Why is Tongling called Tongling? When did you name it?

Tongling copper culture has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Anhui bronze culture. Tongling is the "ancient copper capital" of Anhui. Copper mining and smelting began in Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

It flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties and lasted for more than 3,000 years. It is very rare in the known ancient copper mine sites in the Yangtze River basin. There are dozens of copper mining and smelting sites and a large number of bronze cultural relics here: copper smelting slag in the ancient Western Zhou Dynasty and ancient copper wells in the Han Dynasty. Bronze cultural relics in Tang and Song Dynasties were more prosperous and recorded in detail. Tongling's history is the epitome of Anhui's copper smelting history. Li Bai, Wang Anshi, Su Dongpo and other great writers have traveled here and left poems. Li Bai's "I Love Bronze Official Music" will not be returned for a thousand years. I want to dance back to the sleeves and sweep the Wusong Mountain to describe the scene of copper smelting. "The fire shines on the world and the red stars are everywhere." The bright moon is in the sky, and the song moves the cold Sichuan "is a famous sentence throughout the ages." Copper culture has been integrated into all aspects of urban construction and citizens' life. Bronze sculptures such as dancing have won prizes in various competitions in the province, and there is a provincial bronze culture research society in the city. Tongling is a city with profound cultural heritage. Tongling Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have always attached importance to cultural work and cultural construction, and the protection of mass culture, professional culture and cultural heritage has been very successful. Many bronze cultural expositions have accumulated a lot of experience, so we held the first Anhui Folk Culture Festival in Tongling. I believe Tongling will be able to run this festival well and gradually become a brand to publicize and serve Tongling. The first characteristic of Tongling traditional folk custom is "bronze color". Tongling, as the ancient copper capital of China, has a 3000-year history of copper mining and treatment, which not only has rich copper cultural relics, but also inherits unique copper crafts, such as the traditional wax-lost craft, and is now applying for provincial intangible cultural heritage; Copper handicrafts are a specialty of Tongling. The second characteristic of Tongling traditional folk custom is "rich products". Like Tongling's rich mineral resources, Tongling's products are also extremely rich, such as Feng Dan, which has a long-standing reputation and has a planting history of more than 1,600 years. Its geographical indication product standard has passed the examination and approval of Anhui Province. Tongling wild bird tongue is a famous tea in history. This tea was once praised as "famous tea in the south of the Yangtze River" by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and was once used as a tribute. The third feature of Tongling traditional folk custom is its richness and diversity. Tongling is located in Wutou Chuwei, on the bank of the Yangtze River. It is said that there are also customs such as dragon boat race, Shun 'an temple fair, ringing bells and playing lanterns. And these customs are combined with specialties. It can be said that Tongling is rich in products and has a long history of folk culture. Since the first Anhui Folk Culture Festival was decided to be held in Tongling City, the Anhui Provincial Department of Culture and the Tongling Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attached great importance to it, and included it in the work report of the 20 10 municipal government and the main points of the work of the Provincial Department of Culture. At present, the preparations for the event are basically ready: the organizing Committee of the cultural festival has been established and the overall plan of the event has been compiled; The scene layout scheme has also been approved, and the phased construction is in full swing; The creation and arrangement of the program were carried out in an orderly manner, and various activities were carried out in an all-round way. In addition, in order to do a good job in the comprehensive protection of this folk culture festival, Tongling City held a special meeting to study and deploy, and formulated and started the protection work plan according to the needs and characteristics of the activity protection work.