Nanchang History

More than 6,000 years ago, there are several primitive residential areas in Nanchang, To 3,000 year, start from in the south Qingyunpu and reach AiXiHu in the north, form ancient gathering area of resident in Nanchang. 202 B.C., founder of Han Dynasty Nation Liubang order Yingyinhou Guanying garrison the area of Nanchang. Next year (201 B.C.), Guanying lead department build one soil cities which area of ten kilometers and have 6gates near Huangcheng temple where today the Nanchang railway station southeast 4 kilometer (Huang An), when that people call Guancheng, it is beginning of build Nanchang city. The name of Nanchang started in the Western Han Dynasty, meant "large prosperous South Sinkiang". The numerous changes of Nanchang city are revitalized wastly, the concrete number of the city is apt, a great deal of of another names, Chinese claim "Yuzhang" among them, Sui and Tang dynasties claim "big continent", Song claim "grand to revitalize", name "Nanchang" in Ming Dynasty. Northern Expeditionary Army began to set up the city after capturing Nanchang in 1926. Nanchnag culture is prosperous, economic is prosperity, "good products, the earth are nature's treasures, a remarkable place producing outstanding people", past dynasties prefecture, state, office are set up here. Ancient Nanchang blue and green porcelain cook, build, lacquer ware, production, bronze of fabrics make, and respects such as the production technologies of gold, silver jewelry, etc. all have very high reputation, smelting, the textile, shipbuilding centre and commercial city of the South for a time. When Northern Song Dynasty, it is one of the five major shipbuilding centres of the whole country. Nanchang pregnant with beauty and productive of talent. The Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, hole disciple quiet platform of sage kill getting bright "the south to river", the culture of Central Plains begins to be spread into. To Qing Dynasty, Nanchang cultivicate with remarkable person such as west young child Xuzhi Xueruzi in Western Han Dynasty, Jing the river expert XuXun the Jin Dynasty, five generation south painting house Dongyuan of Tang, pronoun Song cases of Yanshu, Yuan Dynasty Liu ShiZhong who writer of non-dramatic song, navigator WangDYuan, Ming Dynasty astronomer Ouyangbinyuan, eight mountain people (big-eared bright red have) that one of "four draw monk" and one of "three big house" Yujiayan in the end of Ming Dynasty, the edit of " four Warehouse and whole books" Pengyuanrui on the Qing Dynasty, Qiuyuexiu and Caoxiuxian, etc. personage. Scholars of a lot of celebrated scholars in successive dynasties, like Zhantai mieming, MeiFu, Wang Bo, Zhangjiuling, MengHaoRan, Baijuyi, Dumu, HanYu, Ouyangxiu, Suzhe, Zhuxi, Xingqiji, Luyou, Yangwanli, Wentianxiang, TangYin, Tangxianzu, Songyingxing have left the eternal much-told tale anecdote on everybody's lips and immortal poetic prose in Nanchang. The Nanchang people have anti-imperialist and anti-feudal fine tradition. For resist feudal ruling class exploitation and oppression, go on struggle many times in history. After the Opium War (1840-1842), the forefront in anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle that the Nanchang people stand all the time. Will it be August 1 in 1927, Zhouenlai, Zhude, Helong, Yeting, Liu BoCheng, etc. are lead and command the armed uprising of the world of shaking here, Nanchang becomes the birthplace of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, praised as "the heroic city", it is "place that the army flag rises". Nanchang liberate on May 22 , 1949.