Guangdong was named after Guangnan East Road in Song Dynasty. "Guang" refers to Guangxin (now Wanxiu District, Wuzhou, Guangxi). In the sixth year of Ding Yuan in the Western Han Dynasty (BC 1 1), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty leveled Guangdong, thus completing the great cause of the unification of southern China with the Han Dynasty. Guangxin County belongs to Cangwu County, which means "Guangdong is the first place to be opened, so it should be Guangxin". Guangxin has also become.
Lingnan Road was set up in the early Tang Dynasty and later divided into Lingnan East Road and Lingnan West Road. Guangdong belongs to Lingnan East Road, and the Dow is located in Guangzhou.
In Song Dynasty, the local administrative system was divided into three levels, namely, Guangnan Road in Lingnan, Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road. Guangnan East Road is in Guangzhou, and Guangnan West Road is in Guilin. Today, Guangdong Province includes Guangnan East Road 14 State and Guangnan West Road 7 States * * 6 1 County.
The local administrative system in Yuan Dynasty was divided into four levels: provincial, provincial, prefectural (state, military) and county, and there was another way, that is, transport agencies below the provincial level and above the provincial level. Today, Guangdong Province is divided into Guangdong Road and Haibei South Road. Guangdong is ruled by Guangzhou.
In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369), Guangdong Road was changed to Guangdong and other provinces, and Haibei Hainan Road was placed under Guangdong, becoming one of the thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty. At this time, it is called "Guangdong Province".
The Qing dynasty inherited the Ming system, and the local administrative institutions were divided into four levels: provincial, Taoist, prefectural and county. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Political Affairs of the Ming Dynasty was officially renamed the province. Officially use the name of "Guangdong Province".
As early as the pre-Qin period, many tribes in the southern coastal areas were often collectively referred to as "Yue". These ancient Yue tribes were numerous, so they were called "Baiyue". Wuyue, Yangyue, Dongou, Minyue, Nanyue, Xiou, Luoyue and many other branches of Yue nationality. Most of Guangdong Province belongs to South Vietnam. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo established himself as the "King of South Vietnam" and established South Vietnam.
In pre-Qin ancient books, "Yue" means "Yue", and "Yue" and "Yue" were universal in ancient times. Later, it distinguished between "Yue" and "Yue". "Guangdong" refers to wuyue, that is, Zhejiang Dynasty, and "Guangdong" refers to Lingnan area, or "Southern Guangdong". Until the Republic of China, the word "Guangdong" was the abbreviation of Guangdong Province. When New China was founded, Guangdong also chose the more historic word "Guangdong" as its abbreviation.