Shanghai officials explained that magic is magic. Compared with charm, this kind of magic may have a fantastic feeling. It makes people feel that this place has incredible stories happening every day. The reason why Shanghai is called the magic capital is actually because of the best-selling novel "The Magic Capital" by Japanese writer Kenfeng Muramatsu. In this book, Shanghai is called the magic capital for the first time.

This book describes the magical phenomenon of cultural conflict and infiltration between Shanghai Concession and the county seat during the period of Shanghai Concession. Summarize the methods of Shanghai. Therefore, Shanghai is gradually called the magic capital. At the beginning of the 20th century (1923), Japanese writers living in Shanghai were the first people to call Shanghai the magic capital.

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Shanghai is located in the east of China, on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and on the eastern edge of the Asian continent. It is a part of the alluvial plain in the Yangtze River Delta, between east longitude12052'-12212' and north latitude 30 40'-3 1 53'. The average elevation of Shanghai is 2. 19 meters, and Dajinshan Island is the highest point in Shanghai, with an elevation of 103.7 meters, which belongs to subtropical monsoon climate.

About 6000 years ago, the west of Shanghai became land. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shanghai was the fief of Chun, so Shanghai was nicknamed Shen. In the Jin Dynasty, because fishermen created the fishing tool Hu, the place where the river flowed into the sea was called Hu, so the lower reaches of Songjiang River was called Hu, and later it was changed to Shanghai, so Shanghai was called Shanghai for short.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shencheng