Why is Fujian province called "the land of eight Fujian"?

Bamin is another name of Fujian Province.

There are two theories about the origin of the eight prefectures in Fujian. One is that Fujian was the land of Fujian in ancient times. The Northern Song Dynasty was divided into eight counties and eight armies, and the Southern Song Dynasty was divided into eight counties, eight counties and eight armies, so the Yuan Dynasty was called Bamin. The other is that Fujian Province was divided into Fuzhou, Xinghua, Jianning, Yanping, Tingzhou, Shaowu, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in the Yuan Dynasty, and changed to Eight Houses in the Ming Dynasty, so it was called Eight Houses. "Construction, extension, less, and courts are the upper four hospitals": Fu, Xing, Zhang, and all are the lower four hospitals. * * * Eight Houses, commonly known as "Eight Min".

In the 22nd year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (A.D. 1684), the year after Taiwan Province Province was incorporated into the territory, it was changed to Taiwan Province Government, which was under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Fujian.

It's called "Nine People" one by one. Later, Funing House was promoted to Funing House. There are ten states in Fujian Province, so it is also called "Ten Min".

Seven min plus one min: Zhangzhou was added in the early Tang Dynasty, which is the so-called "seven min should increase eight". This is the origin of Bamin, and the changes in the country, army, government and road during the Song and Yuan Dynasties were just because the number happened to be eight, which coincided with the title before Bamin, and later generations applied it. We can't mistake it for the beginning of eight minutes.

In addition, in the 21st year of Tang Kaiyuan (AD 733), Fujian was given the names Fuzhou and Jianzhou, which was the beginning of Fujian's name. Songzhi Fujian Road; Yuan set up Fujian Haiyuan Road; Fujian Province was the first place in Ming Dynasty. Later changed to Fujian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Fujian province was restructured in the Qing Dynasty, and the name of the province is still in use today.