Twelve Provinces
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The Twelve Provinces is a term used in ancient Chinese histories to refer to territorial divisions during the reigns of the mythological emperors
Shun of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
.
Records in histories
The "Annals of the Five Emperors" (五帝本紀) section of Records of the Grand Historian mentioned:
You Province out of Yan, and Ying Provinceout of Qi, hence there were the Twelve Provinces. [1]
Volume 85 of the Book of Han recorded that in 30 BC Gu Yong (谷永) mentioned:
There was a great flood in Yao's time, the land was divided into the Twelve Provinces...
Yan Shigu of the Tang dynasty wrote this annotation in volume 85 of the Book of Han:
The Twelve Provinces were
(營).
See also
- Nine Provinces
- Eighteen Provinces
References
- ^ (舜以冀州之北廣大，分置并州；燕、齊遼遠，分燕置幽州，分齊為營州，於是為十二州。) Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian, Volume 1, Annals of the Five Emperors.
- ^ (堯遭洪水之災，天下分絕為十二州……) Ban Gu et al. Book of Han, Volume 85, Biographies of Gu Yong and Du Ye.
- ^ (十二州謂兾、兗、豫、青、徐、荊、揚、雍、梁、幽、並、營也。) Ban Gu et al. Book of Han, Volume 85, Biographies of Gu Yong and Du Ye (including annotations by Yan Shigu).