Introducing Xuzhou

Xuzhou has a long history, more than 6000 years ago, Xuzhou's ancestors lived and worked here. At the end of the primitive society, Yao sealed Pengzu in the present-day city seat for the state of Da Peng, and Xuzhou was called Pengcheng since the beginning.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Pengcheng belonged to the Song Dynasty, then returned to the Chu Dynasty, and Pengcheng County was set up after Qin's unification.

Chu and Han Dynasty, the Western Chu hegemony built the capital Pengcheng. In the Western Han Dynasty, Pengcheng County was set up, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Pengcheng State was set up and the capital was Pengcheng.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao moved the Xuzhou Assassin's Department to Pengcheng, which has been called Xuzhou since the beginning.

Wei-Jin and North-South Dynasties had set up Pengcheng State or Xuzhou, and the capital or seat of governance was mostly in Pengcheng.

Suizhou was set up in Sui Dynasty, and was later changed to Pengcheng County, which was ruled by Pengcheng.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the names of Xuzhou and Pengcheng County were changed many times, and in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Xuzhou was the residence of the provincial governor.

During the Five Dynasties, Xuzhou was established in each dynasty and ruled Pengcheng, leading seven counties.

Xuzhou was established in the Song and Yuan dynasties, with frequent changes in affiliation and jurisdiction.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou was directly subordinate to the capital, but later became part of Nanjing.

In the early Qing Dynasty, Xuzhou was successively affiliated with Jiangnan Province and Jiangsu Province, and in the last year of the Yongzheng period, it was elevated to Xuzhou Prefecture, with the jurisdiction of one state and seven counties.

Republic of China at the beginning of, the government abolished, Xuzhou Prefecture attached to Guo Tongshan County, later set up Xu Haidao, the seat in Tongshan (Xuzhou).

Japanese pseudo by Tongshan County analyzed Xuzhou City, was the capital of the pseudo-Huaihai Province. After the victory in the war, the national government still set up Xuzhou City, belonging to Jiangsu?

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China **** and the State, retained Xuzhou City, initially for the Shandong Province, 3 years later re-distributed back to Jiangsu Province, and at the same time the establishment of Xuzhou Prefecture, stationed in Xuzhou City, jurisdiction over 11 counties and cities. Since then, Xuzhou City and Xuzhou Prefecture existed side by side, with changes in jurisdiction at different times. 1983, Jiangsu Province implemented the system of municipalities and counties, and Xuzhou Prefecture was abolished, with the six counties under its jurisdiction being transferred to Xuzhou City. Xuzhou is now under the jurisdiction of 5 districts and 6 counties (cities).

Geography of Xuzhou

Xuzhou is located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, between 116°22′~118°40′ east longitude and 33°43′~34°58′ north latitude. It is about 210 kilometers long from east to west and 140 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 11,258 square kilometers, accounting for 11% of the total area of Jiangsu Province. It is located at the junction of four provinces, namely, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui, and is the combination of the eastern coast and the central zone, the Shanghai Economic Zone and the Bohai Rim Economic Circle." With Huaihai in the east, Central Plains in the west, Jianghuai in the south and Qilu in the north, it is known as the "Thoroughfare of Five Provinces". Beijing-Shanghai, Longhai two major railroads converge here, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal along the city through the north and south of Xuzhou, highway access, Beijing-Tianjin in the north, Shanghai-Nanjing in the south, west of Lanzhou-Xinjiang, east of the seashore, for the country's important land and water transportation hub and the east-west, north-south economic ties, an important "crossroads".

