1. The Origin of Chongming Island
The origin of the island China tour deals
comes from a legend. In the last years of East-Jin Dynasty, the peasant
uprising of Sunen failed. Some bamboo rafts of the uprising drifted to
the mouth of Yangtze River near the East China Sea. The bamboo rafts
grounded because of the mud near banks. These rafts stopped the mud
flowing to the sea. As the time passed, a sandbank was formed. With the
rise and fall of the tide, the sandbank often disappeared under water.
It gave people a feeling of mystery. Someone thought it looked like a
monster; someone thought it looked like an immortal. Therefore it got
the name ‘Suiming’ (Sui meaning furtive, Ming meaning obvious and
bright). Afterwards more and more mud piled here, the sandbank became
tall and large and totally above the water. It finally could be called
an island. The tide could no longer affect it. In order to show respect
to the large island, people changed its name into ‘Chongming’ (Chong
meaning respect).
2. Yingzhou in East Sea
Chongming Island has another beautiful ancient name called ‘Yingzhou in East Sea’. It was said that there was a Yingzhou China best tours
in the ancient East Sea where immortals lived. However, nobody knew
where it was. First Emperor of Qin (Qin Shi Huang) and Emperor Wu of
Western Han had sent people to search for it with no result. When it
came to Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhuyuanzhang bestowed the title of ‘
Yingzhou in East Sea’ upon Chongming Island. Since then, Chongming
Island had the good name as ancient Yingzhou.
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