Environment Chengdu is located in the central part of Sichuan Province and the western part of the Sichuan Basin, between 102°54′~104°53′ east longitude and 30°05′~31°26′ north latitude. The city is 192 kilometers long from east to west and 166 kilometers wide from north to south. The total area
14,605 ??square kilometers, including 6.48 million acres of cultivated land.
It borders Deyang to the northeast, Ziyang to the southeast, Meishan to the south, Ya'an to the southwest, and Aba Prefecture to the northwest.
It is 1,600 kilometers away from the East China Sea and 1,090 kilometers away from the South China Sea. It is an inland area.
Chengdu has a long history of geology, with relatively complete stratigraphic exposures. The city's topography differs significantly. Jiuyanqiao Bar Street is one of the gathering places for bars in Chengdu. Jiuyanqiao Bar Street is a symbol of Chengdu's night culture. At night, the street along the river is brightly lit.
There are hundreds of bars on the street. Most of them are open-air, and you can also sit inside the bar. However, each bar is not big and can only accommodate a few tables at most.
Going from store to store, you can freely choose the style and price of drinks you like.
You can sit outside and watch the river view, enjoying the scenery and drinking wine.
Chengdu Jiuyan Bridge 1. Introduction Chengdu Jiuyan Bridge is located on the south bank of Jinjiang River and was built in 1593 AD.
Before the 1950s, the area around Jiuyan Bridge was a busy water pier. If you wanted to leave Chengdu and go to Chongqing by water, you had to take a boat from here.
The goods transported by waterways from other places also have to be disembarked here.
2. Historical introduction Jiuyan Bridge was built in the 21st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1593). It has a history of 400 years ago. Before the 1950s, the Jiuyan Bridge area was a busy water dock.
To leave Chengdu and go to Chongqing, you have to take a boat from here.
The goods transported by waterways from other places also have to be disembarked here.
Around 1936, I left my hometown in Nanchong and worked as a waiter in a tavern on Shuijin Street near Jiuyan Bridge. I worked there for more than ten years. It was not until the waterway declined and the tavern owner closed down that I left the dock.
Find another way to make a living.
3. Historical evolution According to historical records, around the middle of the 5th century BC, during the ninth reign of the Kaiming Dynasty of the ancient Shu Kingdom, the capital was moved from Guangdu Fanxiang (Shuangliu) to Chengdu to build a city; but according to the actual excavation of the Jinsha site
, the history of Chengdu’s founding can be traced back to 3,200 years ago.
Regarding the origin of the name Chengdu, according to the records of "Taiping Huanyu Ji", it is based on the historical process of the establishment of the capital in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was named after the King of Zhou moved to Qi in one year and settled in Ju, in two years it was a city, and in three years Chengdu was named Shu.
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The pronunciation of the word Chengdu in Shu language is the capital of Shu.
The one who succeeds is the end, and the meaning of Chengdu is the end city of Shu, or the last city.
In 316 BC, the Qin State annexed Shu and Ba successively, and established Shu County in Chengdu.
Qin Zhangyi and Sima mistakenly built Taicheng (Funan City). The following year, Zhang Yi built Shaocheng (Fuxi City) to the west of Taicheng.
In 256 BC, Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County, learned from the water control experience of his predecessors and led the local people to preside over the construction of the famous Dujiangyan water conservancy project that is still in use today. He also made stone builders to measure the water flow of Dujiangyan, which was the earliest water gauge in China.
In 141 BC, Wen Weng, the governor of Shu County, established China's earliest local government-run school "Wen Weng Stone Room" in Chengdu.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Chengdu replaced Guanzhong and was called "Tianfu".
In the fifth year of Yuanfeng in the Western Han Dynasty (106 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty divided the world into thirteen states and established Yizhou.
Wang Mang changed Yizhou to Yongbu, Shu County to Daojiang, and governed Linqiong.
In the fifth year of the new emperor's reign (24th year), Gongsun Shu proclaimed himself emperor and designated Chengdu as "Chengjia".
Yizhou was also renamed Sili, and Shu County was renamed Chengdu Yin.
It was still a Shu county during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Yan became the "Yizhou Shepherd" and moved his administration from the original Luo County of Guanghan County to Chengdu, using Chengdu as the seat of state, county and county.
During the Western Han Dynasty, the brocade industry in Chengdu was very developed, and there were "Jin Officials", so it was called "Jin Guan City" or "Jincheng"; during the Qin and Han Dynasties, Chengdu's commerce was developed, and Chengdu had become a national metropolis during the Qin Dynasty.
The population of Chengdu reaches 76,000 households, nearly 400,000 people.
Chengdu during the Han Dynasty was the center of lacquerware craftsmanship in the world and the birthplace of Chinese tea culture.
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