Bingzhou, or
Bing Province, was a location in ancient China. According to legend, when
Yu the Great (c. 2200 BC-2100 BC) tamed the flood, he divided the land of China into the
Nine Provinces. Historical texts such as the
Rites of Zhou, and "Treatise on Geography" section (volume 28) of the
Book of Han, recorded that Bingzhou was one of the Nine Provinces. Bingzhou covered roughly the areas around present-day
Baoding,
Hebei, and
Taiyuan and
Datong in
Shanxi.