Editing Wuhan (section)

===Antiquity era ===
[[File:Erligang map.svg|thumb|left|[[Panlongcheng]], located in the southernmost area of the [[Erligang culture]]]]

The Wuhan area has been settled for 3,500 years. [[Panlongcheng]], an archaeological site primarily associated with the [[Erligang culture]] ({{circa|1510|1460}}&nbsp;BC) (being sparsely populated during the earlier [[Erlitou culture|Erlitou period]]), is located in modern-day [[Huangpi District]] of Wuhan.

During the [[Western Zhou]] the [[E (state)|State of E]], which gives its name to the single character abbreviation for Hubei province, controlled the present-day Wuchang area south of the Yangtze River. After the conquest of the E state in 863 BC, the present-day Wuhan area was controlled by the [[Chu (state)|State of Chu]] for the rest of the Western Zhou and [[Eastern Zhou]] periods. After the [[State of Huang]] was conquered by State of Chu in the summer of 648 BC,<ref>《左传·僖公十二年》："黄人恃诸侯之睦于齐也，不共楚职，曰："自郢及我九百里，焉能害我？" 夏，楚灭黄。"</ref> the people of Huang were moved into the area in and around present-day Wuhan. Local geographical terms including the name of Wuhan's Huangpi District were named after the State of Huang.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Chu was in turn conquered by [[Qin (state)|Qin]] in 223&nbsp;BC.