Jiaxing

Jiaxing (嘉兴市; Postal System Pinyin: Kashing; Wade-Giles: Chia-hsing) is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang Province, China. It is on the Huangpu River and the Grand Canal. Situated at the juncture of the Hangzhou-Shanghai Railway, Jiaxing produces silk (hence textile as well).

Table of contents

1 History
2 Subdivisions
3 Notable people
4 External links

History

210: Qin Shi Huangdi changed the name of Jiaxing from Changshui District (长水县) to Youquan (由拳縣).
231: Master Yedao (野稻) of Jiaxing informed Sun Quan of Wu Kingdom that there is a sign of auspice, so Sun changed Youchuan to Hexing District (禾興縣). This why Jiaxing's abbreviation is He. Sun also changed his era name to Jiahe (嘉禾) the following year.
January 242: Sun He (和) was made the crown prince. To prevent the name taboo, Jiahe was changed to Jiaxing.
938 (Later Jin of the Five Dynasties): Xiu Prefecture (秀州) established
1117 (Song Dynasty): Lianghe District (亮禾郡)
1429 (Ming Dynasty): Xiushui District (秀水縣) was established northwest of Jiaxing.
Early 1900s (the Republic of China): Xiushui and Jiaxing were combined into Jiahe County
1914: Reverted to Jiaxing County (because there's a Jiahe in Hunan Province)
1949 - 1958, 1979 (PRC): Upgraded to a city
1981: Old Jiaxing County merged into the city
1983: Upgraded to prefecture-level city