The origin of Xiamen place names

According to legend, in ancient times, flocks of egrets often lived on Xiamen Island. Therefore,

Xiamen is also called Ludao, Luzhou, Luyu, Lucheng, Lu Jian and Yumen, and Xiamen Drum Strait is also called.

For Lujiang.

People living in Xiamen Island can be traced back to the Neolithic Age three or four thousand years ago.

Younger generation. The recorded history began in the mid-Tang Dynasty and has been 1 1 year.

More than 40 years.

During the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, Han Xue and Chen studied in Fuan in eastern Fujian and Zhangzhou in southern Fujian.

African immigrants entered the island and lived together in the north and south under the Hongji Mountain, and a "new city" appeared.

"This place name, renamed Jiahe Li, belongs to Datong Field in Nan 'an County, Qingyuan County. five

In the first year of Qianlong in Fujian (939), Datong Field was upgraded to Tongan County and Jiahe Li was the same.

Anxian county is under its jurisdiction. In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty (1394), the imperial court built a city on the island.

Zhai, where Wei lives, is named "Xiamen", and Wei calls it "towel left place". The place names of Xiamen,

From then on. In the following hundreds of years, Xiamen was renamed as "Siming House" and "Siming County" successively.

"and so on. Xiamen was officially named in 1935.