Beijing celebrates 2023 as its 870th anniversary as the Chinese capital and archaeological researchers have stepped up efforts to clarify this history.

Zhongdu site, the capital city of Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) in Beijing Photo: Courtesy of Beijing Municipal Cultural Heritage Bureau. Chinese archaeologists in Beijing have discovered the remains of ...

ANKARA. Chinese archeologists have discovered remnants of a city gate from the 12th century Jin Dynasty capital of Zhongdu in Beijing, among other discoveries, state media reported on Monday.

In 1127, its powerful army seized Kaifeng, a city in present-day Henan province and then capital of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The Jin army took two Song emperors as prisoners, marking the end ...

The city's stint as the national capital began 871 years ago when the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) moved its capital to Beijing in 1153, calling it Zhongdu ("the central capital").

Situated at Yulin Neighborhood, Fengtai District, Beijing, the Liao Jin City Wall Museum is built on the ruins of a water gate in Zhongdu, the capital of Jin Dynasty (1153 - 1215).

He was the sixth emperor of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234). The summer palace, named Taihe Palace, now the name of the largest building in the Forbidden City, has been known since the 1970s.