Drinking Jianye water is not as good as eating Wuchang fish, and it is better to die Jianye, not just Wuchang House.

Drink Jianye water instead of eating Wuchang fish; I would rather die in Jianye than Wuchang. "This is a folk song popular in Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms period. It reflects that the people in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River with Jianye as the center are unwilling to use a lot of manpower and material resources to replenish the Soochow court in Wuchang (now Ezhou City, Hubei Province); At the same time, it also shows that all ethnic groups in Jiangdong, such as Gu, Lu, Zhu and Zhang, Zhou in Yangxian (now Yixing) and Shen Shi in Huzhou, are unwilling to leave their sphere of influence too far. It is in this historical background that Sun Quan decided to build his capital in Hubei in 22 1 and renamed it Wuchang, Hubei County, where he became emperor in 229, but he still built a business at the strong demand of Jiangdong clan. Similarly, Sun Hao, the queen of Soochow, insisted on moving the capital to Wuchang again in 265 AD. As a result, she was strongly opposed by the whole country and had to move the capital to Jianye again. This situation shows that when Wu Dong was buried, Jianye area had been recognized as the southern center. After Wu Dong, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Qi Dynasty, the Liang Dynasty and the Chen Dynasty all established their capitals here, which was called the Six Dynasties in history (AD 229-589).