Why Jiujiang is called Jiujiang and the origin of Jiujiang place names.

Jiujiang is a low-level city in Jiangxi province with a history of more than 2200 years. Jiujiang is a city in Jiangxi, starting from 20 14. Jiujiang is regarded as one of the three metropolitan areas in Jiangxi Province. Then why is Jiujiang called Jiujiang? What is the origin of its place name? Let's look at Jiangxi culture again!

Jiujiang is located in the northern border of Jiangxi, the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the northern foot of Lushan Mountain and the east bank of Poyang Lake. It is an ancient and beautiful city with a long history, which was called Xunyang and Chaisang in ancient times. Qin home Jiujiang county, said "nine schools from the river to Xunyang", hence the name Jiujiang, also known as Jiangzhou. It is a "river with lakes", a battleground for military strategists in past dynasties, and is known as the "gateway to Jiangxi". According to ancient records, Jiujiang is "the day of three rivers, the thoroughfare of four reaches", with seven provinces connected and merchants gathered. It is also the "four rice markets" and "three tea markets" in modern China. Now it is an important industrial city in northern Jiangxi and the only foreign shipping port, and the Changjiu Industrial Corridor is a key open development zone.

Jiujiang enjoys a unique transportation, which is not only the water transportation hub of Chongqing, Han, Nanjing and Shanghai, but also the port-changing terminal for combined water and land transportation of Jiangxi, Hubei, Anhui and Hunan. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway runs through the north and south, a bridge flies north and south, and the Yangtze River natural moat becomes a thoroughfare.

Yugong in Shangshu first recorded the names of Jiujiang, such as "Empty Sound of Jiujiang" and "Crossing Jiujiang to Dongling". Jiujiang appellation has two sources. One is that "nine" is the largest number considered by ancient people in China, "Jiujiang" means "land where many waters meet" and "nine" means nothing;

Second, "I thought nine rivers (Ganjiang, Poyang, Ying, Xiushui, Ganshui, Xu Shui, Shushui, Nanshui and Pengshui) entered Li Pengze Wild", that is, where the nine rivers meet, and "Nine" actually refers to. 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.

During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Jiujiang belonged to Jing and Yangcheng, and in the Spring and Autumn Period it belonged to Wu Zhidong and the west of Chu, so it was called "Wu Tou Chu Wei". After Qin Shihuang unified China, Jiujiang was set as one of the 36 counties. For more than two thousand years, since the Qin Dynasty, the seven names Jiujiang, Chaisang, Jiangzhou, Xunyang, Runan, Kanyu and Dehua have been in use. Jiujiang place names have been used since the Ming Dynasty. Jiujiang tourist attractions are divided into six districts, two points and one line, with more than 300 places. Its elegant taste, rich connotation, complete categories and dense silk are unique in China and rare in the world.

Jiujiang has an earlier development history. In the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Jiujiang belonged to the territory of Jing and Yang. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiujiang belonged to the western territory of Wu and the eastern territory of Chu, 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 been called Jiangzhou, Chaisang, Xunyang, Runan, Kancheng and Dehua, but it is mainly called Jiujiang, Chaisang, Xunyang and Jiangzhou.

Jiujiang is 270km long from east to west and 1 40km wide from north to south, with a total area of1. 880,000 square kilometers, accounting for 1 1 of the total area of Jiangxi Province. 3%, with a population of 4.6 million, including urban planning area of 1 18 square kilometers and built-up area of 48. 4 square kilometers, with an urban population of 5 1 10,000. It has jurisdiction over nine counties including Jiujiang, Wuning, xiushui county, Yongxiu, Dean, Xing Zi, duchang county, Hukou and pengze county, Ruichang, Xunyang and Lushan, Jiujiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, * * Qing Development Zone and Lushan Scenic Area Administration.

