2.1 Origin of the city name
Qianshan County in Anqing area during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was the seat of the ancient Wan Kingdom. "Wan" means "beautiful" and "Wanshan and Wanshui" means "Splendid rivers and mountains".
There is Tianzhu Mountain in Qianshan County, Anhui Province. It is the highest mountain in the Dabie Mountains and is also called Wanjian Mountain. Gongshan, Qianshan, Qianshan).
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty visited Tianzhu Mountain during his southern tour and named it Nanyue, formerly known as Hengshan Mountain.
The river at the foot of the mountain is called Wanhe River (Wanshui, Diving) and flows into the Yangtze River (Wanjiang River).
The city at the foot of the mountain is called Wancheng.
The abbreviation of Anhui Province is "Wan", which is derived from this.
In the 17th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1147), the Shuzhou Deqing Army was changed to the Shuzhou Anqing Army, and "Anqing" got its name from then on.
Today's Anqing City was built in 1217 AD and has a history of nearly 800 years.
Guo Pu, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once called this place "Yicheng", so today's Anqing is also known as "Yicheng".
2.2 Construction History
The name Anqing began in the 17th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1147), when the name "Deqing Army was changed to Anqing Army" appeared, which was changed from "Tong'an Army" to "Tong'an Army". "Prefecture" (established in the third year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, with the administrative seat of Tong'an, today's Tongcheng) and "Deqing Army" (established in the fifth year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, with the administrative seat of Huaining, today's Qianshan Ancient Anqing Fucheng Ancient Map Wancheng) take one word each. The name means "peace and happiness".
In the first year of Qingyuan (1195), "the Qian residence of Emperor Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty was promoted to Shuzhou as Anqing Prefecture" (the administrative seat is now the ancient Anhui city of Qianshan), and the name of the prefecture was also given.
The ancient name of today's Anqing is "Prosperous Tang". It is first recorded in literature that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty visited the south during his southern tour to the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the fifth year of Yuanfeng (106 BC) to worship Yu Shun in Jiuyi and ascend the submarine. Tianzhu Mountain, "the song of the prosperous Tang Dynasty".
Dengyunpo in today's Anqing City is where the former site of Shengtang Mountain is located, and the river below the mountain is the ancient ferry of Shengtang Bay.
According to legend, Guo Pu, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and a Feng Shui expert in Kanyu, once said "This place is Yicheng" when he was in Tangshan, so Anqing was also nicknamed "Yicheng".
Today's Anqing City was built during the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the tenth year of Jiading (1217), the Jin people broke into Guangshan (now the place of Huangchuan County, Henan Province), and there were many policemen along the border.
Huang Gan, the prefect, built "City Anqing in preparation for war" at the old site of Shuzhou (now Meicheng, Qianshan County); later due to war, Anqing Prefecture moved to Luoshazhou in the second year of Duanping (1235) , Yang Chazhou; in the first year of Jingding (1260), in order to prevent the Mongolian army from attacking Lin'an (today's Hangzhou City), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, by water, Ma Guangzu, the ambassador of the coastal system, destroyed Shuzhou Prefecture and "used the bricks and stones of the original Shuzhou Prefecture city wall to rebuild it. In Yicheng (the Yin of Yichengdu in Shengtang Bay), it was established as the "New Anqing Prefecture" (the administrative address is in today's Anqing City), and it was moved to Huaining County to govern Guo.
Since then, the government has been stable, and "Anqing" has been used as a town place name. It is consistent with the name of the administrative district (fu, road, special district, etc.) and is still used today.
[6] From the time Anqing was founded until the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was governed by Anqing Prefecture and Huaining County. During the Republic of China, it was the seat of the special administration.
The governors since the late Ming Dynasty have also guarded here with integrity.
From the 25th year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1760) to the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), it was also the location of the Chief Envoy of Anhui Province and the capital of Anhui Province (the provincial government of Anhui Province).