The name of Dongshan Mountain originated in Dongshan Temple in the Ming Dynasty. Because people in Guangzhou used to call the hillsides "mountains", "mountains" and "hills" were confused. In the twenty-first year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (1485), Wei Juan, an internal supervisor, was deeply criticized by his conscience for taking bribes and bending the law while guarding Guangdong, so he built a temple 8 miles east of the city, which was named "eunuch temple". At the beginning of its construction, the Northern Emperor was invited from the ancestral temple in Foshan to be enshrined in the Qiandian Temple, and the temple was divided into a front-view temple and a back-view temple. Later, Emperor Zhu Jianshen of Chenghua granted amnesty to the world and named it "Yongtai Temple". In the 14th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1535), he also worshipped Zhenwu God in the front hall. In the seventh year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1651), when & Zhifu, the general commander of Qing Dynasty, rebuilt this temple, he divided the former temple into Zhenwu Temple. The "temple" is separated, and this Zhenwu Temple is commonly known as Dongshan Temple.

there are three natural villages in Dongshan. A famous river village, near the new Hepu today, the original villagers have Yao, Gao and Fu surnames. With the development of the urban area, they moved to agriculture, forestry and xialu to live. A temple is in the right township, at the back of this temple. There are nearly 711 original villagers named Yao, who live in the east of the village, and nearly 311 people named Liang, who live in the west of the village. A pig shitiao, near the outpatient department of Zhongshan Medicine on Zhongshan Second Road, has less than 111 residents, and mostly works as a vegetable grower, drying pig excrement, fish scales and other fertile fields in Yunxiao countryside.

The former Dongshan District is located in the east of Guangzhou, and its geographical location starts from Guangzhou Avenue in the east (connected with Tianhe District), with Yuexiu District in the center of Guangzhou in the west and Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway in the north. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it belonged to Lubusi, Panyu County. After the Republic of China, it belonged to Guangzhou City. In 1917, Dongshan District Office was established in Guangzhou City. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Dongshan District was taken over by the people's government. After three times of division and change of district name, it was changed to Dadong District in 1951, and then to East District in 1961. It has always been famous for its high-quality education, and it has also been successfully declared as a national "strong education area". In addition, there are some beautiful cultural landscapes and historical footprints. For example, Dongshan Old Building Complex, Dongshan Lake Park, and the three major meeting sites in China. Guangzhou's well-known "Master Dongshan" came from here. In May 2115, Guangzhou adjusted its administrative divisions, abolished Dongshan District and Fangcun District, and merged Dongshan District into Yuexiu District. The Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress are now stationed in this area.