Chinese civilization has a history of thousands of years, in the vast Central Plains, countless cities have risen from the ground, becoming a long-standing cultural city, the names of some cities have changed after a long period of time, such as Anhui Province Hefei, used to be called Luzhou, and Shijiazhuang City in Hebei Province, called Changshan in ancient times.
However, there are also some cities whose names have not changed over the millennia, such as Changsha and Handan. However, the names of Chinese cities are the same as the names of people, and there is also a particularity, a word in the dynasties and dynasties only one city can use, other cities must be changed, this word is the word "Jing".
This is because the imperial power is very sacred, only the place where the Son of Heaven stays, can be called the capital city, our country has the famous (east, west, south and north) four capitals, Beijing and Nanjing needless to say, Xijing most of the time refers to Chang'an, it is the capital of the thirteen dynasties in history, in the second year of the Cao Wei Huang Dynasty (221), Chang'an was listed as one of the five capitals, Sui and Tang Dynasties, people often use Xijing to refer to Chang'an.
The other famous city, Tokyo, does not refer to the Japanese city here, it is the capital of the Song Dynasty, and now Kaifeng City in Henan
Interestingly, under the same dynasty, there can only be a capital with the word "Jing", let's first look at the Song Dynasty, when people call Kaifeng Tokyo, the name of Beijing is called Daimingfu, and Nanjing is called Guidefu, but then Beijing changed its name, when the Khitans occupied Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, They established the Liao Dynasty here as a stronghold in the south, and Beijing was also called "Nanjing" by the Liao State, which shows that the definition of the southeast, southwest, and northwest is still due to geographical considerations.
In the Ming Dynasty, the original capital of Zhu Yuanzhang is now Nanjing, which has become the origin of the name of the city, Beijing is called Beiping, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Emperor Jianwen's uncle Zhu Di, the Yan king who guarded Beiping, seized power, and he decided to move the entire center of the Ming Dynasty to the north, thus strengthening the control of the north to achieve the effect of resisting the nomads, so he named Beiping as Beijing.
In the Qing Dynasty, after the Qing army entered the customs, the Shunzhi Emperor also positioned Beijing as the Beijing Division on the basis of the Ming Dynasty, while Nanjing had a variety of titles, originally known as Jiangning Province, the grandfather of Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber", who served as the weaver of Jiangning Province, and later used the title of the King of Chu in the Warring States Period of BC: "Jinling". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was changed back to the original name of Nanjing.
During the Republic of China period, Nanjing became the capital, correspondingly, Beijing was changed back to Beiping City, until the founding of New China, the names of Beijing and Nanjing were determined.
In ancient times, the name of the city was changed without authorization to have the word "Jing" often rebels, in 1644, the leader of the Ming Dynasty's rebel army Zhang Xianzhong in Chengdu called the emperor, the name of the country is Daxi, Chengdu was named "Xijing", and when Hong Xiuquan established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Xiuquan renamed the capital Nanjing to Tianjin.
Therefore, the name of the city has changed with the development of successive dynasties, in fact, it has a relatively large historical basis, which has formed the splendid and colorful city name today.