Chu Wei Wu tou(chǔ wěi wú tóu)

Chu Wei Wu tou

The ancient Yuzhang area is located in the lower reaches of Chu and the upper reaches of Wu, which is called "Chu Wei Wu tou".

Basic word meaning

The poem: "snow embraces the mountainside and the cave entrance, spring returns to Wutou, Chuwei." Wang Ruan of Song Dynasty wrote a poem: "the ape is frightened, the grass is three feet, and the end of Chu and the head of Wu are one side of the sky."

Introduction to entry

[from]: Song Zhuxi's poem "the beginning of spring on the lead mountain" says: "snow embraces the mountainside entrance, and spring returns to the end of Chu and Wutou." Wang Ruan of Song Dynasty wrote a poem: "the ape is frightened, the grass is three feet, and the end of Chu and the head of Wu are one side of the sky." [example]: Jinling is a famous scenic area. It is also the bell of Wang Qi. It is close to Zhongfu, overlooking the Yangtze River, connecting tianque, pillow back lake, and the dragon is flat and the tiger is crouching Its beauty and profit are beyond words. Song Rongsheng, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Geography

The ancient Yuzhang area is located in the lower reaches of Chu and the upper reaches of Wu, which is called "Chu Wei Wu tou". Now it is mainly in the northern part of Jiangxi Province and Anhui Province, where Chu and Wu countries meet, which generally refers to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Now it is also thought to be connected with each other.

Chu District:

It refers to the land under the jurisdiction of the ancient Chu state. "Chu CE I in the Warring States Period:" in the west of Chu there is Wujun County in Central Guizhou, in the east there is Haiyang in xiazhou, in the south there is Cangwu in Dongting, in the north there is Xiyang in fenxing, and the place is 5000 Li. " The third poem of Jingzhou: "the land of Chu is vast and boundless, vast and boundless."

Wu tou:

Jiangxi Province is located in the South Bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the middle of Southeast China. It is adjacent to Zhejiang and Fujian in the East, Guangdong in the south, Hunan in the west, Hubei and Anhui in the north, and the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and southern Fujian Delta. The straight-line distance between Jiangxi and Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha, Hefei and other important towns and ports is mostly within 600-700 km. Jiangxi Province was called "Wutou, Chuwei, Yuehu, Minqi" in ancient times, which is "the area of shape and victory".

Wu Dialect:

Wu dialect, also known as Wu dialect, has inherited many basic phonetic elements and shared many basic vocabularies. In ancient times, Wu dialects were mainly distributed in Anhui, Jiangsu, Jianghuai, Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces. Today, the scope of Wu dialect is basically as follows: in Jiangsu Province, from Danyang in Zhenjiang to Jintan and Liyang in Changzhou, to Shanghai in the East; in Anhui Province, from Wuhu and Xuancheng in the southeast, to southern Anhui; in Zhejiang Province, from Huzhou and Jiaxing to Hangzhou in the south, and Hangzhou to Ningbo and Taizhou in the East. This area covers Danyang, Liyang, Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou in Jiangsu Province, Shanghai, Wuhu, Tongling and Xuancheng in Anhui Province, cities and counties in southern Anhui Province, Huzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo and Taizhou (except Sanmen) in Zhejiang Province. In ancient times, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Chuzhou and Zhenjiang all belonged to the category of "Jiangnan". Today, their inherited aristocratic culture still has strong characteristics of Jiangnan Wu culture. However, due to the problem of refugees in modern times, most of the folk customs in these three places have the characteristics of Jianghuai culture. Besides retaining some Wu dialect vocabulary, their pronunciation is not easy to be used in the dialects of Central Jiangsu and Huaibei, In addition, Wu culture spread to Huizhou and Huangshan areas in the south of Anhui Province. These areas are bordered by Southern Jiangsu and Northern Zhejiang. Traditionally, they have similar customs. Most people travel by boat and walk by water, and folk houses are built along the water. However, like Ning, Zhen, Chu and Yang, the influx of Huaibei immigrants has also changed the folk culture in these areas since modern times. Since the Yuan Dynasty, due to the fact that the provinces are not divided by cultural circles, people in the Wu cultural circles of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have different attitudes towards Wu. Today, when we talk about Wu, we generally refer to southern Jiangsu. Suzhou is Dongwu, Changxi is Zhongwu, and Zhejiang's Wu cultural circle is falsely called Yue. In fact, the custom and culture of ancient Wu and ancient Yue have long been lost, and now the Jiangnan culture has been handed down Yu Yongjia went to the south, developed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, formed in the Southern Song Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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