Traditionally, there are "three poles" in China, the first pole is Shaanxi, which is in the northwest, the second pole is Hebei, which is in the northeast, and the third pole is Anhui, and the northern part of Jiangsu, which is in the southeast.
The first pole, Shaanxi, became the land of kings very early, if you count from the Western Zhou Dynasty, through the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, nearly 2,000 years.
At the same time, it is also the birthplace of the overthrow of Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty, the place where Cixi traveled westward, the place where the "Xi'an Incident" occurred, and the heart of the modern revolution to resist Japan.
The second pole, Hebei, the root of Hebei's contribution to the fire in history, lies in the fact that it is the only channel to contact with Shanhaiguan, and it is not easy to perceive the Central Plains Dynasty during the Tang and Song dynasties, and it can also be said to be a place where Hu and Han are mixed, and it is easy to become the place where the horn of "chaos" sounds, it is the base of Liu Xiu, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the base of Zhang Jiao, the leader of the "Yellow Turban Uprising" in the late Han Dynasty, the hometown of Liu Bei, the son of King Jing of Zhongshan, the hometown of Dou Jiande, the hero of the late Sui Dynasty, and the source of the "Anshi Rebellion", when the feudal town was divided. Hebei Three Towns" location, and later even the sole "Beijing and Tianjin" became the fundamental location of the great unification after the Yuan Dynasty. Although Hebei people are called "small transparent", Hebei has always been the location of the "gas eye" of history.
The third pole, Jiangsu, the north of Anhui, here in ancient times north of the Central Plains, to the southeast as the foundation, out of Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Cao Cao, Zhu Wen, Zhu Yuanzhang, Duan Qirui, and other heroes or heroes. Because Nanjing is not very reliable as the capital, the heroes and heroes here except for Zhu Yuanzhang all belong to the type of world as their home and north and south eat.
Modern history is unprecedentedly lively, Chinese and Western gatherings, the old and the new have changed, providing a lot of fresh materials and condiments for history, Fujian Lin Yutang has pointed out in "My Country and My People" that the Longhai line is a place where historical figures come out in large numbers, and the Longhai line is the traffic artery from Lianyungang to Xinjiang.
Most of the generals are from Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, and Henan, and also take the Longhai Railway as the central point. Shandong produced Wu Peifu, Zhang Zongchang, Sun Chuanfang, and Lu Yongxiang; Hebei produced Qi Xieyuan, Li Jinglin, Zhang Zhijiang, and Lu Zhonglin; Henan produced Yuan Shikai; Anhui produced Feng Yuxiang and Duan Qirui. Jiangsu did not produce generals, but produced several outstanding hotel waiters.
Lin Yutang's "My Country and My People".
As a returnee from Fujian in modern times, Lin Yutang is easier to see the problem as a "bystander".
In fact, in addition to the Longhai line, China also has a traffic artery, the Beijing-Guangzhou line, which was the Grand Canal line in ancient times. These two major traffic arteries communicate the north and south and the east and west, and Shaanxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, and northern Anhui are all on this line.
In modern times, the situation has changed, because traffic will affect the humanities, the late Qing Dynasty "Caoyun" was replaced by the railway, and various places began to fight for the right of way, Hunan, Hubei made a revolution, and the opening of the first north-south artery "Luhan Railway" (from Lugou Bridge to Hankou) is not unrelated, Wuhan's "Xinhai Revolution" was successful, and Hunan produced many characters, starting from Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, Lianghu and Liangguang operated modern history.
The needs of the troubled times at the end of the Qing Dynasty combined with practice (the Baolu Movement, etc.) were a good era for great achievements.