Its origin is generally considered to be named after Zhongshan in Nanjing, and it was called Jinling Mountain in the Spring and Autumn Period. In 333 BC, Chu Weiwang defeated the State of Yue, killed the King of Yue without borders, seized the territory of Wu captured by the State of Yue, and built a city on Stone Mountain (now Liang Qingshan), which was called Jinling City.
At that time, Zhongshan was called Jinling Mountain, and the rest of the hills didn't even have their own names. Stone Mountain was a part of Jinling Mountain at that time, so the city built on it was named "Jinling City".
There is a clear record in Jiankangzhi in the Tang Dynasty: "Jinling City stands on the mountain". As a noun, "Ling" generally has two meanings. One is the "great wealth" mentioned in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, which is a higher mountain.
The second is to borrow it as the emperor's mausoleum. The ancients compared the mountain ridge to the supreme ruler, and the death of the emperor was called "the collapse of the mountain ridge". The emperor's tomb rises like a mountain, and it is often built when the emperor is alive. In order to avoid bad luck, it is called a mausoleum or a mountain mausoleum.
A passage describing Nanjing
1, I praise Nanjing because of its beautiful scenery. Here, mountains, water, cities and forests set each other off in interest, and man-made allusions are row upon row. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, which is built on the mountain, with continuous stone steps and towering ancient trees, showing the broad mind of a generation of great men.
Confucius Temple is very lively, with exquisite snacks, colorful lanterns, quaint buildings, drifting primitive boats and crowds, showing the distant culture and vitality of Shili Qinhuai. The stone carvings in the Southern Dynasties are unique.
Calligraphy in the Jin Dynasty has been passed down through the ages; Yuhuatai makes people respect martyrs; Xuanwu Lake, Mochou Lake, Yangtze River Bridge, and buttonwood trees that block the sun all constitute an indispensable and excellent landscape in Nanjing.
2. Contemporary Nanjing has trained and gathered too many outstanding talents. Nanjing has 43 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 28 academicians of China Academy of Engineering and 430,000 college students, ranking among the best in China, with the proportion of students per 10,000 people ranking first in the country.
More importantly, Nanjing people also have outstanding contemporary representatives. This is a city full of heroes, and a number of civilian heroes such as Zhou Guangyu and Li Yuanlong have emerged. Enlightened and open, honest and upright, liberal arts, entrepreneurial innovation are the unique spiritual wealth of Nanjing people in building a harmonious society.
I love Nanjing because of its ever-changing appearance. The spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation and Excellence is everywhere here. Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a familiar name and a landmark building that makes hundreds of millions of China people proud, now has two bridges, three bridges and two brothers.
Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway, Ninglian Expressway, Ring Road and Metro 1 Line all form the traffic artery of Nanjing. Once upon a time, the 6-story Fuchang Hotel stood out from the crowd in Nanjing, and even in the 1980s, the 37-story Jinling Hotel took the lead.