Xi 'an: the ancient capital of the Ten Dynasties (Western Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty, Former Zhao Dynasty, Former Qin Dynasty, Later Qin Dynasty, Western Wei Dynasty, Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty)

2. Beijing: the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties (Houyan, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing)

3. Luoyang: the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties (Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang (Wu Zhou), Hou Liang, Later Tang and Later Jin).

Nanjing: the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties (Sun Wu, Eastern Jin,,,, Chen)

5. Hangzhou: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and wuyue of the Southern Song Dynasty established their capitals here.

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Functions of the capital:

There are boundary effects in the function and development path of its capital. Everything is not always the best way, but it is too much. There is no fixed model for the functions of capitals in various countries, and the determination of their functions should mainly consider the history and reality of capitals.

The functional modes of the capital mainly include the following:

Big country model and small country model. When human beings develop to a certain stage, they gather into cities and then evolve into countries.

As far as the land area is concerned, there are always differences between countries, and the development path and core function orientation of the capitals of big countries and small countries are also different.