Shandong Province, located at the northern tip of China's east coast, located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, bordering the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, is one of the important birthplaces of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization, and the birthplace of Confucian culture. Shandong has a long history, not only the Yellow River enters the sea here, but also the East Town Yishan Mountain and the "Five Mountains" of the East Yue Taishan, and the historical and cultural cities are many, and there are the largest number of "thousand-year-old counties" in China.
After the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, there were counties and counties, and now Shandong was a place with many counties at that time, and now Shandong has a large number of ancient counties of more than 2,000 years, of which Tengzhou, which is now Zaozhuang, is one of them.
Tengzhou City, located in the south of Shandong Province, Qinshi County, Sui Dynasty county, Jinshi Prefecture, is now a county-level city in Shandong Province, managed by Zaozhuang City, is also the only county under the jurisdiction of Zaozhuang, but also the second most populous county in Shandong Province, the most populous county-level city, with a total population of 1.7 million. Tengzhou east of the Taiyi Mountains, west of Weishan Lake, since ancient times for the geographical superiority, convenient transportation, the pre-Qin period is the core hinterland of China, when there were Tengguo, Xueguo, Xiaoyi state three kingdoms, Lingqiu, Changxu, Huancheng, Qicheng, Huling and other five cities, or "Kesheng" Mozi, "craftsman ancestor" Lu Ban, car-making originator Xi Zhong and Meng Yujun, Mao Sui's hometown, known as "the land of the Three Kingdoms and Five Yis, the state of cultural Changming".
After the qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, teng county and Xue county were established in present-day Tengzhou, and there were many county structures in the two Han Dynasties, including Gongqiu County (renamed Teng County), Xue County, Hexiang County, Changxu County, and Fan County, etc. The establishment of Teng County changed frequently during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and Teng County was re-established during the Sui Dynasty, and in the sixteenth year of the founding of the Emperor (596 AD), Shengteng County was Teng County, and the name "Teng" has been used ever since. According to legend, Tengdi was once the fiefdom of the tenth son of the Yellow Emperor, so named because it was warm, humid and rainy at that time, and the spring water was gushing.
Teng County was upgraded to Teng County and soon after it was demoted to a county, during the Tang Dynasty Teng County belonged to Xuzhou, during the Northern Song Dynasty, tengyang army was placed here, Jin changed to Tengyang Prefecture, Jin Dading twenty-four years (1184 AD) changed Tengyang Prefecture to Tengzhou, which is the beginning of Tengzhou. At this time, Tengzhou had jurisdiction over Teng, Pei, Zou and other counties. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Tengzhou was demoted to Teng County, which successively belonged to Jining Province and Yanzhou Prefecture, and the Qing Dynasty attacked the Ming system. During the Republic of China, Teng County once belonged to Dainan Province and Jining Province, and later directly belonged to the province.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Tengzhou was an old revolutionary area and an old liberated area, and in order to better carry out armed struggle, several county-level democratic regimes were set up between the present city and the county, but due to changes in the situation, there were frequent changes in subordination, name, and region, and there were lincheng, shan, Baiyan, Lushui and other counties that were founded in new China, and these counties were abolished successively after the founding of the people's republic.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, TengXian belonged to the Nishan Special District of Luzhongnan Administrative District of Shandong Province (Tengxian was once the seat of the Nishan Special District Office), and in 1950, tengxian Special District was established in Tengxian County, with jurisdiction over zaozhuang and Xuzhou, Jining, Linyi Pingyi and other places, and in 1953, Tengxian Special District moved to Jining and renamed Jining Special District. In 1960, Yixian Was changed to zaozhuang city at the county level, in 1979 Tengxian was transferred from Jining Special District to Zaozhuang City, which was already a provincial-level city, and in 1988 Tengxian county was changed to a county-level Tengzhou city, which is still managed by Zaozhuang City. During this period, the communes of Lincheng (present-day Xuecheng), Shanting, Chengtou, Xuzhuang, Dianzi, Fengjiao, Xinzhuang, Sangcun, and Xinzhao, which originally belonged to Tengxian (present-day Tengzhou), were transferred to Zaozhuang in 1960 and 1983.