Nanjing’s ancient names include Jinling, Moling, Jianye, Jiankang, Jiqing, Jiangning, Yingtian, etc. The details are as follows.
Late Spring and Autumn Period: City Administration - King Wu Fu Chai built a city in the area of ??today's Tiangong Palace and opened a handicraft workshop for smelting and casting bronze wares.
473 BC: Yue City - After the Yue Kingdom destroyed Wu, Fan Li built Yue City in Changganli outside today's Zhonghua Gate. It is the earliest construction in the main city of Nanjing with an exact date that can be tested. A city in Nanjing, the beginning of the construction of the main urban area of ??Nanjing.
333 BC: Jinling - Xiong Shang, King of Chu Wei, built Jinling City in Stone City, and the name Jinling originated from this.
Qin and Han Dynasties: Moling - The sorcerer said to Qin Shihuang: Jinling has the spirit of the emperor.
The First Emperor of Qin was very dissatisfied and ordered people to dig out Fangshan Mountain to allow the Huaihe River to flow through Jinling, which dissipated the royal spirit and changed Jinling into Moling.
From the Three Kingdoms to the Southern and Northern Dynasties: Jiankang - Sun Quan established his capital here and changed Moling to Jianye.
Later it was renamed Jiankang.
Since then, the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties have successively established their capitals here, so Nanjing is known as the "ancient capital of the Six Dynasties".
Sui Dynasty: Jiangzhou, Danyang - Sui Ping destroyed Jiankang and unified it under Jiangzhou.
In the third year of Daye of the Sui Dynasty (607), Jiangzhou was abolished and Danyang County was established. Jiangning County belonged to Danyang County.
Tang Dynasty: Jinling - In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Jiangning County was established, then Shengzhou was established, and later it was changed to Jinling Prefecture.
Southern Tang: Jiangning - Jinling was established as the capital in the first year of Shengyuan (937), and Jinling Prefecture was changed to Jiangning Prefecture.
Northern Song Dynasty: Jiankang - In the third year of Jianyan (1129), Jiangning Prefecture was renamed Jiankang Prefecture, serving as the capital and the capital of Jiangnan East Road.
Southern Song Dynasty: Liudu Capital - In 1138, Jiankang was designated as the Liudu capital.
Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, once defeated the Jin soldiers in the Niushou Mountain area of ??Nanjing, and there are remains of the old fortress against the Jin.
Yuan Dynasty: Jiqing Road - In the fourteenth year of Yuan Dynasty (1277), Jiankang Prefecture was promoted to Jiankang Road.
In the second year of Tianli (1329), Kang Road was rebuilt into Jiqing Road.
Ming Dynasty: Yingtianfu - In the 16th year of Zhizheng (1356), Zhu Yuanzhang changed Jiqing Road to Yingtianfu.
In the first year of Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (1368), Taizu of the Ming Dynasty built the city of Dingtianfu, which was called Nanjing.
Qing Dynasty: Jiangning Prefecture - In 1645, the Qing army came to the south of the Yangtze River. After capturing Nanjing, it abolished its status as the capital and changed Yingtian Prefecture to Jiangning Prefecture, becoming the provincial capital of Jiangnan Province.
1853: Tianjing - The Taiping Army captured Nanjing and established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was renamed Tianjing and was established as the capital for 11 years.
1864: Jiangning Prefecture - In the third year of Tongzhi, it was renamed Jiangning Prefecture and administered Jiangning, Shangyuan and other counties.
1912 to present: Nanjing - On January 1, the first year of the Republic of China, the Provisional Government of the Republic of China established its capital at Jiangning Prefecture, and changed Jiangning Prefecture to Nanjing Prefecture.
Extended information:
1. Nicknames for Nanjing: Stone City, Baixia, Qinhuai, Nanjing; Dragon Pan and Tiger Chu (dragon pan and tiger tree), the ancient capital of six dynasties, the city of ten dynasties , the city of fraternity, the city of enlightenment, the beautiful land of Jiangnan, and the wind and rain imperial city of Zhongshan.
2. Capital dynasties: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Southern Song, Southern Qi, Southern Liang, Southern Chen, Five Dynasties Yang Wu (Western Capital), Five Dynasties Southern Tang, Southern Song ( Xingdu), Ming Dynasty, Nanming Dynasty, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Republic of China.