70% of China's above-ground cultural relics are in Shanxi, but there is no Taiyuan in China's top ten ancient capitals, which can be called the hidden dragon land of professional wholesale and rich emperors in history, counting the star-making legends of the mighty eight sides, no less than the elegant number of the ancient capital, but it has not been selected as one of the top ten ancient capitals of China.
In ancient Chinese history, the so-called four ancient capitals were Xi'an, Luoyang, Nanjing, and Beijing, all of which repeatedly served as the capitals of unified dynasties. Since the 1920s, Kaifeng has been added as the fifth largest ancient capital; after another 10 years, Hangzhou has become the sixth largest ancient capital; both cities are the capitals of local regional regimes.
In 1983, after the establishment of the Ancient Capitals Association of China, Anyang was established as the seventh ancient capital, representing the capital city that shows the history of the Shang Dynasty. Henan people are catching up, in 2004 Zhengzhou unexpectedly became the eighth largest ancient capital, a province has 4 cities to win the title of ancient capital, occupying half of china's eight ancient capitals, as the Central Plains still inherit the style of the king.
Shanxi next door can not see it, the existing land relics are 70% in the land of the Three Jins, we should also take an ancient capital in the name of the station, reflecting the sense of existence! In 2010, Datong was successfully added to the ninth ancient capital, the capital city established by the Northern Wei Dynasty to control the northern territory, and the first time it entered the ranks of the national ancient capital with the capital of the minority regime, which was a breath of relief for Shanxi. This inspired the Sichuan people of Bashan Shushui to emulate the Kingdom of Tianfu, and Chengdu was selected as the tenth ancient capital in 2016 as the capital of the local government of ethnic minorities.
And a number of famous emperors, are from Taiyuan, a city with the reputation of dragon city, full of royal spirit but lost the title of ancient capital, the seniority is not worse than other ancient capitals, indeed feel that the fate is not good, some sad and sad.
As early as the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han Wen, served as the acting king of Taiyuan, and later became the emperor to rule the world, creating the rule of Wenjing and becoming a generation of Ming emperors. From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, Sima Zhao, Sima Yan of the Three Kingdoms period, was crowned king of Jin in Taiyuan and named the dynasty he founded as Jin. The Northern Wei chancellor Gao Huan established the Great XiangFu in Jinyang, issued orders to remotely control the Northern Wei Emperor of Luoyang, and established the Eastern Wei, although not a capital city, but its status exceeded that of the capital, becoming a hegemonic capital, and later his son established Northern Qi and became emperor. The Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang was also crowned king of Jin in Jinyang, and then became emperor, founding the imperial examination system to select talents to influence generations, evolving into the current college entrance examination and civil service examination. Later, Li Yuan's father and son from Jinyang to conquer the world, opened the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and became the center of the world, and Jinyang was crowned with the Heavenly King Sanjing, and its capital was one. It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, Jinyang was called the Three Capitals together with Chang'an and Luoyang. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Jinyang still came out of a number of emperors who held local power, including Li Cunxun, Shi Jingyao, and Liu Zhiyuan to dominate the north.
In the land of Jinyang, that is, Taiyuan, there were many founding emperors in history, plus The Song Taizu Zhao Guangyi led his troops to fight bloody battles 4 times before he captured Jinyang, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, both annoyed and angry, and worried that in the future, if he jumped out of the Heavenly Son from here, he would take away his Great Song Jiangshan and become his lingering nightmare, so in order to get rid of the big trouble in his heart, he burned water to irrigate Jinyang City and erased the splendid Taiyuan City from the earth. Then, he found a feng shui master, found that the mountains around Taiyuan resembled a dragon vein, the east of the Tiezhou Mountain is the highest, like a dragon head, and the meandering North Mountain, West Mountain, constitute the dragon body and dragon tail, he ordered the digging of the mountain to cut off the dragon horn of the Tiezhou Mountain, in the relocated Song Dynasty Taiyuan City, built into a T-shaped mouth street, do everything possible to nail the dragon vein here, afraid that there will be another emperor here.
Since then, the three generations of rulers of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties have nothing to do with Taiyuan, even the King of Jin, the king of the nine major domains of the Ming Dynasty, at best, is loyal to the emperor, the Prince of Chincha who is in charge of this area, no longer domineering, but from Taiyuan to grow up, until the expansion of many emperors who control the world, it has influenced the historical trend of China, and it is not inferior to the style of the ancient capital.