醴陵地名源流考释

醴陵得名,与战国末楚灭越,一支越人乌程氏后裔,迁居今醴陵市渌水流域北源,与原醴陵县东漉山有关。西汉高后四年(公元前184年),封长沙王相(刘)越为醴陵乡侯。从此醴陵地名,载入国史典籍。东汉建武元年(25),置醴陵县,属长沙郡。东汉建武中元至东汉延光年间,县治由古城中三洲,迁驻今址。以后醴陵县区划未变。

Research on the origin of the Place Name LiLing

Chu overcomed Yue at the end of the warring states.A branch of the descendants of Wu Chen shi form Yue moved to the north of Lu Rier and Dong lu Mountain in former Liling county,both belonging to the present Liling city.The obtaining of the name Liling is closely related to this.In the fourth year of Gao Hou of the Western Han Dynasty,(Liu)Yue,the assist to Chang sha marquis was assigned marquis of Li ling.Thus the place name Liling goes down in Chinese history.In the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty(25) Liling county was established,belonging to Changsha prefecture.During Jian Wu Zhong Yuan and Yan Guang of the Eastern Han Dynasty,the city government moved form the ancient city Zhong San Zhou to the present address.Since then、the region of Liling county remains unchanged.