When most people think of New Orleans, they think of "Orleans Grilled Wings," but New Orleans has grilled oysters, fried alligator, and all kinds of seafood, but there are no grilled wings, haha.

New Orleans is located at the lower reaches of the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana. It is the second largest port city in the United States after the Port of New York. It is also the largest city in the state. Its population size and GDP output exceed the capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge (

Baton Rouge).

Known for its jazz, French colonial architecture, Creole cuisine and culture, New Orleans is one of the most distinctive cities in the United States.

Gao Xiaosong once called New Orleans his favorite American city, and Xiaosong also mentioned NOLA many times in his talk.

All in all, New Orleans is a city worth visiting.

1. Geographical location: New Orleans is located where the lower reaches of the Mississippi River enter the sea, about 169 kilometers upstream of the Gulf of Mexico. So simply speaking, New Orleans is an estuary delta formed by the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Pontcharette around the city

Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne are lagoons formed by sedimentation breaking away from the Gulf of Mexico.

The Mississippi River turns a large bay in the city of New Orleans, dividing the city into "Uptown" and "Lower City" along the flow, so it is also called the "Crescent City".

Because of its unique geographical location, New Orleans has a humid subtropical climate, with higher temperatures and more precipitation. There are heavy rains in summer. There was a heavy rain on the last day of AAG.

2. Historical changes New Orleans has a beautiful name "NOLA", which is the English initials of "New Orleans, Louisiana".

Fugue said in "Journey" that the name "Louisiana" comes from Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of the Bourbon dynasty, and New Orleans (La Nouvelle Orleans) is named after Louis XV's regent, the Duke of Orleans.

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The following historical content mainly comes from Baidu Encyclopedia and Zhihu.

In 1718, through the guidance of the Indian tribe, the French leader Jean-Baptiste Bienville led a group of rowing slaves, gold diggers, cleaners, prostitutes, etc. to settle in the highlands at the mouth of the Mississippi River (now the French Quarter).

Due to the poor composition of the first residents and the French court's top-down extravagance, New Orleans soon became the most extravagant and corrupt colony of the French nouveau riche, with music and entertainment every night and decadence every day.

Start of French Colonization At that time, the British colonial power was expanding, and France decided to join forces with Spain to contain Britain.

So in 1762, the "Treaty of Fontainebleau" gave New Orleans to Spain as a secret political gift.

Two or three years later, the Spanish governor was belatedly arrived. However, the French and Germans in the colony wanted to restore the former glory of Louis XV, so they launched a peaceful coup in 1768 and drove the Spanish governor back.

Afterwards, Spain sent an iron-blooded new governor to quell the rebellion, and five backbone members were shot and blood spilled in Jackson Square, ushering in the Spanish colonial era in New Orleans.

Changed hands to Spain. With the outbreak of the French Revolution and the powerful Napoleon coming to power, Spain's power in North America gradually disappeared. Spain was forced to return New Orleans to France in 1801.

However, there were two fires in the French Quarter during Spain's 40-year rule. Most of the current buildings are Spanish architectural styles, although they retain the French's romantic and luxurious attitude towards life.

It was returned to France 40 years later. Not long after Napoleon took it back, he faced the threat of the "Anti-French Alliance" led by Britain. The Haitian Independence Revolution also caused Napoleon's plan to conquer the Caribbean New World to fail. Napoleon, who was in desperate need of funds, conquered the entire Louis Vuitton in 1803.

The Anna Colony (reaching the Rocky Mountains in the west and the Canadian border in the north) along with New Orleans were sold to the United States at a low price (see Figure 2).

Buy it at a low price in the United States No matter how many times it changes its owner, there is always music and music in the old town. The flowers in the backyard echo above the lazy Mississippi River, and the Nola group sings and dances.

3. Customs and Culture The customs and customs of New Orleans are unique in the United States, which is closely related to its historical changes.

After the opening of New Orleans, in order to distinguish them from the first batch of immigrants from the European continent, the second generation immigrants born in the Louisiana colony were collectively called Creoles.

French, Hispanic or mixed-race Creoles still speak French and are called French Creoles; while people of color in the colonies, especially the descendants of black slaves plundered from West Africa, are called Negroes.

Creoles.