An overview of the history of Chaoyang from ancient times to the present? Why did Chaoyang become a

Chaoyang City was withdrawn from the city in 2003 and set up as Chaoyang District of Shantou City.

Chaoyang was placed in the first year of Long'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (397 AD), and in 1993, the county was withdrawn to set up a city-type Tanpai (county-level), and in 2003, the city was withdrawn and divided into Chaoyang District and Chaonan District, which were placed under the jurisdiction of Shantou City. The Chaoyang area covers an area of square kilometers and is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in the country.

Chaoyang District is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, bordering the South China Sea and close to the Tropic of Cancer. The landform of the whole region is dominated by hills and plains, and there are two major water systems, Lianjiang River and Rongjiang River. The transportation is convenient, there are National Highway 324, Shenzhen-Shantou Expressway, Provincial Highway 234, Provincial Highway 237, Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway and Shanzhan, Chaohui, Jiehui and Chaoshan Ring Road four expressways pass through the border.

Chaozhou is bordered by Meizhou in the north, the South China Sea in the south, Zhangzhou in the east, and Jieyang in the west, with a total area of 3,146 square kilometers, and is now the gateway city in the eastern part of Guangdong Province. Chaozhou first began to develop in the Sui Dynasty, when it was not too famous as the starting place of Taiwan, until the Tang Dynasty, the Maritime Silk Road began to develop gradually, forming a huge interest group, Chaozhou as an important gateway to the sea and the passage to Taiwan, developed into a relatively large cargo transit site, and many people began to live here.

As one of the ancestral hometowns and settlements of Teochew people, Teochew is also one of the birthplaces of Teochew culture. Chaozhou culture is mainly represented by Chaozhou language, Chaozhou opera, Chaozhou **, Chaoshan ancestral hall, Chaoshan dwellings, Chaozhou gongfu tea, Chaozhou cuisine, Chaoshan crafts, Chaozhou embroidery, Chaoshan Shantang, etc., in addition, Guangji Bridge, Korean Ancestral Hall, archway street and other attractions with the longest history are also favored by everyone.

There are many historical stories about Chaozhou, among which the Hangul Ancestral Hall was established to commemorate Han Yu. As one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, Han Yu angered the emperor at that time in the 14th year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty because he wrote the "Bone Table of the Buddha". Just when the emperor was about to order him to be executed, the prime minister Pei Du, who was a close friend, and others interceded for him to save him from death, and then he was demoted to Chaozhou as the assassin of Chaozhou as a guilty person.

In the eyes of many ** at that time, Chaozhou was a very partial place, far away from the Central Plains, both in culture and development are relatively backward, to these places to become officials are basically people who can't get along in the officialdom, many people are relegated to these places, they live a life of eating and waiting for death.

Han Yu is different, no matter how he goes, he has to find ways to do some big things for the people, it only took more than seven months in Chaozhou to bring the advanced culture of the Central Plains to Lingnan, in addition to driving crocodiles, liberating slaves and maids, building water conservancy, revitalizing education and cultivating talents, and doing a lot of things conducive to development for the locals. Later, it was worshiped as a god by the tide people, and Beacon Hill was renamed Hanshan.

Chaozhou City is located in the southern Xinjiang of the motherland, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Hanjiang River, and is a port city on the eastern coast of Guangdong Province. It is bordered by Zhao'an County and Pinghe County of Fujian Province in the east, Jiedong District of Jieyang City, Guangdong Province in the west, Fengshun County and Dapu County of Meizhou City in the north, Nanhai and Shantou City in the south. The total area of the city is 3,679 square kilometers, of which 3,146 square kilometers are land, 533 square kilometers are sea, and the coastline of the sea (island) is 136 kilometers.

The name of Chaozhou began in the tenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui (591). Its name is taken"In the island of tides, the tide goes back and forth". Teochew culture runs through the entire social life of Teochew people.

The Chaozhou culture represented by the Chaozhou dialect, Chaozhou opera, Chaozhou **, Chaozhou gongfu tea, Chaozhou cuisine, and Chaozhou embroidery has far-reaching influence and is well-known at home and abroad.

Chaozhou is the place with the most dense cultural relics and historic sites in eastern Guangdong, and these cultural relics have the characteristics of concentrated distribution and complete variety. Among the five national key cultural relics protection units, there are four ancient bridges in China that were built in the Southern Song Dynasty.

1. Guangji Bridge, known as the world's first opening and closing stone bridge.

There are rare Song Dynasty mansion buildings in China, the Kaiyuan Temple that condenses the essence of the architectural art of various dynasties since the Tang Dynasty, the Huanggong Temple that collects the culmination of Chaozhou wood carving, and the Song kiln ruins of Bijia Mountain that reflect the prosperity of the Chaozhou ceramic industry in the Song Dynasty. Provincial and municipal key cultural relics protection units also include the Hanwen Ancestral Hall, the ancient city wall of the Ming Dynasty, the Guangji Gate City Tower, the Hanbi Tower, etc.

Chaozhou celebrity: Mr. Xie Guomin, ancestral home in Chenghai City. Honorary Citizen of Chaozhou City.

Chairman of CP (C.P.) Group and Chairman of Asia Telecom (Volkswagen) **** under the Group, Vice Chairman of the Thai-Chinese Friendship Association, and the first President of the China Association of Overseas Chinese Investment Enterprises. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business by the King of Thailand.

Chaoyang is the first year of Long'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (397 AD) to set the county, and the ancient dynasties were subordinate to the Chaozhou Prefecture. On April 9, 1993, Yang County was revoked and Chaoyang City (county level) was established (Min Xing Batch No. 78 1993); On January 29, 2003, Chaoyang City was abolished and Chaoyang District and Chaonan District of Shantou City were divided into Chaoyang District and Chaonan District (Guo Han 2003 No. 11).

Teochew has a history of 5,000 years.