Jiaxing History

Jiaxing is to be the Neolithic Age horse house Bang origin of culture, morning session border have the people is engaged in the activity of fishing and hunting of agriculture and animal husbandry first ago 7000 year. In spring and autumn, the name of this place is Changshui, is also called XieLi, two countries of Wu and Yue contend for this constant change . At the Warring States period, puts under the border of Chu county. Qin dynasty puts Quan county, Haiyan county, belong to Huiji county . Boil sea for the salt, have garrison troops or peasants open up wasteland and grow food grain for the grain at the two Chinese. Country Wu grand to crouch river the east at the three countries, By the south borderof Quan county, west border of Haiyan county put officer of salt , " whether wild rice spontaneous by fist" of Wuhuanglong three year (231 ), big emperor Sun Quan of Wu think it is auspicious and auspicious, change the Quan county to Hexing, rename as Jiaxing in Chiwu five years (242 ). Sui dynasty cuts the South river, i.e. the Grand Canal from Hangzhou to Jiaxing in Zhenjiang, give good to Jiaxing to bring irrigate profit of vessel. The day treasure of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty is ten years ( 751)The pavilion county of China is put in counties such as east border and sea salt, elder brother mountain ,etc. some jurisdictions and make the county prosperous well. Jiaxing open up wasteland and grow food grain in 27 places in the Tang Dynasty, " three of the west of Zhejiang was collected, good standing grain heavy", Jiaxing become important grain-producing area, southeast of China already. Wu Dai - Shi Guo period, Wu Yue State set up Kaiyuan office in Jiaxing, have Jiaxing, Haiyan, Huating 3 counties, it is for revitalizing one grade of regime of setting up the state in the office for the first time. Later Jin Dynasty (940) Tianfu 5 years, because Qian Yuanguan who is king of Wu Yue, play and ask, set up the Xiuzhou, have JIaxing, Haiyan, Huating, Chongde 4 counties. Change Xiuzhou to Jiahe county in Northern Song Dynasty, rise the prefecture for the office the first year of an era (1195 ) the Southern Song Dynasty, and then changed to Jiaxing army. YuanShizu 13 years (1276 ) change Jiaxing army for Jiaxing office pacify department, promote to Jiaxing office , person in over-all charge of Luis . Song and Yuan dynasty, The economy of Jiaxing to be relatively developed, ZhaPu, GanPu, Qinglong ,etc. foreign trade frequent port, it is prosperous to transport by sea. The 5 years of xuande period of Ming dynasty make the northwest border of Jiaxing county as Xiushui county, make the Northeast border as Jiashan county; make the Haiyan county as Pinghu county; make the Chongde county as Tongxiang county, The Jiaxing office have 7 county under its command, called one office and seven counties. Forth Five-Year Plan Period the system of county of office can't change basically in being century-old hereafter. At that time, on the basis of agriculture and hand industrial development, commodity economy was prosperous day by day, cotton silk on sale throughout north and south is far to overseas. Initial stage of Qing Dynasty, the Qing Government has carried on the reform of taxes and rectified, and many times for gulf at the Hangzhou seawall, the economic and social developed day by day,the city ana county flourishing gradually. The Xianfeng 10 years of Qing dynasty (1860), The Taiping army attack the Jiaxing city, the king of Jianting office is the office of local army government. After the middle period of Qing dynasty, robbing by imperialism and feudal exploitation, the good economic and urban appearance that revitalizes declines and depressed day by day.
On November 7 , 1911, the 1911 Revolution partisan recovered Jiaxing, establish the Jiaxing army and the government to divide into the office. The Republic of China abolish office to set up the county, rename as Jiahe county, and then called Jiaxing county. At the beginning of August of 1921, the first national congress of Communist Party of China closed in revitalizing a pleasure-boat on south lake well, declare the Communist Party of China is established. On November 5, 1937, Jiaxing was captured by the Japanese aggressor troop, had trampled on for 8 years.
Jiaxing liberated on May 7 , 1949, set up Jiaxing county, Jiaxing city, and then it is frequent to merge. In August of 1983, cancel the Jiaxing regional administrative office, set up the Jiaxing, Huzhou city separately, Have Jiashan,Pinghu,Tongxiang, Haining,haiyan 5 counties under its command. In January of 1985, the urban area of Jiaxing and Jiashan, Tongxiang, haining county were classified as the open economic region of the Changjiang Delta, by 1988, 5 counties of Jiaxing city had jurisdiction over and was classified well as the open economic region. In November of 1993, the urban area of jiaxing rename as the Xiucheng area; On June 21 , 1999, the suburb renamed as the Xiuzhou District.