Xuzhou humanities

Xuzhou is extremely rich in ancient cultural heritage sites, the Tang Dynasty, Renshan Road, the remains are still there; Neolithic era of the Dadunzi, Liu Lin, Flower Hall and other sites have unearthed 10,000 pieces of cultural relics, exquisite and rare. *** Excavation of hundreds of ancient tombs, mainly Han tombs, mainly Tushan Han Tomb (Yunlong Mountain, northern foothills), North Cave Hill Han Tomb (northern suburbs of Maocun), East Cave Hill Han Tomb (under the precipitation of the township), Liu Note Tomb (pick up the Tun small turtle Hill). Xuzhou is one of the most concentrated area of Han portrait stone, since the founding of the country has found a complete portrait stone tomb nearly 30, scattered about 400 pieces of Han portrait stone, and Nanjing's six dynasties of stone carving, suzhou Mingqing gardens, and known as the "jiangsu three treasures". Xuzhou attractions and monuments both south and north of the strength of the XiuXiong, Yunlong Mountain, Xinghua Temple and its stone Buddha, JiuLiShan's BaiYunCave, TubuShan's play horse platform, as well as popularly known as the "five floor" of the king of the building, peng zu building, HuangLou, KuiLou, swallow building, represents the traditional cultural characteristics of Xuzhou. Ancient buildings, modern cultural relics and revolutionary relics such as the Qianlong Palace, Xinghua Temple, Temple of Literature, Quanjin Paikou, Pengzu Ancestral Hall, Daodai Yamen, Wu Yalu's old residence and Guo Leshan's old residence are all valued and protected by the municipal government.

In the history of Xuzhou, the glorious achievements of many leaders and the wonderful poems of literati are recorded:

(1) Pengzu

Xuzhou was known as Pengcheng in ancient times, which originated from Pengzu. It is rumored that Pengzu was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. Peng Zu is a famous longevity, living 800 years, good at guiding qigong health, but also good at cooking, known as China's culinary ancestor. He is said to have cooked a pheasant soup, which was offered to Emperor Yao and established the state of Dapeng. The southern suburb of the city has a park covering an area of 520 acres, named Peng Park, which has a Chinese alabaster stone statue of Peng Zu, a Peng Zu Ancestral Hall and a Dapeng Pavilion, which has become an activity place for the descendants of the Peng Clan from overseas to come to Xu to search for their roots and pay homage to their ancestors.

(2), Han Gaozu

Xuzhou is the first emperor of the cloth in Chinese history, the hometown of Han Gaozu, its birth is quite a myth, the legend says that the mother of Han Gaozu to avoid rain in the bridge to curb the dragon and pregnancy, the pregnancy of the Dragon Mist Bridge in today's Fengxian City, northeast of the village of Lianglou. When Han Gaozu was a child, he moved to a place about three miles north of Pei City to settle down. Therefore, there is a local saying that "Fengsheng Pei raised Han Gaozu".

When Gaozu was thirty years old, he served as the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion on the Surabaya River, one mile east of Pei County, where he was in charge of public security. The eight years of his career as a pavilion chief were of great significance to Han Gaozu, during which he met Xiao He, Cao Sen, Fan Kuai and a number of other people who played an important role in his later political activities.

In July 209 BC, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang unveiled a revolt in Dazhe Township, and in September, Han Gaozu swore an oath of insurrection on the banks of the Surabaya River. Thereafter, Han Gaozu's power continued to grow, and after eight years of war, resisting the tyrannical Qin and executing the rebellious Chu, he finally established the unified Han Dynasty.

In the tenth year of Gaozu's reign, Han Gaozu returned from a personal expedition to quell the rebellion and passed through his hometown of Pei County, where he hosted a banquet in the Pei Palace for all the people of the countryside. He also selected one hundred and twenty young people to form a choir to help the wine. When the wine is sound, Han Gaozu struck the building and sang a song, and composed a poem, saying: "The wind rises and the clouds fly, the might of the sea is added and the homeland is returned to, and the fierce warriors are guarding the four directions, and the children also sang along with the song. After the song, Gaozu waved his sword and danced with sadness. He said to the elders of Pei County, "I'm thinking of my hometown, and although I've set my capital at Chang'an, my soul will have to return to my hometown a hundred years from now.

After Gaozu left Pei, the Pei people showed the emperor's power and asked the goldsmith to copy the "Song of the Great Winds" onto the stone, and built a hundred-foot-high platform and set up a monument on the platform. The monument is said to have been written by Cai Yong (蔡邕) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and has been passed down through more than 2,000 years.

