After Qin Shihuang sent 500,000 troops to conquer Lingnan, Chongzuo was incorporated into Chinese territory and belonged to Xiang County, one of the 36 counties at that time. At this time, a county-level place name named Chen Lin appeared in the Zuojiang River Basin, which is recorded in Geography of Hanshu: "Chen Lin and Zhu Yashui entered the territory. A Jin, with south water, has invaded from the water, traveling 700 miles. This passage means that there is a river called Zhu Ya in Chen Lin County, which flows into Fang Ling County (now Nanning), and there are two rivers called Jinnan River and Lijiang River, with a flow of 700 Li. When Wang Mang was in power, Chen Lin County was renamed Chen Jiang County.
The names of administrative districts set up during the Han Dynasty's tour of Lingnan were mostly named after the mountains and rivers at that time. For example, Hezhou City, called He Lin County in ancient times, is also called Dahe County, which is named after Hejiang. The Zhuang language "pro" means water, "big" means river, and "pro" means "big" and means river. The names of administrative districts in Han Dynasty recorded in Records of Geography of Han Dynasty retain a great deal of information about the ancient place names of Luoyue. Chen Lin County, established in the Han Dynasty, should be the central area where Luoyue people lived at that time, and this central area should be the transportation center of Zuojiang River Basin at that time. In ancient times, traffic was mainly through water. In ancient times, Chen Lin County should be in Zuojiang. So we can know that the ancient Zuojiang River was called "near dust".
Which river is the "Jinnan Water" recorded in the Geography of Hanshu? "Jinnan Water" is also written as "Lu Jinshui" in some different versions of ancient books. "Road" and "forest" both mean water or river in Zhuang language, and "dust" is similar to "gold" in ancient Chinese. "Welcome to dust" means "Dust River" or "Jin River", which is Zuojiang. Interestingly, when the reporter visited Longzhou County, he found that Zuojiang in Shang Jin Township also had a name called Qinjiang.
"Dust", "Jin" and "Qin" are all transliteration of Zhuang language, meaning "above" or "in the sky". Interestingly, the word "gan" in gossip also refers to "heaven", but why heaven is called "gan" has always been unknown to Yi scholars. It turns out that the name "Gan" comes from the divination of "Tian" in the ancient chicken divination of Zhuang nationality, and the transliteration of "Tian" in Zhuang language is also written as "Gan". So far, we have clearly known that Zuojiang has a name in Zhuang language, called "Chen Lin" or "Jinnan", which means the river in the sky. "Jin Shu"-"River of the Sky", what a beautiful name.
Literally means to come into this world.