As early as the late Neolithic Age, humans were thriving in the area.
Unearthed cultural relics prove that around 5,000 years ago, villages had been formed in places such as Malukou and Jiangnan in present-day Anhua County, Beihekou in Nan County, Dengshiqiao in Heshan District, and Luhu in Yuanjiang City.
After entering the Bronze Age, in today’s Majitang and Huishangang in Taojiang County, Lianzitang in Yuanjiang City, Xinqiaohe in Ziyang District, Changchun, Heshan Temple, Longguang Bridge, and Bijiashan in Heshan District , residential villages have become denser.
Before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the district was under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou among the nine states recorded in "Shu Yu Gong".
During the Warring States Period, it was the territory of Qianzhong County of Chu State.
Qin belongs to Changsha County.
Yiyang got its name, according to Ying Shao in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "In the Yang of Yishui, it should be the name of the county.
" Zhou Shurong, a Qing Dynasty man, said in his "Yiyang Fu": " The north of the water that Yishui passes through is called Yang, and the county is named after it.
"It seems that Zishui, a large river flowing through Yiyang, may have been Yishui in ancient times.
The market is located in the north direction of the Yangtze River, so it is called Yiyang.
What’s interesting is that the name of Yiyang has never changed its name no matter how frequently its jurisdiction has changed over thousands of years. This is relatively rare among Chinese place names.
According to documentary records and unearthed cultural relics, our ancestors have been thriving on this land as early as the Neolithic Age.
Around 5,000 years ago, there were dense settlement groups in the Xinqiao River, Dengshiqiao, Wuling, Lianzitang, and Huishangang areas of Yiyang today.
According to "Yu Gong", today's Yiyang area belonged to Jingzhou in ancient times.
It was the territory of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was under the jurisdiction of Chu Qianzhong County during the Warring States Period. In 221 BC, Qin destroyed Chu and established Changsha County, which included nine counties including Yiyang.
The original Yiyang County included today’s Taojiang, Yiyang, Anhua, and Xinhua counties and all of Yiyang City and Lengshuijiang City, as well as Ningxiang, Xiangyin, Lianyuan, Xinshao, and Yuanjiang City Part of the earthwork covers an area of ??18,000 square kilometers.
The counties and cities under the jurisdiction of today's Yiyang area, except for the Yuanjiang part and Nan County, are all within the ancient Yiyang territory.
In the Western Han Dynasty, the two systems of prefectures and counties and feudal states existed in parallel.
Today's Yiyang area belongs to Changsha Kingdom and Wuling County, and is under the unified jurisdiction of the Jingzhou Governor's History Department.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the system of prefectures, prefectures, and counties was followed from the Western Han Dynasty, and Changsha was abolished as a county.
Today's Yiyang area belongs to Changsha Kingdom and Wuling County, and is under the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou Governor's History Department.
The Three Kingdoms stood in a tripartite state, and Wu and Shu were divided into Jingzhou.
During this period, Jingzhou was on the battlefield where Wei, Shu and Wu were competing for supremacy.
After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao withdrew from the south, and Wu and Shu launched a complicated battle for Jingzhou.
It was first captured by Liu Bei of Shu in 207 AD.
When Sun Quan failed to seize Jingzhou, he sent Lu Meng to seize Changsha.
In order to save Changsha, Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to station troops in Yiyang and resist Lu Meng in the 20th year of Jian'an (215 AD).
"Wu Zhi·Biography of Gan Ning" contains: "Ning followed Lu Su in Yiyang to reject the Marquis of Guan, and the Marquis selected five thousand of his elite troops to go to the upper reaches of the county for more than ten miles to Qianse, and the clouds wanted to cross at night.
Su selected his troops to stay in Yining at night. When Hou heard about it, he set up a camp without crossing.
Lu Su then led Cheng Pu and Ganning to garrison at Guishan in the southeast of the city. Lu Jia meets Guan Yu at the mouth of the mountain.
This date was the ever-famous "Single Sword Meeting".
The Yiyang City Wall was built by Suzhu Tucheng to station troops.
In the second year of Wu Taiping of the Three Kingdoms (AD 257), Hengyang County was established as the western governor of Changsha.
Yiyang belongs to Hengyang County.
At this time, Xinyang County (now Ningxiang) was divided from the southern part. In 266 AD, Gaoping County (part of today's Xinhua and Xinshao counties) was divided from the western part. The territory of Yiyang County began to shrink. .
In 280 AD, after Jin defeated Wu, the country was divided into 20 states, and Yiyang belonged to Jingzhou.
During the Southern Song Dynasty (420 AD), Hengyang County was renamed as a country, and Yiyang belonged to the Hengyang Kingdom.
