What was Guangzhou called in ancient times?

Guangdong was called Baiyue, Nanyue and Nanyue in ancient times.

Guangdong is called "Baiyue" in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, "Nanyue" in Historical Records and "Nanyue" in Hanshu, which is connected with Guangdong and referred to as Guangdong for short.

Guangdong ancestors lived, worked and multiplied in this land very early. In the long history, Guangzhou and Guangdong ranked first, and gradually evolved into Cheng Guangdong Province and its jurisdiction.

Guangdong has a long history. As early as 6.5438+0.29 million years ago, the early ancients-Maba people appeared in Lingnan. After Qin unified the six countries, most of Guangdong Province now belongs to Nanhai County, which is the first time that administrative divisions have appeared in Guangdong history. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo established Nanyue State.

At that time, except Lianzhou and Lechang North, Guangdong was under the jurisdiction of Changsha County. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pacified South Vietnam, the Han Dynasty divided South Vietnam into nine counties.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the toe-crossing department was changed to Jiaozhou. In the seventh year of Yong 'an, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in 264, Soochow was divided from Jiaozhou into four counties, namely Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin and Gaoliang, and Guangzhou was established, named after Panyu.

Extended information: the history of Guangdong;

Before the Qin Dynasty unified China, Guangdong and Guangxi did not belong to the Central Plains regime and were called "Baiyue", but they did not form a "state". They are all races, clans and tribes.

Due to the barrier of the Lingnan Mountain Range at the junction of Guangdong and Hunan, even the nearest "Chu State" to Guangdong (now Hunan) failed to rule Baiyue during the Warring States Period.

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he misjudged the situation and thought that the Central Plains had surrendered forever. So the army was divided into two parts. One army fought against the Huns in the north, and another army of 500,000 people conquered Baiyue in the south under the leadership of Zhao Tuo, a general who later became the "King of South Vietnam".

However, such a move caused a military emptiness in the Central Plains, so that the "Chen Sheng-Guangwu Uprising" and the two rebel armies "Chu and Han" were able to sweep across the Central Plains, which eventually led to the demise of the Qin Dynasty.

After that, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu competed for the Central Plains. The Qin Dynasty originally ordered Zhao Tuo to bring an army back to the Central Plains to counter the rebellion, but Zhao Tuo refused, and took the opportunity to establish himself as king in Panyu, calling the Guangdong-Guangxi region and now the northern part of Vietnam "Nanyue country".

After Zhao Tuo conquered Baiyue, he chose Panyu (now Yuexiu District, Guangzhou), the administrative center north of the Pearl River Estuary, and the confluence of the three rivers of the Pearl River, with its back to the mountains and facing the Pearl River Delta Plain, so Guangzhou has a history of more than 2,000 years.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangdong