Shanghai’s abbreviation ＂Shen＂ is named after Huang Xie in legend of miyue？ Expert： There is indeed a close relationship.

Huang Xie, the Spring Shenjun in the hit drama legend of miyue. The pictures in this article are all from the Internet.

The characters in the recent hit drama "legend of miyue" are actually related to Shanghai. A few days ago, some netizens found a famous brand near the Huang Du Cultural Activity Center in Anting Town, Jiading District, which read the relationship between Huang Du and Huang Xie. Some netizens even suggested that Mi Yue’s boyfriend was the ancestor of Shanghainese. In this regard, experts from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences said that there is a big age difference between Chun Shenjun, Huang Xie and Mi Yue, and literary and artistic works have fictional elements, but Huang Xie does have a close relationship with Shanghai.

Shanghai is called "Shen" for Huang Xie?

Chun Shenjun, Wei Wuji,, Ping Yuanjun, Zhao Sheng, and Tian Wen, Meng Changjun, Qi, are also called "Four Childes of the Warring States".

A few days ago, some netizens found a famous brand near the Huang Du Cultural Activity Center in Anting Town, Jiading, with the origin of Huang Du written on it.

The name tag says: In 355 BC, when the State of Chu destroyed Yue, it became the fief of Huang Xie, the king of Chunshen. Later, Chun Shenjun was ordered to attack the State of Qin, and once led a great army to ferry across the river at "Lujiaopu", which is the eastern head of Huang Du Town today. Later generations also renamed Lu Jiaopu "Huang Xie Ferry" because of this incident, and it gradually evolved into "Huang Du" after being passed down from generation to generation.

Not only that, but also legend of miyue fans quoted literature saying that Shanghai’s abbreviation "Shen" is also related to Huang Xie’s title of "Spring Shenjun". Shanghai belonged to Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and then to Chu in the Warring States Period. King Xiao of Chu named Huang Xie, the prime minister of Chu, as the Spring Shenjun, and Shanghai was his fief. Legend has it that Huang Xie ordered people to clear the great river crossing the border. This river was called Huangpu River or ChunJiang Shen, and this place was called "Shen", which is the origin of Shanghai’s abbreviation "Shen".

There is also a view that Huang Xie, the Spring Shenjun, is a "local god" in Shanghai, and he has made outstanding achievements in water control in Wudi, and is regarded as a water god. After the eastern sea area of Shanghai silted up into land and the Huangpu River took shape, people carried out the water god Chun Shenjun and called their mother rivers Huang Xie Pu and Chun Jiang Shen to suppress the water monster. In addition, Chun Shenjun was sealed twice, which opened the pre-Qin civilization in Shanghai. "Shanghai Culture" has also left an extremely precious cultural heritage for the city of Shanghai.

However, there are also views that Huang Xie’s age and the landform of Shanghai at that time make it impossible for him to come to Shanghai, and Shanghai is not listed in the fief of Huang Xie.

The names of Huang Xie Pu and ChunJiang Shen are all true history.

"Judging from the historical records, Huang Xie, a spring Shen Jun, has a close relationship with Shanghai." Zhang Sheng, an assistant researcher at the Institute of History of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) yesterday that the historical records he was referring to were mainly related records of Huang Xie in Historical Records, Biography of Chun Shenjun, etc.

Zhang Sheng pointed out that the fief of Huang Xie’s Spring Shenjun was mainly in Huaibei area at first, and later it was moved to Jiangdong area because of the hegemony of Qi and Chu, and Jiangdong area was generally regarded as the ancient Wu land, and it was generally believed that this area included the present Shanghai.

Zhang Sheng said that the age of Huang Xie was artistically treated in legend of miyue, but there is a logic that can be affirmed, that is, the achievements of Chun Shenjun in water control, the names of Huang Xie Pu and Chun Jiang Shen, and the fact that Shanghai is called "Shen" for short are all relatively real history.

"There is a folk children’s song that has been circulated so far: bam bam bam, bam bam, my grandfather and mother went to open the Huangpu River, and then they opened the spring pond. The leading grandfather is Chun Shenjun, who lives in Huangnibang, Xian Village." Zhang Sheng said that children’s songs and the famous brand of "Huang Du" in Jiading District of Shanghai also showed the close relationship between Chunshenjun Huang Xie and Shanghai.