What district is the center of Guangzhou?

In the traditional sense, the city center is the original Yuexiu District.

Because the central axis of the old city passes through there, and it runs through Yuexiu Mountain, Memorial Hall and City Hall. Liwan District, Haizhu District and Dongshan District are also prosperous urban areas with commercial atmosphere. . Guangzhou became the main port of the Maritime Silk Road from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and became the largest port in China and a world-famous oriental port city in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Ming and Qing Dynasties were the only foreign trade port in China and the only port in the world that lasted for more than 2,000 years.

Extended data:

Legend has it that the earliest place name in Guangzhou is "Chuting" (or "Chuting"). At present, under the Sun Yat-sen Monument in Yuexiu Mountain, there is a stone archway built in the Qing Dynasty with the words "Chu Pavilion in ancient times" engraved on it. Many historical records regard "Chuting" as the prototype of Guangzhou, which is the earliest title of Guangzhou, dating back to 2847.

In the Qin Dynasty, Guangzhou was always the administrative center of counties, states and governments. At the end of Qin Dynasty, the beginning of Han Dynasty and the end of Tang Dynasty, there were two independent countries in Guangzhou. At the end of Qin Dynasty, South Vietnam was the country, Zhao Tuo (commander in chief of the South China Sea in Qin Dynasty) was the king of South Vietnam, and Guangzhou became the capital of South Vietnam (from 206 BC to BC11).

500,000 residents from the Central Plains migrated to Lingnan, and after three high tides of Central Plains migration in Jin Dynasty, Song Dynasty and late Ming Dynasty, three major ethnic groups, namely Guangfu, Hakka and Fulao, gradually formed a unique Lingnan culture. At the end of Qin Dynasty and the beginning of Han Dynasty, Zhao Tuo became the emperor of South Vietnam, and his jurisdiction extended to Leizhou Peninsula, Guangxi, Guilin and northern Vietnam.

References:

Guangzhou-Baidu Encyclopedia