Shangyu was established as a county in the 25th year of King Yingzheng of Qin (222 BC) and has a history of more than 2,200 years. It is one of the earliest counties in Zhejiang. Among the urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Delta, it is known for its long history, prosperous culture, and mountains and rivers.

Beautiful, outstanding and unique.

Objectively examining Shangyu's natural features, material resources, and the cultural achievements and cultural landscape accumulated over more than 2,000 years of history, we can easily find that the rich and distinctive historical culture is undoubtedly the most valuable and development-prospecting element of Shangyu.

1. Cultural geography and humanities of Shangyu Shangyu is the birthplace of the Hemudu culture, an important source of Chinese farming civilization, and is also one of the core areas of the Yue culture. There are the Wuxing Village ruins belonging to the first layer of the Hemudu culture and the equivalent of the Hemudu culture.

The third to second layers of the Niutoushan ruins.

Yue culture originated from Hemudu culture and became prosperous through Majiabang culture and Liangzhu culture.

Yue culture not only had a major influence on the ancient civilizations in the areas south of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River Basin, making the southeastern region of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River another cradle of Chinese civilization, but it was also the only country that crossed the sea and entered North Korea and Japan, and went south through Taiwan to Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Ocean culture.

The ancient cultural context and the geographical location facing the ocean (Hangzhou Bay) make Shangyu, as the core area of ??Yue culture, have at least the following status in cultural geography.

1. Shangyu is an important derivative of ancient tribal culture.

"Shun avoided elixirs among hundreds of officials", "Shun met with the princes and entertained each other (Tong Yu), so he went to Yu", "Dayu controlled the flood and stationed in Xia Gaishan", etc., all prove that Shangyu is not only an ancient

It was an important activity place for the tribes of Shun and Yu, and was also an important derivation place for tribal culture represented by Shun, Yu, Guyue, etc.

2. Shangyu is one of the centers of manufacturing culture in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the Shangyu area has been famous throughout the country for its brewing, porcelain making, tea making, smelting, etc. Niushan was the smelting and casting place of the Yue State at that time. The smelting technology of the knives, hoes, sickles and other iron tools unearthed from Jinyin Mountain has reached a very high level.

level.

Especially in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, Zhangzhen and other places used laminated "dragon kilns" to fire printed hard pottery and porcelain coated with celadon glaze, which directly created the origin of Yue kiln celadon in the Xiaoxiantan area in the Han Dynasty, making it the first Chinese celadon

’s birthplace.

3. Shangyu is an important platform for Chinese hermit culture.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a group of sages from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, represented by Xie An, gathered in Dongshan, and Ji Kang, the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, lived in seclusion in Guangling a little earlier, which effectively promoted and encouraged the rise of China's hermit culture.

4. Shangyu is a major nursery of Chinese academic culture.

Wang Chong wrote "Lunheng", Wei Boyang wrote "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Qi", Xie Lingyun created landscape poetry, Zhang Xuecheng laid the foundation for modern local chronicles, Du Yaquan founded "Yaquan Magazine", Luo Zhenyu established the oracle bone inscriptions, Ma Yifu established the Chinese culture, etc., making Shangyu a famous poet.

An indispensable nursery for Chinese academic culture.

As the core area of ??Yue culture, the folk customs of Shangyu are basically the same as those of the Wu Yue cultural area south of the Yangtze River, but in terms of regional characteristics, it has its own personality.

The people of Shangyu are said to be honest and honest. They are "hardworking and thrifty, focusing on farming and weaving; reading diligently, respecting teachers and friends; being honest and shameless, and having high integrity". These are the most important folk characteristics. Although Shangyu is one of the core areas of Hemudu culture and Ancient Yue culture.

, but like most residents in the Yangtze River Delta, there are very few "indigenous" people in the true sense, and most of them are descendants of immigrants.

From the Qin Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, Shangyu experienced three large-scale immigrations.

First, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he moved a group of immigrants from the Central Plains to the Shaoxing and Shangyu areas on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay; second, during the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, the two major families of the Langya Wang family and the Chenjun Xie family who traveled south with the Jin Dynasty came from

Jiankang moved south to the south of the Yangtze River, and Shaoxing and Shangyu became the settlements of the Wang and Xie families; thirdly, Lin'an (Hangzhou) was established as the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Shaoxing became the companion capital. The royal family of the Southern Song Dynasty lived in Shaoxing for one year and eight months, and the Southern Song Dynasty regime ruled

A large number of soldiers, civil and military officials, troops, followers, etc. moved in from the north.

In addition, the Song Dynasty general Jiao Guangzhan led his tribe to surrender gold, and the Song Dynasty demoted his tribe to "fallen people". Most of the "fallen people" who moved into Zhejiang were concentrated in Shaoxing, Shangyu, and Shengzhou.

In this sense, the humanities and culture of Shangyu, in addition to being based on Yue culture, are also to a large extent the product of the integration and intermixing of foreign northern culture and Central Plains culture from north to south.

In fact, this is precisely where the vitality of Shangyu’s humanities and culture lies.