The establishment of the city was laid more than 1,300 years prior and the place flourished for the following three hundred years. The city is accepted to have had a place with the Ming and Qing lines who began administering China from 1368. Strikingly the city started to decrease after endeavors were gained towards ground. After the Xin'an Dam and an immense hydroelectric power station were introduced. Today sitting underneath 40 meters of water the city dividers, entryways and statues are greatly very much safeguarded.
Its name freely means "Lion City" however since the grand city was suffocated and disregarded up to this point, Shi Cheng has come to be named the "Atlantis of the East" (after the legendary submerged island).
Be that as it may, dissimilar to Atlantis, Shi Cheng didn't capitulate to the profundities under sensational or puzzling conditions. The city was intentionally overwhelmed in 1959 to make the Xin'an Dam, worked to control a hydro-electric plant.
As indicated by the BBC, almost 300,000 individuals were migrated for the venture, some of whom had families that had lived in the city for quite a long time.
It was left untouched and unremembered for a considerable length of time until 2001, when the Chinese government chose to perceive what may stay of the lost city.