Gunpowder, one of the four great inventions, was invented by Taoist Ge Hong (now Jurong, Zhenjiang) during alchemy. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, many scholars from the Central Plains moved to the south one after another, many of whom either completed great undertakings or wrote books. The famous ones are: Song Wudi, the founding emperor of the Southern Dynasties (sending slaves); Liu Yiqing who wrote Shi Shuo Xin Yu; Zang Xurong, who wrote Jin Shu; Xu Ling, who wrote "A New Ode to Yutai", is as famous as Yu Xin in his poems. It is also China's first poem. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo, a scientist who wrote "1 1 Century Scientific Coordinates", Su Song, a scientist who made the world's earliest astronomical clock, Mi Fei, a painter and Zong Ze, a famous gold fighter, all moved to Zhenjiang.

The famous people in Zhenjiang in Ming and Qing Dynasties are: Yang Yiqing, an official of the official department and a university student in Wuyingdian, and Zhang Yushu, who presided over the compilation of Qing Tongzhi, Pei Yunwen House and Kangxi Dictionary. In modern times, there are: Liu E, the author of "Hidden Tortoise in the Iron Cloud" and "Travel Notes of Lao Can", Ma Jianzhong, the author of the first comprehensive and systematic Chinese grammar monograph "Ma Shi Wen Tong", historian Liu Yizhi, aircraft manufacturing expert Ba Yuzao, inventor of Watson electric fan Yang Jichuan, Fu Wuwu, one of the pioneers of Esperanto movement, financier Chen Guangfu and bridge expert Mao Yisheng,191. Besides, Danyang is also the hometown of Sun Quan, the great Emperor of the Three Kingdoms period, Xiao Daocheng, the Emperor of the Southern Dynasties, and Xiao Yan, the Emperor of Liang Wudi. In modern times, there were patriotic old man Ma, artists, linguists and Chinese educators. Jurong city has Ge Xuan, the originator of medicine, Ge Hong, a Taoist theorist, alchemist and physician in Jin Dynasty, and Tao Hongjing, a Taoist thinker and physician in Southern Dynasties.

Zhenjiang is a famous cultural city in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history. There are unearthed cultural relics and historical records. It belonged to Yangzhou, Kyushu, Gong Yu in ancient times, and it was suitable for waiting for fiefs in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. It was renamed Zhenjiang in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhenjiang has beautiful scenery and unique characteristics of true mountains and waters, and is known as "the first mountain in the world". The beauty of Jinshan, the beauty of Jiao Shan, and the precipitous and changeable beauty of Beigushan are called "Jingkou has three mountains and a good southeast". Helin, Bamboo Forest and Zhao Yin Temple in the southern suburbs are surrounded by mountains and deep forests, which extend all the way to the urban areas, and are called "urban forests". Zhenjiang is not only famous for its natural scenery, but also is dotted with cultural relics and historic sites: the famous Jinshan Jiangtian Temple, the forest of steles in Jiao Shan, the unique ancient streets of Song and Yuan Dynasties, the exquisite stone pagodas crossing the street, the Prince Zhaoming's reading platform hidden in pines and cypresses, and the stone carvings of the tombs of the Six Dynasties, all of which record the long footprint of this ancient city and attract countless literati at home and abroad.

The city is rich in historical sites. Jinshan Temple, Jiaoshan Dinghui Temple, Baohuashan Longchang Temple and Maoshan Taoist Temple, which were built more than 0/500 years ago, are all important Buddhist and Taoist temples. Jiaoshan Forest of Steles Museum has preserved the calligraphy works of famous calligraphers and cultural celebrities in Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, which is very attractive to calligraphers and calligraphy lovers at home and abroad. Stone carvings on tombs in the Southern Dynasties have been around 1700 years, which are rare in China in terms of quantity, workmanship, exquisite carving and well-preserved. Zhenjiang Museum, a group of five English buildings built in 1890, was originally the former site of the British Consulate General, and now it has a collection of more than 30,000 pieces of cultural relics from Neolithic Age to modern times. Li Deyu, Su Shi, Mi Fei and Xin Qiji, famous figures in the Tang Dynasty, all had deep roots in Zhenjiang. Many famous historical stories and folklore, such as Sun Liulian's resistance to Cao, Legend of White Snake, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong's resistance to Jin, all originated in Zhenjiang. Italian Kyle Poirot, Japanese painter Sesshū Tōyō and American writer Pearl Buck have all lived and worked in Zhenjiang for many years and have deep feelings for Zhenjiang.