The ancient Xiangshan Mountain is an isolated island in Dingling Ocean outside the Pearl River Estuary. Its territory is only the mountainous and hilly areas around Wugui Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain, that is, from Shi Qi to Macau.
After the founding of New China, archaeologists have excavated many stone tools, painted pottery, sand-mixed pottery and other cultural relics in 28 places in 9 towns, such as Mashan in Shi Qi and Longxue Village in Nanxun, indicating that in the Neolithic Age, there were indigenous Guyue people fishing and semi-settling here in Xiangshan, about 5,000 years ago.
Xiangshan belonged to Panyu County in Han Dynasty. After the Jin Dynasty, it was the land of Dongguan County. The Tang Dynasty was the land of Dongguan County. In the 22nd year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 152), Xiangshan County was established, which benefited from the coastal areas of Nanhai, Panyu and Xinhui counties, and belonged to Guangzhou. After the Republic of China, it was directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. Cuiheng Village in Xiangshan County is the hometown of Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen died in March 14 (1925). On April 15 of the same year, the Grand Marshal's Office in Lu Haijun of the Republic of China decided to rename Xiangshan County as Zhongshan County to commemorate this great pioneer of the democratic revolution. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), in the wave of reform and opening up,1983 65438+February was approved by the State Council, and Zhongshan County was changed to Zhongshan City (county level); 1988, 1 June, was upgraded to a prefecture-level city with the approval of the State Council.