Broadly speaking, the Huaiyang region includes the lower reaches of the Huaihe and Yangzi Rivers, including Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Yancheng, and Huai'an, which are located in the north and south of the Yangtze River, next to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which in ancient times meant Yangzhou. Geographically it is an important transportation hub connecting north, south, west and east, and is relatively close in terms of food, dialect and customs.

Narrowly defined Huaiyang: Han for Linhuai, Guangling two counties; Tang, Song for Chu, Yangzhou two states; Yuan dynasty for Huai'an, Yangzhou two roads; Ming and Qing for Huai'an, Yangzhou two provinces; today's Huai'an, Yangzhou two cities, the two places have long been in the same administrative division in history.

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The Huaiyang Folk Line, or the Jianghuai Folk Line, subdivided into the Huaizuo Folk Line and the Huaiyue Folk Line, is generally referred to as the Han Chinese Folk Line that speaks the Jianghuai official language. The origin of the Huaiyang Folk Line is the Huainan Road, which was established in the year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty. Since the seat of the Huainan Road was in Yangzhou, and there were centers of Yangzhou on the left and Hefei on the right, the people of the Huainan Road were known as the "Huaiyang Folk Line" or the "Yangfei Folk Line.

Distributed in what is now "central Jiangsu Province, central Anhui Province, northeastern Hubei Province, and the southeast corner of Henan Province," the cultural centers: Yangzhou, Chuzhou (present-day Huai'an, Jiangsu Province), Nanjing, Luzhou (present-day Hefei, Anhui Province), and Shouzhou (present-day Shouchun, Anhui Province): the economic centers: Nanjing, Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province), and Hefei.

The Huazuo Folk (i.e., Huaidong) included: Yangzhou (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province), Chuzhou (present-day Huai'an, Jiangsu Province), Sizhou (present-day Xuyi, Jiangsu Province), Zhenzhou (present-day Yizheng, Jiangsu Province), Haizhou (present-day Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province), Chuzhou (present-day Chuzhou, Anhui Province), Gaoyoujun (present-day Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province), and Tianchangjun (present-day Tianchang, Anhui Province).

The Huaiyue Civilization (i.e., Huaixi) includes: Shouzhou (present-day Shouchun, Anhui Province), Luzhou (present-day Hefei, Anhui Province), Haozhou (present-day Fengyang, Anhui Province), Shuju (present-day Anqing, Anhui Province), Hezhou (present-day Hexian, Anhui Province), Herbzhou (present-day Herbchun, Hubei Province), Huangzhou (present-day Huanggang, Hubei Province), Guangzhou (present-day Diaochuan, Henan Province), Wouwuijun (present-day Wuwu, Anhui Province), and Liu'anjun (present-day Liu'an, Anhui Province).

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