GUANGZHOU IS A CIVILIZED ANCIENT CITY WITH A HISTORYOF MORE THAN 2,200 YEARS, THE SAME AGES AS THEWORLD RENOWNED ANCIENT CULTURAL CITY ROME OF ITALY. ITWAS THE EARLIEST TRADE PORT IN CHINA THAT OPENING TOTHE WORLD, AND WAS THE STARTING PORT OF THE SILK ROADON THE SEA SINCE THE HAN AND TANG DYNASTIES.AS EARLY AS IN CHOU PERIOD, 9TH CENTURY BC, THERE WEREEXCHANGES BETWEEN BAIYUE PEOPLE AT GUANGZHOU ANDPEOPLE OF CHU STATE, THE NAME CHU TING ORIGINATED,WHICH WAS THE EARLIEST NAME OF GUANGZHOU. IN THETHIRTY THIRD YEAR OF EMPEROR QIN SHIHUANG 214 BC , QINUNIFIED LINGNAN, NANHAI PREFECTURE CAPITAL WAS SET UPAT PANYU WHERE IT IS TODAY WAS SET UP. IN THE YEAR OF226, IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE RULE, SUN QUAN DECIDEDTO DIVIDE ORIGINAL JIAOZHOU INTO TWO PARTS JIAOZHOUAND GUANGZHOU, NAME OF GUANGZHOU BECAME KNOWN SINCETHEN. IN 1925, FOUR YEARS LATER WHEN THE MUNICIPALCOUNCIL WAS SET UP IN 1921, GUANGZHOU REALLY MEANS THECITY TODAY.GUANGZHOU HAS OTHER NICKNAMES SUCH AS YANGCHENG CITYOF RAM AND SUICHENG CITY OF RICE SPIKE . THERE IS ABEAUTIFUL LEGEND WHICH GOES LIKE THAT, LONG LONG AGO,THERE WERE FIVE CELESTIALS RIDING FIVE RAMS WITH RICESPIKES IN THEIR MOUTHS AND GAVE THE RICE TO THE LOCALRESIDENTS, AND THEN THEY LEFT BEHIND THE FIVE RAMSTHAT AFTERWARDS TURNED INTO STONES. TO ITS MEMORY, ASPECIAL FIVE RAM SCULPTURE WAS BUILT IN YUEXIU PARK.SINCE THE FLOWERS HERE KEEP BLOSSOMING ALL THE YEARROUND, SO IT IS ALSO CALLED HUACHANG CITY OF FLOWER .THE CITY IS ALSO A SOURCE OF MODERN CHINESEREVOLUTION. IN THIS LAND, SO MANY HISTORIC EVENTS TOOKPLACE, WHICH ARE SANYUANLI STRUGGLE AGAINST BRITISHINVADERS, HUANGHUAGANG UPRISING AND GUANGZHOU COMMUNEUPRISING. SUN YAT SEN, A REVOLUTIONARY FORERUNNER, SETUP HUANGPU MILITARY ACADEMY AND THE POLITICAL POWERSFOR THREE TIMES. MAO ZEDONG RAN THE INSTITUTE OFPEASANT MOVEMENT TO TRAIN LOTS OF KEY REVOLUTIONIST.ZHANG TAILEI, YE TING AND YE JIANYING WERE LEADERS OFTHE FAMOUS GUANGZHOU UPRISING. FAMOUS WRITERS SUC
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Euro Asia Hotel
186-188 Xian Lie Dong Rd Guangzhou
Guangzhou, China 510075