Excuse me, what is the historical origin of the place name Ruian (belonging to Wenzhou)?

Ruian City is located in the southeast of Zhejiang, adjacent to the East China Sea. It is an important transportation artery between Zhejiang and Fujian, covering an area of ??1,360 square kilometers. The old city is located along the northeast coast of the Feiyun River estuary. Area is 3.6 square kilometers. Since the establishment of the county in the Three Kingdoms, it has been the political and cultural center of Ruian City and an ancient important town in southern Zhejiang. It is known as the "Little Zoulu in the Southeast". The current urban area of ??Ruian is 7.5 square kilometers. It includes two new districts, forming a new pattern of one city and two districts, with a population of 150,000. It has become an ancient and emerging city.

Ruian has a long history. During the Neolithic period, people in the Feiyun River Basin wore tattoos and lived a life of fishing, hunting and primitive agriculture. During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Ruian belonged to the domain of Yangzhou in "Yu Gong". Qin belongs to Minzhong County. In the early Han Dynasty, Zouyao, a descendant of Goujian, was granted the title of King of the East China Sea because he assisted the Han Dynasty in defeating the defeated Qin Dynasty. Ruian belonged to the Kingdom of Dongou. The Three Kingdoms stand in harmony, and Ruian belongs to Sun Wu. In the second year of Sun Wu Chiwu's reign, Luoyang County was established, which was the beginning of the establishment of Ruian County. At that time, the administrative jurisdiction included present-day Pingyang, Cangnan, Taishun and the southeastern part of Wencheng. According to legend, the county seat was located in Lu'ao, North Lake. It was renamed Anyang in the third year of Baoding (AD 268), and was renamed Angu in the first year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 280). Taikang was divided into counties in the fourth year, with Hengyu Chuantun in the south and west of the territory, and Shiyang County (now Pingyang) was established. In the first year of Taining in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 323), the county seat was moved to its current location. The Southern Dynasties basically remained unchanged. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Ruian was successively under the jurisdiction of Chuzhou, Kuozhou, Dongjiazhou, and Wenzhou. In the third year of Emperor Zhaozong's reign in the Tang Dynasty (AD 903), it is said that there was auspiciousness in Jiyun Mountain in the northern suburbs of Baiwuqi County, so the name of the county was changed from Angu to Ruian, which is still the name today. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it was the territory of Wuyue. Ruian in the Song Dynasty belonged to Wenzhou Yongjia Army. In the Yuan Dynasty, Ruian was promoted to a state because of its large number of households. In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369 AD), it was reduced to a county. Entering the Qing Dynasty, he belonged to Wenzhou Chudao. Ruian was liberated in May 1949. In October 1958, Wencheng County was removed and merged into Ruian. In August 1961, it was divided into counties. In 1978, the People's Government of Ruian County was restored and it belonged to Wenzhou. In April 1987, the county was removed and a city was established. Ruian City.

The ancient city of Ruian has been known as a water town since ancient times. The water network in the city is densely covered, divided into two vertical and two horizontal sections. The rivers are connected vertically and horizontally and vary in width. The wide ones can carry boats, while the narrow ones can only carry water and are suitable for storage and discharge. According to the county annals, "The boats are borrowed to bring people back and forth, and the residents are able to drink from them, and the people rely on them." The people live along the river. The residents in the city are managed in four corners and one wing, and the roads are divided into streets and lanes. The streets basically run east-west and the lanes run north-south, forming a regular and neat block layout, following the square system. The front river and the back street are connected by bridges. There were originally thirty-four bridges in the ancient city. Small bridges, flowing water, and people form the water town style of Ruian's ancient city. There are many traditional neighborhoods in the ancient city. The ancient city is surrounded by land on three sides and a river on one side. The terrain is flat.

Ruian has beautiful mountains and rivers and many scenic spots. The Xianyan Scenic Area located in the suburbs has been famous as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Ruian folk culture has many categories and different styles. There are dozens of types, such as drum lyrics, lotus flowers, Taoist sentiments, dragon boat singing, flower drum playing, street lining, rattan dance, etc.

Historically, Ruian is a city with revolutionary significance. Since the Xuanhe period of Song Dynasty, the people of Ruian have participated in the Fangla Uprising. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the people of Ruian fought bravely against the Japanese pirates under the leadership of Qi Jiguang and his generals. In 1861, Zhao Qi led the Qianhui uprising in southern Zhejiang and joined the Taiping Revolutionary Army. During the Boxer Revolution in 1900, the people of Ruian organized the Shenquan Club and launched a vigorous anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary struggle. From the Opium War to the May Fourth Movement, the people of Ruian actively participated. After the "May 4th" movement, the Ruian Party Group of the Communist Party of China was established in November 1926, opening a red page for Ruian. In 1928, the Tuoshan Red Guards led by Chen Zhuoru raised the first banner of peasant armed struggle in southern Zhejiang. The Thirteenth Red Army, led by its commander Hu Gongmian, crossed southward to Ruian, spanning hundreds of miles, and pushed the Ruian revolution to a climax. Liu Ying, secretary of the Provisional Provincial Committee of the Fujian-Zhejiang Border, led his troops to Rui, making Rui'an the cradle of the revolutionary struggle in southern Zhejiang.

