Your question should be about the identity of "Northeast". It is not a question of whether Liaoning is Northeast China. (It is true that Liaoning is a province in Northeast China, but many people do not have a strong sense of identity with the word Northeast.) For example, my classmates are from Dalian, Liaoning and Shenyang, Liaoning. People in Shenyang have a greater sense of identity with the word Northeast. But Dalian people rarely agree with it
1. The Northeast region is very large. The North includes (North China, Northwest, Northeast China)
(Liaoning Province + Jilin Province + Heilongjiang Province + Eastern Inner Mongolia = Northeast China)
2 Liaoning Province is a coastal province of China, half of which The city does not belong to the pure Northeastern life and culture. For example, Dalian City, Yingkou City, Dandong City, Jinzhou City, and Huludao City (all coastal cities) prefer seafood.
3 The climate of Liaoning Province differs from that of Heilongjiang Province and Jilin Province by more than 10 degrees on average, especially in winter. From Dalian, Liaoning, in the far south of the Northeast to Mohe County and Heihe City in the Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang Province, the temperature difference is more than 18 degrees!
You can check the weather forecast (this morning)
Dalian, Liaoning? 13 degrees above zero
Shenyang, Liaoning? 5 degrees above zero
Changchun, Jilin? Minus 3 degrees
Minus 8 degrees in Harbin, Heilongjiang
Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang? Minus 10 degrees
Daxinganling area in Heilongjiang? Minus 20 degrees
p>There is one more thing you will discover. People in Liaoning Province introduce themselves to other provinces as being from Liaoning. Dalian people will directly say that I am from Dalian. People from Shenyang will introduce themselves as being from Shenyang, Liaoning. And they rarely introduce themselves as Northeasterners. If you like Harbin in Heilongjiang, you can only talk about Harbin people. Many people in ordinary prefecture-level small cities in Jilin and Heilongjiang will introduce themselves as Northeasterners.
Most people in prefecture-level cities in Liaoning introduce themselves as being from Liaoning~
This kind of problem is similar to "People from Northeast China are one family", "People from Sichuan and people from Chongqing are one family", and people from Beijing and people from Hebei are from Tianjin ( People in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei are one family. "People from the south and the north are one family." In reality, who knows who you are! Hahaha, that's a naive slogan!
We are all one family. Why do people from Heilongjiang and Jilin need to register for residence in Shenyang, Liaoning? If their children go to school as loan students, they will not start studying in Shenyang Junior High School. How come people from Hebei go to Beijing to buy a house or car without being in Beijing? What about preferential policies for locals?