Editing Nanjing (section)

===Early history===
[[File:Nanjing XuanWuLake Purple and Mountain.jpg|thumb|right|[[Purple Mountain (Nanjing)|Purple Mountain or Zijin Shan]], located to the east of the walled city of Nanjing, is the origin of the nickname "Jinling". The water in the front is [[Xuanwu Lake]]]]
Archaeological discovery shows that the so-called "[[Nanjing Man]]" lived more than 500,000 years ago. ''[[Zun]]'', a kind of wine vessel, were found to exist in Beiyinyangying culture of Nanjing about 5000 years ago.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.163.com/13/1205/09/9FARCI7400014AED.html |script-title=zh:北阴阳营遗址上发现过酒器(组图)_网易新闻 |last=网易 |website=news.163.com |access-date=January 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128231158/http://news.163.com/13/1205/09/9FARCI7400014AED.html |archive-date=January 28, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> About 7000 years ago, there was an agricultural civilization in the area that is now [[Qixia District|Qixia]]. In the Jiangning district, ruins of primitive villages from the Neolithic Age were discovered.{{when|date=October 2023}}{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

About 4000 years ago, dense [[Bronze Age]] primitive settlements appeared in the Qinhuai River Basin, labeled as the Hushu culture. The earliest cities in Nanjing were formed around these settlements. Due to the volume of archeological finds in the area related to the Taowu and Hushu cultures, many historians, anthropologists, and archeologists frequent the Nanjing area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huaxia.com/wh/kgfx/2007/00714504.html |script-title=zh:陶吴发现南京最大周代土墩墓(图) |website=huaxia.com |access-date=January 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022215319/http://www.huaxia.com/wh/kgfx/2007/00714504.html |archive-date=October 22, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Hushu culture developed into Wu culture under the influence of the Shang and Zhou, who encroached from Central Plains. From the traditions, [[Taibo of Wu|Taibo]] of [[Predynastic Zhou|Zhou]] came to [[Jiangnan]] and established the state of Wu during the 12th century BC.

In 571 BC, the [[State of Chu]] established Tangyi in Liuhe. This is the oldest extant administrative establishment in Nanjing; as of {{CURRENTYEAR}} it has a history {{#expr: 571 + {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} years long. In 541, [[Wu (state)|Wu]] built Laizhu Town in Gaochun—because of its strong city, it was also called Gucheng. [[Fuchai]], King of the [[Wu (state)|State of Wu]], founded a fort named Yecheng in today's Nanjing area in 495{{nbsp}}BC.<ref>({{lang|zh-hant|金陵在春秋時本吳地, 未有城邑.惟石頭城東有冶城.傳雲, 夫差冶鑄於此.即今朝天宮地.}}) {{lang|zh-hant|金陵古今圖考}} (''Illustrated Study of Past and Present Nanjing'')</ref>

Wu was conquered by the [[State of Yue]] in 473 BC, and the city was rebuilt at the mouth of the Qinhuai River in the following year. Later it was called Yuecheng ({{lang|zh|越城}}) on the outskirts of the present-day [[Zhonghua Gate]], which was the beginning of the construction of the main city of Nanjing. In 333 BC, Chu defeated Yue and built Jinling Yi ({{lang|zh-hant|金陵邑}}) on in the western part of Nanjing.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 30, 2019 |script-title=zh:南京的古城邑及其考古發現: 金陵邑 |url=https://vitomag.com/history/n4vj33 |script-work=zh:南京考古 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |language=zh |archive-date=November 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127212323/https://vitomag.com/history/n4vj33 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was the earliest administrative construction in the main city of Nanjing. The name of Jinling comes from this.

In 210 BC, [[Qin Shi Huang|the First Emperor of Qin]] visited the east and changed Jinling City to Moling ({{lang|zh-hant|秣陵}}). The area was successively part of [[Kuaiji Prefecture|Kuaiji]], [[Zhang Prefecture|Zhang]] and [[Danyang Prefecture|Danyang]] prefectures in Qin and Han dynasty, and part of Yangzhou region which was established as the nation's 13 supervisory and administrative regions in the 5th year of Yuanfeng in Han dynasty (106{{nbsp}}BC).{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} Nanjing was later the capital city of Danyang Prefecture, and had been the capital city of [[Yangzhou (ancient China)|Yangzhou]] for about 400 years from late [[Han dynasty|Han]] to early [[Tang dynasty|Tang]].{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}