What are the cities in China that have never changed their names for 3,000 years or 2,000 years?

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-04

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China has a long history, but what cities have never changed their names for 3,000 years? Never changed its name for two thousand years?

At present, there are several sayings on the Internet, some claim to have never changed their name for 3,000 years, and some claim to have never changed their name for 2,000 years, There are roughly the following cities: Handan, Chengdu, Yiyang, Jimo, Luoyang, Jingzhou, so, is it worthy of the name?

Handan.

Handan is located in Hebei, the name of the place originates from Handan Mountain, where is Handan Mountain? According to records, Handan Mountain is under the east city, single, exhaustive, the city outline is from the yi, so the cloud of Yi. That is to say, this mountain is called Handan, Shan, is the end of the mountain range, and the mountain range ends here, so it is called Handan, why is it called Handan? Because the city outline is from the yi, it becomes Handan by adding yi (阝) on the one side, and "yi" is a radical of the Chinese character, and the variant is "阝" next to the right ear.

In China's place name culture, Handan is a special case, three thousand years has not been renamed, as early as the Yin Shang Dynasty period, Handan this place name has been, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Handan is a famous city or capital, Qin, the world is divided into 36 counties, Handan is the seat of Handan County, Handan or rise or fall in later generations, but the place name still exists, following three thousand years.

Chengdu.

Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province and is known as the "Land of Abundance", some people say that Chengdu has not changed its name for 3,000 years, and some people say that Chengdu has not changed its name for 2,000 years, is it not?

First of all, let's talk about the origin of the name of Chengdu, there are probably several theories, according to the "Taiping Huanyu Ji", the king of Zhou from Liangshan Zhiqi, one year into Yi, two years of Chengdu, because of the name of Chengdu. In addition, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" records that in the great wilderness, there is a mountain named Chengdu Zaitian. Then there is Chengdu, which is pronounced dudu in the ancient Shu language, and later evolved into Chengdu.

It can be seen that the name of Chengdu has a long history, and the history of Chengdu's founding can be traced back to 3,200 years ago, but has it never changed its name for three or two thousand years?

In fact, it was changed to a name, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Tang Xuanzong took refuge in Chengdu, and Tang Suzong changed Chengdu to Nanjing, but it was only three years, and then it was changed back. Then there was Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty to establish the Great Western Kingdom, and Chengdu at this time was called Xijing. When the Tang Dynasty changed Chengdu to Nanjing, there was still Chengdu County, and when Zhang Xianzhong changed Chengdu to Xijing, it was really renamed, and the Nanjing River and Xijing here were renamed, not referring to other names, Chengdu's alias was Jinguancheng and Rongcheng.

Strictly speaking, Chengdu has changed its name, and it cannot be said that it has never changed its name for 3,000 or 2,000 years.

As for Yiyang, Jimo, Luoyang, Jingzhou and other places, there have also been place name changes, such as Yiyang, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan defeated the Qing army and changed Yiyang to Victory County, which is the only name change in the history of Yiyang.

Luoyang in Henan has a long history, and it is not completely unnamed, there are different titles such as Chengzhou, Wangcheng, Luoyi, Luoyang, etc., Luoyang and Luoyang here are not the same thing, during the Qin Dynasty, it is believed that Zhou has Huode, Qin extinguishes Zhou, should be water, so Luoyang is changed to Luoyang. During the Anti-Japanese War, Luoyang fell, and it was changed to Fuyang, maybe the Japanese felt that Luoyang and Luoyang were homonyms.

Besides, Jingzhou, since ancient times, is a place where soldiers must fight, its name is like thunder, Yu divides the world into Kyushu and there is Jingzhou, and Jingzhou's history of building the city is more than 3,000 years, many times for the capital, in history, it was also called Jiangling Mansion, in 1994, the Jingzhou area, Shashi City and Jiangling County were abolished, and Jingsha City was established, but two years later, that is, in 1996, Jingsha City was changed to Jingzhou City.

Finally, let's talk about Jimo, Jimo is located in Qingdao, Shandong, is a place with a long history, because of the adjacent ink, so it is named, from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there is the name of Jimo, so far more than 2,000 years, has not changed its name.

Chinese place name culture, to the study of history, has an important role, Handan has not changed its name for three thousand years, Jimo has not changed its name for two thousand years, it can be said that it is rare, I don't know what else you know?

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