Before Christ, tremendous silt deposited along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and then various sizes of shoals emerged over there. After 800-odd springs & autumns until late Tang Dynasty, two big sandbars as Dongzhou and Buzhou appeared along with groups of small ones to gradually form a continu-

ous sandbank. Till the 5th year of Xiande ( A.D.958 ) in Houzhou during Wudai period, Haimen county was established with its seat located in Dongzhou Town. Due to the Yangtze River  ...　　　　　　　more>>