A part of the land was also allocated to Xiangyin.
During the Qi Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty (479 AD), Hengyang was reorganized into a county. Until the Liang Dynasty, it still belonged to Hengyang County, Yaoshan County, Wuling County, Baling County and Nanping County.
During the Sui Dynasty, it belonged to Tanzhou, Yuezhou, Langzhou and Lizhou.
In the first year of Tang Zhenguan (AD 627), the country was divided into 10 roads, and in the Kaiyuan period, it was divided into 15 roads, and the roads were collectively called Xiazhou and County.
Yiyang changed its ownership with Tanzhou and Changsha counties, and it changed four times.
During the Five Dynasties, the Ten Kingdoms were divided, and Hunan belonged to the Chu Kingdom.
In Houliang (907 AD) Yiyang belonged to Tanzhou.
In the Later Tang Dynasty (923 AD), Ma Yin belonged to the Chu State, and Yiyang belonged to Changsha Prefecture.
In the Later Zhou Dynasty (951-959 AD), Yiyang belonged to Tanzhou Prefecture.
In the Song Dynasty, the country was initially divided into 15 roads, later divided into 23 roads, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was divided into 16 roads. The high road was to appease the division, directly under the jurisdiction of the capital, and the lower road was to house the government, prefectures, counties, and the army.
In the first year of Jianlong (960 AD), Taizu Taizu of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yiyang belonged to Changsha County, Lutan, Hunan.
In the fifth year of Xining (AD 1072), Xinhua, Anhua and other counties were divided from Yiyang Meishan and other places.
According to the records of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, in the fifth year of his reign, Zhang Dun opened Meishan and placed it in Anhua County, naming it "Gui Andehua".
In 1279 AD, Kublai Khan destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty, and established the road. In the first year of Yuan Zhenzong (1295 AD), Yiyang County had 10,000 households and was promoted to Yiyang Prefecture, which belonged to Tanzhou Road.
In the second year of Tianli (AD 1329), Tanzhou Road was changed to Tianlin Road.
The country was divided into 13 provinces in the Ming Dynasty. The provincial high-level administrative affairs department (later changed to the xuanzhengenshi Department), and the provinces had government offices, prefectures, and departments. Yiyang belonged to Huguang Province, that is, the Huguang administrative department The envoy (governing Jiangxia, now Wuhan City) Changsha Prefecture.
In the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty (1368 AD), Yiyang Prefecture was restored to Yiyang County.
In 1636 AD, the Aixinjueluo family changed the name of the country to Qing.
Adopting a four-level system of "province", "road", "prefecture and Zhili departments, Zhili prefectures", "counties and scattered departments and scattered prefectures", the country was initially divided into 18 provinces, and later 23 provinces, provincial governors, governors, and chief envoys.
Yiyang belongs to Changsha County, Changbaodao, Hunan Province.
On October 20, 1852 AD, Hong Xiuquan led the Taiping Army to fight in Yiyang via Changsha, and changed Yiyang County to "Desheng County".
This is the only brief name change in the history of Yiyang.
At the beginning of the Republic of China, the country was divided into 22 provinces and 4 special zones, and later increased to 35 provinces and ***.
In the third year of the Republic of China (AD 1914), Hunan's government, departments, and prefectures were abolished, and Changbao Road was changed to Xiangjiang Road, which governed Yiyang.
In the eleventh year of the Republic of China, Dao was abolished and Yiyang belonged to the province.
In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938 AD), Hunan Province was divided into 9 administrative inspection districts, and Yiyang belonged to the 1st district; it was later adjusted to 10 districts.
In the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), the Hunan Provincial Government adjusted the original nine administrative inspection districts to 10 because the jurisdiction was too wide and the supervision was inconvenient.
In April of the same year, 6 counties including Yiyang, Anhua, Xiangxiang, Ningxiang, Hanshou and Yuanjiang were divided to form the fifth administrative inspection district. The beginning of the establishment of first-level administration.
Nan County belongs to the Fourth Administrative Supervision District (the Commissioner's Office is located in Changde).
In the 33rd year of the Republic of China (1944), the Japanese invaders invaded China on a large scale. Parts of Hunan fell, and the establishment of various administrative inspection areas existed in name only.
The Provincial Government then established three administrative offices: Anhua, Yuanling, and Hongjiang. They served as temporary dispatch agencies of the Provincial Government during extraordinary periods to take charge of each county.
The Anhua Administrative Office was established in Meicheng, Anhua County on October 18 of that year.
All counties under the former Fifth Administrative Supervision District are under the jurisdiction of the Anhua County Administrative Office.
