GUANGZHOU HISTORY |
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During Song Dynasty, Su Shi, a celebrated poet, visited Baozhuangyan Temple
(founded in AD 537), and left his hand-writing "liu rong" (six banyan trees)
to the temple, so the name "Liu Rong Temple".
In 1711, the British East India Company established a trading post in
Guangzhou.
Guangzhou was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of
Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between United
Kingdom and China. The other ports were Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo and Shanghai. |
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It is believed that the first city was built in 214 BC, named Panyu and have had a continuous
occupation since that time.
In 206 BC, it became the capital of Kingdom Nanyue, and the city was
expanded.
Han Dynasty annexed Nanyue in 111 BC, and Panyu became a provincial capital
and remains so until this day.
Panyu was renamed Guangzhou in AD 226.
Guangzhou was sacked by Arabs and Persians in AD 758, based on a local
Guangzhou government report on October 30, 758, which corresponded to the
day of Guisi of the ninth lunar month in the first year of the Qianyuan
era of Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty. |
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