"Nine Provinces Thoroughfare" is the nickname of Qingjiangpu, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, and the nickname of Wuhan, Hubei Province.
1. Nine Provinces thoroughfare is another name for Wuhan, Hubei. In ancient times, it traveled along the Yangtze River waterway from Wuhan to Bashu in the west, to Wuyue in the east, up the Han River to the north to Henan and Shaanxi, and to Hunan and Guangxi via Dongting Hunan, so it was known as the "thorough of nine provinces".
2. "Nine Provinces Thoroughfare" is the nickname of Qingjiangpu in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. Huai'an, Jiangsu, is known as the "Canal Capital of China". It is located at the intersection of the ancient Huaihe River (the abandoned Yellow River) and the Grand Canal of China. It has been associated with the canal and has a history of more than 2,500 years. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Huai'an served as the central government's water transport command center, river management center, grain transshipment center and Huaibei salt distribution center.
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In the 23rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1595), Teng County renovated the North and South Daguan Road. There is an inscription on it: "Teng County is a thoroughfare for nine provinces. However, the terrain is depressed and the roads are slanted. Passers-by are almost cut off when it rains. The county magistrate Zhao Bangqing made major repairs in the tenth month of the 23rd year of Wanli and turned it into one of the main official roads in the country. There were once "wheels and hooves of traffic, The prime minister is too tired to greet and see off, the husband is tired of supervising and responsibilities, and the horse is dead in running".
Li Liufang, one of the "Four Gentlemen of Jiading" in the Ming Dynasty, passed through Xue Bei and Teng Nan Daguan Road. There is " "Tengxian Daozhong" poem: "The mountains are about to bloom, the clouds and willows are blowing, and the pear blossoms are white and the peaches are red." In March of the third year on the Guanqiao (now Guanqiao Town, Tengzhou City) road, the horsemen passed by as if in a dream"; there is also a poem "The dawn on Gucheng Mountain is as green as black, and the flowers in Teng County are as white as silver".
Wang Yuyang, a famous poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote in his poem "Tengxian Daozhong": "Xuebei and Tengnan have been paying close attention to each other, and the distant mountains are as picturesque as black eyebrows. The only thing left is melancholy. There are no flowers blooming as white as silver. "This has attracted many poets to explore and sing.
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty passed through the North-South Daguan Road on his southern tour. The court painter Xu Yang recorded in the "Southern Inspection Road Map" that the place names passing through Tengxian and Yixian counties are: "Jieheyi, Tengxian, Nan Shahe Town, Yinpingshe, Malan Village,..."
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