What is the history of Wuxi?

Wuxi has a history of 3000 years. According to historical records, at the end of Shang Dynasty, Zhou's eldest son Taibo and his younger brother came here from Shaanxi to settle down and established the "Wu Gou" country, which was the beginning of Wuxi's urban construction. In the 11th year of Zhou Wuwang (BC 1066), Zhang Zhou, a descendant of Zhong Yong, sealed Wu Jun and established the State of Wu. At the end of the Warring States Period, Wuxi became the fief of Huang Xie, Shen Jun, Chu. In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu (202 BC), Wuxi County was established. In the first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China (AD 9), Wuxi County was changed to Youxi County. During the Jianwu period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was renamed Wuxi County. In the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Wu abandoned Wuxi County, settled fields in the west of Wuxi, and set up a captain of Piling Diannong. In the first year of Jin Taikang (280), he moved the capital to Wuxi County. In the year of Yuanyuan Zhenyuan (1295), Wuxi County was promoted to a state. In the first year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1368), the state was reduced to a county. In the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1724), Wuxi County was divided into Wuxi County and Jingui County. In the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), the two counties merged into one and were renamed Wuxi county. 1April 23, 949, Wuxi was liberated.

Wuxi is the birthplace of Jiangnan civilization in history. In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu (202 BC), Wuxi was founded, plumbing. Wuxi is located in the south of Jiangsu Province, on the bank of Taihu Lake, bordering the Yangtze River in the north and Zhejiang and Anhui provinces in the south, where the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal meets. Flat terrain, fertile land and rich products. The total area of the city is 4,650 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 1632.70 square kilometers, and it governs Jiangyin City, Yixing City, Xishan City, Chong 'an District, nanchang district City, Beitang District and its suburbs. With a population of 4.3 million and an urban area of about 920,000, it has developed into a medium-sized city in light industry, textile, electronics, chemical industry, machinery and other industries.

Wuxi has a solid foundation for economic development. During the Tang and Wu Dynasties, Wuxi was an important place for grain transportation. In the Ming dynasty, handicrafts such as textiles, ceramics and brick making were very developed. During the Hongzhi period in the Ming Dynasty, the hand-woven industry in Wuxi flourished and became a "cloth wharf with many cloth merchants". The famous cloth wharf is as famous as the ship wharf in Hankou and the silver wharf in Zhenjiang. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Wuxi, Jiujiang, Changsha and Wuhu were called "four rice markets in China". Wuxi's rice is of excellent quality, especially Taihu fragrant rice, which is listed as the Royal Gong Mi. 1At the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Mr. Rong and Mr. Rong Desheng, representatives of our national industrial and commercial circles, took the lead in setting up the first batch of national industries in China, and Wuxi was regarded as China. By 1930s, Wuxi had developed into a new industrial city with more than 300 factories. Since then, Wuxi has been called "little shanghai" at home and abroad. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the new industrial flower of "township enterprises" bloomed in this fertile soil of Wuxi, and Wuxi added a brilliant stroke of "township industrial development zone" in the economic history of China.

Wuxi dialect belongs to Wu dialect. Wu dialect is traditionally called Wu dialect. With the long-term development of society and history, Wuxi dialect has gradually formed its own characteristics.

Symbols of Wuxi: the 88-meter-long Lingshan Buddha and Wenguang Pagoda.

Wuxi streams have been the most beautiful in the south of the city since ancient times. It is said that this river was opened by Hong Liang, a famous person in the Eastern Han Dynasty, so Wuxi is also called "Liangxi".

Wuxi is east of Shanghai 128km and west of Nanjing 183km. Shanghai-Nanjing railway and highway run through the east and west, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal runs through the north and south, with convenient land, water and air transportation.

Wuxi has a subtropical monsoon maritime climate with four distinct seasons, mild and humid climate and abundant rainfall. Wuxi has a flat terrain, low mountains and hills, criss-crossing rivers and lakes, and is known as the land of plenty in the south of the Yangtze River.