Shanghai was first recorded in his-ory in B.C. 2205, in the reign of Vu Huang, of the Hsia dynasty. About BE. $00, the city. belonged to the Kingdom' of Wu. Though the kingdom commanded but a. small tertitory, as there existed numerous other kingdoms in the country, Shanghai Was not mentioned in the records of Wu. Before the kingdoms were united by Chin Shih Huang, Shang: hhai_was included in an enormous territory given to Prince Chun Shun Very little is known of the history of the temple. A talk with the owner of the land, who is also direefor of the temple, elicited the casual information that it had been built by his ancestors a few generations agu. 'The original site was a place known as San Mou Ku, outside the Chinese City's North Gate, which is along Avenue Edward Vil, to the east of Shantung Road und' west of Honan Road, on the Settlement side of the street, near Honan Road. The temple was "damaged during the Small Sword Uprising, at the time of the Taiping Rebellion, On its present site, the temple has few followers, and rarely have candles been lit and incense burned. Only fon big occasions, when the City God has to be carried around the Chinese elly on his inspection tour, is the image of Prince Chun Shun borne fon the second palanquin by his fol-Towers, the first being occupied by the effigy of Hai Chun Hou, who constructed the sea walls around Shanghai hundreds of years ago.
The Woosung Kiang, now known as the Soochow Creek, and the Whangpoo destined Shanghai to become cosmopolitan city, though its importance was not recognized until the early Yuan dynasty. The two rivers, according to historians, "formerly owed separately into the sea, the Woosung Kiang emptying into. the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the 'Whangpoo cutting across Pootung and flowing eastward into the sea. Owing fo constant silting, the Woosung Kiang became unfit' for navigation, causing grave concern to the authori-les. As a means of conservancy, MZ, Yeh Chun-han, during the ing dynasty, recommended excavating canal, from Hongkew to Lunghua, to Join the two waterways. This scheme. Subsequently was adopted and thus the Whangpoo was. turned into the Woosung Kiang by means of 3 canal called Ya Ka Pang.
Though the name of the Woosung Kiang later was changed to Soochow Creek, the mouth of the river. still remains its name, Woosung.
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