金陵

Etymology
The etymology has been debated. Several sources, such as《建康實錄》(The Jiankang Annals, ), mentioned a historical with the name created after 's. However, actual attestations in pre- or Han literature were missing. The name saw attestation in well-established corpus starting from the  era, especially in the literature during and after the and  periods (early and middle 6th century). For example, in the《顏氏家訓》:

The designation was frequently used in poetic works of the era, for example: