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Thread: Ancient Names Tell - Category 1_Capital Cities_Zhengzhou
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[quote=RITA,226127]When I started Zhengzhou part, I remembered an article by Nicholas Kristof at New York Times, "China, the World's Capital - From Kaifeng to New York, glory is as ephemeral as smoke and clouds "(从开封到纽约, 辉煌如过眼烟云。) Kaifeng used to be the capital of Henan, and the world's capital 1300 years ago. Glory faded, splendors gone, dust fell, all returned back to peace... But I will leave Kaifeng to the next category hopefully, if I could continue.There are many cities now including a "Zhou州" in their names, Zhou was once a unit and it indicated a specific position endowed by the feudal central government. Now, Zhou does not have that special meaning in the names of cities, examples like Zhengzhou郑州,Lanzhou兰州,Guangzhou广州, Xuzhou徐州, Huizhou惠州, Wenzhou 温州, Chenzhou郴州... ... But in minority group residencial areas/ regions, Zhou is still a unit means prefecture, examples like Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 临夏回族自治州 and Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture甘南藏族自治州 in Gansu Province and Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture阿坝藏族自治州in Sichuan... (All the above prefectures I mentioned are worth a trip:-))Zhengzhou, the captical of Henan Province(the Mid-land), used to be Zheng State in Spring-Autumn Period, first gained its name (Zhengzhou) in Sui Dynasty(around 580s), though ephemeral, Sui was one important dynasties established a good foundation for the followed Tang. Its name was changed frequently as the following list:In 596, Guanzhou 管州, In 604 Zhengzhou 郑州In 607 Xingyangjun 荥阳郡In 618 Zhengzhou 郑州in 742 Xingyangjun 荥阳郡In 758 Zhengzhou 郑州 In 1724 Zhilizhou 直隶州 In 1734 Zhengzhou 郑州In 1904 Zhilizhou 直隶州In 1913 Zhengxian 郑县At least to me, the name changing process was very interesting, the name of ZHENGZHOU郑州, here I'd like to quote and revise Saberxlcr's say: the name of Zhengzhou is just like the moon, sometimes it disappeared, but always comes back. Thanks![/quote]
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