About the history of Yixing, Jiangsu

Yixing is a famous city with a history of over 265,438+000 years of urban construction and over 7,000 years of pottery making. Known as the "hometown of environmental protection", "famous pottery beans" and "hometown of professors" in China. Yixing is located on the west bank of Taihu Lake, at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, and in the geometric center of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou triangle. It is a three-level I-class emerging central city in Jiangsu Province. The city has a total area of 2,038.7 square kilometers and a population of1057,300. It governs 2 1 town and 1 national environmental protection science and technology industrial park. In recent years, Yixing's economy and society have developed rapidly. In 2005, the city achieved a GDP of 36.3 billion yuan, a per capita GDP of 34,300 yuan and a total fiscal revenue of 4.3 billion yuan. Comprehensive strength and basic competitiveness rank 22nd and 9th among the top 100 counties (cities) in China. In the past three years, Yixing city has focused on the structural adjustment of building materials and chemical industry and the prevention and control of water pollution in Taihu Lake basin, forming a distinctive working feature of Yixing's founding model. Yixing has a history of more than 5000 years. It was called Jingyi in ancient times and belonged to Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period. Zhou Yuanwang belonged to Viet Nam for four years (472 BC). Zhou Xian belonged to the State of Chu in 536 (333 BC). In the twenty-fifth year of Qin Shihuang (the first 222 years), Jingyi Division was Huiji County, and the following year, Jingyi was changed to Yangxian County. In the 4th year of Emperor Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty (365,438+00), Yixing County. In the ninth year of Emperor Wendi (589), Yixing County was abolished and renamed Yixing County, belonging to Changzhou. In the first year of Taiping Xingguo (976), Song Taizong was changed to Yixing County. Yongzheng four years (1726), divided into Yixing and Jingxi counties. Jingxi was abolished in the first year of the Republic of China and merged into Yixing County. June 1949 belongs to Changzhou area. 1953 65438+ October belongs to Suzhou area. 1956 February belongs to Zhenjiang area. Since March 1983, it belongs to Wuxi city. 1988 1 month, Yixing county was revoked and Yixing city was established. In 2003, Yixing had 2 1 town, 1 environmental protection science and technology industrial park, 95 neighborhood committees and 430 administrative villages. The total area is 2038.7 square kilometers, the cultivated land area is 6.4 1 000 hectares, the forest area is 40,000 hectares, and the total population is 1.062363. Culture and education, cooking wine, talking about heroes, talented people win the world. The hero's admiration for the mountains and rivers not only endows Yixing people with the spirit of loyalty and love, but also endows people here with an aura of wisdom. "Father, son, brother and sister are all professors", "one doctor has seven degrees", and it has become a common practice to study family heirlooms and respect teachers. Since ancient times, Yixing has produced four top scholars, 10 prime minister, 385 scholars, 2/kloc-0 academicians of the two academies, more than 60 university presidents, and more than 8,000 professors and associate professors. The "hometown of professors" is famous all over the world. Among the 10 people seated on the rostrum of the first science and technology conference in new China, there are four Yixing people. China's Minister of Higher Education, President of Tsinghua University, and Yu, the second Minister of Education of Taiwan Province Province and President of Taiwan Province University, were born on the same street in the town ... These magical coincidences amazed the world at this land. The aura of wisdom of Yixing people stems from being the first in the world and being brave in innovation. In painting, science, society and many other fields, Yixing people are shining the banner of innovation, becoming leaders and pioneers, and making great contributions to the progress and development of China. Yixing and Taodu are endowed with unique tourism resources, rich products and charming scenery. It is a unique tourist attraction with pottery culture, tea culture, bamboo culture and cave culture. Yixing is located in Taihu Lake Basin in the Yangtze River Delta, belonging to Wuxi City, 64 kilometers west of Taihu Lake, bordering Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, and is the southernmost