Since ancient times, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been known as the land of plenty. At that time, the Grand Canal started from Zimingfu Ningbo to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou and Huai 'an, and prospered all the way. Today, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are still the most prosperous areas in the country. Even Shanghai is a place in Jiangsu in history.

Jiangsu is divided into southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, and there is no basis for division.

You said divide by the Yangtze River. Jiangnan is southern Jiangsu, and Jiangbei is northern Jiangsu. Southern Jiangsu includes five cities: Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and Zhenjiang. Northern Jiangsu includes Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Suqian, Huai 'an and Yancheng.

Jiangsu has 13 cities, while Yangzhou, Nantong and Taizhou are neither in southern Jiangsu nor in northern Jiangsu. People in these three cities look puzzled. Who am I? Am I still from Jiangsu?

According to the division of the new liberation period, there are four administrative regions in southern Jiangsu: Wuxi, Zhenjiang, Wujin, Suzhou and Songjiang. There are five administrative divisions in northern Jiangsu: Taizhou, Yangzhou, Yancheng, Huaiyin and Nantong. This division is also inconsistent with the existing 13 prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu.

Southern Jiangsu has a good economy and a relatively affluent life; But northern Jiangsu is also good. Compared with other parts of the country, northern Jiangsu is a developed area, which is more than enough.

In the history of southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, the population has migrated many times and infiltrated each other, and it has already become a family.

Now, many people in northern Jiangsu have married in southern Jiangsu and become new people in southern Jiangsu. There are also some people from southern Jiangsu who do business in northern Jiangsu and buy houses and settle down in northern Jiangsu. They can't tell who is from southern Jiangsu and who is everyone in northern Jiangsu. I think Jiangsu, no matter how it is divided, is a province and belongs to its own family.

Jiangsu is divided into southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu. Why does Zhejiang like to talk about East Zhejiang and West Zhejiang? This can be traced back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when there was a saying in Zhejiang: "Go to the Eighth Hospital" and "Go to the Third Hospital".

Traditionally, Zhejiang has been divided into two parts: East Zhejiang and West Zhejiang.

Tang Suzong analyzed that the east roads in the south of the Yangtze River are Zhejiang East Road and Zhejiang West Road, and the south of Qiantang River is called Zhejiang East and the north is called Zhejiang West. In the Southern Song Dynasty, "Zhejiang East Road" and "Zhejiang West Road" were established.

Although in the period of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang and Zhejiang joined forces to establish Zhejiang Province (later changed to a government council and an envoy), the pattern of "Zhejiang and Zhejiang" was broken in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and by 138 1 year, after Huzhou and Jiaxing were given to Zhejiang from Nanzhili, the territory of Zhejiang was basically fixed and remained basically unchanged for more than 600 years.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhejiang Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Zhejiang Province were under the jurisdiction of the 11th government.

It is basically the same as the current administrative regions: Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Taizhou, Jinhua, Quzhou, Yanzhou (Jiande), Wenzhou and Chuzhou (Lishui).

In this way, according to the traditional division of "East Zhejiang" and "West Zhejiang", Zhejiang is divided into "Upper Eighth Hospital" and "Lower Third Hospital".

? The so-called "Upper Eight Houses", also known as "Eight Houses in East Zhejiang", are Ningbo, Shaoxing, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Chuzhou (Lishui), Jinhua, Yanzhou (Jiande) and Quzhou. Among them, Jin, Qu and Yan can also be called "Shang San Fu" separately. This place has been an important academic place since the Song Dynasty, and Confucianism and Buddhism are very developed.

What about "the next three blessings", that is, "the three blessings in western Zhejiang"? In other words, you must have heard of it, that is, the famous "Hangjiahu", which is located in the plain area of Hangjiahu (known as Sanfu in ancient times) and has been a very developed and wealthy area since ancient times.

Hangjiahu Plain is the largest plain in Zhejiang Province, covering an area of about 7,620 square kilometers. Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou are also included in the narrow sense of "Seven Houses in the South of the Yangtze River" (in addition to Zhejiang, Jiangsu also has Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang (Shanghai) and Zhenjiang. At that time, Wuxi was not a prefecture-level unit, but a county below Changzhou.

The "Upper Eighth Hospital" and "Lower Third Hospital" in Zhejiang are divided according to the traditional "East Zhejiang and West Zhejiang with Qiantang River as the boundary", but why are they called "Upper" and "Lower"? This is based on the terrain, because Hangjiahu belongs to the plain and the terrain is relatively low, so it is called "down"; Eight states south of Qiantang River have high terrain, so they are called "Shang".