Why is Jingzhou called Shashi?

Jingzhou is called Shashi because it was renamed by Shi Jing.

1In July, 949, the Jingzhou Administrative District Supervision Office was established, located in Jingzhou Town, jiangling county, and governed 8 counties, namely Jingmen, Jingshan, Zhongxiang, Tianmen, Qianjiang, Gongan, Songzi (located in Xinjiangkou Town) and Jiangling. In the same month, Shashi Town of jiangling county was built into Shashi City, which is a provincial city. On February 22nd 1955, Shashi City was placed under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou District. In April, Jingjiang County was revoked and merged into Gongan County.

1979, Shashi was upgraded to a prefecture-level city and changed to a municipality directly under the central government. Jingmen City is located in Chengguan Town of Jingmen County and its vicinity, belonging to Jingzhou area. 1983 On August19, the State Council approved Jingmen City to be upgraded to a prefecture-level city and set aside Jingzhou area. 1On September 29th, 994, the State Council approved the cancellation of Jingzhou, Shashi and Jiangling counties and the establishment of Jingsha.

Jingsha City is divided into Shashi District, Jingzhou District and Jiangling District, with jurisdiction over Songzi County, Gongan County, Jianli County and jingshan county, and hosting Zhongxiang City, Shishou City and honghu city City. 1996165438+1On October 20th, the State Council approved the renaming of Jingsha City as Jingzhou City.

Jingzhou geographical environment

Jingzhou is located in the middle south of Hubei Province, in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in the hinterland of Jianghan Plain, between east longitude115'-11405' and north latitude 29 26'-3137. It borders Hannan District of Wuhan City in the east, and faces Jiayu County and chibi city of Xianning City across the river in the southeast. Nanbinjiang is adjacent to Yueyang City, Hunan Province, and borders Yiyang City and Changde City. It is connected to dangyang city, zhijiang city, Yidu and Wufeng County of Yichang in the west.

It is connected to Jingmen City, Qianjiang City and Xiantao City in the north. The maximum horizontal distance from east to west is about 274.8km, and the maximum vertical distance from north to south is about130.2km.. Jiajiang is distributed in a strip shape. The Yangtze River runs through the city from west to east, with a total length of 483 kilometers.

Jingzhou, located in the middle of Yangtze paraplatform, belongs to the second subsidence zone of Late Xinhua and Summer, the third western margin of China terrane, and is the main body of Jianghan Plain.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Jingzhou City.