History

Guangxi is one of the earliest sites of human activity in China. According to new archeological  reports, chipped stone tools dating back 800, 000 years have been found in the Baise River Valley, traces of Liujiang Man dating back 40, 000-50, 000 years to the Paleolithic Period have been discovered all around Guangxi, primitive humans were living along its rivers 6, 000-9,000 years ago, and human civilization started 3, 000 years ago.

Stone axe, unearthed at Baise Palaeoanthropic Site, the earliest stone axe in East Asia Guangxiis well known for cinnamon trees, which sound guiin Chinese, hence Guangxi’s short nameGui. It was home of the Baiyue people before the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), and then, after China was unified by the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, came under the administration of Guilin County. In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), regional administration was reorganized into 15 lu and it came under the lu of Guangnanxi, simplified to Guangxi.

Bronze drum inscribed with design of deities paddling a boat. Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) Guangxi’s name in modern Chinese history has a high recognition rate the largest peasant uprising, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom which broke out in Jintian; the Baise Uprising led by Deng Xiaoping, and the famous Kunlun Pass Campaign in the early period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression all occurred here.

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