During this period, some people called China "Chixian".
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汉兴,与边郡相接之地带以州相称的旨趣,就在公认赤县神州为共同的活动疆域。
The implied meaning of calling Hanxin and its adjacent county-shire as Chixian, Shenzhou, was that it was the recognized territory in which people could live by.