During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Nanjing was located in the "Wu Tou Chu Wei" and was an important smelting and casting town of Wu State. In 472 BC, after Gou Jian, the King of Yue, restored the country and destroyed Wu, he ordered the King of Yue to build Yuecheng on the Qinhuai River, which was the earliest ancient city in Nanjing. In 333 BC, Chu destroyed Yue, took Wu's hometown, built a city on the rocky mountain, and set up Jinling City. In 222 BC, Qin destroyed Chu, and in 2 10 BC, Jinling was changed to Moling County. The early Han Dynasty was the fief of Han Xin, the king of Chu. In 229, Wu Congwu, the capital of the Three Kingdoms, moved to Jianye, creating the capital history of Nanjing. In 3 17, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was established, with Jiankang as its capital. 420-589 * * * 170 Nanjing was the capital of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen in the Southern Dynasties. Nanjing was the capital of the Five Dynasties, the Southern Tang Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Republic of China. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing is called "the ancient capital of ten dynasties". Among them, the Ming Dynasty was founded in 1368, with Nanjing as its capital for 54 years. 1949 On April 23rd, China People's Liberation Army occupied Nanjing and established Nanjing Municipal People's Government. After 1949, Nanjing was first a municipality directly under the central government, and then it was changed to a municipality under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.
Nanjing is one of the six ancient capitals in China, with a long history, numerous cultural relics and profound cultural accumulation. 1982 is listed as a national historical and cultural city by the State Council. Since the city was built 2470 years ago, Nanjing has experienced dynasty changes and twists and turns. Only the city names such as Jinling, Moling, Yangzhou, Danyang, Jiangcheng, Hushu, Jianye, Jiankang, Jiangning, Shengzhou, Baixia, Shangyuan, Qing Ji, Yingtian and Tianjing have undergone more than 40 changes, and the frequent evolution of architecture is rare in China. At the same time, there are both amazing glory and sacrificial decline.
There are many cultural relics in China. A large number of historical sites, such as Yuecheng, Jinlingyi Site, Stone Carvings of the Mausoleum of the Six Dynasties, the Second Mausoleum of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the City Wall of the Ming Dynasty, show strong characteristics of occupying the capital. The city has beautiful scenery. The mountains in the southeast are undulating, surrounded by rivers in the northwest, and the city is tree-lined, with 48 scenic spots and charming folk customs. It has become a national excellent garden city and tourist city. There are many historical figures. Sun Shoumeng, Gou Jian, Han Xin, the King of Yue, Sun Quan, the founding general of the Western Han Dynasty, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Yue Fei, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of the democratic revolution, all left deep historical traces in Nanjing. Li Bai's poems and songs, Li Yu's lyrics and songs, Wang Anshi's beautiful essays and Wu's novels have left a splendid cultural heritage for Zhancheng.
Nanjing is located in the vast plain of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, living by the river, and the "golden waterway" passes through the city. As a natural port, Nanjing Port has become the largest inland port in the Far East, and its urban development is also located in a riverside port city. At present, it has become a comprehensive industrial base with electronics, automobiles and chemicals as the leading industries, and an important transportation hub and communication center in eastern China.