Jiujiang is located at east longitude113o57'-16o53' and north latitude 28O47'-30O06'. The terrain is high from east to west, low in the middle, slightly higher in the south and inclined to the north, with an average elevation of 32 meters (20 meters in the urban area). Xiushui Jiuling Mountain is1794m above sea level, which is the highest peak in Jiujiang and the bottom of Poyang Lake near Hamashi in Xing Zi County, with an altitude of -9. 37 meters, the lowest place in the city. The mountainous area of the city accounts for 16 of the total area. 4%, hills accounted for 44. 5%, lakes account for 18%, and cultivated land accounts for 365. 220,000 mu, commonly known as "six mountains and two waters, half field, half manor".

Jiujiang is located in the transition zone from the middle subtropical zone to the north subtropical zone, with an annual average temperature of16-17℃; Annual rainfall 1300- 1600 mm, of which more than 40% is concentrated in the second quarter; The frost-free period of the whole year is 239-266 days, and the average annual foggy day is below 16 days. Four distinct seasons, mild climate, abundant rainfall and sunshine.

Jiujiang has the strategic position of "thoroughfare of seven provinces". Thanks to its convenience by boat and abundant products, Jiujiang has been a metropolis, a center city for people flow and logistics since ancient times, and an important material distribution center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It was once one of the "four big rice markets" and "three big tea markets" in China.

The Yangtze River is the largest and longest east-west waterway in China, and the Beijing-Kowloon Railway is the longest and most modern north-south land transportation corridor in China. The two main arteries meet in Jiujiang city, and Jiujiang has become a golden crossroads connecting east and west and leading north and south.

Modern land, sea and air transportation networks extend in all directions. Jiujiang Port is one of the top ten ports in the Yangtze River basin, and its annual passenger and freight volume ranks second and fourth among the Yangtze River ports. There are 93 railways that intersect with Beijing, Wuhan and Hefei, and the Tong Tong (Tongling) Railway is under planning and construction. There are two expressways, Changjiu and Jiujing, which are crossed by 105 and 3 16 national highways. Jiujiang airport is actively operating.

In the national economic development pattern, Jiujiang is the transition zone from the eastern coast to the central and western regions, and the intersection of Beijing-Kowloon and Yangtze River economic development zones, which is in an extremely important position. Judging from the pattern of the Yangtze River basin, Jiujiang is the junction of the Shanghai-Han Economic Zone and the four provinces of Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and Anhui along the Yangtze River.

From the perspective of Beijing-Kowloon, Jiujiang is the only land and water transportation hub, connecting east, west, north and south; Judging from the development of Jiangxi Province, Jiujiang is the only foreign trade port city connecting the Yangtze River Development Zone and the coastal open zone, and has the only national export processing zone in the province.

"Nine schools in Xunyang County are clearly drawing pictures". The magical nature endows Jiujiang with a very advantageous geographical position and magnificent scenery. On the land of18,000 square kilometers, there are more than 400 scenic spots scattered all over the place, showing a landscape picture of thousands of cliffs competing for beauty, thousands of valleys competing for flow, towering and numerous scenery, and forming a "leading" with Lushan Mountain, including "six districts" (Guling, Shannan, Shahe, Yongxiu and Xunyang)

Jiujiang integrates famous mountains, rivers, lakes and cities, with more than 400 scenic spots, 120 developed scenic spots and more than 30 tourist routes. National scenic spots 1 piece, 8 provincial scenic spots. 200 1 was rated as an excellent tourist city in China.

6 scenic spots: Lushan Guling Scenic Spot, Lushan Shannan Scenic Spot, Lushan Shanxi Scenic Spot, Yongxiu County Scenic Spot, Xunyang Scenic Spot and Qingcheng Scenic Spot; Two points: Shi Zhongshan in Hukou County and Longgong Cave in pengze county; The first line: the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake.

Lushan Mountain is a national key scenic spot and one of the "Forty Top Tourist Attractions in China". 1996 was approved by UNESCO as the only "World Cultural Landscape" in China and listed in the World Heritage List. There are more than 80 scenic spots in the whole mountain, 1500 Chinese and foreign villas. Shannan Scenic Area has Xiufeng, the famous sentence of Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's "Looking at Lushan Waterfall", and Taoyuan Scenic Area, the hometown of Jin Dynasty poet Tao Yuanming.

