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Children asked me what the place name "Nanjing" in the Shaoxing opera "Five Girls' Birthdays" refers to, and how to explain it clearly?
Nanjing refers to Nanjing today.

The historical background of this play is the Ming Dynasty. However, there are two names for Nanjing in the play, namely "Jinling" and "Nanjing" (Zou Yinglong sang "I will bid farewell to my father-in-law and go to Jinling that year", "Will you come to Jinling House to pick up my wife Yang Sanchun at home" and Zou Shilong sang "This is Zoujiazhuang outside Nanjing"). Nanjing had more than one name in the Ming Dynasty.

Beijing is Kyoto, and Nanjing is relative to Beijing. Because the capital was moved to Beijing in the early Ming Dynasty, the original capital was Nanjing.

The words used in Chinese opera are probably more focused on the rhyme of lyrics, so they are not very rigorous.