When you arrive in Qingdao by plane or train, you may hear a broadcast introducing Qingdao: "Qingdao is named because of its large number of trees, which are evergreen all year round." In fact, there is still a lot of mystery as to why Qingdao is called Qingdao. origin.
In November of the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1897), Germany sent troops to invade Jiaoao. On March 6, 1898, Germany forced the Qing government to sign the "Jiao-ao Lend Treaty". According to the book "Jiaozhou Bay", on October 12, 1899, Kaiser Wilhelm II borrowed the name "Qingdao" to name the new urban area of ????the Jiao'ao lease area Qingdao, which only covers the current Shinan District and Shinan District. In part, Qingdao is only one district in the entire Jiaoao Concession.
In 1922, China took back the Jiaoao leased land from the Japanese and named it "Jiaoao Commercial Port" (directly under the central government). In November of the same year, it promulgated the "Jiaoao Commercial Port Charter" and Qingdao City implemented autonomy "Zhi Ling", this is the earliest record of the name "Qingdao City". Qingdao City is only part of the Jiaoao Commercial Port and is supervised by the Jiaoao Commercial Port. It was not until 1929 that the Jiaoao Commercial Port Bureau was abolished and the area under the original Jiaoao Commercial Port was named Qingdao Special City. From then on, the place name Qingdao represented the entire urban area. Since then, although the scope of its jurisdiction has changed from time to time, the name Qingdao City has been used to this day. At present, Qingdao's municipal jurisdiction covers more than 10,000 square kilometers, including seven districts: Shinan, Shibei, Sifang, Licang, Laoshan, Chengyang, and Huangdao, and five cities: Jimo, Pingdu, Jiaozhou, Jiaonan, and Laixi.
It can be seen that the name "Qingdao" is from the name of the island to the name of the village, from the name of the village to the name of the district and finally to the name of the city. Among them, it also reflects the development process of Qingdao.