Zhongshan

Zhongshan is a prefecture-level metropolis in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China, with a population of over three million. The town-core subdistricts was called Shiqi or Shekki. Zhongshan is certainly one of a totally few cities in China named after someone. It is called after Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who's acknowledged in Mandarin as Sun Zhongshan. Sun, the founder of the Republic of China who is additionally regarded positively by the People's Republic, was born in Cuiheng village in Nanlang Township of what become then Xiangshan County. In 1925, the year after his loss of life, Xiangshan turned into renamed Zhongshan in his honor.

Thousands of years ago, plenty of the Zhongshan vicinity lay in the Pearl River estuary, with handiest scattered islands above the surface. Gradually from south to north, the region crammed in with alluvial silt and became dry land. The northern elements of cutting-edge Zhongshan did not fill in till the time of the Ming Dynasty. The Zhongshan place changed into a part of an prolonged Dongguan County throughout the Tang Dynasty, and turned into a sizeable sea salt producer. In 1082, all through the Northern Song Dynasty, a fortified agreement known as Xiangshan became founded in the area, marking the primary reliable use of the call via which it would be acknowledged all through maximum of its contemporary records. The wealthy agreement became then upgraded to a county in 1152.