现在,提到“河南”,人们都知道它是指我国的河南省。除了黄河南边的一些地区,它还兼有黄河以北的部分区域,总面积约16万多平方公里。但在古代情况却并非如此。“河南”一词开始仅表示黄河以南的意思,随着历史的发展,它开始由表示黄河以南某一自然地区的习惯称谓而成了指代黄河以南某一行政区域的特定称谓;随着行省制的产生与发展,作为行政区划中的河南就兼有黄河南北的一些区域。而 Now, referring to “Henan”, people all know it refers to our country’s Henan Province. In addition to some areas to the south of the Yellow River, it also combines parts of the area north of the Yellow River with a total area of ​​about 160,000 square kilometers. But in ancient times this was not the case. The term “Henan” began to mean only the meaning to the south of the Yellow River. With the development of history, it began to become a specific term referring to a certain administrative region south of the Yellow River from the habitual expression of a natural region south of the Yellow River. With the birth and development of the provincial system, Henan as an administrative division has both the north and south of the Yellow River. and