The main attractions in Jiujiang city include Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge, the square outside the Yangtze River levee, Yanshui Pavilion, Pipa Pavilion named after Bai Juyi's Pipa Tour, and Xunyang Building where Song Jiang was drunk. There are two lakes in the city center, Gan Tang and Nanmen, with an area of1.2000 square meters. The Gong Li Dam between the two lakes was built by Li Bo, the secretariat of Jiangzhou in the Tang Dynasty.

The scenic spots distributed in the county mainly include the Tao Jing Sacrifice Temple of the poet Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the mother's tomb of the national hero Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, Shi Zhongshan, the key to rivers and lakes, Shinnyoji, one of the key temples in the country, Longgong Cave, an underground cave with a total length of more than 2,700 meters, and Zhelin Reservoir, which is known as the "Wandao Lake".

The Yangtze River, the third largest river in the world and the largest river in China, originated from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and developed and expanded all the way to Jiujiang, with an open river surface, which was called Xunyang River in history. Xunyang River has beautiful scenery, rich products and outstanding people. There have been many touching stories in history: Yu Shu climbed Lushan Mountain in Jiujiang, built a city to watch the waves, Gong Jin Gan Tang ordered the water army, Dongfeng saved the people in Xinglin, planted beans in the south of Yuanmingshan, touched the pipa in Lotte River, took care of the beautiful scenery in Taibai, explored the stone clock on Dongpo moonlit night ... The river of no return, and the waves scoured out all the romantic figures of the ages.

Poyang Lake is located in the north of Jiangxi Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, between Jiujiang and Nanchang. It is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north and Lushan Mountain in the west. On a sunny day, floating gold leaps, and boats send birds; When it rains, the sea of clouds is boundless and the wind and waves are high; The sun sets in Zhao Hui, and it's full of weather. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo wrote in the Preface to the Poems of Tengwangge that "raindrops are rainbow-colored." . Sunset and lonely Qi Fei, autumn waters and sky are the same color. Fishing boats sing late, the coast of Peng Li is poor ... ",which depicts the scenery of Poyang Lake.

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China, with Ganjiang River, Fuhe River, Xinjiang River, Xiushui River and Raohe River. Hunan is famous for its land of plenty, convenient boats and beautiful scenery. Thousands of miles of lakes and mountains are beautiful; Or Simon Simon ran across the horizon, or happily returned to sail fishing songs; Shi Zhongshan, Xieshan, Luoxingdun, Junshan, Yinshan and Biandan Mountain face each other across the water, each with its own attitude.

Because the geographical and climatic conditions of Poyang Lake are suitable for migratory birds to spend the winter, thousands of migratory birds fly from Siberia, Mongolia, Japan, North Korea, Northeast China and Northwest China in late autumn and early winter (165438+1October) to spend the winter with wild ducks, herons and mandarin ducks. They settled here at first, and didn't gradually leave until the following spring (March). Today, there are more than 200 species and millions of birds in the nature reserve, including more than 20 rare birds, which is the largest bird sanctuary in the world. It was praised by overseas guests as "the second Great Wall of Wan Li in China".

Dr. Sun Yat-sen once pointed out: Jiujiang "will become the only commercial port in Jiangxi province, and ... one of the centers of China's north-south railway". 1993 after inspecting Jiujiang, JICA thinks: "Jiujiang is in a strategic position in China, and its future image is a transit city for economic exchanges, with great development prospects"; During the period of 1994, the Development Research Center inspected and demonstrated the development along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, and concluded that Jiujiang was "the most qualified to become the new economic commanding height in the middle section of Beijing-Kowloon".

Jiujiang has beautiful scenery, beautiful scenery, many places of interest and rich tourism resources, and has been a tourist attraction since ancient times. At present, the tourist resources are gradually developed, the construction of scenic spots is improving day by day, the service facilities are gradually improving, and the reception capacity has begun to take shape, which has been listed as an open city by the state.