Chang Yimin, second-level cultural and museum research librarian of Taiyuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, deputy director of Shanxi Provincial Social Education and Culture Special Committee of Jiusan Society, 2019 Sanjin Elite Top-notch Backbone Talent, Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau's first Zhang Jaw Leading Talent, senior expert contacted by Taiyuan Municipal Party Committee, Taiyuan City Second Season Era Newcomer, Taiyuan City Archaeological Master Studio Leader. He has been engaged in cultural relics for nearly 40 years, and has presided over the excavation of Xu Xianxiu's tomb and the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang. He has published works such as "Jinyang Ancient City Ruins", "Taiyuan Sui Yuhong Tomb Excavation Report", "Pre-Qin Taiyuan Research" and other treatises, with nearly one million words. The tomb of Xu Xianxiu in the Northern Qi Dynasty, which presided over the excavation, won the award for China's top ten new archaeological discoveries, and he won the team leader award and the third prize of field archaeology of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
Jinyang City is generally believed to have been built in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (497 BC), after the Qin and Han dynasties, the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, and was destroyed in the fourth year of the Song Taiping Rejuvenation (979). As an important political, economic and military center in northern China, Jinyang City plays a very important role in the process of history, is a strategic barrier for the safety of the Central Plains Dynasty, a stage for the integration of nomadic civilization in the northern steppe and agricultural civilization in the Central Plains, and a frontier place for ethnic integration and cultural collision.
Jinyang Ancient City No. 2 building site group overlooks.
During the 1500 years from the completion to the abandonment of Jinyang City, the city site has not been moved too much, and the sudden burning has made it an ancient city site with a complete urban pattern and rich cultural relics, especially the ruins and historical relics of the Tang Dynasty are the most abundant. The city ruins, religious sacrifice sites, and tomb ruins that accompany each other are well preserved, rely on each other, and have rich connotations, constituting a complete, comprehensive and systematic Jinyang cultural relics.
Shovel "Shi Jinyang".
As early as the 60s of the last century, Mr. Xie Yuanlu and Mr. Zhang Jaw have carried out a preliminary survey of the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang, and for decades, we have carried out further archaeological excavations on the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang along the footsteps of our predecessors, and found out a basically complete urban circle.
The core area of Jinyang ancient city site is located in the north of Taiyuan Basin, Jinyuan Town, Jinyuan District, southwest of Taiyuan City, with an area of about 20 square kilometers. The entire site area is widely distributed within 200 square kilometers of Jinyuan District.
The area where the ancient city ruins are located belongs to the alluvial fan in front of the Xishan Mountain, which naturally forms a geographical situation of high in the west and low in the east, high in the north and low in the south. The east-west drop is more than 20 meters, and the north-south drop is about 15 meters. The burial depth of the cultural layer also gradually deepened from west to east with the topography. The western area starts from the west city wall, and there are still some remains of the city wall on the surface. To Guchengying Village and its surrounding area, there are abundant ruins between 1 and 4 meters below the surface. There are few relics found in the eastern region, and due to the repeated diversion of the Fen River, some of the relics may be completely destroyed.
According to its function, the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang can be divided into three parts: the ruins of the ancient city, the ruins of the temple and the ruins of the tombs.
The ruins of the city. According to the literature and archaeological investigation, the urban ruins are basically framed within the range of about 6 kilometers from east to west and 4 kilometers from north to south, with a total length of about 20 kilometers and an area of more than 20 square kilometers. The remains on the surface and confirmed by archaeological investigation include: the middle section of the west city wall, the moat of the west city wall, the southwest corner, the northwest city corner, and the rammed earth remains, building foundations, and water conservancy facilities of multiple sections of the city wall within the urban area.