Thousands of years of civilization have left numerous cultural relics and historic sites in Ruian. They are scattered across every piece of land in Ryan. Stone tools, pottery and other cultural relics unearthed from the Shanqianshan site prove that as early as the Neolithic Period, our ancestors were living in the Feiyun River Basin and living a life of fishing, hunting and primitive agriculture.

The discovery of stone shed tombs in Huangyu and other places reflects the social and economic development of Ruian during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This form of protected tombs is rarely found in China and is really precious... According to the cultural relics census, the number of Neolithic Age sites in the city Ten sites and 320 cultural relic sites of various types have been announced as 51 municipal key cultural preservation units, 9 Zhejiang provincial key cultural preservation units, and 1 national key cultural preservation unit. Among them, there are 12 in the urban area, including Yuhai Tower, Liji Medical Hall, Guanyin Temple Stone Tower, Longshan Tower, Dong'andong Bridge, East Tower, Longshan Palace, Huasang Tower, Zhang'an Temple of the Four Sages, etc.

Ruian is a place where celebrities gather and a country of culture. There is a folk legend from ancient times that "Ruian produces talented people". According to statistics, since the Sui Dynasty, there have been 307 Jinshi in the past dynasties, including three number one scholars. Celebrities in the past include Cai Jingze of the Han Dynasty. Especially since the Song Dynasty, scholars have emerged in large numbers and talents have emerged in large numbers. Xu Jingheng and Zhou Xingji, known as "Mr. Yongjiajiu of Yuanfeng Taixue", spread Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and started academic research. Then Chen Fuliang further developed the Yongjia School of thought, which has a high status and great influence in the history of Chinese academic thought. There are also Lin Shi, a famous scholar who became famous in the capital during the Xining and Yuanfeng years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Cao Bin, a famous poet who was one of the "Four Admonitions of Jiaxi". At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Zecheng, a great dramatist from Ruian, wrote "Pipa Ji" and laid the foundation of Southern Opera, thus winning the reputation of "the originator of Southern Opera". In the Ming Dynasty, there were famous calligraphers Jiang Ligang, Zhuo Jing, who was hailed as one of the Four Sages by Ruian people, calligrapher and painter Ren Daoxun, and Lin Zengzhi, the scholar of Wenyuange University and the Minister of Etiquette. In the Qing Dynasty, Sun Yirang and Sun Yiyan, their father and son, were famous for their academic scholarship. There are also a large number of literati and scholars such as Sun Xidan and Huang Tifang. In modern times, revolutionaries include heroes such as Cai Hua, Cai Xiong, and Lin Qubing; educators include Jin Rongxuan; industrialist Li Yumeng pioneered machine manufacturing in Wenzhou; and Wu Baiheng created Qindiao brand condensed milk. Famous modern scholars include the famous historian Zhou Yutong, aquatic biologist Wu Xianwen, calligrapher Zou Mengchan, etc. They have all made outstanding contributions to the history and culture of the motherland and left precious cultural heritage in Ruian.

Since the Southern Dynasties, many literati and poets have come to Switzerland. Xie Lingyun, the romantic prefect, visited Xianyan several times and wrote the famous sentence "Who knew that beyond the vast thousands of peaks, there was still a little bit of green in Xianshan". Tao Hongjing, who was known as the "Prime Minister of the Mountains" during the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, once lived in seclusion in Taoshan, Ruian. There are couplets as evidence: "The hegemony of the Six Dynasties has passed away, and the famous mountains through the ages still have the surname Tao." The plaque still hangs on the mountain gate of Shengshou Temple. The famous patriotic poet Lu You passed through Ruian and wrote the famous poem "Crossing the Ruian River". There are also literati and scholars such as Fang Qian, Wang Shipeng, Chen Changshi, Yu Yue, Yu Shaosong, etc. who have left immortal masterpieces. In modern times, Zhu Ziqing was intoxicated by the green of Meiyutan, and wrote the famous poem "Green" eloquently, which also intoxicated the world. Guo Moruo made a special trip to Yuhai Tower because of his reputation, so he had an incisive explanation of the Sun family, and many of his calligraphy treasures can be found in Yuhai Tower. These celebrities from past dynasties came to Rui, adding a lot of color to the ancient city of Rui'an.