In 333 BC, what city did Chu Weiwang build in Shishan, Nanjing today?

In 333 BC, Chu Weiwang built a city on the Stone Mountain and named it Jinling City.

Jinling is the ancient name of Nanjing and the most elegant nickname of Nanjing. The name of Jinling originated in 333 BC. In 229 AD, Sun Quan established its capital in Jinling, and Jinling rose from then on.

Historically, Jinling was called "the ancient capital of six dynasties and the metropolis of ten dynasties". Jinling, Beijing, Xi and Luoyang are also called the four ancient capitals. It has gone through the regimes of,, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Nantang, Ming Hongwu, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Kuomintang government and so on.

Jinling is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization and one of the four ancient capitals in China that have never been occupied by foreign regimes. Every time the Central Plains is occupied by an alien race and the Han nationality is about to be exterminated, they usually choose Jinling to recuperate and restore China. Therefore, Jinling is regarded as a place of rejuvenation of the Han nationality, which has an important position and value in the history of China.

During the Six Dynasties, Jinling and Rome were called "the two centers of world classical civilization". At that time, the palace construction industry in Jinling became a model of capital construction in later generations.

There are several theories about the origin of the name of Jinling. One is that it is named after a mountain. It is said that Jinling was originally the name of Zhongshan. At that time, many places used mountain names as place names. One of the definitions of Ling is Mountain, and Jinling is Jinshan. In 333 BC, Chu Weiwang built a city on the Stone Mountain and named it Jinling City. This kind of evidence named after the mountain is that "Jinling City stands because of the mountain" written in the Records of Jiankang in the Tang Dynasty.

Another naming method is that the emperor buried gold. In this statement, the mausoleum of Jinling is interpreted as a "tomb", and Jinling is the tomb where gold is buried. Legend has it that Qin Shihuang was in Jinling Mountain. In order to suppress Wang Dao, a gold man was cast and buried here. It is also said that Chu Weiwang buried gold to suppress this place, because he thought it was royal.

In fact, this statement is untrue. Only the place where the emperor was buried can be called a "mausoleum", and the place where gold was buried is not worthy. Moreover, this statement is full of superstition. Why is it widely circulated? This is entirely because legends are much more exciting than historical facts and are easier to spread among the people.