Nanyang belonged to the state of Chu in the middle and early Warring States period.
In the Spring and Autumn period, Chu set up Wanyi, a dependency of the state of Chu, called Wanyu, and established its capital in Danyang (Xichuan County), where metallurgy was well developed, making it a famous iron smelting center in the country. In the late Warring States period, the city was taken over by Qin.
In the thirty-fifth year of King Zhao of Qin (272 BC), Nanyang County was first set up. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Nanyang had become one of the eight major metropolises in the country, and had begun to use iron, with iron smelting, silk and other handicrafts and commerce, especially copper casting industry developed rapidly, with a high level of craftsmanship.
After the unification of the six states by Qin, "the people who moved to Nanyang" made the rich and powerful people of the six states and the merchants and handicraftsmen who were good at business gathered in Nanyang, which promoted the development of Nanyang's economy, especially the iron smelting industry was developed, and it became the center of the iron smelting industry in the whole country.
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History of Nanyang
Song Dynasty: Nanyang came under the jurisdiction of the South Western Beijing Road, Nanyang was called the Wusheng Army, and Tang and Dengzhou were set up, with counties under the state, and Dengzhou governed five counties, namely, Rang, Nanyang, Naixiang, Xichuan, and Shunyang. Tang state jurisdiction of Uyang, Huyang, Tongbai, Fangcheng and other counties.
Yuan Dynasty: the former Nanyang County was changed to Nanyang Province. It belonged to the Henan Jiangbei Xingzhongshu Province. Jurisdiction of five states, three of which are in the city today; Nanyang Prefecture since the leadership of Zhenping, Nanyang two counties; Dengzhou collar Neixiang, Shunyang, Xichuan, Xinye, Luanchuan five counties; Tangzhou collar 泌阳, Huyang, Tongbai, Fangcheng and other counties. The other two states govern Linru, Yichuan, Jiaxian, Baofeng, Lushan, Yexian, Maoyang, Lushi, Luanchuan and other counties.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang is the twenty-third son of Zhu Yuanzhang Tang Wang Zhu Tamarisk's fiefdom, Yongle years in the city of Nanyang built a large-scale Tang Wangfu, Chenghua years, and the construction of nine county king's mansion, the city of Nanyang, the royal family, the traffic, business and then active, the mountains, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Hubei and Eu businessmen come to a lot.
The Kangxi years of the Qing Dynasty, the construction industry is particularly developed, Wuhou, Shan-Shaanxi Hall and other ancient buildings magnificent, magnificent, Nanyang is Beijing to Hubei and Guanghan and Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan's main transportation routes, the land post road and waterway terminals, there is a "South Boat, North Horse," said. Mountain, Shaanxi, Jiang, Zhejiang, the collection of merchants, industrial and commercial prosperity, Nanyang became the economic center of southwestern Henan.