WorldToChina

    It’s about to be two months since I left my hometown for Xi’an this semester. Though a junior student I am now, I still miss my mother town now and then. Well, some brief introduction about the amazing city for you:

    Chengdu is the capital city ofSichuan province.  It locates in the middle west of China and in the center of the Chengdu plain. Although her location is not as predominant as cities like Beijing and Shanghai, she is actually a swiftly developing and modern central city in China.

    Besides her financial, communicational and technological significance, her charming can also be date back to 4000 years ago. It had been the capital city of the Period of Three Kingdoms, the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song dynasty.

    The names of my hometown are various and interesting. During the Period of Three Kingdom, it was the capital city of Shu, from which its most wildly known name was derived. Meanwhile, the king of the country liked cotton rose (mu fu rong in Chinese) very much and planted numerous cotton rose trees in his territory. That’s why Chengdu is also called Rong Cheng. Another name of her is called Jin Cheng. Jin, in English, is brocade. As a centre producing brocade, it was named Jin Cheng for its beautiful textile.

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