Which prefecture did Zhumadian belong to during the Ming Dynasty?

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhumadian was called Runan.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, present-day Zhumadian City belonged to Runing Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture, and was under the jurisdiction of Henan Province. After many years of war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the population of Runing area dropped sharply and it was full of desolation. Taizu of the Ming Dynasty ordered the landless farmers in the Taihu Basin and Shanxi to be moved to southern Henan. At that time, various counties in Runing Prefecture received a large number of immigrants.

Zhumadian is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province. It is located in the south-central part of Henan, bordering Luohe and Zhoukou to the north, Xinyang to the south, and is located in the hilly plain area of ??the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. It got its name because in history, messengers and officials traveling from north to south stayed here to rest their horses. It is known as "the hinterland of Yuzhou and the best in the world". The Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, Daguang Expressway and National Highways 107 and 106 run through it from north to south. Xinyang Expressway crosses from east to west, Shangwu Expressway and Jiaotong Expressway pass through it. Provincial and county roads crisscross the area.

Zhumadian is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization. It is the core area of ??the creation activities of Pangu, the ancestor of the Chinese nation. It is the hometown of Leizu, the wife of Emperor Xuanyuan Huang, and a world-famous weapons manufacturing center during the Warring States Period. There are a large number of historical celebrities such as Li Si, the Prime Minister of Qin, Huan Kuan, the editor of "On Salt and Iron", Qian Bao, the novelist of strange and strange novels, Fan Zhen, the great atheist, and Yang Jingyu, the famous anti-Japanese national hero. This is the birthplace of Pangu culture, Liangzhu culture, Chongyang culture, Cheyu culture, Leizu culture and iron-smelting and sword-making culture. Biyang, Runan, Shangcai, Pingyu and Xiping are respectively named "China's Pangu Holy Land" , "the hometown of Liangzhu in China", "the hometown of Chongyang Culture in China", "the hometown of Cheyu Culture", "the hometown of Leizu Culture" and "the hometown of iron-smelting and sword-casting culture". It is also one of the red revolutionary base areas and is known as "Little Yan'an". Zhugou Town in Queshan County was once the seat of the Central Plains Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Henan Provincial Committee. The older generation of revolutionaries such as Liu Shaoqi and Li Xiannian fought and lived here. Its old site is still well preserved.