Why is Shanghai called the magic capital?

Magic Capital was one of the nicknames of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Magic Capital was the customary name for Shanghai by the Japanese at that time. At the beginning of the 20th century, Shao Feng Muramatsu, a Japanese writer living in Shanghai, called Shanghai the magic capital for the first time in his best-selling novel Magic Capital. Since then, the word Magic Capital has been used by many people to describe the complex world in Shanghai. In this work, Matsushima Nakamura invented the word "Magic Capital" to refer to Shanghai. Compared with the imperial capital Beijing and the magic capital Guangzhou, the magic capital refers to Shanghai.

Topography Shanghai is a part of the alluvial plain in the Yangtze River Delta, with an average elevation of about 2. 19 meters. The highest altitude is Dajinshan Island in Hangzhou Bay, Jinshan District, with an altitude of 103.70 meters. There are relics of tianmashan, Xue Shan and Phoenix Mountain in the west, and tianmashan is the highest point on the land, with an altitude of 99.8 meters. There is a stone tablet "the top of Sheshan". There are rock islands such as Dajinshan, Xiaojinshan, Fushan (Guishan), Sheshan Island and Xiaoyangshan Island in the sea area. In the north of Shanghai, where the Yangtze River meets the sea, there are three islands: Chongming Island, Changxing Island and hengsha island. Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, is formed by alluvial sediment carried by the Yangtze River, with an area of 104 1.2 1 km2 and an altitude of 3.5-4.5 meters. Changxing Island covers an area of 88.54 square kilometers, and hengsha island covers an area of 55.74 square kilometers.