Zheng Zhuanggong, the king of Zheng Zhuang in the Spring and Autumn Period of Kaifeng City, built a city in Henan in order to "open up the frontier" and named it "Kaifeng".
During the Warring States Period, King Wei Hui moved the capital to Kaifeng in order to control the Central Plains and changed his name to "Daliang". Five generations of Later Liang, Later Han, Later Jin and other countries were built here, the most prosperous period of Kaifeng was the Northern Song Dynasty, the national capital Tokyo City is known as "the population of millions, the richest in the world".
The Yellow River flows through Kaifeng, due to sediment siltation, the riverbed is 7 to 8 meters higher than the ground level of Kaifeng City, the highest point reaches more than 10 meters, the embankment on both sides of the river is increasingly higher and higher for waterproofing, it is like the Tianhe River, it is called "hanging river" by people. Several major floods of the Yellow River in history are because of the hanging river, so that Kaifeng has been flooded several times. The silt piled up and buried the city, and the subsequent cities continued to be built on top of the cities that were potentially buried by the silt, and in this way the cities were stacked on top of each other, and six cities were stacked on top of each other. Buried at the bottom is the Great Liang City of the Wei State during the Warring States Period, and then up is the Bianzhou City of the Tang Dynasty, the Tokyo City of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, the Bianjing City of the Jin Dynasty, the Kaifeng City of the Ming Dynasty, and the top is the Kaifeng City of the Qing Dynasty.
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Therefore, Kaifeng City has become the only ancient capital city in the world with a river hanging on the ground, and it is also the only city built on top of each other in Chinese history. In history, Kaifeng has been flooded by the Yellow River many times, but after each flooding, people will rebuild the city on the silt, and gradually formed today's city stack city pattern.
Today, Kaifeng City has become a World Heritage Site, attracting thousands of tourists. Here, people can enjoy the cityscape of different historical periods and feel the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. At the same time, the people of Kaifeng are also actively protecting and utilizing this precious historical heritage, and strive to make this ancient capital glow with new vitality and vitality.