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Describe Zhenjiang from many angles such as history and legend.
Zhenjiang has a long history of culture and art and rich historical sites. 1986 is listed as a national historical and cultural city by the State Council.

In recent years, Zhenjiang has made great progress in literature, education and health.

A cultured scholar

Zhenjiang is the crossroads between the north and the south, winning mountains and rivers, and Zhong Ling has beautiful scenery and talented people.

Zhenjiang was once the capital of Sun Quan, the Soochow emperor who established political power during the Three Kingdoms period.

Its sites include: Kanerjing in Gubei Mountain where Liu Bei married, Gu Bei and Hou Feng, Shentingling, Wu Dong Waterproofing, etc.

Scholars of all ages flocked to seek success, express their feelings, cultivate elegance and sow tenderness.

Among them are Li Bai, Du Mu, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Lu You and Xin Qiji.

City Flower: Rhododendron

City Tree: Magnolia grandiflora

Beijing Time: Coordinated Universal Time +8

Zhenjiang is a famous cultural city in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history.

There are unearthed cultural relics and historical records. It belonged to Yangzhou, Kyushu, Gong Yu in ancient times, and it was suitable for waiting for fiefs in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. It was renamed Zhenjiang in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhenjiang has beautiful scenery and unique characteristics of true mountains and waters, and is known as "the first mountain in the world".

The beauty of Jinshan, the beauty of Jiao Shan, and the precipitous and changeable beauty of Beigushan are called "Jingkou has three mountains and a good southeast". Helin, Bamboo Forest and Zhao Yin Temple in the southern suburbs are surrounded by mountains and deep forests, which extend all the way to the urban areas, and are called "urban forests".

Zhenjiang is not only famous for its natural scenery, but also is dotted with cultural relics and historic sites: the famous Jinshan Jiangtian Temple, the forest of steles in Jiao Shan, the unique ancient streets of Song and Yuan Dynasties, the exquisite stone pagodas crossing the street, the Prince Zhaoming's reading platform hidden in pines and cypresses, the stone carvings of the tombs of the Six Dynasties, the ancient Xidu and other scenic spots, which record the long footprint of this ancient city and attract countless scholars at home and abroad.

The city is rich in historical sites. Jinshan Temple, Jiaoshan Dinghui Temple, Baohuashan Longchang Temple and Maoshan Taoist Temple, which were built more than 0/500 years ago, are all important Buddhist and Taoist temples.

Jiaoshan Forest of Steles Museum has preserved the calligraphy works of famous calligraphers and cultural celebrities in Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, which is very attractive to calligraphers and calligraphy lovers at home and abroad.

Stone carvings on tombs in the Southern Dynasties have been around 1700 years, which are rare in China in terms of quantity, workmanship, exquisite carving and well-preserved.

Zhenjiang Museum, a group of five English buildings built in 1890, was originally the former site of the British Consulate General, and now it has a collection of more than 30,000 pieces of cultural relics from Neolithic Age to modern times.

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