01. Zhuge Liang’s former residence was in Nanyang County in the late Han Dynasty. It should be noted that Zhuge Liang was committed to this place, but Nanyang in the late Han Dynasty had a large territory, with an area of ??about 46,000 square meters and a population of about 2.4 million. It has jurisdiction over 37 counties, which was the largest county in the world at that time.
At that time, Zhuge Liang was practicing in Longzhong, Deng County, Nanyang County, 20 miles away from Xiangyang City. This statement can be referred to "The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms·Zhuge Liang Biography":
Working hard on Long Mu will be beneficial to "Fu Liangyin". Note that during the Spring and Autumn Period of Han, Jin and Jin Dynasties, Liang's home was located in Deng County, Nanyang, twenty miles west of Xiangyang City, and was called Longzhong.
Let’s look at the jurisdiction of Nanyang County, including 37 counties including Wan, Deng, Hong, Xinye, Xiangxiang, etc. Among them, "Wancheng" is now Nanyang City, Henan Province, and "Deng" That is the current urban area of ??Dengzhou City, Henan Province (a county-level city, managed by Nanyang City).
According to the "Book of Han, Book of Jin, Spring and Autumn Period", Zhuge Liang's farmland should be Deng County in Wan County, at the junction of Wancheng and Xiangyang.
In 208 AD, Cao Cao changed the administrative division of Deng County and placed it under Xiangyang County.
02. Zhuge Liang lived in Nanyang County for about 14 years. It is likely that Zhuge Liang came to Nanyang with his uncle when he was 13 years old. At this time, he was 7 miles outside Wancheng (now Nanyang City), and later followed his uncle to join Liu Biao. By this time, he may have moved to Xiangyang.
After all, in troubled times, borders often change with war. Zhuge Liang has lived for more than 10 years, but he still can't move all the time.
Even historians who record history cannot conduct detailed research on each of his residences, but nearby Xiangyang and Nanyang are controversial. Everyone wants to call Zhuge Liang "their son", so as to maximize their interests, and the dispute between the two parties is "publicly justified, and mother-in-law's talk is justified."
03. Who can truly inherit Zhuge Liang’s culture? Who is the real winner? In addition to increasing cultural confidence, it is more important to take a fancy to tourism resources. This is the real purpose. Nanyang and Xiangyang are both strong competitors in "Zhuge Liang's Farming". Both sides can produce detailed historical materials to demonstrate, so the development of tourism resources and cultural promotion are also based on their respective abilities.
Visitors will see who has inherited Zhuge Liang’s culture better, so in everyone’s mind, who can represent Zhuge Liang’s true cultivation. Even if the score is evenly matched in the end and both sides get excited, Nanyang and Xiangyang will get more people's attention, so it's a win-win situation.