The Profound History Tour of Beijing

Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic, is the world-famous historical cities and cultural city. Is the country's political, economic, transportation and cultural center. This blend of splendid Chinese culture and art, left many monuments and cultural landscape.

Beijing was first seen in the name of literature called Thistle. The eleventh century BC, the thistle is the dominant country of the Western Zhou Dynasty in northern China as a feudal state. Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 years ago) mid-south-west of the country in the thistle another Feng Yan, engulfed thistle, thistle, and moved the capital city. From then on, until 226 BC, the Qin Yan State was destroyed by a powerful, Yan Ji City, has been the capital. According to the archaeologists to research, when the thistle is the city in the southwest of Beijing city.

AD 938, the provisional capital of Liao thistle city to become. Liaoning is a rise in the northeast of China to establish the Khitan ethnic minorities. Because the thistle in its territory under the jurisdiction of the south, it was renamed Nanjing, also known as Yanjing. More than a century later, another ethnic Jurchen established the Liao Jin will die, and in 1153 moved the capital to Yanjing and renamed it in both. In 1214, Jin because of the emerging Mongolian army offensive, forced relocation of the capital Bianjing (now Kaifeng), the second year in both the Mongolian cavalry into account. In 1267, the Mongolian leader Kublai Khan ordered the construction of the capital's northern suburb of Metro East. Four years later the leaders that are under construction in the city to board the emperor's throne, established the Yuan dynasty in Chinese history. 1258 Metro fully completed, this is the Italian traveler Marco. Travels in the Baltic known as the "world Monensin and than the" Dadu. Since then, Beijing replaced Chang'an and Luoyang, the ancient capital of Bianliang other's status as China's political center, and continue to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

October 10, 1911, the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolution broke out, was forced to declare the second Qing emperor to abdicate in February. So far, China's last feudal dynasty collapse killed in Beijing as the empire's history ended. Over the next 30 years, Beijing after suffering: first, the warlord of war continued year after year, so that when the decline of empire has become dilapidated; Japanese troops invaded in 1937, working hard and making the city in blood and fire in eight years; After the victory, KMT government took over the city.

Suffering, humiliation, blood and tears, and finally the people from the fight. October 1, 1949, founding of the PRC, Beijing became the capital of the new republic, the historic city opened a new page.

The history of a city of a country's history. As generations of empire and today the Chinese capital Beijing is the epitome of Chinese history and current situation. Beijing is an ancient, but they are also a beautiful youthful glow of the ancient city, Beijing is a magnificent, marvelous, fresh, modern attitude in the world.