1. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, ministers discussed Jiankang as the capital of the Central Plains. Unfortunately, Song Gaozong had no intention of the Northern Expedition, but decided Jinling as the capital because of public opinion. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom takes Nanjing as its capital, and it also takes the expulsion of alien rule as one of its mobilization bases and legitimacy. Therefore, Nanjing is regarded as the revival place of the Han nationality and has a special position and value in the history of China.
Therefore, after comparing the four ancient capitals of Chang 'an, Luoyang, Jinling and Yanjing, Mr. Zhu Dai said: "These four metropolitan cities are rich in literature, handsome in people, beautiful in mountains and rivers and magnificent in weather, which is closely related to the national crisis, especially Jinling."
2. About 7000-8000 years ago, primitive Neolithic villages represented by Beiyinying culture appeared, and agricultural civilization appeared in Qixia area.
More than 200 Neolithic sites dating back more than 6,000 years have been discovered in Yinyangying, north of Gulou Gang, and Qimiao, Taowu Township, Jiangning District, and a large number of stone-bone pottery and daily utensils have been unearthed.
3000 years ago, there were dense primitive settlements in Qinhuai River basin, which were called lake ripe culture. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the earliest cities in Nanjing were formed on the basis of these settlements.
3.3 100 years ago, Nanjing was the fief of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In 57 1 BC, the State of Chu had set up a Tangyi in Liuhe today, which was the earliest place with historical records in Nanjing and the beginning of Nanjing's city construction. By 20 18, it has been 2589 years. [30] At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, built a smelting city in today's palace and started a handicraft workshop for smelting and casting bronzes.
In 473 BC, after Wu was destroyed by the state of Yue, Yuecheng was built on the long street outside the present Zhonghua Gate. In 333 BC, Chu Weiwang Xiong Shang built Jinling City in Stone Town, hence the name of Jinling.
4. Jiankang City in the Six Dynasties occupies an important position in the history of the development of the ancient capital of China, and it is the first example of the axisymmetric layout of the capital. Its plane layout and architectural form have a far-reaching impact on later generations, deeply affecting East Asian countries.
Taicheng, the Forbidden City in the Six Dynasties, was imitated by the capitals of the Northern Wei Dynasty and East Asian countries, and inherited from Qin and Han Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, which profoundly influenced the shape of capital construction in later generations.
5. Jinling in Song and Yuan Dynasties was an important economic center in the southeast. Wang Anshi, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, served as the magistrate of Jiangning for three times and settled here for the rest of his life.
1 129, Zhao Gou, Song Gaozong changed jiangning house into Jiankang House, which was the capital of Jiangnan East Road. 1 138 decided to make Jiankang the capital. Yue Fei, a famous soldier in the Southern Song Dynasty, once defeated Jin Bing in Niushou Mountain in Nanjing, and there are remnants of his old base area against Jin.
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Nanjing, referred to as "Ning", was called Jinling and Jiankang in ancient times. It is the capital of Jiangsu, a sub-provincial city and the core city of Nanjing metropolitan area. It is an important central city in eastern China, an important scientific research and education base in China, and a comprehensive transportation hub approved by the State Council.
There are 1 1 districts in the city, with a total area of 6587km? The built-up area of 20 17 is 1398.69km? With a permanent population of 8.335 million and an urban population of 6.8589 million, the urbanization rate is 82.3%, making it the only mega-city in the Yangtze River Delta and East China.
Nanjing is located in the east of China, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and near the river. It is the headquarters of China Eastern Theater Command, the shipping and logistics center of yangtze river international, an important national gateway city driven by the Yangtze River Delta radiation, and an important node city where the eastern coastal economic belt and the Yangtze River economic belt meet strategically. ?
Nanjing is one of the four ancient capitals in China, one of the first national historical and cultural cities and an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. Blessing China several times in history. It is the only one of the four ancient capitals that has never been the capital of an alien regime, and has long been the political, economic and cultural center of southern China? .
There were ancient human activities in Nanjing as early as100-1.20 thousand years ago, and there was Nanjing ape-man life in Tangshan 350 thousand-600 thousand years ago. With a history of more than 7,000 years of civilization, nearly 2,600 years of city construction and nearly 500 years of capital construction, it is known as "the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties" and "the metropolis of the Ten Dynasties".
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanjing