Guilin's History
From very early times, people had lived in Guilin, according to the research findings in Baoji rocks and Zengpiyan caves, here since ten thousand years ago, our ancestors had been the matriarchal society. However, in the long prehistoric period, this region was far away from the center of the plains, it was considered as the wilderness of Baiyue.
The emperor of Qin Shi Huang, the great person, leaves Guilin in the history of China. Qin Shi Huang wanted to unite all of China, and Xing'an was considered the lingqu canal as the entrance for Baiyue people's area. So he began to build Lingqu Canal, an army of 500,000 soldiers can reach south China by Xiangjiang River to Zhujiang River finally, since then Lingnan had become part of China, divided into 3 counties, Guilin, Nanhai and Xiang, which is the origin of the name "Guilin". In 111 BC, Hanwudi emperor of Han dynasty established Guilin county in this year, it was the first year for Guilin city. In the Tang Dynasty, the eight years (634 years) renamed Lingui County, the famous general Li Jing Gui Zhou served the generation of the county. South of the Lonely Beauty Peak as the city center built the city, and Ronghu and Shahu lakes were the river to protect the city. In Song Dynasty there was large-scale construction of reinforcing outside Guilin city on the basis of Tang Dynasty city. On the Papagayo Hill in the north of city has a cliff - "Map of Jingjiang Residence", a living record of the time of emergence of Guilin city.
From the Southern Song Dynasty, Guilin had become an indispensable administrative center region of Lingnan area, until the Ming Dynasty was a more powerful era. The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Zhu Shouqian, a grandson of his brother, as the king of the local kingdom of Guilin, King of Jingjiang Wang. He built the palace of the local king of Jingjiang on the basis of Emperor Yuanshun Longevity Palace, later on the periphery of the palace built Jingjiang city, formed into a new urban pattern, has spread to the Republic of China.
From the Ming dynasty to the Republic of China, Guilin was the capital of Guangxi, is one of the important river ports of the central plains of the transition to Lingnan, its wonderful scenery is being discovered by the "Central" so far are known to the world. When the Republic of China, more famous than the landscape of Guilin is the appearance of three important politicians only once in the history of the Republic of China: Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Huang Shao. In the national crisis of the eight-year war, tens of thousands of people fled through Guilin, 1949 Guilin cultural elites descended to the south as well, Guilin became one of the country's cultural centers, gathered the newspaper, writers and teachers. "The daily salvation" located in Gulin, the site still exists at No.4 of the road of. Also at this time, the population soared and the county had been replaced in Guilin city. In 1944, Guilin was briefly occupied by the Japanese for a year, after the recovery was still the capital of Guangxi.
In 1949 Guilin had become a city in Guangxi province of the People's Republic of China, lost the position of the capital, but it is still a cultural and educational center in Guangxi and beautiful place. In the 1970s people basically cannot travel abroad, Guilin has been one of the destinations that were arranged when western politicians visited China. In July 1981, Yangshuo County was placed under the jurisdiction of Guilin, and now it has become a popular tourist destination in southwest China and most people aspire to travel there.