In specific archaeological excavations, there are surprises and difficulties. Surprisingly, fragments of relics from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty such as beans and mustaches were found in the rammed earth of the early west city wall, fragments of relics from the Han and Jin dynasties such as Jomon tiles and pots were found in the main city wall, and fragments of relics from the Tang Dynasty such as white porcelain bowl bottoms and Jomon bricks were found in the contents of the repaired city wall, so as to have a clear understanding of the main ramming era of the western city wall. The bigger surprise comes from the excavation in the city, in the excavation in the ancient city camp village, the building foundation was found, and a large number of building components with the characteristics of the Northern Dynasties were unearthed, among which the largest number is the polished green barrel tile, slab tile, rope strip brick, and also unearthed with stamped slab tile, lotus pattern tile, kiss beast and so on. In the Taiyuan nursery, the foundation site of the building related to the Jinyang Palace was discovered, and a group of foundation sites of the five dynasties of the Tang Dynasty with clear layout regulations were discovered, and a large number of related cultural relics were unearthed.
Of course, there were quite a few difficulties during this period. For example, in the investigation and exploration in the eastern part of the site, due to the high groundwater level and deep siltation, it is difficult for the ordinary Luoyang shovel to penetrate the compacted sand layer, and can only be drilled in combination with the shovel distribution. The iron shovel, in the face of a depth of more than ten meters and a sand layer that is cemented like a stone, can not be easily beaten, and the soil is lifted up after being hit, and the shovel itself is dozens of pounds heavy, stuck in the cemented sand layer, and it is as heavy as a thousand catties. The exploration of the eastern city wall was even more difficult, where the water table was very high, the water in the borehole was constantly rising, and the sand was constantly falling. In order to ensure the continuity of the work, two or three people had to take turns to investigate about 100 square meters a day, and in the face of tens of millions of square meters of ruins, when would they be able to unveil the mystery of Jinyang City? The archaeological team members were in a hurry, and finally switched to using "Zimukou" or "hook" shaped probes and combined with geological drilling rigs to find the remains of the city wall, which accelerated the progress.
Temple ruins. The ruins of the temple view are in the west of the ruins of the ancient city in the west of the West Mountain, where the ancient trees are towering to the sky, the air is fresh, the environment is beautiful, during the existence of Jinyang City, most of the large-scale grotto Buddhist temples and Taoist temples of the past dynasties are located here. Such as Jin Ancestral Hall, Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, Tianlong Mountain Shengshou Temple (Tianlong Temple), Burning Stone Tower, Shimen Temple, Gugu Cave Grottoes Ruins, Gaohuan Summer Palace Ruins, etc. The ruins of Kaihua Temple are divided into two parts, the upper temple has the Mengshan Giant Buddha, and the lower temple has the Lianli Pagoda. Mengshan Giant Buddha is the famous Buddha of our country in the early days, the Buddha together with the pedestal is nearly 45 meters high, only the Tongzi Temple Buddha of the ruins is recorded to be 17 zhang high, 100 feet wide, are the highest Buddhist cliff carvings in the Northern Dynasties period.
Burial site. 
Zhao Yingge unearthed from the tomb of Zhao Qing in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan.
If the city is a place of secular life, and the temple is the spiritual sustenance of people, then the tomb is people's yearning for life in another world, and it is also a portrayal of people's real life and spiritual life. The burial site is mainly at the eastern foot of Xishan, north to Yanjiagou, south to Wangguo Village, 30 kilometers from north to south and about 3 kilometers from east to west. The tombs here are densely distributed, and the era is basically consistent with the rise and fall of Jinyang City, that is, from the late Spring and Autumn period to the early Song Dynasty. Among the important discoveries are: the tomb of Zhao Qing of the Jin Kingdom in Jinsheng Village and its attached carriage and horse pit, the large Han tomb of Jinyuan Guoshuchang, the tomb of Lou Rong of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Wangguo Village, and the tomb of Yu Hong of the Sui Dynasty. In recent years, on the front slope of Dongshan, the tombs of the Northern Qi Dynasty, such as the tomb of Xu Xianxiu, the tomb of Di Zhan, and the tomb of Di Ye, have been discovered, and the tomb area of the ancient city of Jinyang has been extended to the Dongshan area.
