Every city in China has its own cultural heritage, such as: Luoyang has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of urban history, more than 1,500 years of capital history, in history there have been more than 10 dynasties in Luoyang to build the capital.
The Northern Song Dynasty writer Ouyang Xiu also wrote a poem: "Luoyang is the most suitable for the vein flowers, and peonies are especially strange in the world." ”
In addition to Luoyang, there have been more than 10 dynasties in history to build the capital of Xi'an, the starting point of the Silk Road is Xi'an, Xi'an's ancient name is "Chang'an", the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once wrote a poem: "Chang'an is a month, ten thousand households pounding clothes, the autumn wind blows endlessly, always jade care." He Riping Hu Yu, the good people strike the expedition. ”
Many people think that "Xi'an" is not as good as the name "Chang'an", and the name "Chang'an" means "long rule and long peace", which has been used from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and set the capital nanjing, so it was renamed "Xi'an", using Xi'an as a military town, which means "stabilizing the northwest".
From this, it can be seen that the name of our city has its own origin, and our country also has the only city named by foreigners, which has never been renamed and has been used to this day, is it your hometown?
The city is Dalian, the name of Dalian began in modern times, as we all know, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, China experienced a humiliating history, when the Dalian area became a Russian leased land, Tsar Nicholas and named this place "Darini".
Later, after Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan invaded and occupied Dalian, and in February 1905, it referred to "Darini" as "Dalian".
However, understanding the history of Dalian, as early as 1880, Li Hongzhang mentioned the name of "Dalian Bay" on the recital and proposed to the Qing court to establish a military port in Dalian Bay, which shows that the name of Dalian area is still based on the old Chinese place names, but the Qing government at that time was useless and ultimately did not play any role.
However, after the end of the war, Dalian developed rapidly, rising from a prefecture-level city to a sub-provincial city in 1994, and by the end of 2018, Dalian's registered population reached 5.952 million people, and by 2019, Dalian's GDP reached 700.17 billion yuan.
Nowadays, Dalian is no longer what it used to be, it is a metropolis with all-round development, and Dalian industry started earlier, it was also an important industrial base in China, and the Lushun Dockyard built in the 1980s and 1990s was the beginning of Dalian's modern industry.
When it comes to the city named by foreigners in China, it is also necessary to talk about the only foreign city in the world named after the Chinese, that is, the capital and largest city of Central Java Province on the Indonesian island of Java - Semarang, the name of "Semarang" is related to the major historical event of China's "Zheng He going to the West".
Zheng He, originally surnamed Ma, later Ming Chengzu Zhu Di gave him the surname of Zheng, known as "Sanbao Eunuch (also known as Sanbao Eunuch)", when Zheng He landed there when he went to the West, "Three Treasure Ridges" came from this, and every year on June 30 of the lunar calendar, Zheng He arrived on the "holy day", on this day, overseas Chinese will come here to participate in the temple fair.
There are also two famous buildings about Zheng He in Semarang, one is the Samho Cave, where Zheng He landed, and the other is Dajue Temple. In fact, there was originally only Three Treasure Cave, but because the land belonged to the Jews at that time, the Chinese went to pay tribute to Zheng He, so the local Chinese built the Dajue Temple.
Postscript: Every city has its own history, so how much do you know about your hometown?