Chengdu is also known as Jinguan City and Guihua City. What are the allusions behind these names?

Chengdu has a long history. It is the capital of the ancient Shu kingdom. Li Bai once described the long history of the ancient Shu kingdom in Shu Dao Nan: until the two rulers of this area forced their passage in the foggy age!

Silkworm worm and Yu Fu were pioneers of the ancient Shu State, but they lived for too long, and the specific founding time was not clear.

Therefore, today, when we talk about the nicknames of Chengdu, we will start with the case of Zhang Yi and Sima Cuo leading troops to annex Shu in 3 16 BC, and they will talk about it in Zhucheng, Chengdu.

I. Guihua City

During the reign of King Xian of Zhou, Pakistan was threatened by the military of Chu, and Pakistan was determined to expand its development space by attacking Shu. However, Dulu's younger brother Yan Hou privately refused to accept his younger brother and joined forces with Pakistan to attack Shu.

The king of Shu, who was attacked on both sides, turned his attention to Qin, hoping that the other side could send troops to help. Zhang Yi, a think tank of Qin State, valued the wealth of Pakistan and Ju State. He had long been interested in sending troops to Bashu, but on the one hand, the road to Sichuan was difficult and dangerous, on the other hand, he was worried that the domestic emptiness after sending troops would cause a sneak attack on six countries in Shandong.

At this time, with the help of Bashu, Zhang Yi saw how to win Bashu without bloodshed.

So Zhang Yi agreed to Hou's request to attack Pakistan. In 3 16 BC, Zhang Yi destroyed Shu, and soon after that, he destroyed Pakistan and Shu.

After completing her strategic layout, Zhang Yi divided the territory of the Three Kingdoms into Shu County, Ba County and Hanzhong County, 4 1 county.

Zhang Yi set the county seat of Ba County in Jiangzhou City, which is today's Chongqing, and the county seat of Shu County in Chengdu. In 3 1 1 BC, Zhang Yi and Zhang Ruo, the county magistrate of Shu County, built a new city-Yecheng in Chengdu.

The following year, Zhang Yi built a small city.

Read the summary of historical sites: Chengdu City. Fucheng. Old Taicheng, Shaocheng, Zicheng and Luocheng. Yecheng, Fuye, built by Qin Gui and Sima Cuo, is a turtle city ... Taicheng was built in Yiyi yesterday, and several cities were built a year later.

It is said that Zhang Yi failed many times in building Taicheng. When he was confused, he suddenly found a chinemys reevesii under the water. The tortoise climbed to the southeast corner of the city and died.

Zhang Yi asked the guide, what does this mean?

The wizard replied: this is a sign from heaven that we will successfully build a city, as long as we build a city in the direction of the tortoise's death.

The National Records of Huayang said: "In the twelfth year of King Hui of Qin, Zhang Yi and Sima Cuo defeated Shu and captured it. Because the instrument built the city, the city finally collapsed. After that, a chinemys reevesii came out of the cage and made a circle. It was built according to the position of the tortoise. "

Because of this allusion, Chengdu is also called "turtle city", which means a place protected by turtles.

Zhang Yi has great respect for this turtle. He consecrated its shell and burned incense for worship. According to Sok Li's Continued Natural History, in the Tang Dynasty, a small official named Yu Wenyu discovered this six-foot-long turtle shell again.

Second, Jinguancheng

Jinguancheng is another nickname of Chengdu, which represents another cultural heritage of Sichuan-Shu embroidery.

In the long feudal years, Shu brocade was once a tribute to the court. It is an important material for making dragon robes, and Zhuge Liang also relied on it to support the cost of six northern expeditions.

Because the value of Shu brocade is too great, Zhang Yi set up a brocade official in the south of Yili Bridge, who specializes in weaving Shu brocade. Over time, when outsiders talk about Chengdu, they call it Jinguan City vividly.