What is the origin of Rudong and why is it called Rudong?

Rudong County is a county in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, China, and one of the three northern counties in Nantong.

Rudong means "Rugao Dongxiang" (that is, the meaning of the eastern part of Rugao).

Rudong was a part of Rugao County before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

in 1949, the Chinese people and Rudong county people were founded.

Like other central and eastern areas of Nantong, Rudong area today is mostly a sandbar of the Yangtze River estuary in ancient times or has not yet landed.

in the Han dynasty, there is a sandbar called "Fuhaizhou" in the central part of East China today.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this sandbar was connected with the sand mouth in the east of ancient Yangzhou.

This time, Yangtai Shazui (formerly known as Liaojiaozui) was extended eastward for more than 5 kilometers, reaching the east of Changsha Town today.

in the western Han dynasty, the king of Wu, Liu Bi, led three counties and fifty cities (Rudong was in its territory), and "boiling sea water in the east is salt", which opened a precedent for frying salt in Huai area, and the first batch of "salt diced" appeared in Rudong.

during the three kingdoms period, wars were frequent, and northerners fled the chaos and migrated south, many of whom came to Rudong.

Since then, the foreign population has brought advanced farming techniques from the mainland, coupled with the benefits of local fish and salt. For example, the local economy in Rudong has been rising, and later it has become a coastal defense port.

The poems "Hundreds of soldiers came to Haikou" and "The sound of stone guns thundering" written by Sun Jue, a Song Dynasty poet, described the scene at that time.

With the construction of coastal projects such as Fan Gong Dike in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the land area in Rudong has basically stabilized.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, built a "Japanese camp" in the harbor excavation to prevent and resist Japanese invasion, and set up Dongying and Xiying camps, which were heavily guarded.

Digging the harbor became the gateway of Yangzhou and the fortress of coastal defense.

The increase of foreign population and non-commissioned officers has made transportation convenient, business prosperous and the market prosperous.

before long, Huizhou merchants dealing in pen, ink, paper, tea, tobacco and pot seats, Shanxi merchants dealing in brewing industry and Zhejiang merchants dealing in bamboo and wood and paint came in droves, and gradually dominated the market, forming a genre.

The catering industry, which is mainly based on seafood and has Huaiyang flavor, is more developed. There is a saying that "there are ten hotels and three restaurants, and two tides are fresh every day".

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, Digging Harbor was also known as "Little Yangzhou" because of its rich merchants and flourishing businesses.

at the beginning of the 2th century, Zhang Jian, the last top scholar born in Nantong, prospered the country by industry, and organized gentry from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to invest in reclamation and reclamation along the long Jiangsu coast north of the Yangtze River estuary, including Rudong coastal area.

Reclamation not only added new land to Rudong, but also brought immigrants from Haimen and Qidong.

reclamation has not been interrupted, and there are still some reclamation activities along Rudong's coast.