Why Jinyang. Regarding the time of the creation of Jinyang City, there are different opinions in the academic community. Some people think that Taiyuan has been built as early as the Tang Yao period, and the "Tang City" is its predecessor. Indeed, as early as ancient times, there were traces of human activities on the land of Jinyang. The Yijing culture of the Neolithic Age is an archaeological culture with distinctive local characteristics formed by primitive humans in Taiyuan under specific historical and geographical conditions, absorbing and integrating the characteristics of surrounding cultures. The cultural relics of the Xia period in Di Village, Guangshe, Taiyuan, are also rich in local characteristics, and participated in or influenced the formation and development of the culture of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was the activity area of Fang countries or nomadic tribes such as Bingshi, Northern Tang Rong, and Yanjing Zhirong. In 541 B.C., the Jin generals Xun Wu and Wei Shu fought fiercely with Qundi here and won the victory, including Taiyuan into the territory of the Jin State. Then there was the Jinyang City built by Zhao Ying. It is not difficult to see that in the 3,000 years before the establishment of Jinyang City, there was already an advanced culture in the Taiyuan Basin, so there was also the possibility of building a city.
Jinyang first appeared in historical books in "Spring and Autumn - The Thirteenth Year of Dinggong": "In the autumn, Jin Zhao Ying entered Jinyang to rebel. Founded in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jinyang City was one of the important cities in China at that time, and its city was solid and well-stocked, so that "the walls of the Gonggong Palace are all ...... of the Chu Valley."The rooms of the palace are all made of copper smelting" ("Warring States Policy: Zhao Ceyi"). In 454 B.C., Zhi Boyao united Han and Wei to besiege the Zhao family in Jinyang, excavated the Zhibo Canal, and irrigated the city with water. It was precisely because of the solidity of Jinyang City that time was bought for the Zhao family, and Zhao Xiangzi finally persuaded Han and Wei to defect and jointly destroy the Zhi family, thus laying the foundation of the "three families divided into Jin". It can be said that the advanced construction technology of Jinyang City is an important factor influencing historical events.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, Jinyang City was successively the seat of Qin Taiyuan County, the Western Han Dynasty and the Taiyuan State. As an important town in the Qin and Han dynasties to defend against the Xiongnu and control the north, Jinyang City should have been built on a large scale during this period. At that time, people called Jinyang City "the famous pass in the east, and the strong Hu in the north......The land of the four battles, the field of attack and defense" ("The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Feng Yanlie"). During the reign of Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, the Eight Kings rebelled, and the ethnic minorities living in the interior took the opportunity to raise troops and establish a separatist regime. In 304 A.D., Liu Kun built the Jiancheng of Jinyang for the history of the state, and fought alone for nine years. Regarding the Jinyang City built by Liu Kun, the "Yuanhe County Atlas" contains: "The city of Fucheng, so the old legend and the history of the state Liu Kun built, now according to the city height of four zhang, back to twenty-seven miles. ”
During the Northern Dynasties, Jinyang City ushered in a climax of development. Gao Huan, a powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, built the "Great Prime Minister's Mansion" in Jinyang and placed it in Jinyang Palace. The emperors of the Northern Qi Dynasty traveled between Jinyang and Yecheng all the year round, and they carried out large-scale construction in and around Jinyang City. Gao Wei, the queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty, "inherited the luxury of Wucheng, and thought that the emperor was ...... of course."Twelve courtyards in Jinyang, magnificently more than Yexia" ("Northern Qi Book, Young Lord Emperor Ji"). The large-scale construction seen in the historical books includes Jinyang Palace, South Palace, Daming Palace, Twelve Courtyards and so on. As the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was an important transition period for China's urban development, as one of the centers of the Northern Dynasties in China, the urban layout of Jinyang City also had a great influence on the construction of Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
The remnant monument engraved with "Jinyang Palace of Sui" unearthed at the base site of the No. 2 building
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the construction of Jinyang City reached a new stage. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built a new city and a cangcheng, and built a new Jinyang Palace. Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, raised troops in Taiyuan to destroy the Sui and unify the world. Taiyuan became the land of Longxing of the Li Tang Dynasty and received special attention in the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of Wu Zhou's longevity (692), the northern capital was placed. In the eleventh year of Tang Kaiyuan (723), the northern capital was renamed Beijing, and then changed back to the northern capital, and finally became customized. Although the administrative office of Taiyuan Mansion in the Tang Dynasty was located in Jinyang City, in the twelfth year of Tang Zhenguan (638), Taiyuan County of Sui was placed in Taiyuan County of Sui on the east bank of Fenshui. During the post-martial period, the long history Cui Shenqing crossed the Fenshui to build a city wall, connecting the two cities together. Therefore, the county seat of Taiyuan is called the East City, the Jinyang City is called the West City, and the city wall between the two cities is called the Middle City, which together constitute the so-called "Three Cities of Taiyuan". The three cities are 12 miles from east to west, and 8 miles from north to south5 miles, more than 40 miles per week. At that time, Jinyang City was magnificent and prosperous, and the great poet Li Bai traveled here, lingering, and left poems such as "Taiyuan Early Autumn" and "Reminiscence of the Old Journey to the Army".
