The legend of Maoming

Maoming city's name comes from people's names, from people's names to county names, and from county names to city names. Later generations named the mountain where Pan Maoming lived Panshan, the place where he made an alchemy Pan Xianpo and the area around Pan Xianpo Maoming in order to commemorate's historical achievement of using Zhou Shi to cure diseases for the people and save the flood-stricken residents. Legend has it that Feng You, the general of Zhennan, later built a city between two mountains, named after Taoist Pan, and built Maoming County in Panzhou. According to some historical records, Maoming County was established in the Sui Dynasty. In fact, Maoming County was set up in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was later abandoned and Nanliang was restored, "because of it in Sui and Tang Dynasties". In the fifth year of Song Kaibao (972), Panzhou was abolished and Maoming was changed to Gaozhou. Maoming county in Ming and Qing dynasties was still under the jurisdiction of Gaozhou government. During the Republic of China, the abandoned Gaozhou Prefecture and Maoming County were successively placed under the supervision of Gao Lei appeasement office and the jurisdiction of the seventh district of Lu Nan Administrative Office. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Maoming County successively belonged to Lu Nan, Gao Lei, western Guangdong and Zhanjiang. When Maoming was first built, it was temporarily called Maoming industrial and mining area because the city name was undecided. At that time, some directly affiliated units of the Municipal Preparatory Office were called Maoming Industrial and Mining Area Urban Construction Bureau and Maoming Industrial and Mining Area Finance Bureau. What's the name of this city? The provincial party committee shall submit opinions to the Municipal Preparatory Office. Someone suggested calling it "Maoming City". "Maoming" is the county name of Maoming County. I don't think it is appropriate to take the county name away. In addition, "Maoming" commemorates the legendary immortal Pan Maoming, which is feudal. It has also been suggested that it be named "Guan Gong City", which smells like a manor. Others suggested calling it "Jintang City", but thought it failed to summarize the characteristics of several mining areas. Finally, some leaders proposed to string the names of Jintang, Shigu and Shaoshan into a city name, taking Jintang's "gold", "sheep" and homonym "yang", which meant to build this beautiful city under the golden sun (later, there was a road called Jinyang). The reasons for these four cities were stated separately in Maoming Industrial and Mining Area, and they were recommended to the provincial party committee in the form of official documents, which made a decision. Considering that Maoming industrial and mining area is world-famous, using other names is easy to cause illusion. For the sake of consistency, the provincial party committee decided to call it "Maoming City", and changed Maoming County to Gaozhou County, and submitted it to the State Council for approval. On August 26th, 1958, Maoming industrial and mining area was officially named Maoming City.