What is the history of Yancheng?

Yancheng, located at 32.85 ~ 34.2 north latitude, east longitude119.57 ~120.45, borders the Yellow Sea in the east, Nantong in the south, Yangzhou and Taizhou in the southwest, Huai 'an in the west and Lianyungang across the Guanhe River in the north.

It is the largest city in Jiangsu Province.

Municipal area 1779 square kilometers; There are 6.5438+0.5865 million people in municipal districts (839,000 in tinghu district and 747,500 in Yandu District).

The city is known as the "Land of Fish and Rice" with flat terrain, vertical and horizontal canals, developed transportation and rich products.

Most people in Yancheng are descendants of Jiangnan immigrants, so traditional culture and people's psychological state belong to the category of traditional Jiangnan culture.

Yan Fu has outstanding people and numerous celebrities, such as Lu Xiufu, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Shi Naian, the author of Water Margin.

Yancheng was a land in ancient times, and later Lu Chen became a coastal plain.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it can be confirmed that Yancheng became land at least 20,000 to 30,000 years ago.

The discovery of stone tools and bone implements in Yangzhai, Funing County shows that there were traces of primitive tribal groups who lived by fishing and hunting in Yancheng at the latest in the late Neolithic period 4000 years ago.

As early as the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the bird of the late Lord Lu ordered the Yi people to move south, and some of them stayed in Yancheng area on the way, which can be said to be the pioneers of early Yancheng.

Yancheng was the land of Huaiyi before the week; Zhou belongs to Qingzhou, Spring and Autumn belongs to Wu, and then to Yue.

During the Warring States period, it belonged to Chu.

Qin belongs to Donghai County; At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Sheyang Hou and Liu were divided into fiefs, and the county was established in the fourth year of Emperor Yuanshou of the Han Dynasty, which was the beginning of Yancheng County. During the Three Kingdoms period, it belonged to Wei, and counties abolished it. The western Jin dynasty restored the county system; In the seventh year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yixi was renamed Yancheng, which is the beginning of its current name; The Northern and Southern Dynasties called Yancheng County; At the beginning of Sui Dynasty, it was still a county, belonging to Jiangdu County. At the end of Sui Dynasty, Wei Che was king according to salt, which was divided into two counties: Xin 'an and Anle, and Yancheng County in the early Tang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty belonged to Chuzhou; The Yuan Dynasty belonged to Huai 'an Road; The Ming Dynasty belonged to Huai 'an Prefecture; It was a part of jiangnan province in the early Qing Dynasty, and was transferred to Jiangsu Province in the sixth year of Kangxi. At the beginning of the Republic of China, it was the tenth administrative supervision area of Jiangsu Province.

1946, Yancheng was renamed Ye Ting City, but its original name was still restored.

Setting of other counties: Funing county was established in the ninth year of Yongzheng in Qing dynasty; Dongtai county was built in Qianlong thirty-three years; In the middle of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, four counties were established: Taibei, Yandong, Fudong and Jianyang. Xiangshui County is newly built 1966.

1983, the new system of city governing counties was abolished, and seven counties including Xiangshui, Binhai, Funing, Sheyang, Jianhu, Dafeng and Dongtai were under its jurisdiction.

After 1987, Dongtai and Dafeng successively set up cities. 1996, the suburbs were abolished and Du Yan county was established.

In 2003, the city was changed to tinghu district; Du Yan County was abolished and Yandu District of Yancheng City was established.

The former administrative regions of Panhuang, Dazong Lake, Beilonggang, Wang Lou, Xuefu, Yifeng, Shangzhuang, Wu Ge, Beijiang, Qinnan, Longgang, Guo Meng, Dagang 13 Town in Du Yan County were the administrative regions of Yandu District, and the district people were stationed in Panx * * *.

Tinghu district has jurisdiction over the original Yancheng City and the original Buffon, Una and Biancang towns in Du Yan County, and the people in the area are located in Renmin Middle Road.

In the modern revolutionary history of China, Yancheng is one of the old revolutionary areas and has an important historical position.

1in the spring of 926, a party organization was established in Yancheng.

During the period of 1932, Comrade Hu Qiaomu joined the underground party in Yancheng and ran a newspaper to publicize the revolution.

1940 10, the New Fourth Army in the east and the Eighth Route Army in the south joined forces at Shizikou, Baiju, and established the Central China General Command.

After the Southern Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army rebuilt its headquarters in Yancheng, with Chen Yi as acting commander and * * * as political commissar.

Since then, Yancheng has become the heart of the anti-Japanese base areas in northern Jiangsu and central China.

The Party School of the Central China Bureau, the Anti-Japanese Dawu Branch and the Lu Yi Huazhong Branch have trained a large number of anti-Japanese cadres for the Party in Yancheng.

* * *, Chen Yi and other revolutionaries of the older generation left their battle footprints.

1947+00 Yancheng was liberated at the end of the year. 1948 In the first half of the year, the whole Yanfu District returned to the people's arms and became the rear area of the war of liberation, which contributed to the victory of the Huaihai Campaign and the Battle of Crossing the River and the liberation of China.