Why is Magic Capital Shanghai?

The magic capital refers to Shanghai, and the magic capital is also another name for Shanghai.

Magic Capital was one of the nicknames of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Compared with what westerners call Shanghai, Magic is the customary name of Shanghai by Japanese at that time.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Shao Feng Muramatsu, a Japanese writer living in Shanghai, called Shanghai the magic capital for the first time in his best-selling novel Magic Capital. Muramatsu is probably the first person to call Shanghai the magic capital, so the word magic capital is used by many people to describe the complex world of Shanghai. In this work, Hiromatsu Murakami invented the word "magic capital" to refer to Shanghai.

The origin of Shanghai's name

Shanghai belongs to the Kingdom of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period? . The Warring States period belonged to Yue State and Chu State successively. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shanghai was the fief of Huang Xie, the king of Chu, so it was called Shen. In the Jin Dynasty, because fishermen created a fishing tool "Hu", the place where the river flowed into the sea was called "Hu", so the lower reaches of Songjiang were called "Hu", and later it was changed to "Hu", so Shanghai was called "Shanghai" for short.

In the tenth year of Tang Tianbao (AD 75 1 year), Shanghai belonged to Huating County (now Songjiang District). In the second year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 99 1 year), due to the continuous shallow siltation in the upper reaches of Songjiang, the coastline moved eastward, and it was inconvenient for large ships to get in and out, so foreign ships had to berth at Shanghai Pu, a tributary of Songjiang (Huangpu River near the Bund to Shiliupu today).

In the third year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1267), he set up a town in Shanghai Puxi Bank and named it Shanghai Town. In the 29th year of Yuan Dynasty (AD 1292), the central government set aside Shanghai Town from Huating County and approved the establishment of Shanghai County, marking the beginning of the establishment of Shanghai.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanghai