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Why did Datong become the first famous historical and cultural city? What happened here and what was left behind?
During the Warring States Period, Datong was first a representative country, then merged into Zhao Di, and Zhao Yong, king of Zhao Wuling, was buried in Lingqiu County. The existing tomb of Zhao Wuling is the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi Province. Lingqiu? The county name also comes from the tomb of King Wuling of Zhao.

Khufu rides a horse and shoots? This is an important reason why Zhao changed from weak to strong. It is of great significance to the history of the Warring States period, the military development of the Han people, the costumes of the Han people in the Central Plains, the openness of mind, and national integration. It had a positive impact on the social development of China at that time and later, and was passed down as a much-told story.

Zhaowuling King Tomb

the Great Wall

During the Qin dynasty, the world was unified. Meng Tian, the general of Qin Shihuang, led 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north, and gathered people to build the Great Wall, which is located in He Shili Valley, east of Zuoyun Mountain and west of Yungang. Build a city in Thain, Wu Zhou to prepare for Hu. The Great Wall is one of the important symbols of Chinese civilization and a world cultural heritage. Datong Ancient Great Wall includes Zhao Great Wall, Qin Changcheng Great Wall, Han Great Wall, Northern Wei Great Wall, Sui Great Wall, Jin Great Wall, Ming Great Wall and Qing Great Wall.

Datong tu great wall

The siege of Deng Bai

Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Western Han Dynasty, was besieged by Xiongnu in Deng Bai (now Mabu Mountain in the northeast of Datong City, Shanxi Province), which is a famous allusion in the history of China: the siege of Deng Bai. Liu bang and his vanguard troops were besieged in Dengbaishan, Pingcheng for 7 days and 7 nights, and completely cut off contact with the main force. Later, Liu Bang used Chen's plan to escape from danger.

After the siege of Deng Bai, the Han Dynasty passed? Pro-democracy policy? With the Xiongnu as the boundary, peace has been maintained for decades.

Capital of Northern Wei Dynasty

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many heroes rose together and disputes continued. After the Three Kingdoms, the area where the Han people belonged was greatly weakened due to the long-term war, which gave the surrounding ethnic minorities an opportunity. After the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, it entered the period of division of the Great Lakes and Sixteen Kingdoms, and it didn't end until the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao destroyed the northern cool. The Northern Wei Dynasty unified the North. In 96 (398 -493), Datong was its capital, which was called the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

During the Datong period, the Northern Wei Dynasty left a large number of historical sites, the most famous of which was Yungang Grottoes. Yungang Grottoes, a national 5A-level scenic spot and a world cultural heritage, are about 1 km long from east to west. There are 45 main caves, 252 grottoes and more than 565,438+0,000 stone carvings. It is one of the largest ancient grottoes in China, and it is also known as the four artistic treasures of China, together with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Luoyang Longmen Grottoes and Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes.

Yungang Grottoes in Northern Wei Dynasty

There is a famous saying in Mulan Poem, a famous folk song in the Northern Dynasties: When you return to see the son of heaven, the son of heaven sits in the court. From the poem? Tang Ming? It was Tang Ming, the city of peace in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Because Xianbei people had been reformed by Emperor Xiaowen when they moved to Luoyang, they stopped calling it? Khan? Used many times in poetry? Khan? , what else? Hu Qiyan Mountain? The confrontation with the northern minority regime is soft, which shows that it was before Emperor Xiaowen's reform and moved the capital, and it was Tang Ming in Pingcheng.