This controversy is huge. A large number of ancient literary and historical materials repeatedly mention that Zhuge Liang worked in Nanyang. After the 1990s, the national tourism department confirmed in published tourism materials that Zhuge Liang’s former residence was in Xiangfan, Hubei Province today. In 2003, the People's Education Press began to add Nanyang as today's Xiangfan, Hubei in the books published. The reason is that during the Three Kingdoms period, Jingzhou was a provincial-level unit, with Nanyang County (municipal-level unit) under it. Nanyang was the place between Jingzhou and the Central Plains at that time. The area bordering Wan County (now Nanyang City, Henan Province) is the northern gate of Jingzhou. At that time, Nanyang included parts of today's Nanyang City in Henan Province and Xiangfan City in Hubei Province. Over time, the regions and their names changed greatly. It is also said that the Zhuge family settled in Deng at that time. Now there is Deng County in Nanyang, but the ruins of Deng County during the Three Kingdoms period have been discovered beside the Han River in Xiangfan. During the Three Kingdoms period, most of the area that is now Nanyang City belonged to Wan County, which was Cao Cao's military base. It was also one of the country's iron-producing centers at that time, and one of the five largest cities in the early and middle Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born in today's Xiangfan, and historical data also say that he was from Nanyang, which should be the same as Zhuge Liang. This Nanyang is not that Nanyang. I don’t know why no one has mentioned where Liu Xiu is from. Is it because he has no tourism development value? The argument for this is not academic. The reason why Xiangfan and Nanyang are arguing about this is because they see that they can make money by playing Zhuge Liang's tourism investment card. Haha, Kong Ming has knowledge underground, and he must not admit it to both parties. It’s so sad! Zhuge Liang didn't stay long either in Gulongzhong or Gujingzhou. The peak of his career was when Liu Bei died and Tuogu took over the power. So the best player in playing this card is Chengdu, Chengdu Wuhou Temple The most famous.
As for Shandong being Zhuge Liang’s ancestral home, he himself once said that his ancestral home was Langya County, and he came to Longzhong with his elder brother when he was young
It was only in 1950 that Xiangfan was called Xiangfan. It has jurisdiction over Xiangyang and Fancheng. In the Han Dynasty, only part of Xiangyang belonged to Nanyang County, not all of it.