sediment in the river was small, so the Yellow River at that time had many tributaries. There were mammoths at that time. Since most of Henan was located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River at that time, there were many kinds of animals there and people and nature lived in harmony. Therefore, at that time, people could lead elephants. Is this scene later? The origin of the pictographic character Yu?, therefore, Henan Province is abbreviated as Yu.

After Dayu controlled the floods, due to his outstanding achievements, he was made the king of primitive society by Shun. Later, he divided the world into nine states, and the place where he made his capital became Yuzhou.

There are records in ancient books that everyone is called Yu. From this, it seems that Yu had a high status in the ancient literature at that time.

Then some people may be confused. Yu? It means people leading elephants, but in the later Henan, there was no shadow of elephants at all. Is there any historical basis for its name?

Some archaeologists have discovered a large number of Stegodon fossils and elephant bones in Zhengzhou and Anyang, Henan. Earlier when they excavated the Yin Ruins in Anyang, they also unearthed... Its origin is like the oracle bone inscriptions of Sanxiang and Kuihaiqingxiang. These signs indicate that elephants lived in Henan a long time ago. However, with the changes of the times and the change of climate and environment, those elephants Slowly lost traces in Henan.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, states became an important regional division in terms of regional jurisdiction, equivalent to our current division of cities.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the state was divided into thirteen states. At that time, most of the jurisdiction of Yuzhou was located in the south of today's Henan, which means that the basic range was the area of ??today's Henan. In addition, ancient books say that Yu means peace and tranquility, which is in line with the original intention of the ruler and hopes that the people can live and work in peace and contentment. Therefore, Yu has been used to this day.

In fact, in the final analysis, the cause of Yu is still because of Dayu. When he was controlling floods, he divided the country into nine places for the convenience of management. After he ascended the throne, he called these nine places Kyushu, which is what we later passed down orally as Kyushu of China.

At that time, Yuzhou was the largest plate among the nine states and the center of the world. Therefore, this abbreviation has been used by rulers of all dynasties. In addition, its own meaning is peace and tranquility, so until today , the abbreviation of Henan is still Yu, there is no other complicated reason.

This is the origin of the abbreviation of Henan. As for the meaning of the pictographic character "yu", it has also been mentioned in the previous article. I don’t know if you have noticed a small detail, that is, the icon of Henan Satellite TV is in the shape of an elephant. It can be seen that there is a deep connection between Henan and elephants.