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.