Liuzhou, also known as the Dragon City, is the birthplace of the "Liujiang Man"

Liuzhou, where 'three rivers converge and four streams meet, embracing the city like a pot', is also known as Dragon City and Pot City, with a history of more than 2100 years of establishment. Liuzhou is a major industrial town in the southwest and is known as the City of Bauhinia. It has the reputation of being the 'Commercial Port in the heart of Guangxi'. It is the hometown of the famous Luosifen rice noodles and also the birthplace of one of China's earliest ancient humans, the 'Liujiang Man'. Due to its abundance of rare and exotic stones, it is hailed as the 'Stone Capital of China'. During the Tang Dynasty, the horse-trading route from Guizhou to Liuzhou was opened, and the Gui-Liu Canal (Xiangsi Dike) was constructed, connecting the Liu River with the Yangtze River system. Liu Zongyuan, exiled to Dragon City for four years, carried out virtuous governance and established the state school. In the Northern Song period, Liuzhou became the largest commodity distribution center and the largest timber distribution center in central Guangxi, with Liuzhou fabric being sold far and wide. Neighborhoods appeared in Liuzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty. In the second year of the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1132 AD), three chancellors residing in Liuzhou, Wang Anzhong, Wu Min, and Wang Boyan, toured Jiahe Mountain and established the Jiahe Academy and the Three Chancellors Pavilion there, known for 'viewing books and discussing poetry', which was one of the earliest academies in Guangxi. During the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of grain from Liuzhou was transported to eastern Guangdong. The Zeng brothers introduced the Yidu rice, which was extensively sold to Guangzhou. The patterns on Ming Dynasty porcelain were initially dominated by freehand brushwork, bold and unrestrained. In the later Ming period, realism prevailed, with a simple and lively style. Ming Dynasty gold and silver jewelry tended to organize flowers, plants, and birds into various auspicious patterns, with palace-style auspicious patterns leading the trend of the era. Ming Dynasty antique bronze wares were mostly replicas based on the Song Dynasty's 'Xuanhe Bogu Tu'. Ming Xuande bronze Yi vessels represented the highest level of the Ming Dynasty's copper-making industry. Gilded bronzes were more common in the Qing Dynasty. During the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, guild halls for Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, eastern Guangdong, and Luling were established successively.