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Changzhou is an ancient cultural city with a long history of more than 2,500 years. During the Spring and Autumn Period in 547 BC, the city was founded and the country was founded, which was called Yanling. Another name is Longcheng, which was the fief of Ji Zha, the fourth son of King Shoumeng of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period. Qin Zhi county. After the Western Jin Dynasty. For the county, state, road and government, the city name has been changed to Piling, Pitan, Jinling, Lanling, Changzhou, Nanlanling, Changzhou and Wujin for many times. The name "Changzhou" began in the Sui Dynasty and was formerly called "County". Later, it was called "Zhou" in the Song Dynasty, "Dao" in the Yuan Dynasty and "Fu" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, all of which were under the jurisdiction of counties. From the 4th year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1726), Changzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over 8 counties including Wujin, Yanghu, Wuxi, Jingui, Yixing, Jingxi, Jiangyin and Jingjiang. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was still one house (Changzhou House) and two counties (Wujin and Yanghu) in the city. 19 12 abolished Changzhou prefecture, and Yanghu county was merged into Wujin county. At the beginning of liberation, Changzhou was in charge of Changzhou and six counties including Wuxi, Jiangyin, Wujin, Yixing, Liyang and Jintan. 1953 1 Changzhou was designated as a provincial city, and in March of that year, it had six districts under its jurisdiction; 1July, 958, Zhenjiang District was moved to Changzhou, renamed Changzhou District, and Changzhou belonged to it. Changzhou, also known as "Dragon City". Since the Western Jin Dynasty, Changzhou has always been the seat of counties, prefectures and governments, and is known as "the important town of three Wu and the famous city of eight cities". Here, outstanding people and outstanding people enjoy the reputation of "there are famous tribes in the world, and there is nowhere to compete with them in the southeast". Changzhou Classics School, Yanghu Literature School, Changzhou Ci School, Changzhou Painting School and Meng He Medical College are famous all over the country. Yanling, as the first name in Changzhou history, has a permanent commemorative significance. In 547 BC, Wu Wangyu sacrificed his brother to Yanling, and Changzhou had its first place name. Named after Yanling, it has far-reaching historical and cultural implications. Folk arts and crafts: root carving, paper carving in Jintan, wooden comb, random needle embroidery, brick painting screen carving in Han Dynasty, and bamboo carving in Changzhou. Because of its unique geographical location, ancient Changzhou occupies an important position in the history of water transportation. It is connected to Jingkou from the top to Gusu from the bottom. There are many rivers, surrounded by lakes, surrounded by the Yangtze River in the north and the lake in the south, occupying a corner of Taihu Lake in the southeast, and there is a lotus beside Taihu Lake in Yongjiang River. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a large amount of grain has been transported to the north, and Changzhou has become the center of grain transportation, and hundreds of thousands of stones have been transported every year. Later, it gradually increased to 3 million stones, reaching a peak of 7 million stones in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Changzhou has an important geographical position that "dozens of States from Susong to Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and Beijing all come from this road" and is the only way to pay tribute. In the eighth year of Tang Yuanhe (8 13), Meng Jian, the secretariat of Changzhou, dredged Mengdu (now Meng He) to lead the Yangtze River to the Northwest Canal of Changzhou to facilitate water transportation. In Song Dynasty, road transport companies from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jinghu, Guangxi and Fujian were established in Changzhou to undertake grain transportation. During the Xichun period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1174-1189), it was dredged from Jingxi (now the South Canal) in Yixing to Changzhou, becoming a canal for water transportation. Since then, grain tankers from Yi and Li regions have been shipped out. In the 26th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1393), the Changzhou government requisitioned 5335 15 stones of grain and rice, accounting for 2. 16% of the total grain requisitioned in China, which was close to the sum of grain requisitioned in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces. In the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty (1440), in order to solve the problem of rice storage in Changzhou, a western warehouse was built in the south of Qu, Huainan Township, Wujin, to store rice from Wujin County, and it was transported to the east of Yanghu Lake, and an eastern warehouse was built in Henan to store rice from Yanghu County. In the Qing Dynasty, Changzhou was one of the areas with the heaviest pages in Beijing. In the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1724), there were 120 bad white grain boats in Wujin County, which were moored in the area of Dawangmiao, Li Yongfeng, outside Ximen City, and then extended to Baijiaqiao until the early years of Daoguang. /kloc-In the 1930s of 0/5, there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhou Chen went to the south of the Yangtze River to control the water, and built a dike to stop the river in Daxing Lake to prevent the flood. Reclamation of 37,000 mu in 20 years has gradually reduced or even disappeared the areas of Furong Lake, Yanghu Lake and Linjin Lake. As a result, Changzhou is not rich in water resources and the water level is unbalanced, which makes Changzhou, which was originally dominated by lake water, become dominated by river water. Due to the disrepair of the canal, the quicksand in the Yangtze River has been seriously silted, and the sunken ship carrying grain to the north has been sinking. By the end of Qing Dynasty, most canals in Shandong were blocked, and grain could not be transported from Changzhou. In the fifth year of Daoguang (1825), the waterway transportation test was successful, and Changzhou gradually moved eastward to Wuxi. Since then, the history of shipping, Changzhou and canal transportation for more than two thousand years has come to an end. for reference only