On July 31 of the following year, the Anhua Administrative Office was abolished and the Fifth Administrative Supervision District was restored.
In 1949, various parts of Hunan were liberated one after another, and the rule of *** *** in Hunan came to an end, and the establishment of various administrative supervision areas collapsed accordingly.
In August of that year, after the establishment of the new Provisional People's Government of Hunan Province (the Provincial People's Government was formally established in April 1950), Hunan Province established 1 provincial municipality and 10 special regions.
The special region has a commissioner's office, which is the provincial government's dispatched agency.
The Yiyang Special Region was established in August 1949. The Commissioner's Office is located in Chengguan District, Yiyang County, and has jurisdiction over the six counties of Yiyang, Anhua, Xiangxiang, Ningxiang, Yuanjiang and Hanshou.
In March 1950, Chengguan District of Yiyang County was changed to Yiyang Chengguan District and promoted to the county level; in September of the same year, Yiyang City was established, directly under the leadership of the Yiyang Special Administrative Office.
In April 1951, the provincial government implemented the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on "In large counties with a population of about 1 million, if leadership is difficult, they can be divided into smaller counties" and analyzed the ninth and tenth counties of Xiangxiang County. Districts, the third and fourth districts of Anhua County and Lantian Town, as well as parts of Shaoyang and Xinhua counties, were placed in Lantian County; the third, sixth and seventh districts of Xiangxiang County were analyzed and placed in Yongfeng County.
In July of the same year, the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and eleventh districts of Yiyang County were analyzed and Taojiang County was established, all under the jurisdiction of Yiyang District.
At that time, the district governed 9 counties and 1 city.
Nan County belongs to Changde District.
In November 1952, the establishment of Yiyang Prefecture was cancelled. Ningxiang County was originally under the jurisdiction of Xiangtan Prefecture. Xiangxiang, Shuangfeng, and Lianyuan counties were placed under Shaoyang Prefecture. Yiyang, Taojiang, Anhua, The five counties of Hanshou, Yuanjiang and Yiyang City were placed under the Changde Prefecture, which lasted for 10 years.
In the meantime, Yiyang City was changed to a provincial municipality in April 1953, and Changde was authorized to lead it. In July 1958, it was changed to the leadership of Yiyang County. However, in 1961, it was restructured into a prefectural city, and Changde was still under the leadership. lead.
In December 1962, the establishment of the Yiyang Special Area was restored. The Commissioner's Office was located in Taohualun, Yiyang City, and administered seven counties including Nanxian, Yuanjiang, Huarong, Yiyang, Ningxiang, Taojiang, Anhua and Yiyang City.
The six state-owned farms of Datong Lake, Qianshanhong, Jinpen, Beizhouzi, Chapanzhou and Qianliang Lake are also under the jurisdiction of Yiyang District.
In September 1964, Huarong County and Qianlianghu Farm were placed under the Yueyang Prefecture.
In 1968, Yiyang District was renamed Yiyang Area.
In July 1983, Ningxiang County was classified as Changsha City.
So far, the district has jurisdiction over Yiyang, Taojiang, Anhua, Yuanjiang, Nan County and Yiyang City, as well as 5 state-owned farms and Datong Lake, Beizhouzi, Jinpen, Qianshanhong, Chapanzhou Lake fishery.
In March 1994, the State Council approved the abolition of Yiyang region and the establishment of prefecture-level Yiyang City; in May, the new *** Yiyang City First Congress elected *** Yiyang City First Committee and the Commission for Discipline Inspection; the original Yiyang County and Yiyang City were separated by Zishui respectively, and were changed to Heshan District in the south and Ziyang District in the north.
On July 1, the "Standing Committee of Yiyang Municipal People's Congress", "Yiyang Municipal People's ***", and "Yiyang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" were officially launched.
This marked the establishment of Yiyang City at the prefecture level.
Yiyang City governs 3 counties (Nanxian, Taojiang, Anhua), 1 city (Yuanjiang City), 2 districts (Heshan, Ziyang), and 5 state-owned farms (Datong Lake, Beizhouzi, Jinpan, Qianshanhong, Chapanzhou) and Datong Lake fishery.
On December 18, 2000, *** Datong Lake District Committee and Datong Lake District Management Committee were established.
The five major state-owned farms were cancelled.
The site where the field is located will be converted into a construction town.
Datong Lake District was formed by the merger of four state-owned farms, namely Datong Lake, Beizhouzi, Jinpan, and Qianshanhong; Chapanzhou Farm was renamed Chapanzhou Town and placed under the jurisdiction of Yuanjiang City.
The municipal jurisdiction includes 3 counties, 1 city, and 3 districts (Heshan, Ziyang, and Datong Lake).