page_title: Dazhou
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dazhou / History
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 沈府君阙 English: A "Taotie" design on a tower of the Shen Family Mausoleum Gate in Qu County, Sichuan
context_page_description: Dazhou is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. As of 2010 census, Dazhou was home to 5,468,097 inhabitants whom 1,589,435 lived in the built-up area made of 2 urban districts.
context_section_description: Dazhou's history goes back to the Eastern Han Dynasty when in 90 AD it was made a county by the name of Liweizhou (历为州). Then until the Liao Dynasty its name was Zaidi (在地). During the Liao and Tang dynasties its name was again changed, this time to Tongzhou (通州). Finally in the Song Dynasty it was given its present name of Dazhou.
  Notable people from Dazhou include the Three Kingdoms writer Chen Shou, Song Dynasty astronomer Zhang Sixun, and Ming and Qing Dynasty philosopher and educator Tang Zhen. Dazhou also made notable contributions to the Communist Revolution. Red Army heroes such as Xu Xiangqian, Li Xiannian, Xu Shiyou, Wang Weizhou (王维舟), and Zhang Aiping were all from or lived in Dazhou.
  The partially preserved mausoleum complex (in particular, its gate towers, known as que of the Shen (沈) family in Qu County,
  dating from the Han Dynasty, is a well-known  architectural monument.
caption: A taotie on the Han Dynasty Shen family Mausoleum (Mausoleum of the Prefect of Shen, 沈府君阙)
exif: {}