Jiujiang is a famous cultural city with a long history. Yugong in Shangshu first recorded the names of Jiujiang, such as "Empty Sound of Jiujiang" and "Crossing Jiujiang to Dongling". Later, according to "Jin Tai Kang Di Ji", Jiujiang originated from "Liu Xinsi's nine waters (i.e. Ganjiang water, Poyang water, residual water, Xiushui water, catch-up water, Xushui water, Shushui water, Nanshui water and Pengshui) flowing into Peng". The Yangtze River flows through Jiujiang waters and flows into Poyang Lake and the rivers adjacent to Jiangxi, Hubei and Anhui provinces. All the rivers belong to the sea, with huge water potential and magnificent river surface.
Jiujiang has an earlier development history. In the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Jiujiang belonged to the territory of Jing and Yang, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiujiang belonged to the western Chu of Soochow, so it was called "Wu Tou Chu Wei". Jiujiang, as an administrative division, first appeared in the Qin Dynasty. Qin Shihuang set 36 counties in the world, including Jiujiang County. Since then, Jiujiang has ancient names such as Chaisang, Xunyang, Runan, Kancheng and Dehua, but it is mainly famous for Jiujiang, Chaisang, Xunyang and Jiangzhou.
In 22 1 year BC, after Qin Shihuang unified China, the whole country was divided into 36 counties with Jiujiang County as the boundary. In the Western Han Dynasty, Jiujiang established a county named Chai Sang. Now Jiujiang City is the sixth year of Gao Han's reign (20 1 BC), and General Guan Ying rode a horse to dig a well to build a city, also known as Guan Yingcheng. During the Three Kingdoms period, it belonged to Wu Dong and was transferred to Wuchang County. Jiujiang County was changed to Jiangzhou in Tang Dynasty. In the first year of Tianbao (742), it was changed to Heyang County. In the first year of Gan Yuan (758), it was changed to Jiangzhou. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Jiangzhou was a place of moral education in the Southern Tang Dynasty, so Xunyang was changed to Dehua and Jiangzhou was abandoned. During the Song Dynasty, Jiangzhou was restored. In the yuan dynasty, it was changed to a road. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang proclaimed himself emperor and made Jiangzhou his capital. It was changed to Jiujiang House in Ming Dynasty. Clear the edge. After the Revolution of 1911, the imperial system was abolished, and Daoling County was established in 19 14. Jiujiang Prefecture was changed to Heyang Road, and * * led 20 counties, among which Dehua County was changed to Jiujiang County in 19 14 because it had the same name as Dehua County in Fujian Province. Jiujiang City was founded in 19 17. 1921March, Jiujiang administrative office was established, and the municipal government was established the following year. 1932 February, the administrative system was established. 1936 changed to Jiujiang county. 1May 7, 949, Jiujiang was liberated. On July 19, Jiujiang Commissioner's Office was established. The rural areas of Jiujiang County are included in Jiujiang County, and the county seat of Jiujiang County is divided into Jiujiang City. 1968 In April, Jiujiang District Revolutionary Committee was established. 197 1 February, changed to Jiujiang District Revolutionary Committee. 1979 changed to Jiujiang district administrative office. 1980, Jiujiang was set aside from Jiujiang and became a provincial city. The city governs Xunyang, Lushan and suburbs. 1July 27, 983, the cities merged and implemented the system of city governing county. It has jurisdiction over Jiujiang, Wuning, xiushui county, Yongxiu, De 'an, Xing Zi, duchang county, Hukou and pengze county.
Jiujiang, surrounded by rivers and lakes, was a tourist attraction of eminent monks and great virtues as early as ancient times. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, eminent monks Hui Yong, Hui Yuan and famous Taoist Lu successively came to Jiujiang to seek pure land and build houses for practice. From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty to Jiujiang and Lushan Mountain, there were more than 500 literati who were officials, visiting friends, sightseeing and living in seclusion. Thus, Jiujiang's cultural landscape is like a forest. In literature, Jiujiang is the hometown of Tao Yuanming, an idyllic poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is also the hometown of Huang Tingjian, one of the "Four Bachelor of Sumen" in the Northern Song Dynasty. Bailudong Academy, one of the four major academies in China in Song Dynasty, was located in Jiujiang. All these plans, school rules and orderly institutions of higher learning have cultivated generations of peaceful places, useful talents and lingering ideas, benefiting the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The mountains and rivers of Jiujiang have left the footprints of many poets and writers. Ming Jiajing's "Jiujiang Fu Zhi" said: Jiujiang "Since Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun, Confucianism and Taoism have been continuous; There is no end to being idle. " Among them, most of them are famous Confucianism who lead the trend. A series of poets and writers such as Jiang Yan, Xie Lingyun, Li Bai, Li Bo, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, Lu You, Zhu, Yang Wanli, Tang Yin, Zhenren, Wei, Pan Lei and Kang Youwei have all sung here.
Over the past 1000 years, in Jiujiang, not only many scholars have emerged, but also many talented militarists and scientists have been trained. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tao Kan, the five military commanders of Jing, Jiang, Yong, Liang, Jiao, Guang, Yi and Ning, was from Xunyang. His contemporaries, such as Zhou Chu and Zhou Fu, made great contributions to the maintenance of the Jin family. Wang Shao (from De 'an), a general in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Yu Jie (from Xiushui), a general in the Southern Song Dynasty, once led troops to fight against the Tubo tribe and the Mongolian army, from the official to the Tang Dynasty envoy and the assistant minister of the Ministry of War.
Jiujiang used to be a battleground for military strategists. From the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang sent Guan Ying, a general riding a chariot, to chase King Jiujiang, and to the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhou Yu, commander-in-chief of the water army, practiced the water army in Poyang Lake. From Tao Kan, Wenqiao and Yu Liang in the Xianhe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to Jiankang during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei led the troops to defend Jiangzhou five times. From the battle of Poyang Lake between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom generals Shi Dakai and Kai Lin Yingxian who hit the Qing navy hard at the mouth of the lake ... For thousands of years, chariots and horses galloped through Jiangzhou, leaving many ancient battlefield relics. The stories described in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, such as the war of words between Zhuge Liang and Confucianism, the gathering of heroes in Jiang Gan, and the funeral of Chai Sangkou in Wolong, are all related to Jiujiang. As for the remains of the battle of Poyang Lake in the eighteenth year of Zhu Yuanzhang, they are all over Kuangshan and Lishui.
During the century-long struggle against imperialism and feudalism, many patriots and revolutionary martyrs emerged in Jiujiang. Among them, the great reformer Chen Baozhen, his sons Chen, Sun and Chen Yinque are poets, painters and historians in China. Li Liejun, a native of Wuning, a veteran of the Revolution of 1911, opposed the monarchy and defended * * *.