How are the provinces in China divided?

The division of provinces involves many factors such as humanities, politics, geography and military affairs, and it is not so simple. Anhui culture is so complicated, from the perspective of provinces, it is like this: the rivers in the Jianghuai area basically run east-west, and the provinces in the Tang and Song Dynasties were basically divided according to geography or traffic conditions, so the provinces in Anhui at that time were basically long from east to west and wide from north to south, and the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River were natural borders. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, whose ancestral home was Fengyang, Anhui Province, made Nanjing its capital. He established the "Greater Nanjing" province and insisted on pulling Nanjing and Fengyang to the same province today. This has led to a province spanning the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River, which is the predecessor of Jiangsu and Anhui. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, this province, then called jiangnan province, had a huge economic and political volume, and the central government wanted to divide it into two provinces. At that time, the region south of the Yangtze River in the province had the best economy, followed by the region between Jianghuai and Huaihe River, and the region north of Huaihe River was the worst. In order to match fat and thin, it can only be cut across the board, so it is divided into Anhui and Jiangsu today.

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If you are interested, you can look at Zhou's History of Local Administrative System in China, which has a wonderful discussion.