What was the name of Hefei before?

Hefei was called Luzhou in ancient times. What a nice name. Why did you change it to Hefei?

Under the historical changes of more than two thousand years in China, the names of many places are different from those in ancient times. The question of whether the old name is good or the present name is good has been debated for a long time.

The name change of several cities is the most controversial, because the name change is not so nice, and many people think that they should not change their names, but should use their old names. On this issue, there is a city that everyone often mentions, and that is Hefei.

To tell the truth, when I was a child, I heard the weather forecast in Hefei, and I felt that this place was selling chemical fertilizers, and then I thought, people here must be very fat. In our traditional impression, a place name should be tall, and the word "fat" appears in the place name, so how can we feel fat?

Hefei was called Luzhou in ancient times, and the name Luzhou has a long history.

In the era of Zhou Wuwang, enfeoffment was carried out according to the grades of male, female, male and male. Now Hefei has sealed a country called "Lu State", which belongs to the viscount, so it is called "Lu Zi State", and its capital is called Lu Yi, which is near the old city of Hefei.

When was Zhou Wuwang from? BC 1000. It can be seen that the word "Lu" has a long history with Hefei.

The name Luzhou first appeared in the Sui Dynasty. Originally known as Hezhou, the Sui Dynasty renamed Luzhou, hence the ancient name Lu. Since the Sui Dynasty, it has been called Luzhou in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Luzhou is the hometown of Bao Zheng, and there is a song called Luzhou Moon in Vae. The title and songs are very nice. The word Luzhou just sounds artistic, so many people say that the beautiful name Luzhou is ancient and elegant, and it will be ruined if it is changed to Hefei.

So is this really the case? In fact, everyone is wrong. Luzhou was not changed to Hefei, because Hefei is not a modern name, and Hefei is also an ancient name. How old is it? Older than Luzhou. As I said just now, the name Luzhou appeared in the Sui Dynasty, while the name Hefei existed as early as the Western Han Dynasty.

After Qin unified the world, the county system was implemented, and the world was divided into 36 counties, one of which was called Jiujiang County. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Hopei County was established in Jiujiang County, which was the first time that the name Hopei appeared.

This shows that Hefei is also a very old place name. Otherwise, if Hefei is a modern name, how could Cao Cao and Sun Quan fight in Hefei? How did Liao have a great influence on Xiao Yaojin?

In fact, Hefei has become a prosperous city during the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Cao ordered Liu Fu to carry out urban construction in Hefei, because Hefei was then the capital of Yangzhou. However, in ancient administrative divisions, Hefei has always been at the county level.

Hefei is not only the capital of Yangzhou, but also the location of Luzhou Prefecture has been in Hefei County since Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the first year of the Republic of China, the name of Luzhou was abolished, and Hefei County was directly under Anhui Province. 1945 After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Anhui Province will move from Anqing to Hefei and continue.

Then the question is, why does the name Hefei have a fat word? That doesn't sound good. The name Hefei has a history, and there are two versions. Li Daoyuan's statement in Notes on Water Classics goes like this: "Summer water soars and is applied to fertilizer, so it is called Hefei."

In this sentence, the stone refers to the present Nanfeihe River, and the fee refers to the present Dongfeihe River. This place rises in summer, and two Hefei rivers merge into one, so it is called Hefei.

Map of the Battle of Feishui

There's another way of saying it. It is said that after flowing out of Jiming Mountain, the flying water flows north for 20 miles, and then it is divided into two parts, one of which flows southeast into Chaohu Lake. This is now the Nanfeihe River. One goes northwest, and after 200 miles, it enters the Huaihe River, that is, the Donghe Feihe River.

China's earliest dictionary Erya explained the word "fat" as "returning to a different place", which is the same as saying "fat", that is, coming from the same place to a different place is called fat. So these two rivers belong to the same place, the same source, and they split in two, so they are called Hefei.

From here we can see the difference between ancient and modern meanings. Now, being fat means being fat, while in ancient times, being fat means being different. Moreover, according to the origin of the name, Hefei should actually be written as "Hefei", and the earliest Hefei was indeed written as "Hefei", but it was later written as "three points of water" and removed. So there is nothing unpleasant about the name Hefei, which was normal in ancient times, but it is a bit strange according to today's new meaning.