How did the name Shanghai come into being?

Shanghai's influence in the history of China may be only a few hundred years, but if we look back at the history of Shanghai, we will be surprised to find that its history is not short. According to textual research, in the period of Ganze culture 5, years ago, Shanghai has become the Yangtze River Delta Plain, and the ancestors of Shanghai have left footprints here. Shanghai in the Spring and Autumn Period belonged to the State of Wu, while Shanghai in the Warring States Period belonged to the State of Yue first, and then to the State of Chu. King Kao Lie of Chu took Huang Xie as the prime minister and was named Chun Shenjun. Shanghai was a part of his fief, and the nickname "Shen" came from this.

Another nickname of Shanghai is "Shanghai", which originated from "Hudu". In ancient times, fishermen in Shanghai invented a bamboo fishing tool "Hu". At that time, there was no place name of Shanghai, and this area was called "Hudu".

The real origin of the name "Shanghai" began in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Shanghai began to become a new trading port in China. At that time, there were 18 Pus in Shanghai, one of which was called Shanghai Pus. Among the Huangpu River from Bund to Shiliupu, there was a Shanghai town on its west bank. These are the origins of the name "Shanghai". The town of Shanghai in Yuan Dynasty has made great progress, and a city shipping company was established. Since then, Shanghai Town has been upgraded to Shanghai County. In the Ming Dynasty, Shanghai became the largest center of cotton spinning industry in China, and its commercial economy was increasingly developed. In the 24th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (1685), the Qing government established a customs office in Shanghai. During the reign of Qianlong and Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, Shanghai gradually became a big trading port and a transportation center for grain and grain in China, and was called "the city of southeast China". In 1843, after the Opium War, Shanghai was forcibly opened as a trading port by colonialists. In 1845, Britain first established a concession in Shanghai. After that, the United States set up a concession in Shanghai. In 1849, France also established a concession in Shanghai. In 1863, after the Anglo-American Concession merged into the British Concession, Shanghai was actually divided into three parts: the Chinese border, the British Concession and the French Concession. For more than 1 years after 1843, Shanghai became the main port for foreign colonialists to dump goods and search for raw materials and money in China, so it was called "the paradise of adventurers".

On July 7, 1927, Shanghai Special City was proclaimed. On July 1, 193, Shanghai was formally established. After the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1945, the concession was recovered. On May 27, 1949, Shanghai was liberated. After long-term unremitting transformation and construction by successive governments and people in Shanghai, Shanghai became an important industrial and commercial base in new China.