What is the ancient name of Yancheng?

Yancheng, formerly known as Du Yan, is also known as Piaocheng, Baihe City, Deng Ying City and Ye Ting City (1946, the downtown area was changed to Ye Ting City to commemorate the death of Ye Ting).

The origin of Piaocheng is recorded in the third volume of Yancheng County Records compiled during the Qianlong period. In the map of Yancheng City in the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), the figure of the city is like a gourd ladle, so Yancheng is also called "gourd ladle city", which is named because of its shape, so that the gourd ladle floats in the water and never sinks. According to the Records of Yancheng County during the Qianlong period, Yancheng was offshore, but the terrain was high and it was not easy to be flooded. Besides, the city is shaped like a gourd ladle, so it is called "gourd ladle city".

According to Mr. Zhou Mengzhuang's textual research on the origin of Du Yan and Yancheng, "Before the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, the place names of Yancheng could not be tested. In the Western Han Dynasty (BC 1 19), it was named Du Yan because it cooked salt pavilions and transported salt rivers.

Salt is ditching to cook salt, and Tinghu is also drawing seawater to cook salt, which is called salt production and is famous for its salt. In ancient Yancheng, salt was cooked in pavilions, and the tax was 30%. Today's Tinghu Lake is prosperous and rich. Therefore, "Tinghu", "Du Yan" and "Du Yan" are not only symbols of Yancheng's sea salt culture, but also bear the humanistic heritage of history.

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Geographical location: Yancheng is located at 32 34' ~ 34 28' north latitude and119 27' ~120 54' east longitude. It borders the Yellow Sea in the east, Nantong and Taizhou in the south, Huai 'an and Yangzhou in the west, and Lianyungang across the Guanhe River in the north.

The total land area of the city is 1.7 million square kilometers, of which the coastal beach area is 455,300 hectares, accounting for 75% of the coastal beach area in Jiangsu Province. The coastline is 582 kilometers long, accounting for 56% of the total length of the coastline in Jiangsu Province. The south coast of Sheyang estuary also extends to the sea at the rate of 10 square kilometers per year.

Yancheng is a plain landform, which is high in the northwest and southeast and low in the middle and northeast. Most areas are less than 5 meters above sea level, and the maximum relative height is less than 8 meters. It is divided into three plain areas: Huanghuai Plain, He Lixia Plain and Binhai Plain.

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