{"id":3423,"date":"2019-11-15T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/history-of-wuhan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:40:45","slug":"history-of-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/history-of-wuhan\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Wuhan, also known as the River City (Jiang Cheng), is  situated at the junction of the Hanjiang and Yangtze Rivers. According  to archeological discoveries and records, people moved into the area  5,000 years ago. Development of the city can be traced back to the City  of Panlong 3,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The site of the ancient town is located in Huangpi County, and it was  the first city of the Shang Dynasty (16th &#8211; 11th Century BC) discovered  in the Yangtze River basin. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty  (770BC-221BC), the region was ruled by the Chu State for a long time.  The Chu Culture thus became the foundation of the present culture of  Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Divided by the rivers, Wuhan is comprised of Wuchang, Hanyang and  Hankou towns whose histories, scale and rate of development are  different.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wuchang<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wuchang was established in the early years of the Three Kingdom  Period. The Wu kingdom prepared to struggle against the Shu Kingdom for  Jingzhou and transferred its capital from Jianye (present Nanjing) to  Exian County, renaming it Wuchang. Old Wuchang had advanced handicraft  industries, such as shipbuilding, me<em><\/em>tallurgy, coin minting as well as  celadon and white porcelain manufacture. Worth mentio<em><\/em>ning is the rise  and decline of the Yellow Crane Tower time and again since the Three  Kingdom Period. Each of the dozen reco<em><\/em>nstructions of the tower has  reflected different features of the age, illustrating historical and  cultural changes in Wuchang.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hanyang<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The name of Hanyang is l<em><\/em>inked closely to the Hanjiang River. In  ancient Chinese culture, Yang (the opposite of Yin) denotes a place  south of a mountain and north of a river. Hanyang gained its name for it  is located south of the Tortoise Mountain (Gui Shan) and north of the  Hanjiang River. The name was changed from Hanjin in 606 of the Sui  Dynasty (581-618) and the town rapidly developed during the Tang Dynasty  (618-917). Hanyang, especially the Parrot Island (Yingwu Zhou) area,  has been the distribution center for traders on the middle reaches of  the Yangtze River since that time, and has prosperous commerce and  handicraft industries. Co<em><\/em>ntemporary with the co<em><\/em>nstruction of the Wuchang  city walls, Hanyang city also has a history of some 1,800 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hankou<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Historically, Hankou developed together with Hanyang for a long while  until 1474 of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The Hanjiang River then  changed its course to join the Yangtze River at the north foot of  Tortoise Mountain, dividing the towns. From then, Hanjiang started 500  years of independent progress. Later on Hankou became a new trade port,  greatly surpassing Wuchang and Hanyang in fame and rate of development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co<em><\/em>ntemporary Wuhan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wuhan played an im<em><\/em>portant role in China&#8217;s co<em><\/em>ntemporary history.  Around the 17th Century, Hankou was like an &#8216;eastern Chicago&#8217;, and  listed among the four most famous towns in China. After it was founded  as a treaty port in 1861, Hankou became the largest inland trade port of  the country. A dozen countries, including Britain, France, Russia,  Germany and Japan set up co<em><\/em>ncessions and most of them established  consulates. From this, Wuhan became a cosmopolitan metropolis in China,  just like a state within a state.<\/p>\n<p>Later, in 1911 the Wuchang Uprising began the Xinhai Revolution which  symbolized the end of more than 2,000 years of feudal mo<em><\/em>narchy in  China. In 1926, Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang merged creating modern  Wuhan. After the founding of the PRC, Wuhan was approved as a vital  engineering and me<em><\/em>tallurgical industrial city. Eight year later, the  first double-deck bridge carrying both road and rail across the Yangtze  River was opened to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1813829160\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wuhan, also known as the River City (Jiang Cheng), is  situated at the junction of the Hanjiang and Yangtze Rivers. According  to archeological discoveries and records, people moved into the area  5,000 years ago. 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