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Chongqing is the center of ancient Ba culture. When Yu divided the world into nine states, Bashu came under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou. Legend has it that Dayu passed through this place on his way to control water and married the fox girl Tushan from nearby Tushan (now Chongqing Nanshan Park). Four days after the wedding, Dayu left his home to control floods, and the fox girl couldn't stop crying. Later generations carved a stone at this moment: "Yu married Tushan at the place where he cried." The story of Dayu "passing through the house three times without entering" also happened here.
The fox girl often waits for her husband to return by the river. As time goes by, she turns into the "husband's return stone" on the other side of Chaotian Gate. After Yu returned, he shouted at the stone: "Qi!" A baby boy came out in response. He was Qi, the founding king of the Xia Dynasty. Yu placed Qi beside a stream at the foot of Tushan Rock, where he was suckled by a divine tiger. From then on, the rock was called Huru Rock and the stream was called Huru River. Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once visited this place and wrote "Wandering Alone in Tushan": "Walking in the wilderness without a companion, staying in the monk's house for a while, Tushan is familiar with coming and going, only horseshoes know it."
As for the Yin and Zhou dynasties, , the capital of Pakistan is located in Chongqing. According to "Huayang Guozhi", General Manzi of the Ba Kingdom once asked the King of Chu to help quell the civil strife and promised to cut off the city as a reward. After the civil strife was calmed down, Manzi told the envoys calmly: "Thank you with my head, the city will not be captured!" After saying this, he committed suicide. The king of Chu sighed and said: "If I have a minister like Ba Manzi, what can I do with the city?" He buried his head with the honors of the minister, and the Ba Kingdom also buried his body with the honors of the minister. Bamanzi Tomb, backed by the Dingyuan Gate of the old city, is commonly known as the "General's Tomb" and has become the oldest existing historical relic in Chongqing.
During the Warring States Period, Zhang Yi, the prime minister of the Qin State, led his troops to destroy the Ba Kingdom and set up Ba County, where he built the earliest city in Chongqing, mainly at the mouth of the mountain where the two rivers converged. There is a record of "Yicheng Jiangzhou" in "Huayang Guozhi". In the Han Dynasty, the county was converted into a state. Bajun was named Jiangzhou because it was located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River. "Shuowen": "You can live in the water and call it a state." Another way of saying it is that Chongqing is surrounded by rivers on three sides and is like land in the water, so it is called Jiangzhou. Legend has it that Zhao Yun, a famous general from the Three Kingdoms, stationed his troops in Jiangzhou and set up camp at Juelong Ridge. People said that Zhao Zilong (also known as Zhao Yun) was exhausted, and he became angry to death.
In the early Sui Dynasty, Jiangzhou was renamed Yuzhou, which was used for more than 500 years until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. The abbreviation "Yu" of Chongqing comes from this. Han Yu, whose "literary work has declined for eight generations and Taoism has been suppressed by the world", is well-known in Chongqing as the "general land god". During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty, Han Yu was demoted as the governor of Chaozhou. On his way to his post, he encountered snow and was stopped at Languan. Han Yu looked up to the sky and sighed. At this time, his grandnephew Han Xiangzi, one of the Eight Immortals, descended from the clouds. Han Yu couldn't help reciting a poem in sorrow as a gift: "A letter will be sent to the Nine Heavens in the morning, and eight thousand people will be demoted to Chaozhou Road in the evening. If you want to eliminate evil things for the sage, you are willing to decline and cherish your remaining years! Where is Yun Heng's family in Qinling? The snow embraces the blue and the horse stops moving forward. "I know you came from afar with good intentions, so that you can take me back to the riverside." Xiangzi thought to himself, among the gods, only the God of Earth cares about the affairs of the world, receives food and wine from the world, and can live with his parents-in-law. Besides, Chongqing has a high terrain and is hot, so there is no suffering from humidity and miasma. So he asked the Jade Emperor to make Han Yu the God of Earth. The Jade Emperor thought of Han Yu's illustrious reputation, so he named him "the master of the world" and established a government in Yuzhou to govern. In fact, this legend was adapted by later generations based on Han Yu's poem "Moving from the left to Languan to show his nephew Xiang".
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, because Dr. Zhao Jian returned to Chongqing and was executed for rebellion, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty ordered to change Yuzhou to Gongzhou. Zhao Dun, Guangzong of the Southern Song Dynasty, was first granted the title of Prince Gong here. After ascending the throne, he issued an edict to upgrade Gongzhou to Chongqing Prefecture, which means "double celebration".
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Xueping, a Bashu hermit in Chongqing who had little talent, wrote a sign "Junping Family Divination", imitating his distant ancestor Yan Junping. One day, a guest came to the stall. He didn't ask for divination, but he said to the scholar: "I think your calligraphy is elegant and sophisticated, and you must be a well-educated scholar. Chongqing is a city full of mountains and rivers, majestic and majestic. I want to make a couplet. The couplet is: "Thousands of miles are the most important thing, and there are many mountains and rivers in Chongqing." The second couplet is about a single step of work." Yan Xueping looked at the guest for a moment, and then said: "One person can make a great country and a great king." The guests praised it. It is said that this guest is Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who went on tour incognito.
Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, is related to the origin of Yangliu Street in Chongqing. It is said that on the way Zhang Xianzhong led the rebel army to attack Chongqing, he met a kind-hearted woman and ordered her to put a willow branch at the door in order to prevent her from being killed. Then he issued an order: Do not disturb other people's houses with willow trees. After the woman planted willows at her door, her neighbors learned the story from her and started planting willows at their own door. As expected, this street with willows planted all over it was not damaged by the war, so it was named Yangliu Street. Another story is that there were widespread rumors that Zhang Xianzhong was going to bloodbath Sichuan, and a filial son in the city was very sad. Guanyin asked him in a dream at night to plant willow branches in front of his house to avoid disasters as a reward for his filial piety. Guanyin asked Zhang Xianzhong in a dream: "You must not kill people who have willow branches on their doors." Zhang Xianzhong immediately ordered his soldiers. When the soldiers entered the city, they saw willow branches planted in every house in this street, so they left without killing them. This street is called Yangliu Street.