Is Yangzhou Jiangnan?

Yangzhou is Jiangnan in cultural sense, Jiangnan in historical sense and Jiangnan in administrative division concept. The first section of the first chapter of the General History of Wu Culture defines Wu as an authority: Wu has a narrow sense and a broad sense. Broadly speaking, it is east to the sea, south to Qianjiang, west to southern Anhui and north to Yangzhou.

In the pre-Qin period, Jiangnan belonged to Kyushu and was called "wuyue" by the Central Plains. Jiangnan first appeared in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River where the vassal states of wuyue were located, that is, Shanghai, northern Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu and some areas south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in southeastern Anhui.

Wu and the area later called "Jiangnan" basically overlap, and there is basically no doubt for thousands of years.

In the early Qing Dynasty, jiangnan province was the general name of Jiangsu and Anhui, and the Governor of Liangjiang referred to jiangnan province and Jiangxi, but the "Little Jiangnan" in the cultural sense more and more clearly referred to the traditional Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

The geographical scope of Jiangnan also includes Wuhu, Xuancheng, Huangshan, Maanshan, Chizhou, Tongling and Anqing in the southeast and south of Anhui. Jiujiang, Shangrao and Jingdezhen in the north and northeast of Jiangxi.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangnan was mainly the former Jiangxi Province and jiangnan province (Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai).

Professor Fan Boqun of Soochow University and Taiwan Province scholar Chen Xinyuan jointly published a series of books entitled "The Famous Customs in the South of the Yangtze River" to show the cultural features of Ning, Yang, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shaoxing.

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