This debate is so great that a large number of ancient documents and historical materials repeatedly mention Zhuge Liang's dedication to Nanyang. After 1990s, the national tourism department confirmed that Zhuge Liang's former residence was in Xiangfan, Hubei. In 2003, People's Education Publishing House began to annotate it as Xiangfan, Hubei after Nanyang. The reason is that Jingzhou was a provincial unit during the Three Kingdoms period, and Nanyang County (a municipal unit) was under it. Nanyang was the junction of Jingzhou and Wanyuan County (now Nanyang City, Henan Province) and the north gate of Jingzhou. Nanyang at that time included parts of Nanyang City, Henan Province and Xiangfan City, Hubei Province. Over time, regions and place names have changed greatly. It is also said that Zhuge family settled in Deng at that time, and now there is Deng County in Nanyang, but the site of Deng County in the Three Kingdoms period has been discovered by the Hanshui River in Xiangfan. During the Three Kingdoms period, most of Nanyang now belonged to Wanxian County, which was the military stronghold of Cao Cao, one of the iron-producing centers in China at that time, and one of the five major cities in the early and middle Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born in Xiangfan today. Historical materials also say that he was from Nanyang and should be like Zhuge Liang. I don't know why no one mentioned where Liu Xiu came from. Is it because he has no tourism development value? The reason why Xiangfan and Nanyang argue about this is that you can make money by playing Zhuge Liang's tourism investment card. Ha ha, Kong Ming knows what's going on underground, and he won't admit it to both sides. How sad! Zhuge Liang didn't stay in Gulong Middle School and Jingzhou for a long time. The peak of his career is to entrust an orphan to power after Liu Bei's death, so Chengdu is the best person to play this card. Chengdu Wuhou Temple is the most famous.
As for Shandong, Zhuge Liang's ancestral home, he once said that his ancestral home was Langya County, and he came to Longzhong with his brother when he was a child.
1950 was called Xiangfan, which originated from Xiangyang and Fancheng in the jurisdiction. Only a part of Xiangyang in Han Dynasty belonged to Nanyang County, not all of it.