Central Plain (China)

The Central China Plain (also: Central China Plain中原Chinese, Pinyin Zhongyuan ) refers to the plains in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, from which the first Han Chinese to come. It is part of the North China Plain.

In a narrower sense, the Chinese central level comprises the present-day Henan Province, the southern part of Hebei Province, the southern part of Shanxi Province and the western part of Shandong Province. The other term would include the Guanzhong - level in Shaanxi, the northwestern part of Jiangsu, Anhui and parts of northern Hebei addition.

Since the beginning of historical records, the Chinese central level for the Chinese population has been of great importance - politically and strategically. In the period before the Qin dynasty was seen as a " center of the world " from the Chinese perspective, the province of Luoyang and the surrounding areas. For this purpose, the headquarters of the Xia dynasty was to the nearby Songshan of Luoflusses. Inscriptions of some bronze objects from this period describe the area as the "Middle Kingdom ". (中国/中国, Zhongguo )

Says The Book of Song, an official historical source of the Song Dynasty ". Eligible emperor of antiquity come from the north-west [ of China ], and could the Central level and later conquer the South East [ China ] " Zhuge Liang, a military strategist, claimed he would lead an army to conquer the Central China Plain. This could be an explanation for the location of the main cities of later dynasties, Luoyang or Kaifeng.

Footnotes

• Historical Territory (China)
• Geography (China)