Legend has it that five immortals, dressed in colorful clothes and riding colorful sheep, came to Chuting with one stem and six ears of excellent rice seeds and dedicated the ears of rice to the local people, wishing there would never be a famine here.
After that, five immortals flew away and five sheep turned into stones. To commemorate these five immortals, the local people built a Wudang Five Immortals Temple, which is said to be the "Chu Pavilion". Therefore, Guangzhou is also called "Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou City".
In the Qin Dynasty, Guangzhou was always the administrative center of counties, states and governments. At the end of Qin Dynasty, the beginning of Han Dynasty and the end of Tang Dynasty, there were two independent countries in Guangzhou. At the end of Qin Dynasty, South Vietnam was the country, Zhao Tuo (commander in chief of the South China Sea in Qin Dynasty) was the king of South Vietnam, and Guangzhou became the capital of South Vietnam (from 206 BC to BC11).
In the Jin Dynasty, Guangzhou was also called Nanhai County, which was ruled by the state. However, the administrative jurisdiction of Nanhai County is smaller than that of Han Dynasty, which divided Meixian, Chaoshan and Huiyang in the east. Nanhai County in Jin Dynasty covers an area of about 46,000 square kilometers. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty, Guangzhou was still a city governed by prefectures and counties, and the scope of prefectures and counties changed slightly.
Guangzhou was called the Governor's Office of Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and it was the seat of the Governor's Office of Taoism and Lingnan Road. The administrative boundaries of Guangzhou Dudufu extend to Baoan and Zhongshan in the south, Qingyuan in the north and Sihui in the west. Huaiji covers an area of about 42,000 square kilometers. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Ada proclaimed himself emperor in Guangzhou, which was known as the Southern Han Kingdom in history. He took Guangzhou as his palace, imitating the imperial capital Chang 'an, and set up Xianning and Changkang counties in Guangzhou.
In 970 AD, after the Southern Han Dynasty in Song Ping, Feixing Wang Fu still called Guangzhou (the name of Guangzhou has been used ever since), and Guangzhou was ruled by Guangnan East Road (Guangdong for short, the name of Guangdong Province began).
The administrative area of Guangzhou is about 43,000 square kilometers. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guangzhou was called Guangzhou Road (Yuan Dynasty) and guangzhou fu (Ming and Qing Dynasties), both of which were provinces (Guangdong Road in Yuan Dynasty, Guangdong Chief Secretary in Ming Dynasty and Guangdong Province in Qing Dynasty). Although the administrative area changed, it was not large. Until the Qing Dynasty, the administrative area of guangzhou fu was about 3. 1 10,000 square kilometers.
Before liberation, when the Kuomintang ruled, Guangzhou was designated as a city and remained the seat of the provincial capital. The administrative area of Guangzhou is much smaller than that of previous historical periods. South to Henan Island and Fangcun, east to Chebei and north to Baihuichang, covering an area of 248 square kilometers.
After liberation, Guangzhou was once designated as a municipality directly under the central government, and in 1954, when the national administrative divisions were adjusted, it was changed to a provincial city. Due to production and urban development, the administrative area of Guangzhou has been expanded many times, and now the area under Guangzhou's jurisdiction is 7434.4 square kilometers.
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The development status of Guangzhou
Guangzhou, referred to as Guangzhou for short, is also known as Yangcheng, the capital of Guangdong, a national central city, an international business center and the first batch of coastal open cities. Located in the south-central part of Guangdong Province, on the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, adjacent to the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Macao, it is the core city of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone.
From the three pillar industries of electronic information manufacturing, automobile and petrochemical industry to the IAB industrial plan, Guangzhou is accelerating its economic development on the track of a global super city. The traditional commerce and trade industry has a long history and flourished, and the annual turnover of the Canton Fair has hit record highs.
At present, there are hundreds of domestic listed companies, including Poly Real Estate, Yuetai, Zhujiang Industry, Lv Jing Holdings, Hai Yin, Zhonghaida, Anjubao, Weichuang, Royal Bank, Radio and Television Express, Hao Yun Science and Technology and Blue Shield.
Guangzhou's tourism industry is also very developed, with many famous scenic spots, including Guang Zhouta, Chimelong Happy World, Water Park, Xiangjiang Wildlife Park, Baiyun Mountain, Lingnan Impression, Million Sunflower Garden, south china botanical garden and Yuexiu Park.
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