The Tang Dynasty poet Ouyang Zhan wrote in "The Autumn Climb of Taiyuan Longxing Temple Pavilion Ambition of the Chief Officer": "Hundred zhang turns into a city tower, and Jun ascends to the top." Nine Xiao back to the plank road, eight to the state of Shiji. We can imagine the magnificent scene of Jinyang City in the Tang Dynasty: the clear Fen River water flows from north to south, and several broad and majestic bridges across the east and west on the wide river surface, and the two ends of the bridge are dependent on each other, connecting the east and west cities together, like a city on the water. On its east bank, there is the beautiful Taiyuan county town (Dongcheng), with rows of buildings in the city and willow trees outside the city. On its west bank, there is the magnificent Jinyang City (Xicheng), and the Jinshui flows north from the Tang Shuyu Temple through the Zhibo Canal into the moat with a width of up to 40 meters on the south, west and north. There are a few boats on the river, going back and forth between Jinyang City and Shuyu Temple. The west city is about 4,500 meters long from east to west, about 4,000 meters wide from north to south, the bottom of the main city wall is as thick as 16 meters, and the height is about 12 meters. Daming Palace, Xincheng (Jinyang Palace), Cangcheng three palace cities shaped like "product" are placed in the northwest of the city, become the city in the city, Xuanguang Palace, Renshou Palace, Daming Palace, Feiyun Building, Fenshang Pavilion, Deyang Hall, hook heart and corner, magnificent. There are Dongyang Gate, Daxia Gate, Yanxia Gate in the east of the west city, Wulongmen, Xuande Gate, Shahe Gate in the north, Baihu Gate, Yanxi Gate, Ximing Gate in the west, etc., the towers and pavilions on the city gate are towering. The square in the city is regular, and the area of each square is about 05 square kilometers, the prefectural government offices are surrounded in the east and south of Miyagi. There are hundreds of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in the city, distributed in various lanes, and tens of thousands of monks, nuns and Taoists come and go to the palace to preach the scriptures and preach. There is a fixed market in the city, and the various districts are divided and clearly bounded, and high walls separate the squares from each other and from the city. As the main water source of Jinyang City, Jinshui passes through the city from the West Water Gate, and feeds into the East City. The Fen River is responsible for the city's sewage discharge function, and it is also the core of the transportation of water. In the ancient city, the canals are vertical and horizontal, the green trees are shady, Ouyang Zhan sings high, Yixing is turbulent, and he writes "Accompany Taiyuan Zheng Xingjun in Cheng Dengfen Upper Pavilion in Cheng Cheng Poem Said Fen Lou": "And Zhou Fen Shang Pavilion, ascending like Wu Chang. Through the Guo River access road, lingering village water forced township. The city is in vain, and the alley market is connected to the flying beam. Don't talk about the rivers and lakes, the southerners are breaking their bowels. "At that time, Jinyang City was a landscape of a water town.
