Changzhou is a Neolithic village site, more than 6000 years ago, Majiabang culture and Songze culture are superimposed on each other. The settlement sites of Panjiatang, Xijiangtang and Liucun in Qinglong Town, Tianning District were discovered in 1976, more than 5,500 years ago. The lower layer belongs to Majiabang culture period, and the shallow layer belongs to Songze culture period. The site of Changzhou Orchard near Paimu Village, Dingyan Township, Qishuyan District was found at 1986, more than 5,000 years ago, belonging to the late Majiabang culture. The site of Temple Pier in Miaocun Village, Huang San, Lu Zheng Town, Wujin District is about 4,500 years ago, belonging to Liangzhu culture period.
Changzhou, as the territory of the State of Wu, has a written history of more than 3,200 years, from Xiazhouxian Road in the south of Wu Taibo to Taihu Lake Basin on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Yancheng Site in Wujin District, Changzhou is the earliest preserved urban area from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period in China, and it is also the only ancient city with three cities and three rivers in the world, with a history of nearly 3,000 years. The earliest written record of Yancheng can be found in Yue Jue Shu of Han Dynasty: "Cheng Nan, Piling County, so the ancient land is also flooded." In ancient times, the words "election" and "drowning" were interlinked. Amani Kingdom belongs to Shang and Yin, and now there is Li Yan to the east of Qufu County, Shandong Province, that is, Li Yan, which is the location of Amani Kingdom. In the early years of Zhou Chengwang (about 1042 BC), the Aman people rebelled against the Zhou Dynasty with Wu Kang, Pugu people and Dongyi people. In three years, Zhou killed Wu Geng, held an election and died. Yan and adherents fled to the south, staying between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and then to Taihu Lake Basin. It was at this time that Yancheng was called the ancient flood land. In addition, Wujin District also has the ruins of Helucheng and Hecheng in the Spring and Autumn Period.
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (547 BC), Ji Zha, the fourth son of Wu Wang Shoumeng, was sealed as Yanling City, and since then, it has a history of more than 2,500 years, with accurate chronology and exact place names.
In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC), Yanling was changed to Piling. The name of Piling has been in use for 506 years, from the county government to Wu Jiahe in the Three Kingdoms (234), when the captain of Piling Diannong settled the fields and unified the counties, to Dakang in the Western Jin Dynasty (28 1). Although it was reformed during the reign of Wang Mang, it was only 14 in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Piling County once governed Dantu, Qu 'a (Danyang), Wujin, Yanling, Piling, Jiyang (Jiangyin, west of Zhangjiagang) and Wuxi, and is a big county in the south of the Yangtze River. Piling hillock, named after piling, is located here.
In the first year of Yongxing (305), Emperor Huidi of the Western Jin Dynasty, in order to avoid the taboo of Wang Yue (Sima Yue) in the East China Sea, Piling was changed to Jinling, and the name of Jinling was used for more than 290 years. In the meantime, during the Yongjia Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty, the gentry of the Central Plains moved southward in succession, occupying a large area and setting up overseas Chinese governing counties. Wujin County once had Lanling County and Lanling County, and Jinling County had Gong Ling County, Dongguan County and Gumu County, which were successively abandoned until the end of the Southern Dynasty.
In the third year of Emperor Wendi (583), the county was abolished and the county was unified by the state. In the ninth year of Emperor Kai (589), Changzhou was established in Changshu County, then Changshu County was cut into Suzhou, and then Changzhou moved to Jinling, hence the name of Changzhou. Since then, although it has been renamed as Piling, Jinling, Changchun and Changzhou, the time is very short. The name Changzhou has been used for nearly 65,438+in terms of penetration, hope, promotion, government and establishment.
In the fourth year of Tang Wuzong Huichang (840), Changzhou was promoted to one of the top ten cities in China. Changzhou in Song Dynasty belonged to the West Zhejiang Road.
In the 14th year of Yuan Dynasty (1277), it was promoted to Changzhou Road, which belonged to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, governed Jinling County and Wujin County, and led Jinling and Wujin counties as well as Yixing and Wuxi. In the seventeenth year of Zheng Zheng (1357), Zhu Yuanzhang was renamed Changchun Prefecture and Changzhou Prefecture in the same year. In the fourth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1726), Wujin set up another Yanghu Lake, Wuxi set up another Jingui, Yixing set up another Jingxi River, and Jiangyin and Jingjiang were in charge of eight counties, so it was called "the middle Wu Yingfu, and the eight cities were all famous".