Taiyuan

Taiyuan is also known as Bingzhou, historically called Jinyang, and nicknamed “Dragon City” Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi Province It lies on the Fen River, surrounded by mountains in three sides

Release time : 2016-05-17 09:18:32

source : WTCF

City Introduction

Taiyuan is also known as Bingzhou, historically called Jinyang, and nicknamed “Dragon City”. Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi Province. It lies on the Fen River, surrounded by mountains in three sides. It is an ancient capital with the history of over 2500 years. The poem goes “Surrounded by water and mountains, it is the main part of the country”, “As a major crossroad leading to four fortresses, it controls the cities of five plains.” It is the capital of Shanxi Province, and also the political, economic and cultural center. Taiyuan is a famous military and important cultural place in Northern China, a world famous capital of Shanxi merchants, and also one of the most important resource and heavy industrial bases in China.

History and Culture

Taiyuan is an ancient civilization city in Northern China, which has a long history. People have lived and propagated here as early as one hundred thousand years ago.?In 541 BC, Taiyuan area joined the territory of the Kingdom Jin. Over six hundred years of the Kingdom Jin reign laid a solid foundation for the history and culture of Shanxi. Today, we can learn its glorious history from the exhibits of hegemony of Jin in the Shanxi Museum. In 376 BC, Jin was split into three states, i.e., Han, Zhao and Wei, among which, Zhao made here the capital, and called Jinyang, and the name of Jinyang just originates here. In the Han Dynasty, Bingzhou Federal Province set Jinyang, and thus, today’s Taiyuan is also called Bingzhou. The reason of Taiyuan’s nickname of Dragon City is that lots of princes and noble people came from Taiyuan or once secure official positions in Taiyuan before they became emperors, including Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and the famous Empress Wu Zetian. Zhang Guangyi, Emperor Taizong of Song, feared the reputation of Dragon City, and ordered to burn it. Whether or not Emperor