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7000 years ago, most part of QingPu, which is in the west of Shanghai , had formed land. There were evidences of human's action even in New Stone Age. ZhaoXiang town, SongZe country and FuQuan Mountain in ZhongGu town, which are all in now QingPu district, have been found ¡°hamlets¡± by archaeologist.

the town of “old Qing-Pu? west Shanghai is now getting smaller, but still , you can see something which presents its old age life, the stone and brick street, the old houses, etc.

one bridge which is located at the north end of the old street is a sign for the past . the road through the bridge was the main road for native transportation. There is a red slogan on the wall of the old house by the side of the road, which was from year 40 th of 20 century made by army during the 3 rd nation war of China .this slogan is now the protected relic.

jiu qin pu old bridge on the main transportation		the slogan 50 years ago

There once found the paddy of that time in SongZe that proved paddy had been planted before five or six thousand years ago here.

In the east part of ancient TaiHu Lake (the west of Shanghai nowadays), there gradually formed a delta washed plain in the transition to land from ocean. Because the ancient TaiHu Lake was divided, there formed small lakes and TaiHu Lake plain scattered with a lot of rivers. And DingShan Lake , YuanDong and other big or small lakes existed, where now are called as DingMao district. It became a cultivated land for planting rice, cole, cotton and other crops for its fertile land.

FuQuan Mountain ,in the west of ZhongGu town, has many traces of historic celebrities' apartments. And it is an ancient culture relic. 4000 yeas ago, there was a special cemetery there.

In AD 219, SunQuan built Qinglong warship in the north east of QingPu, so varied artisans were gathered there. Then there formed a town called as Qinglong town. The Old Qinglong town belongs to now Baihe town.

(Qin long pagoda, in Qin-long temple,Old Qin Pu town was the sign for the boats on the Wu Song river nearby)

In the north of that time's Qinglong town was SongJiang district and the east was ocean. Because of its superior geographic position between the Yangtze River and the sea and convenience for inland merchant, it became one of the earliest trade port ,which enjoyed a high reputation in foreign countries.

In the age of Three-Dynasty(San-Guo), LuXun, a general of Wu-Dynasty, defeated GuanYu (Shu Dynasty). So he was obliged as HuaTing Earl.(now SongJiang). In Tang Dynasty, HuaTing was up to county from burgh, then Qinglong town became town organization.

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More than 6000 years ago, the west part of Shanghai had become land, but the east was still ocean.

Because of the influence of Yangtze River and the sea, there formed a sand belt which was called ¡° shore-body ¡± in the line of TaiCang, WaiGang, MaQiao, HuQiao. And the west land was secured by it, so the ¡° shore-body ¡± had played a very important role for the ancestors of Shanghai settling down here.
The old ¡° shore-body ¡± still exists now.

3 ancient sea shore lines of Shanghai		the relic of the earliest shore

In Shang Dynasty,(abt 2500 years ago), Zhou tribe came to the south of Yangtze River under the leading of Tai Bo, Tai Bo was obliged in Wu and he was called as Wu Tai Bo who was the inaugurator of Country Wu.

Country Wu set the capital in today ' s SuZhou and present-day ' s Shanghai belong to Country Wu at that time.

Because that the west land was surrounded by rivers, secured by mountains and prosperous of forest, it became as the hunt site for aristocrat of Country Wu.

Emperor of Wu often hunted outside, so he built many luxury pavilions as residences for the aristocrat. And agricultural production was gradually developed.

Country Yue, whose center was KuiJi (today ' s ShaoXin), also extended its frontier to the district of JinShan (south Shanghai).

Country Yue conquered Country Wu, and then Country Chu conquered Country Yue, so this district was dominated by Country Yue at first ,then by Country Chu. One of Country Chu aristocrat, HuangXie who was called as ¡° Chun Shen Jun ¡± , was obliged in the South of Yangtze River.

So ¡° Shen ¡± became one of Shanghai ' s short names later.