Which city is Cixi, Zhejiang?

Cixi City, Zhejiang Province is Ningbo City.

Cixi, located in the south of Zhejiang Province, is the center of Hangzhou Bay in China, which is rich in tidal flat resources and the richest land resources in Zhejiang Province. Known as the birthplace of the "Ocean Ceramics Road", it has a unique geographical location, bordering Ningbo in the east, Shanghai in the north and Hangzhou in the west.

Cixi's urban culture has a history of more than 5,000 years, and ancestors lived here in the Neolithic Age, which is the witness of Wu culture. Cixi was named after Dong 'an "mother's filial piety". Cixi has a long history and culture, which has laid the ceramic pattern in China. It is also the three major home appliance production bases in China, and is known as the home appliance capital.

Cixi culture:

1, Cixi dialect

Cixi dialect is a dialect of Wu dialect, which has a long history in Chinese. Its ancestral language can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. Mainly used in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, southern Anhui, Shangrao, Jiangxi and other places. Commonly known as "Jiangnan dialect" and "Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialect", it has a population of nearly 80 million, ranking second in Chinese dialect and tenth in the world.

2. Reclamation culture

In the early days, many people in Cixi lived along the mountain and moved north and east with the construction of seawall. At the same time, people from neighboring areas and other provinces gradually moved in, and immigrants came here to produce and live. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, more than 5,000 guards from Funing, Fujian Province were transferred to guard Cixi and stationed here. Today, most residents in Guanhaiwei area are their descendants.

3. Celadon culture

Cixi is one of the cradles of China porcelain, and the firing time of celadon began in Han Dynasty and ended in Song Dynasty. In the last two centuries from the late Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, it flourished for a while and became a veritable porcelain capital of Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Guimeng praised "September and autumn dew passing through the kiln, winning the green color of a thousand peaks." .

Cixi is also an important starting point of the famous "Maritime Ceramic Road". Yue Kiln treasures, represented by celadon from Shanglin Lake, are listed as Four Treasures of the Study in Tang Dynasty alongside gold and silver vessels, precious vessels and silk.