After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong, a member of the Shatuo tribe, was self-reliant in Taiyuan. Until his son Li Cunqiao destroyed the Later Liang, he changed the name of the country to the Tang State, which was for the Later Tang Dynasty. The Later Tang Dynasty initially placed the Western Capital in Taiyuan, and later followed the Tang Dynasty and changed its name to the Northern Capital. It was Shi Jingjiao, a member of the Shatuo tribe who served as the envoy of the Hedong Festival in Taiyuan, who destroyed the Later Tang Dynasty and established the Later Jin regime. Similarly, Liu Zhiyuan, who destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty and established the Later Han Dynasty, was also the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu stationed in Taiyuan. In the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty, Liu Chong, the then envoy of Hedong Jiedu, became independent in Taiyuan and established the Northern Han regime. A Jinyang City, half of the history of five dynasties, Jinyang City vividly interprets the characteristics of the prosperous town and the troubled times.
In 969, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, came to the city of Jinyang in person, and used Jinshui and Fenshui to build embankments to irrigate the city, but failed to conquer the city. Ten years later, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, once again led his troops to the Northern Expedition, and on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Liu Jiyuan of the Northern Han Dynasty surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty after running out of food. After pacifying the Northern Han Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi forced all the residents of Jinyang City to move out of the city and set fire to the city. In April of the following year, Fenshui and Jinshui were diverted to flood Jinyang City. In this way, the prosperous city of 1500 years, the magnificent and solid Jinyang City, turned into mounds in the fire and flooding.
Majestic Jinyang. Throughout the development history of Jinyang City, there are four important points.
1. Jinyang City is the carrier of Jinyang culture and a witness of major historical events.
Jinyang City has been an important military town in northern China for a long time, and it is a big stage for the integration of agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization. Jinyang culture is conceived, inherited and developed here, and some major events in Chinese history are interpreted here. The battle of "Water Irrigation Jinyang" laid the foundation for the division of the three Jin, and became an epoch-making event in Chinese history; The rulers of the Northern Qi Dynasty painstakingly managed Jinyang City, where various cultures fermented and fused, giving birth to a rich cultural heritage and accumulating rich network resources, and it was by virtue of this that Li Yuan and his son were able to destroy the Sui and build the Tang Dynasty, and created a far-reaching Sui and Tang culture; The Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Later Han Dynasty all established a dynasty by virtue of Jinyang, and the Northern Song Dynasty continued to suffer from foreign troubles, and the Southern Song Dynasty lived in the south of the Yangtze River, all of which were closely related to Shi Jingjiao's cession of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and Zhao Guangyi's burning of Jinyang City. There is no if in history, if Jinyang City had not been burned down and became a strong city in the Northern Song Dynasty, there might not be the sigh of "Jingkang is ashamed, and it is still snowing".
2. Jinyang City is strong and majestic, and it is a model of ancient city architecture.
The reason why Jinyang City has been able to become one of the political, economic, cultural and military centers in the north of China during its 1500 years of existence is closely related to the important geographical location and solid urban facilities of Jinyang City. In the hundreds of years after Jinyang City was burned and abandoned, there was no major construction project in the hometown of Jinyang City, and this special site burial phenomenon is very rare in the national ruins. Therefore, the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang have preserved the original appearance of the urban construction in the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, which is of great significance for understanding the layout structure and institutional characteristics of Jinyang City and studying the law of ancient urban construction.
3. The ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang contain profound cultural connotations and rich cultural relics.
The excavation site of the burial pit of Tianlong Mountain.
