Brief Introduction of Yiwu History

Here is the Brief Introduction of Yiwu History:Yiwu was founded in the Qin dynasty (about 222 BC). Yiwu’s long history flourished as early as the Neolithic Age. Yiwu first became a county in 222 BC and was renamed Yiwu County in the year 624 AD. In May 1988, the former Yiwu County was upgraded to a county-level city. In 1995, Yiwu ranked the 47th among China’s 100 most powerful counties/cities regarding comprehensive economic strength and in the same year listed as Zhejiang’s sole city among the nation’s experimental counties/cities of comprehensive reform.

Yiwu has another name – Wushang County for the very beginning. The name was derived from a doleful legend. It is said there lived a man called Yan Wu as early as in 222 BC. Yan was so poor that he even didn’t have money to bury his father after his death. He had to dig the earth to make a tomb by his hands, which made his hands bleeding. Divine black crows in nearby trees were moved by Yan’s filial piety. They helped Yan by taking clods in their mouths from faraway. Some crows’ beaks were hurt and there was even blood in the clods. There came the name of Wushang, meaning loyalty. Like these crows, Yiwu people have inherited the virtue of loyalty generation after generation.
Yiwu has been awarded the honorable titles of “Home of Chinese Martial Arts”, “Home of Chinese Modern Folk Painting” and “Home of Wu Opera”. Yiwu has undergone more than two thousand years of difficulties while achieved 2,000 years of development. It is also the cradle of many historical celebrities and outstanding personalities, including one of the four famous poets of Tang Dynasty – Luo Binwang, general Zong Ze of Song Dynasty who heroically fought Jin aggressors, and the renowned physician Zhu Danxi in the period of Jin-yuan era. Modern educator Chen Wangdao, literary theorist Feng Xuefeng, and historian Wu Han were also from Yiwu.

With the efforts of Yiwu local people and foreign workers, Yiwu keeps growing rapidly. Welcome people from home and abroad to come to visit Yiwu to know Yiwu history and buy commodities!