Urumqi, the explanation of habit comes from Mongolian-"beautiful pasture". This used to be the nomadic land of Erut Mongolia. Capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The political, economic, cultural and scientific center of Xinjiang. Urumqi is an important town of the ancient Silk Road. According to textual research, the ruins of the ancient city of Wulabo in the southern suburbs may be Luntai City in the Tang Dynasty, which was built in Luntai County in the 14th year of Tang Zhenguan (640) and belongs to Tingzhou. This is the earliest city in Urumqi with a history of 1300 years. In the Qing Dynasty, Urumqi was generally regarded as the hometown of Luntai in the Tang Dynasty, and "Luntai" was often used to refer to Urumqi in poems about Urumqi.

Urumqi has a long history of place names. The story of making Hexi in Furuwada, written in 925 AD, was discovered in Dunhuang, and was written by the envoys sent by the Li Dynasty in Khotan at that time to Shazhou and other places in Hexi. Urumqi has been recorded in this book. The brief introduction of the land characters in the Western Regions in the Ming Dynasty was called Weilumu, and the map of the Western Regions in the Qing Dynasty was called Urumqi. In the thirty years of Qing Qianlong (1765), the city was named "Dihua". Dihua in Qing Dynasty refers to Dihua City, and Urumqi is still commonly used in society. In the 10th year of Guangxu (1884), when Xinjiang was established as a province and Dihua became the provincial capital, Dihua gradually replaced Urumqi. 1 945165438+1October1Dihua municipal government was formally established. 1 954 February1Dihua City changed to Urumqi City.