Jiaxing is a famous historical and cultural city with more than 7,000 years of civilization history (Majiabang culture) and more than 2,000 years of history of city building. Jiaxing has a number of names in history, such as Maple Li, Yu Fist, Changshui, Jiahe, today we will take stock of the origin of these ancient place names.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiaxing was named "Maple Lee". This maple plum is actually a special fruit of Jiaxing, mainly in the Tongxiang area. Because it was very delicious, it was used as a tribute to pay tribute, and its reputation was so famous that later everyone directly called the place of origin Jiaxing as Maple Lee.
There is also an allusion to the plum plum. It is said that after Xi Shi entered the palace of Wu Wang Fuchai, he missed his hometown of Yueguo, and when he returned to Jiaxing one day, he saw plums all over the field, and his mood was very comfortable, and he ate several in a row, and he was drunk. Since then, this plum has been called drunken plum, and later it has become a plum plum.
It is worth mentioning that to this day, It is still ranked first among the "Top Ten Famous Plums" in China.
In the southern part of Jiaxing's science and technology city, there is a Lake of Maple Lee, silently echoing the sound of a thousand years.
By the time of the Qin Dynasty, the name of Jiaxing had become "Yu Fist". The origin of Yu Quan is related to Qin Shi Huang. It is recorded in ancient texts: "Qin Shi Huang hated the king, and ordered more than 100,000 prisoners to pollute his land, and changed his notoriety to prison scrolls, also known as Yu Fist." ”
The gist was that one year Qin Shi Huang was touring the east, and a warlock told him that this place in Jiaxing had the spirit of an emperor, and that in a few hundred years there would be a son of heaven. Qin Shi Huang was very resentful and felt that it would threaten his descendants, so he requisitioned hundreds of thousands of prisoners, dug ditches here, and renamed the place very ugly as "prisoner tired" in an attempt to block the emperor's qi.
Prison tiredness later gradually evolved into Yu Fist, and the Qin Dynasty also died after two lifetimes, and did not wait for hundreds of years later.
Off-topic, Jiaxing did produce an emperor later, the second emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Xiaozong Zhao Xi, which was already 1400 years later.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the area around Jiaxing was under the administration of Eastern Wu. In the third year of Huanglong (231 AD) when Sun Quan was in power, "it grew from the fist of wild rice", that is, rice grew without anyone sowing it, which was definitely a good omen. Sun Quan was overjoyed and changed his name from Fist to Hexing, and the next year even changed the era name to Jiahe.
Jiaxing is referred to as He, which comes from this.
After more than ten years, Sun Quan's son Sun He was made crown prince. Because "He" and "He" are homophonous, in order to avoid secrecy, Hexing County was changed to Jiaxing County. The word Jiaxing has officially entered the historical stage and is still used today.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the 1970s and 1980s, due to the rise of Chinese character simplification, the word "Jia" was simplified to the word "Jia", so "Jiaxing" also became "Jiaxing".
Many workers of the older generation like to write "Jiaxing", which comes from this.
Therefore, you should be able to understand that Jiaxing's famous enterprise "Garcibela" was actually called "Jiaxibela" at the beginning.