(3) Xiang Yu and the stage

Xiang Yu (232 BC - 202 years ago), the name of Ji, the next phase of the people. He was eight feet long, strong and talented. In 209 B.C., he started an army in Wuzhong, united with the righteous army, and Jian Jian killed the tyrannical Qin Dynasty. In 206 B.C., he established the capital of Pengcheng and became the hegemonic king of Western Chu, commanding the whole world. In the war between Chu and Han, he was defeated in Gaixia and killed himself in Wujiang River. Its statue became in the summer of 1987, 285 centimeters high, top helmet through the armor, footsteps on the rock, standing against the wind, looks very reserved, majestic, headstrong, plagiarism.

The play horse platform, is the historical and cultural city of Xuzhou, one of the earliest surviving monuments, in 206 BC, the hero Xiang Yu destroyed the Qin, self-established as the hegemonic king of Western Chu, the capital of Pengcheng, in the city of the south of Li Xu on the south mountain, constructed Chongtai, in order to watch the play horse, so the name of the play horse platform.

Throughout the ages, many buildings have been constructed on the platform, such as the Taitou Temple, the Temple of the Three Righteousnesses, the Ancestral Hall of the Famous Eunuchs, the Poly-Silicon Academy, the Shao Cui Mountain House, the Stele Pavilion, and so on.

(4), five miles and three vassals

In Xuzhou, especially in the Pei County area. A mention of "three vassals in five miles", the local folks will be glowing, enjoyable. The so-called "three vassals" refers to the beginning of the Han dynasty Anguo Marquis Wang Ling, Jiangzhou Marquis Zhou Bo, Ruyin Marquis irrigation baby, their former residence are in the present day Xuzhou Peixian Anguo Township territory, the three finished word-shaped, are five miles apart, so it is known as the "five miles of the three vassals".

Wang Ling, Zhou Bo, grouting baby are important ministers in the early Han Dynasty, for Han Gaozu took power and made great achievements, but also for the consolidation of the Han regime has made great efforts, are official to the prime minister. This is just a representative statement, the early Qin Dynasty, Xuzhou area hidden dragons and crouching tigers, talents, the people, kings and generals are not only these three people! According to statistics, after Han Gaozu became the emperor, 143 people were awarded the title of Marquis, of which 23 were of Pei nationality in Xuzhou, such as Xiao He, Cao Sen, Chang, Fan Kuai and so on.

(5), Su Dongpo

Xuzhou City, east of Qingyun Bridge, so the Yellow River on the south bank of the embankment, stands a double eaves of the yellow buildings, resting on the mountain holding building, glittering, which is the newly restored Huanglou.

History of the yellow building, is 900 years ago Xuzhou governor Su Shi led Xuzhou military and civilian victory over the flood, in the first year of Emperor Shenzong Yuanfeng of the Song Dynasty (1078) in August in the city of Xuzhou above the east gate built. In April of the 10th year of Xining (1011), Su Dongpo was transferred from Mizhou (Zhucheng, Shandong Province) to be the governor of Xuzhou. Su Shi was in Xuzhou for one year and eleven months, did a lot of good things for the people of Xuzhou, and also wrote many masterpieces depicting the local customs of Xuzhou.

Su Shi arrived in Xuzhou but three months, the Yellow River flooding, the water forced to Xuzhou. Su Shi personally loaded dustpan and spade, cloth and grass sandals, hut city soil, over the home not to enter. In his organization, command and influence, the army and the people of one heart and one mind, finally avoided the water filled the city of the tragedy. Su Shi "to body command, the Great Wall survival" and victory over the flood feat, by the imperial court's award, but also y Xuzhou people's gratitude and respect. Su Shi in order to prevent the threat of water on Xuzhou, on the one hand, build embankments and solid banks, on the one hand, increase the height of the city building, Yuanfeng year in February, started in the city of the east gate file water to build a two-story high-rise, because "the water is subject to the soil", so coated with yellow soil, named yellow building, contains "soil is better than water The meaning of "earth is better than water". September 9, Chongyang Festival, Su Ly feast guests, held a ceremony, playing music to celebrate the completion of the yellow building, he happily wrote "September Huanglou made" a poem as a souvenir. Since then, the yellow building has become a historical attraction in Xuzhou.

