项羽起兵江东反秦,后与刘邦争霸,被刘邦打败。因无颜见江东父老,不肯过江东而在离长江不远的乌江亭自刎。那么,“江东”究竟是什么意思,指什么地方呢?“江东”即“长江之东”。唐末五代丘光庭《兼明书》卷五“江东”条下云:“按,古人称江东皆谓楚江之东也。”这里说的“楚江”即长江。战国时期,特别是楚灭越国后,长江中下游一带主要在楚国的版图内,所 Xiang Yu Qi Jiang Jiang anti-Qin Qi, Liu Bang and hegemony after being defeated by Liu Bang. Because of no color to see Jiangdong elders, refused to cross the East but not far from the Yangtze River Wujiang Pavilion Zizhu. Well, “Jiangdong” What does it mean, referring to what place? “Jiangdong ” or “East of the Yangtze River ”. The late Tang and Five Dynasties Qiu Guangting “and the Ming Dynasty” Volume five “Jiangdong ” under the cloud: “Press, the ancients called Jiangdong East also said that the East of Chu. ” Here said “Chu River ” the Yangtze River. During the Warring States period, especially after the Chom State, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River mainly in the territory of Chu