Which country did Hunan Province belong to in ancient times?

Hunan used to be Changsha Changsha, the first feudal city in Hunan's history during the Western Han Dynasty; From its establishment in 202 BC to its abolition in 7 AD, * * * existed for 209 years; The jurisdiction inherited the jurisdiction of Changsha County and Qianzhong County in Qin Dynasty, making Xiang County (later renamed Linxiang County) the capital of Changsha County in Qin Dynasty. Wu Rui, the founding hero of the Han Dynasty, was named the first Changsha King by Hengshan Wang Gai.

Hunan Province is located in the middle of China and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Because most of the area is south of Dongting Lake, it is named "Xiang", and because Xiangjiang, the largest river in the province, runs through the whole territory, it is called "Xiang" for short. Its capital is in Changsha. Hunan borders Jiangxi in the east, Chongqing and Guizhou in the west, Guangdong and Guangxi in the south and Hubei in the north. The land area is 21.1.8000 square kilometers, accounting for 2.2% of the land area of China, ranking 10 among all provinces and cities. The total population of the province is 67.372 million (20 14). It governs 14 cities and 122 counties (cities, districts).

Hibiscus has been planted in Hunan since ancient times. During the Five Dynasties, it was called "Li Furong Kingdom in the Autumn Wind", so it was also called "Furong Kingdom". In the Tang Dynasty, TanYongzhi chanted the poem "Autumn Wind of Wan Li's Lotus", and Mao Zedong even praised Hunan with "Hibiscus Sunglow".

The original Hunan people are actually not Han Chinese.

According to the research of archaeologists, there were ancient human activities in Hunan in the Paleolithic Age. Rice was planted 654.38+0.2 million years ago, and early humans began to settle in Hunan 5000 years ago. However, in the primitive society of Hunan, it was not the ancestors of Han nationality who lived, but the ancestors of Sanmiao, Baipu, Yangyue and other ethnic minorities.

During the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the northern part of Hunan belonged to the southernmost part of Jingzhou, while the western and southern parts were still uncivilized and wild places. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Hunan belonged to Cangwu and Dongting counties of Chu State. It was not until Qin Shihuang unified the six countries that two counties in central Guizhou and Changsha were established in Hunan.

As far as the whole southern region is concerned, although the central and northern parts of Hunan were civilized earlier, until the Northern Song Dynasty, most parts of Hunan Province were still barbarians. According to the records of the Song Dynasty, there were a large number of Meishan barbarians living in Changsha, Shaoyang, Yuanling and Changde. They lived in mountainous areas for a long time, tenacious and brave, and refused to accept the rule of the Central Plains dynasty.

The imperial courts of past dynasties often transferred soldiers from Jiangxi to Xiangpingman, while some Jiangxi soldiers settled down and stayed in the local area, becoming the first people to immigrate from Jiangxi to Hunan. Li Zeng, the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, ordered the general Chen to be a barbarian in Hunan. After completing the military task, he immediately implemented the "military to civilian" and settled in Hunan for generations.

Even today, Hunan is still one of the provinces with the largest distribution of ethnic minorities in China, and all 55 ethnic minorities are located in Hunan. Among them, eight ethnic minorities, including Miao, Tujia, Dong, Yao, Hui, Zhuang and Bai, have settled in Hunan for generations, especially Miao and Tujia, and Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture has been established in northwest Hunan.

At present, the total population of ethnic minorities in Hunan Province is 6.8 million, accounting for about 10% of the total population of Hunan Province, and most of them are distributed in the mountainous areas of western Hunan and southern Hunan.