It is said that there are three dragon cities in the country, Guangxi Liuzhou, Henan Puyang and Shanxi Taiyuan are different from the other two cities named after the beautiful and moving legends, Taiyuan, this land of Longxing, which once condensed the spirit of the king and achieved imperial hegemony, was deservedly praised as the Dragon City because it created one true dragon tianzi after another. The dragon city of Taiyuan, built for the emperor, together with the emperor to the history of Qingqing, but also tired of the emperor and repeatedly burned by soldiers and even destroyed.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Qi, the powerful Tang Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms of the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, Northern Han, etc. either originated in Taiyuan, or built the capital here, or took Taiyuan as the accompanying capital, taiyuan appeared too many emperors, so Taiyuan is known as "Dragon City" nickname.
What Song Taizong could not tolerate was the reputation of Taiyuan's "Dragon City", you know, rebellion and rebellion have been regarded as heinous crimes by the feudal dynasty since ancient times, and the true dragon tianzi in the capital who regard themselves as dragons are most afraid of their kind in other places, repeatedly resisting the central government, becoming the center of feudal warlords, and Taiyuan, which "serves after prosperity, and rebels first when it declines", is more and more intolerant of a new dynasty that is not tolerated in reunification. The dragon city of Taiyuan is in a doomed situation.
Less than half a month after the fall of Jinyang, Emperor Taizong of Song ordered the burning of Jinyang. Xincheng, Cangcheng, Daming City, Xicheng, Dongcheng, Liancheng, and the three cities outside the three cities of Lisan lit a raging fire, and after the fire, the Song army diverted Jinshui and Fenshui to irrigate Jinyang, and finally turned this ancient town that lasted for 1476 into a ruin in the blood and tears of the people of Taiyuan and the helpless feelings of posterity. The luxurious and magnificent Daming Palace and Jinyang Palace, the hall of revolt and the altar of acceptance inscribed with the deeds of the Tang Dynasty, the Chengkong Giant Buddha forged by flesh and blood, so many brilliant buildings and splendid culture, so easily turned into ashes and disappeared into the smoke and dust of history forever, leaving only a thousand years later with no one to resonate with grief.
Not only that, the Song army also cut off the top of the mountain of Tiezhou Mountain, called the Dragon Horn, in order to destroy the Taiyuan Dragon Vein, and later when taiyuan city was rebuilt, it only repaired the T-shaped Street and not the Cross Street, in order to "nail" the Taiyuan Dragon Vein to death.
Today, more than a thousand years later, after experiencing the catastrophe, the ancient city of Jinyang still leaves us with some place names that can still be traced to vague clues, such as Guchengying Village, Nanchengjiao Village, Chengbei Village, and Luocheng Village. Strolling through the ancient city of Yingcun, we can still find the ruins of the ancient city wall of Jinyang for hundreds of meters, the rammed earth ruins and the lush bushes on it, just like the iron backbone of the Taiyuan people who did not want to yield