Jinyang Ancient City Relic Site

Jinyang Ancient City Site is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is located near Guchengying Village, Jinyuan Town, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. It was built in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period (497 BC). In the fourth year of Taiping and Xingguo (AD 979), it was destroyed by war. Since its establishment, the ancient city of Jinyang was the capital of Zhao State during the Warring States Period and was a famous metropolis in northern China in ancient times. Jinyang ancient city ruins are composed of city pond ruins, ancient tomb ruins, and religious sacrificial ruins. The city site is 4,750 meters wide from east to west and 3,750 meters long from north to south, covering an area of about 20 square kilometers. The four places of the city site are: the line from Luocheng Village to Nanchengjiao Village in the west, the line from Luocheng Village to Pangjiazhai Village in the north, the line from Pangjiazhai Village to the south in the east, and the line from Nanchengjiao Village to the south and north Wayao Village in the south. The existing relics on the ground include the ruins of the western wall, the southwest corner of the city, the base of the palace city and the ancient villages in the hinterland of the city site. Historically, Jinyang City had a special military and political status. It was once the capital of the early Zhao Kingdom, Gancheng of the Han and Jin Dynasties, the Bafu of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the other capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Beijing in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In the history of national development, Jinyang City is the link and stage for the exchange and integration of farming in the Central Plains and the nomadic culture in the north, and it is also a harmonious homeland where people of all ethnic groups live together for a long time and seek development. Today, the vicissitudes of the ruins of this home city submerged under the green villages still burst with magnificent colors.