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Some time ago, on a bus in Beijing, a big aunt who claimed to be a yellow flag broke out and scolded her because others gave her a seat slowly, as if she were a Native of Beijing and engaged in regional discrimination. It really surprised the people of the whole country, how can there be such a strange aunt in Beijing, the capital that every Chinese people yearn for? However, the ending is still comfortable, and this big mother, who claims to be a Native of Beijing, was administratively detained by the Beijing police, which made people clap their hands and applaud.
I have been in Beijing for many years, I have come into contact with a lot of Beijing natives, most of them are still very enthusiastic and qualified, like this Zhenghuangqi aunt is just an exception, many old Beijingers will feel disdain for her behavior, ashamed. In fact, when I heard this aunt who called herself Zheng Huangqi say that others were foreigners, I wanted to laugh in my heart, and I especially wanted to say to her: In fact, you are also a foreigner, why do foreigners suffer from foreigners? Why do you say that, listen to me to tell you one by one.
"Zhenghuang Banner" - one of the eight banners of the Qing Dynasty, named after the pure yellow color of the flag, was built in the 29th year of the Ming Wanli calendar (1601 AD). The Eight Flags System was a social organization system of the Qing Dynasty in which soldiers and civilians were integrated, and was built by the Qing Taizu Nurhaci on the Jurchen Niulu system. At that time, the ancestors of the big mother were still living in the Changbai Mountain area outside Guanwai, and it is unknown when the big mother moved into Beijing from the Changbai Mountain area, but it is not clear whether the big mother is also a foreigner, and the history of Beijing City did not only begin from the Qing Dynasty.
The origins of the city of Beijing can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC - 256 BC), when the King of Zhou enfeoffed a nobleman to North China and established the Jiguo Kingdom, whose capital was Jicheng, the predecessor of Beijing. Why is it called Thistle Country, because there were a lot of "big thistles" growing on the land of Beijing at that time. This plant was rare in the south in ancient times, so it was used as a symbol of the country.
Later, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the weak and the strong, the Yan State annexed the Ji Kingdom, and still took Jicheng as the capital, so Beijing was also known as Yanjing. The current Beijing beer brand "Yanjing Beer" is derived from this.
In 222 BC, Wang Ben of Qin sent wang ben to lead an army to attack Liaodong, capturing Wang Xi of Yan and destroying the State of Yan. After the Qin state destroyed the Six Kingdoms and unified China, the capital was Xianyang. Because jicheng is backed by the Yanshan Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, it has always been a military stronghold against the nomadic peoples in the north. The well-known Badaling Great Wall and Juyongguan Great Wall are built on this mountain range.
Later, in the Sui Dynasty, the city of Beijing was renamed Zhuo County, and in the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Youzhou City. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty ceded the strategic position and its important Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the Liao State, including the entire territory of present-day Beijing.
The Liao State (907-1125), founded by the nomadic people, was a dynasty established by the Khitans in Chinese history. In order to appear large, five capital cities were set up in one go, central, southeast, and west, of which "Nanjing" was in Youzhou. Near the caishikou subway station in Beijing, there is a stone stele on the former site of the Liao'an Dongmen, and the first sentence reads: The city gate in the middle of the eastern wall of Nanjing City in Liaoning. So during the Liao Dynasty, Beijing was called Nanjing, which was not the same place as our current Nanjing.
As Nanjing of the Liao Dynasty and as a gate for the invasion of the Central Plains by nomadic peoples, the city of Beijing ushered in a turning point in the entire history of Beijing. From a border fortress against nomads, it has transformed into a capital city that commands the brain of the entire country. The Liao State moved many government agencies to the city of Beijing, in order to firmly guard this gate. At present, the oldest building in Beijing's urban area is the Tianning Temple Pagoda used by the Liao people to worship the Buddha, which has a history of nearly 1,000 years in the Area of Guang'anmen outside the West Second Ring Road of Beijing.
However, with the replacement of the Liao state by the Feudal Dynasty JinGuo (1115-1234), a feudal dynasty established by the Jurchens that ruled northern and northeastern China, Liao Nanjing was also used as the capital of the Jin Dynasty, and its name was changed to Jinzhongdu.
In the 13th century, the iron horse of the Mongol Empire swept through the Central Plains, and the entire Jinzhong was also reduced to a pile of ruins in the war, and the Mongols rebuilt the city of Beijing as the capital in the northeast direction of the ruins, and the city of Beijing became the capital of the Yuan.
Due to the strength of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), the current city of Beijing still has many traces of the Yuan Dynasty. For example, there are several theories about the origin of the term Beijing Hutong, all related to the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols. One theory is that the Mongolian language calls the town "Hot". After the Mongols made Beijing the capital, they followed their own customs and called the streets and alleys of the Central Plains towns "Haote", which was later pronounced "Hutong" by the Han people in the capital. Another saying is that "hutong" originally means "well" in Mongolian, which is pronounced "Kudong", because urban residents cannot survive without wells, so "wells" have gradually become synonymous with people's places of residence. After the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty, they also brought this language into the Central Plains, and the harmonic sound of "Kudong" became "Hutong".
Including another feature of Beijing, the courtyard, it is said that it was also a square land divided for rich merchants and officials during the Yuan Dynasty, and in order not to waste the land, everyone created a square courtyard.
There is also a term that many people find strange, why are the lakes in Beijing called "sea"? Such as Beihai, Houhai, Zhongnanhai, Shichahai. This is also the name of the Mongols. It is said that the Mongols never saw the real sea in the steppe, so they called the lake "Haizi" or "Hai" for short.
The Yuan Dynasty did not last long before it was overthrown by Zhu Yuanzhang, a native of Fengyang, Anhui, and the Ming Dynasty was established (1368-1644). His son Zhu Di ascended the throne in 1402 and moved the capital to Beijing, leaving a heavy historical monument to the city of Beijing, the Forbidden City. Until the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912), the city of Beijing was designated as the capital of the country.
During the Republic of China period, the city of Beijing was renamed Beiping, and after the founding of New China, Beiping was renamed Beijing, becoming the brain center of New China and becoming the political center, economic center, tourism center and cultural center of Our country. Attracting generations of young people to work hard here, the term North Drift is derived. Some young people regret to leave, and some young people are lucky enough to stay and become a new generation of Beijingers.
This is the past and present life of The city of Beijing, combing through the history of Beijing for thousands of years, we can find that the indigenous people of Beijing are constantly changing. From the natives of Jicheng in the beginning, to the border guards from the Central Plains, to the migration of nomadic peoples such as the Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols; from the proud soldiers from Fengyang, Anhui Province, to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty from the Manchus and Mongols, to the new Pekingese from all over the country, Beijing has become their proud home. The self-proclaimed Beijing natives now may be nothing more than foreigners who moved in tens or hundreds of years ago; and the so-called foreigners may be Beijing natives who are hundreds or thousands of years earlier than them.
Beijing is an inclusive city, with "patriotism, innovation, tolerance, and virtue" as the city spirit, which is a summary and summary of the spiritual wealth formed in the process of the long-term development and construction practice of the people in the capital. We can't question Beijing's tolerance because of a big yellow flag aunt, after all, the forest is big and there are birds.