Before liberation, Dalian was also called Luda. Now Lushun is a district of Dalian, but there was no Dalian in the late Qing Dynasty. Dalian was founded just over 100 years ago.
At the time of the Lushun Massacre, there were two counties in what is now Dalian, one is Lushun County and the other is Jin County (now Jinzhou). At that time, Dalian was still a fishing village named : Qingniwa Fishing Village.
It was the little devil who connected these three places together. Old Maozi gave it the name: Dalini. The Han people called it Dalian.
In the 19th century, this was still a small fishing village called Qingniwa. More than 100 years ago, the Russians founded this city and named it "Dalini", which means a distant city, a place far away from Moscow and St. Petersburg. At the end of 1895, the Japanese army invaded and occupied Chinese territory and harmed the interests of other imperialists. With the intervention of Russia, Germany, France and other countries, the Qing government bought back the Liaodong Peninsula from Japan for 30 million taels of silver. Afterwards, Tsarist Russia bribed Li Hongzhang heavily with 1 million taels of silver, and signed the "Luxury University Land Lease Treaty" on March 27, 1898. During the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, the Dalian area was the main battlefield and was occupied by Russian and Japanese imperialists for nearly fifty years. Beginning in 1898, Russia and Japan established Dalian City in the Qingniwa area on the south coast of Dalian Bay.