Yue culture is a branch of Wuyue culture, centering on Shaoxing in Ningshaoping Plain and Jinhua in Jinqu Basin.
The land of wuyue is called Jiangdong rather than Jiangnan in the ancient books of the pre-Qin period. Jiangnan in the pre-Qin period clearly refers to Jiangnan with Chu as the background. In today's southern Hunan and Hubei areas, it is called Chu Jiangnan. The Yangtze River, in today's southern Anhui, flows obliquely northeast, almost north-south, so Jiangdong is Jiangdong. People in the Central Plains think that today Hunan is Jiangnan, but today Jiangsu and Zhejiang are Jiangdong. Even in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, Wu people still claimed to be Jiangdong people and children of Jiangdong, but did not claim to be Jiangnan people.
However, times have changed. Jiangnan in the pre-Qin period is now called Jiangxiang and Jianghan, and Jiangdong in the pre-Qin period is called Jiangnan. This "Jiangnan" is not only a geographical Jiangnan, but also must have distinctive cultural characteristics. The "Jiangsu and Zhejiang" composed of the Yangtze River and Qiantang River (Zhejiang) is a small Jiangnan, or it can directly represent the word "Jiangnan". When Jiangdong changed its name to Jiangnan, "Jiangnan" in the cultural and economic sense more and more clearly refers to traditional areas such as Wudi, Sanwu and wuyue.
Wuyue is a branch of Baiyue. It refers to southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, southern Anhui and northeastern Jiangxi. Wuyue, the name of wuyue in the Spring and Autumn Period, takes one word each. Since Wu Yueguo, which was divided into one party in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the name "wuyue" has been used to refer to these places that were incorporated into the territory of Wu Yueguo.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, wuyue and China attacked each other at the same time, and they had deep grievances. Because of the enemy's metaphor, there is the story of wuyue in the same boat. Wu and Yue "have the same rhyme * * * and are in harmony with the stars." . Moreover, "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" wrote: "My husband is straightforward, pro-soil, and has the same customs. I can get along with him." Therefore, although "Wu" and "Yue" used to be two regimes with deep hatred and hostility, since ancient times, the two places have the same language and customs, and the local residents are the same nation.
From the end of the Spring and Autumn Period to the beginning of the Warring States Period, the Yue nationality once established a powerful Yue state in the present-day Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, which spread for 8 generations and lasted for 160 years. It formed an alliance with the Central Plains countries at that time and dominated the Jianghuai area, so it was called "overlord". In 333 BC, Chu Weiwang led an army to attack Yue State, defeated Yue State and seized the land of wuyue. Since then, the Vietnamese people have dispersed to the south and divided into many branches. So from this time on, a new title "Baiyue" appeared in literature.