History of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Taiyuan is an ancient city of China with a long history of more than 2,500 years. In 2003, it celebrated its 2500th anniversary.

It is famous for its long history, splendid culture and rich resources.

Taiyuan has accumulated rich historical and cultural heritages, such as Jinci Garden, which is a bright pearl of Chinese culture. The Twin Towers Temple "Lingxiao Twin Towers" built in Ming Dynasty is an outstanding representative of the Twin Towers in China. Longshan Grottoes is the largest Taoist grottoes in China, and experts say it is the best in the world. Mengshan Buddha, built in the Northern Qi Dynasty and destroyed in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, is comparable to Bamiyan Buddha and Leshan Buddha! In addition, there are Chongshan Temple, a famous Buddhist temple built in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty, as well as Taoist Palace, Chunyang Palace and Duofu Temple with national characteristics.

Historical Development In the long history of 2,500 years, Taiyuan was once the hometown of Tang Yao, the famous city of Warring States, the hometown of Taiyuan, the overlord of the Northern Dynasties, the king of the northern capital, the northern gate of the Central Plains, the important town of Jiubian, and the hometown of Shanxi merchants ... [2] "I crossed the Sangzi River for no reason, but I hope that Bingzhou is my hometown.

Anyone who has been to Taiyuan will be deeply intoxicated by its long history and splendid culture.

The shape of Taiyuan is better than Jinci, and the spirit of Taiyuan lies in Jinci.

"YuShu thyme, fenhe.

Emperor carved tung leaves and wrote in heaven.

Rites become virtues, and music fosters them.

The emperor has no drama, and the Tang Dynasty has its own monarch.

"This is Yu Xin, a great poet living in the northland during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, who wrote a poem" Carving Tung leaves and praising them as kings ".

This poem describes the story of the famous "East Ye Feng" in history.

In the Tang dynasty, Shu Yu.

Yu Shu is well managed and the country is rich and powerful.

Shu Guochuan was located in his son's father and changed his name to "Jin", which is the origin of the State of Jin.

Because in ancient times, Taiyuan was the old country of Tang Yao. At the end of Sui Dynasty, after Li Yuan and Li Shimin fought in Taiyuan, they named the emerging country "Datang", and the Tang Dynasty became the most prosperous period in China's history.

To this day, Chinese living abroad are proud of the descendants of the Tang Dynasty, and even named a large Chinese gathering place "Chinatown".

Tracing back to the source, Tang Wenhua was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

Taiyuan is a civilized ancient city in the north of China with a long history.

The discovery of "Gujiao Paleolithic Cultural Site" proves that human beings lived and multiplied in Taiyuan as early as/kloc-0.0 million years ago.

The "Neolithic Cultural Sites" in Yijing and Dongtai Fort also tell us that in the early days of the Mu commune seven or eight thousand years ago, the ancestors of Taiyuan once created splendid culture.

During the Shang Dynasty, Taiyuan was an ancient country in Bei Tang. Archaeologists once discovered the Shang Dynasty cultural site in Xutan Village, Taiyuan, and named it "Xutan Culture".

Tai Qian, the pioneer of Taiyuan, was honored as the "God of Fenshui" for harnessing Fenshui and developing Taiyuan Basin.

In the first year of Lu (17 years, 54 1 year), the state of Jin, Xun Wu, led his troops to the north and suffered a heavy defeat, occupying today's Taiyuan area, causing people's resentment. For example, Taiyuan began to enter the territory of the State of Jin.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, in the 15th year of Jin Dinggong (497 BC), the world-famous Jinyang ancient city appeared on the bank of the Fenhe River, with a history of 2500 years.

Jinyang Ancient City was the capital of Zhao in the early Warring States Period.

After Qin Shihuang unified China, the world was divided into 36 counties, and Taiyuan County was set up on this ancient land to govern Jinyang.

Jinyang was set up in the official department of Bingzhou in the Han Dynasty, which was also the beginning of the name of Taiyuan's Bingzhou, and the abbreviation of "Bingzhou" in Taiyuan also came from this.

At that time, Taiyuan has become one of the thirteen states in China, which is well known.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Jinyang was the capital of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, and maintained its position of dominating the government.

During the Sui Dynasty, Taiyuan was the third largest city in China, second only to Chang 'an and Luoyang.

The powerful Tang Dynasty originated in Taiyuan, because Jinyang was called Tang Kingdom in ancient times. After Li Yuan and his son made Chang 'an their capital, they took "Tang" as their country name.

In the early Tang Dynasty, several emperors expanded Jinyang City several times, and named it "the northern capital" and "Beijing" successively, and they were also called "the three capitals" and "the three capitals" with Chang 'an in Kyoto and Luoyang in the east. The five dynasties and ten countries with frequent wars, the late Tang Dynasty, the late Jin Dynasty, the late Han Dynasty and the northern Han Dynasty, either made their fortune in Jinyang or took it as their capital. Taiyuan was once famous all over the country and was called the "Three Capitals".

In 979, Song Taiping rejuvenating the country for four years, Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, burned Jinyang City, and led Fenhe River and Jinhe River to destroy Jinyang.

An ancient city with a long history 1476 was completely destroyed.

Three years later, the new Taiyuan City rose again in Tang Ming Town, more than 40 miles north of Guyangyang. In the fourth year of Jiayou, Taiyuan House was established.

During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Taiyuan City suffered from war.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang made his third son, Zhu Fang, King of Jin in Taiyuan, thus expanding Taiyuan City and becoming one of the nine important towns in the Ming Dynasty.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taiyuan's economy developed rapidly, and mining, commerce and handicrafts had a great influence on the national economy, and it was known as "Shanxi merchants ranked first in the country".