If you come to Shanghai to travel, you will definitely go to Lujiazui, overlook the Huangpu River, see many multinational banks and the high-rise buildings of the world's top 500 enterprises, and feel the bustling charm. Coming here, many people will ask, where did Lu Jiazui's name come from?
(Huangpu River)
This is the daily Kanji editor found a map of Shanghai, we look at the location of the Oriental Pearl, like not like a monster's mouth? In fact, Lujiazui is named according to the direction of the Huangpu River.
According to the Shanghai Local Chronicle, the Huangpu River turned a nearly ninety-degree bend at the location of Lujiazui, leaving a prominent alluvial beach that looked across the bank from the west of the Pujiang River, like a huge golden horned beast stretching out its head and opening its mouth to drink water here. And here it happens that there is another big literary hero surnamed Lu, the former residence and the ancestral mound are built here, the influence is very large, so people call this Lujiazui.
(Lu Shen)
So, who is Lu Shen? Lu Shen was a writer and calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, who was brilliant at an early age, able to discern the meaning of characters and recite ancient poems at the age of five or six, and studied the history of the scriptures with a little longer insight, and his literary thinking was sharp.
In 1501, Lu Shen went to Ying Tianfu Township to take the exam and won the first place. Later, he began to serve as an official in the imperial court, and the official went to the position of sichuan left envoy, which is today's governor of Sichuan Province. Although Lu Shen was an official, his literature was also very early, and his calligraphy was vigorous and lawless, such as iron paintings and silver hooks, and his writings were magnificent, which was unique among the Shanghainese in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Lu Shen became a well-known squire in Shanghai.
Therefore, this section of the Huangpu River has become Lujiazui.
(Lujiazui)
Nowadays, you, Lu Shen's former residence in Korakuen Has long been gone, but the titles of Lu Jiazhai and Lu Jiazui have been permanently passed down. [References: Shanghai Local Chronicle, Origin of Lujiazui Place Names] (Author: Daily Chinese Characters)