First, Guangxi is rich in osmanthus trees, which are connected into forests. There are two kinds of osmanthus trees: medicinal osmanthus and ornamental osmanthus, which are white and yellowish in color and elegant in fragrance, and are known as Guangxi. Second, the Qin Dynasty conquered Baiyue and set up Guilin County, Nanhai County and Elephant County in Lingnan. Today, most of Guangxi belongs to Guilin County and Xiangxiang County, so Guangxi is called "Gui".
Two, the capital of Guangxi in the past dynasties was located in Guilin, and it was expanded into another name for Guangxi. The "eight" in "eight expensive" means big and numerous, lush. Osmanthus fragrans is a forest in a large area, so it is called Guilin, and the special reputation of Osmanthus fragrans is "Bagui".
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"Bagui" comes from Shan Hai Jing, an ancient book before Qin Dynasty: "To the west of Panyu, Bagui becomes a forest." It refers to many osmanthus trees in Guangxi (eight trees, which means a lot). Osmanthus fragrans, including medicinal cinnamon and osmanthus fragrans in August.
These two kinds of trees have produced the most in Guangxi since ancient times and are symbolic local products. Shen Yue, a poet of the Southern Liang Dynasty, first compared Guangxi with "Bagui". In his trip to Liu Shilong, there is an old saying, "Being close to the Soviet Union is an eight-laurel, and going to Hengshan to see nine laurels". There is a saying in Yu Xin's poems in the Southern and Northern Dynasties that "there are eight laurels in the south, but there are no four seasons in the prosperous times".
The official use of "Bagui" is the first of Han Yu's "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". He praised in the poem "Send Dr. Yan to use Nanyin characters from Guizhou": "Cangwugui, our land is in southern Hunan. In the Jiangluo belt, the mountain is like a jade hairpin. "
Yu Fang Sheng Lan is the last important geographical general record in Song Dynasty, and the county names of Jingjiang Prefecture are Bagui and Guilin, which shows that Yu Fang Sheng Lan not only recognizes the nickname of Guilin, but also officially takes Bagui as the nickname of Jingjiang Prefecture in the geographical records. Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty, the literati called Guangxi Bagui, so "Bagui" became the cultural name of Guangxi.
Bagui theory of historical administrative division.
Guangxi is called "Gui" and "Eight Gui", which is based on historical evolution. In the pre-Qin period, Guangxi was a land of hundreds of leaps and bounds. In the thirty-third year of Qin Shihuang (2 14 BC), Qin Shihuang unified Lingnan and established Guilin, Nanhai and Xiang Jun counties. Today's Guangxi includes all of Guilin County, a part of Xiang Jun and a part of Nanhai, Changsha and Guizhou, which is the beginning of establishing counties in Guangxi.
Now most of Guangxi is under the jurisdiction of Guilin County at that time, so the word "Gui" in Guilin County generally refers to Guangxi. After Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan, the whole country was divided into 10 road, and Guangxi belonged to Lingnan road. In the third year of Xian Tong (862), South Road was divided into east and west roads. Guangxi is the western road of Lingnan, which basically formed the territory outline of Guangxi's later administrative regions.
In the Song Dynasty, the whole country was divided into 15 road, with Guangnan West Road as the boundary, which was called Guangxi Road for short, and the name of "Guangxi" began here. In the Ming Dynasty, the official named the administrative area where Guangxi hosted the Propaganda Department as "Bagui", and the official "Tong Mingzhi" in the Ming Dynasty clearly recorded: "Bagui is the name of Guilin, Guangxi." This is the first time that "Bagui" has been used in official books to explain the administrative divisions of Guangxi. Since then, "Bagui" has become the common language of officials and scholars and spread all over the world.
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