Should Xinyang City belong to Henan Province?

I always felt that Xinyang’s geographical location was a bit special, so I found some words to explain its specialness from various aspects. 1. History. Xinyang was the territory of Chu State in ancient times. When King Wu captured the capital of Chu State, King Chu fled to Xinyang and made it his capital. During the period of confrontation between the north and the south of China, Xinyang, Shouxian, Bozhou and other cities were among the four major towns in the South. , the southern army used it as a fortress to resist the attack from the north. Henan is a typical northern region. Xinyang belongs to Henan and lacks a sense of historical belonging. 2. Geography. Henan belongs to the northern region, with less rainfall and lack of water on the surface. The crops are mainly dryland crops. Xinyang belongs to the southern region (most people in Xinyang think so), with abundant rainfall, numerous rivers, and dense ponds and lakes. The main crops are rice and rape. Of course, wheat and peanuts are also grown, but wheat is also grown in the vast areas in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The problem is that rice is the main crop in Xinyang, while other areas in Henan are dominated by wheat. Most areas of Henan are short of water and groundwater is widely exploited, but the extent of groundwater exploitation in Xinyang is very low. 3. Language. The dialect spoken in most parts of Henan is Central Plains Mandarin. This dialect has relatively small internal differences. From Zhengzhou to Zhumadian, the accents are basically similar, while the Xinyang dialect is clearly very different from the dialects in other parts of Henan. For example, Henan people say " What are you doing?”, while people from Xinyang say “Engamosi”, people from Henan say “know”, and people from Xinyang say “know”... However, Hubei dialect has great similarities with Xinyang dialect, especially in terms of vocabulary superior. People in Wuhan and the area north of me can communicate with me in dialects with almost no obstacles, but there are differences in tones. 5. As the central city of Henan, Zhengzhou has very weak radiating influence on Xinyang (excluding political influence, of course). As a northern city, Zhengzhou is not large enough to radiate its economic and cultural influence to the edge city of Xinyang. What's more, Xinyang and the north have the above series of differences. It takes six hours by train from Zhengzhou to Xinyang, but only two hours from Wuhan to Xinyang. People in Xinyang always pay attention to the weather in Wuhan when looking at the weather forecast; most people who travel to Xinyang come from Hubei rather than from Henan Most of the daily necessities such as clothing, non-staple food and other daily necessities of Xinyang merchants are bought from Wuhan; Jigong Mountain is one of the four major summer resorts in China, and its earliest developers were foreign missionaries who moved from Wuhan; I am in Xinyang I have heard that this place is called Little Wuhan because the market there is more prosperous; but in Xinyang, I have never heard of such a name as Little Zhengzhou. People from Xinyang go to Wuhan to work mainly because it is close to home and the language and culture differences are small; they go to Zhengzhou to work mainly because Zhengzhou is a city in Henan, and it is more convenient to be in the province than outside the province. 6. Henan has restricted the development of Xinyang to a certain extent. Xinyang is a southern city, and together with the Central Plains culture of Henan, it is in a marginalized position intentionally or unintentionally. Henan's tourism mainly focuses on cultural tourism in the Central Plains, and Xinyang, as Henan's "Jiangnan in the middle of Henan", has no characteristics in the whole of China, and is incompatible with the theme of Central Plains tourism in Henan Province; even though there are scenic spots like Jigong Mountain , but it wants to engage in tourism but lacks a resounding theme. If it is said that it is Chutian Tour, it obviously steals Hubei's status. Henan does not agree. It is obviously a lie to say that it is Central Plains Tour, so the name of Xinyang Tourism cannot be promoted. , which is also reasonable. Due to many of the above reasons, although Xinyang has been part of Henan for a long time, people in Xinyang generally lack recognition of concepts such as "North" and "Central Plains", and this phenomenon has led to most people's lack of recognition of the concept of "Henan" . In their view, although Xinyang is a Henan city, it is by no means a real Henan city. P.S. Map of Henan. The bottom one is Xinyang City. Below Xinyang City is Hubei Province, and to the east is Anhui Province.