According to its function, the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang are divided into three parts: city ruins, religious sacrifice sites and tomb sites, and these three parts have important discoveries and far-reaching significance. As far as the ruins of the city are concerned, after the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, it ordered the fire and water to irrigate the Jinyang City, so the various building foundations should be sealed in the ground as a whole. Over the years, in the Jinyang ancient city protection area, often found the remnants of building components and other relics, many times unearthed exquisite stone carvings, is the best proof of the rich urban relics of the ancient city of Jinyang. As far as the known religious sacrificial sites are concerned, there are extant or discovered large-scale cave Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in the Xishan vein to the west of the ruins of the ancient city. The excavation of the Tang Dynasty tower base site of Taishan Longquan Temple and the excavation of the gold coffin and silver coffin relics, the excavation of the Mengshan Giant Buddha Pavilion, and the discovery of the burial pit of Tianlong Mountain are all new harvests of the temple site of the ancient city of Jinyang, which are important resources and carriers for building the archaeological park of the national ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang. As far as the burial sites are concerned, they are mainly distributed in the eastern foothills of the West Mountain and the front slope of the East Mountain. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a total of more than 5,000 ancient tombs have been rescued and excavated, and the important discoveries are: the tomb of Zhao Qing of the Jin Kingdom in Jinsheng Village and its attached carriage and horse pit, the large Han tomb of Jinyuan Guoshuchang, the tomb of Lou Rong of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the tomb of Yu Hong of the Sui Dynasty in Wangguo Village, the tomb of Xu Xianxiu of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Wangjiafeng Village, etc., these discoveries have caused a sensation in the world, or filled the gap in archaeology, highlighting the rich connotation of Jinyang culture.
Fourth, Jinyang City is a colorful chapter in the history of Taiyuan urban development.
In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo (979), Jinyang City was abandoned, and the state administration office was moved to Yuci County, and in the seventh year of Taiping Xingguo (782), it was moved to Sanjiao Town (Tangming Town) under the jurisdiction of Yangqu County. At the same time, Yangqu County was also moved here, and some of the residents of the original Taiyuan City were also forcibly relocated here. In the fourth year of Song Renzong Jiayou (1059), it was promoted to Taiyuan Mansion and became the garrison of the Taiyuan Army. During the Jin conquest of northern China, the fall of Taiyuan also played a decisive role in the fate of the Northern Song Dynasty. To the Jin Dynasty is also known as Taiyuan Mansion, and the Songhe East Road is divided into north and south roads, and the governance of the North River Road is located here. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was originally called the Taiyuan Road Governor's Office. In the ninth year of Yuan Dade (1305), it was renamed Jining Road. As the so-called "hinterland" area, it is directly under the jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province. To the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), and changed the Jining Road to Taiyuan Mansion, in the early Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Xingzhongshu Province was set up here, the Ming Hongwu nine years (1376), large-scale expansion of the city wall since the Song Dynasty, built a circumference of about 12 kilometers, 11 meters high city, Taiyuan became one of the important towns of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty basically continued this pattern.
Because the geographical environment around Taiyuan City is basically the same as that of Jinyang City, this makes Taiyuan still occupy an important position in the history of our country. In its history of the next thousand years, Taiyuan City has always inherited the historical genes and cultural context of ancient Jinyang, and maintained its unique location advantages and regional cultural characteristics. It still continues the quality and fashion of daring to be the first, tenacious struggle, eclecticism, reform and innovation created by Jinyang City. Jinyang - Taiyuan, an ancient city that has experienced more than 2,500 years of ups and downs, is still the political, economic and cultural center of Shanxi, and an important city in northern China and even the whole country.
Conclusion. The excavation and protection of the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang have always received extensive attention at home and abroad. It has been listed by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage as a national 100 site display project during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period and a national large site protection planning project during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period. With the progress of research work, the excavation and protection of the ancient city has attracted more and more attention from all walks of life. In September 2002, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) listed the protection, development and research of the ancient city of Jinyang as an assistance project for the "urban planning, management and development in the 21st century", hoping to provide experience for cities in similar situations around the world through the implementation of research on the protection of the ancient city of Jinyang and the development and utilization of tourism resources. On October 9, 2010, the ancient city of Jinyang was approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for the first batch of archaeological site parks. It can be said that the effective protection and utilization of the rich connotation of the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang is a huge supporting force for Taiyuan to highlight the charm of the historical and cultural city and reproduce the splendid scenery of Taiyuan City.
It has been more than 2,500 years since the establishment of Jinyang City, and its destruction has been more than 1,000 years. Such a long-lasting, large-scale, and abruptly abandoned metropolis, especially the ruins of cities that have not suffered large-scale destruction after the destruction, are relatively rare in China and even in the world. The protection, excavation and research of the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang are undoubtedly of great significance to the evolution of China's urban layout and the construction regulation of the Tang Dynasty.