In addition to the Huanglou, Xuzhou also left many monuments and Su Dongpo related to the moving legend, there are the same water project Yunlong Lake Su Causeway; Dongpo drunk and lying down, and now engraved with poems and inscriptions of the "Dongpo stone bed"; Su Shi and Yunlong Mountain hermit Zhang Shanren *** drink and express his feelings of the release of the Crane Pavilion; named after Su Shi, "the wind of this fugue" of the Quick Pavilion; the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River and the Yellow River. The "fast Pavilion"; the Yellow River in the old channel of the "red island", the legend is "Su girl jumped into the water, red makeup now in the yellow water" and come. All of these, all the people of Xuzhou to Su Dongpo's love and nostalgia.

(6), Qianlong

Qianlong ruling sixty years, *** to Xuzhou four times, are passing through on the way to the south and stay. The main purpose is to "read the river", that is, the field inspection of the Yellow River and Xuzhou river defense project.

The twenty-second year of Qianlong (1757) in early April, Hongli took the boat north, abandoned the boat landing in Xuzhou. Shortly after the disaster, starving people everywhere, the plague epidemic, a miserable scene. With the driving ministers have advised the emperor does not have to Xuzhou, Qianlong forcefully argued, insisted on Xu inspection. He wrote in the "after the disaster" poem: "after the disaster plague must be done, the ancients said it, will be Xuzhou line, the big official to stop. Go to go off the people maltreated, would rather endure the summer to avoid this. The Qianlong emperor this "people maltreated" for the importance of not avoiding the plague and personally visited the disaster area, can not be said to be a kind of diligence and caressing the performance of the people.

After this inspection, Qianlong instructed the local government to build a palace in order to come back to Xuzhou when living convenient. Qianlong palace is located in the beautiful scenery at the foot of Yunlong Mountain, Qianlong on the palace is very satisfied, personally wrote two couplets for the palace, "the famous garden according to the green water, the wild bamboo on the sky", "outdoor a peak show, steps in front of the gully deep".

The Qianlong Palace building in the late Qing Dynasty, most of the destroyed, there are now the main hall and the east and west with three pillars, now the former emperor's palace has become a place of social education and public entertainment.

Introduction of Xuzhou

Xuzhou, located at the intersection of Beijing-Shanghai and Longhai Railway, has been a place of war since ancient times, and has been known as "the thoroughfare of five provinces".

Xuzhou is known as Pengcheng, with a long history of more than 4,000 years. Peng Zu, the originator of Chinese Yijing and health science, Han Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, and Xiang Yu, a man of great talent, have all left their traces in Xuzhou. The cultural heritage and attractions left on the land of Pengcheng are numerous, especially the "three greats of the Han Dynasty" - Han Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Han Tombs, Han Picture Stones as the representative of the culture of the two Han Dynasty is the most eye-catching, highly appreciated art and archaeological value, every year at the beginning of October, Xuzhou also In early October every year, Xuzhou also organizes the Han Culture International Tourism Festival. And the Yunlong Mountain Water, Quanshan Forest Park as the center of the scenic area both north and south of the beauty of the Xiongxiu, beautiful as Xizi, show than the South, is a famous scenic spot in northern Jiangsu.

Xuzhou Overview

Area Code: 0516

Postal Code: 221000

Location: Xuzhou, located in the northwestern part of Jiangsu Province, is the largest city in northern Jiangsu Province and the center of the Huaihai Economic Zone, which consists of the border areas of Suzhou, Lu, Henan and Anhui. "East of the Huaihai, west of the Central Plains, south of the screen Jianghuai, north of Qilu", known as "five provinces through the streets". Beijing-Shanghai, Longhai two major railroads converge here, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal along the city through the north and south of Xuzhou, highways in all directions, the north through Beijing-Tianjin, the south to Shanghai and Nanjing, the west of Lanzhou-Xinjiang, the east of the seashore for the country's important land and water transportation hub and the east-west, north-south economic ties, an important "crossroads". The city has a total area of 11,258 square kilometers, of which the urban area of 963 square kilometers.

Population: The city has a total population of 8.81 million, of which 1.78 million are in the urban area.

Districts: 5 districts of Yunlong, Gulou, Jiuli, Quanshan and Jiawang, 2 county-level cities of Xinyi and Pizhou and 4 counties of Tongshan, Suining, Peixian and Fengxian.