The Ancient City of Pingyao
2004-06-09 16:52


The Ancient City of Pingyao locates in center Shanxi province on southwest of Taiyuan Basin and in the middle reaches of Fen River. It is 100 kilometers away from provincial capital Taiyuan. Pingyao Ancient City is the most complete maintained county town of Ming - Qing period. It is typical of, ancient county town for Chinese Han Nationality in the Center Plain of China. The city walls, streets, residence homes and temples in the city are undamaged by and large and construction styles are maintained. They are the cultural relics and living specimen in study on Chinese politics, economy, culture, military, architecture and art. The cultural relics are unusual and with high value. They are 10O00-Buddha Hall in Zhengousi Temple built in Tianhui Year 7 (the year 963) Northern Han, Shuanglinsi Temple in Wupin Year 2 (the year 571) Northern Qi, and Qinxuguan for Taoist priestess in Xianqing Year 2 Tang Dynasty, Dachengdian Hall Confucian Temple in Tianhui Year 7 Northern. The founding of the first money exchange shop Rishengchang in the city marks the birth of contemporary new style financial business without being noticed form it counterpart at late stage of Chinese feudal society.