county-level city in Jiangsu Province. Fertile land, mild climate, abundant rainfall, four distinct seasons, rich in rice, bamboo, tea, crabs and Taihu Lake fish and shrimp, is a famous land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River; Known as Jingxi in ancient times, it has a long history, numerous cultural relics and historic sites, numerous landscapes and beautiful scenery. Yixing purple sand craft began in the Northern Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and flourished today. It integrates painting, calligraphy, poetry, seal cutting and sculpture, and becomes a unique work of art. In 2006, the State Council published the first batch of intangible cultural heritage list, and Yixing Zisha ranked first among traditional handicraft techniques. Throughout the ages, craftsmen and folk artists have been handed down from generation to generation, witnessing the source of the development of Chinese civilization and its eternal charm. China is the hometown of tea. The world gave Yixing a teapot and did not forget to put a piece of tea in it. Yixing, the largest tea producing area in Jiangsu Province, is located in the subtropical climate, with four distinct seasons, mild and humid, and the Yangxian tea, which is called "the best fragrance in the world and can serve the imperial court" by Lu Yu of Cha Sheng, grows. The son of heaven has never tasted Yangxian tea, and Baicao dare not open it first. Yixing Yangxian purple bamboo shoot tea is as famous as Hangzhou Longjing tea and Suzhou Biluochun. During the Three Kingdoms period, "Guoshan Shuncha" dominated the south of the Yangtze River, and the Tang Dynasty was famous for "Yanggong Tea". In Yixing mountain area, the tea garden slopes along the mountain as far as the eye can see, which is called "the oasis of tea". In the world of teapot, the elegant tea fragrance moistens the thick context of the Chinese nation. Taihua Mountain Area is the largest bamboo base in Jiangsu. The bamboo forest area of the city is 6.5438+0.8 million mu. Bamboo is connected with hills and slopes, high and dense, with layers of green. When the mountain wind passes by, bamboo shadows sway and green waves fluctuate, which is called "Bamboo Sea". Yixing is known as the "cave world", and there are more than 80 caves in different shapes in the city. In particular, Shanjuan Cave, which is known as "the first monument in the south of the Yangtze River" and "the wonder in the sea", as well as Zhanggong Cave and colorful Guling Cave are world-famous. Today's Yixing in 2002, the discovery of the Camel Pier site in Yixing, which was listed as the first of the six major archaeological discoveries in China, proved that Yixing had become the central tribe in the west of Taihu Lake as early as 7000 years ago. Yixing County was established in Jin Dynasty. As the largest city on the west line of Taihu Lake, it lasted for thousands of years. Today, Yixing, as a key emerging central city in Jiangsu Province, ranked ninth in the competitiveness ranking of China's top 100 counties and cities in 2005 and seventh in the comprehensive competitiveness ranking of 37 counties and cities in the Yangtze River Delta. In the surging tide of the Yangtze River Delta, township enterprises have sprung up everywhere. Rapid development of private economy; The only national environmental protection industrial science and technology park in China, Yixing Economic Development Zone, Ceramic Industrial Park, Guanlin and Gaocheng are set up. Eight advantageous industrial clusters such as wire and cable, environmental protection equipment and fine chemicals have been formed; It depicts the splendid starry sky of Yixing's industrial development and lays a solid foundation for its rapid development. In 2006, Yixing was recognized as a national environmental protection model city by the State Environmental Protection Administration. With the rapid transfer of international capital industry to the Yangtze River Delta, the national planning for the construction of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration and the formation of the strategic concept of the rise of Hangzhou-Nanjing urban belt, Yixing will show unlimited development prospects at a higher level and in a wider field. The grand blueprint for building a prosperous, dynamic, ecological and cultural harmonious Yixing, basically realizing modernization, and building the first city on the west line of Taihu Lake will be fully rolled out. A richer, more harmonious and more beautiful new Yixing is emerging. Yixing, eagerly calling for people of insight in the world, * * * to create the glory and dreams of life!