What is the origin of the name Yancheng, Jiangsu?

The origin of Yancheng's name is as follows:

Salt was cooked in Yancheng in the early Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Huaihe River estuary was in the north of Yancheng, which had no city name. Later, more and more people cooked salt, and people learned more about salt. Without salt, people can't live. Therefore, the circulation of salt is getting wider and wider, and the profit of salt is getting bigger and bigger. "Boiling salt is like a city wall!"

Because it is close to the Huaihe River, the boiled salt is called "Huai salt".

Because of the production of salt, many people around have been attracted to immigrate to Yancheng to cook salt, and the court also plans to relocate some people to Yancheng to cook salt. Salt has also become the main official tax of the imperial court, and it has become the exclusive commodity of the imperial court. The influence of salt is increasing. By the Western Han Dynasty, the tax on salt had reached 1/3-2/3 of the national fiscal revenue. As a city, Yancheng has begun to take shape. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established "Du Yan" county in the name of salt.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the emperor personally named the city named after salt "Yancheng". This name has been passed down to this day.

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Yancheng folk custom:

In the rural areas around Yancheng and Funing, there have been witch fairs in history, including: praying for a bumper harvest for seedling fairs and seedling fairs; Extend happiness and eliminate disasters, be a Taiping meeting, a Mars meeting, etc. With the change of history, this kind of performance has been enriched continuously, and after a long period of evolution, it has gradually developed into a incense play.

Incense Opera is a local opera closely related to folk belief in ghosts and gods, also known as Three Fires and Three Fires, which was finally formed around the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862). Its singing is composed of incense popular in China and Huai Bangzi popular in Huaiyin and Baoying. At the same time, incense artists often join hands with gate artists, so many tunes in incense plays come from gate valves.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Yancheng