The name of this ancient nation is recorded as "Kun", "Kun Mi" or "Lin Kun" in ancient literature.
As a place name, "Kunming" appeared in AD 6 19, that is, the second year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, just 1400 years after the establishment of Kunming County in the Tang Dynasty.
At that time, "Kunming County" was located in today's Yanyuan County, Sichuan Province, which means that the county was the place where the ancient "Kunming" ethnic group thrived, not the area under the jurisdiction of Kunming today.
In A.D. 1276, Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu established Yunnan Province, and Yunnan began to appear as a province. Yuan Shizu gave the name "Kunming" to Yunnan Province, and established "Kunming County" within the jurisdiction of today's Kunming. At the same time, the administrative center of Yunnan moved from Dali to Kunming County, and Kunming became the political, economic and cultural center of Yunnan Province until today.
Today, the construction of the area under the jurisdiction of Kunming began in 765. At that time, Nanzhao Dali began to build Tuodongcheng-the name of this area was not called "Kunming" at that time. 20 19 is the year when Kunming was founded.
Extended data:
Introduction to the source of Kunming road name;
Phuket Road 1
The name Phuket comes from Yi language. "Pu" means "temple" and "Ji" means "fork in the road" in Yi language, and this is the intersection of Kunming, Shalang and Luquan. There was a temple here in ancient times, so it was called Phuket.
2. Beijing Road
The original Taihe Road and Guikun Railway 1966 were opened to traffic. Since then, Yunnan has a provincial railway. Both ends of this road are railway stations, named after the meaning of "the frontier is connected with Beijing"
3. Tuodong Road
Tuodong was the name of Kunming from Nanzhao to Dali in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Kunming was the eastern capital of Nanzhao and Dali, and the word Tuodong had the meaning of opening up the eastern soil. This road was named Tuodong Road to commemorate the historical memory of Tuodong City.
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