Changsha
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/92967
- Note
- Changsha has a history of more than 2,400 years of urban construction,[10] and the name "Changsha" first appeared in the Yi Zhou Shu (逸周书）written in the pre-Qin era.[11] In the Qin dynasty, the Changsha Commandery was set up, and in the Western Han dynasty, the Changsha Kingdom was established. The Tongguan Kiln in Changsha during the Tang dynasty produced the world´s earliest underglaze porcelain, which was exported to Western Asia, Africa and Europe.[12] In the Period of Five Dynasties, Changsha was the capital of Southern Chu. In the Northern Song dynasty, the Yuelu Academy (later become Hunan University) was one of the four major private academies over the last 1000 years,[13] with the famous couplet "惟楚有才, 于斯为盛" (Only Chu has talent, and it is flourishing in this area) coming down to modern times. In the late Qing dynasty, Changsha was one of the four major trade cities for rice and tea in China.[14] In 1904, it was opened to foreign trade, and gradually became a revolutionary city. In Changsha, Tan Sitong established the School of Current Affairs, Huang Xing founded the China Arise Society with the slogan "Expel the Tatar barbarians and revive Zhonghua" (驱除鞑虏，复兴中华), and Mao Zedong also carried out his early political movements here. During the Republican Era, Changsha became one of the major home fronts in the Second Sino-Japanese War, but the subsequent Wenxi Fire in 1938 and the three Battles of Changsha from 1939 to 1942 (1939, 1941 and 1941–42) hit Changsha´s economy and urban construction hard.[15]
- Latitude
- 28.198740005493
- Longitude
- 112.97087097168
- Time zone
- Asia/Shanghai
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