Shaoyang, known as "Baoqing" in history, is an ancient city with a history of more than 2,000 years. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Baishan, the doctor of Chu State, built a city here, called Baigong City, which belonged to Chu State. Qin Shihuang unified China, divided into 36 counties, Shaoyang belonged to Changsha County, and Lingling County was in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The Three Kingdoms belonged to Shu at first, and then to Wu. In the first year of Wu Baoding in the Three Kingdoms (AD 226), the northern part of Lingling was placed under Zhaoling County, which is now Shaoyang City. In the first year of Jin Taikang (280), Sima Yan pacified Dongwu and changed Zhaoling to Shaoling to avoid his father Si Mazhao. In the Southern Dynasties, when Zhao Jun was the prince, he was appointed as the defense envoy of Shaozhou. Deng Ji became emperor, and Shaozhou was promoted to Baoqing Prefecture. Baoqing's name starts here. The name Baoqing was used in the Ming and Qing Dynasties until the early years of the Republic of China. In the 17th year of the Republic of China (AD 1928), Baoqing was changed to Shaoyang. /kloc-was liberated in 0/949, and shaoyang city was established in 0/950. Managing cities for land. 1972, changed to a provincial city, still managed by region. 1July, 977, it was changed to a city under the jurisdiction of the province, which was directly managed by the province. 1986 At the beginning, Shaoyang area and Shaoyang city merged. Over the past 30 years since liberation, the administrative system in Shaoyang has changed frequently, which is the inevitable result of the rapid development of the national economy and other undertakings.

Shaoyang has beautiful mountains and rivers and simple folk customs. In the Ming Dynasty, Wu Tong had Shao Lingshi's poem: "There are more than 100 relatives in Guangdong in the south of Chuxiong, and the mountains and rivers are no different from the rustic wind. Huang Mao, a singing woman, carries a hundred kudzu towels. " Influenced by the Central Plains culture, it has been civilized for a long time, with rich humanities and talented people. For example, Hu Ceng, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote nine unique poems, An Ding Ji 10 volume, and Poems on History three volumes. There are imperial envoys and governors of Guangdong and Guangxi who strongly supported Zheng He's voyage to the West, Wei Yuan, a famous bourgeois reformist pioneer and progressive thinker in China's modern history, and Zou, a famous geographer, phonologist and sinologist. Fan Zui, an active supporter of the Reform Movement of 1898; Cai E, the pioneer of the national bourgeois democratic revolution, He Jinsheng, who opposed the imperialist cultural aggression and dared to fight against all evil forces, Yuan, the director of the political department of the New Fourth Army who died heroically in the "Southern Anhui Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, Lv Zhenyu, a famous historian at present, and He Luting, a musician and composer, are all outstanding representatives of Shaoyang people.