How did Fengkai, Guangdong and Kaifeng, Henan get their names?

Guangdong Province and Henan Province are two major cultural provinces in central and southern China. They are thousands of miles apart but rarely connected. Located in the southern part of Guangdong Province, it is one of the earliest regions in the history of commercial agriculture, while Henan Province is located in the Central Plains and is one of the provinces with the most historical accumulation.

At first glance, there seems to be no special connection between the two provinces, but a county under Guangdong has a completely opposite name to a city under Henan, namely Fengkai County in Guangdong Province and Fengkai County in Henan Province. Kaifeng City, Province.

One is "Kaifeng" and the other is "Fengkai". Did the two places discuss the naming in advance? Of course not. Kaixian County was formed by the merger of Fengchuan County and Kaijian County and is known as the "Gateway of Guangdong and Guangxi". General Tu Youyou of the Qin Dynasty led an army of 500,000 to pacify Baiyue. After occupying Lingnan, the three counties of Guilin, Elephant and Nanhai were established, and the area was sealed.

After two thousand years of evolution, the administrative divisions of Lingnan have also changed several times. In 1951, Toyokawa and Kaijian began to cooperate. After many twists and turns, Fengkai County was finally established ten years later, which continues to this day. Kaixian County is located in the northwest of Guangdong Province, adjacent to Guangxi. It is an important part of the Xijiang Corridor Economic Zone and the intersection of the Pearl River Delta and Southwest China. It can be regarded as a veritable Feng Shui treasure land.

Compared with Kaifeng, Kaifeng is more well-known to the world. This land of the Song Dynasty was once recorded as the largest city in Asia and even the world. Kaifeng has a history of more than 2,700 years, and its most glorious period was the Zhao and Song Dynasties. So how did Kaifeng get its name?

As one of the core cities in the Central Plains Economic Zone, Kaifeng is also the birthplace of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". It was just that in the Spring and Autumn Period it was called Kaifeng instead of Kaifeng. In the Han Dynasty, in order to avoid Emperor Liu Qi's taboo, it was renamed Kaifeng. Of course, the name was changed soon after, leading to later titles such as "Bianliang" and "Tokyo". During the Xia and Warring States periods, the Wei Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty all established their capitals here, so Kaifeng is also known as the "ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties".

The world is full of miracles. In the course of historical evolution, no one would have thought that two completely unrelated places would be connected by their names. Perhaps before this, people in Kaifeng did not expect that there would be a place called "Fengkai" in the south, and people in Fengkai also did not expect that there would be a city called "Kaifeng" in the north. Apart from the coincidence of their names, Kaifeng and Fengkai have nothing in common. Even if it is a coincidence, it is also a kind of fate.