In the city's long history, the earliest walls were built in Zhongdu, capital of the Jin Dynasty. At that time more than one million civilians and soldiers toiled for three years to expand the old ...

After Kublai Khan destroyed the Jin capital, he constructed the Yuan Dynasty capital Dadu with changed ... Lakes), the golden roofs of the Forbidden City and the nearby city streets.

The Shanxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology along with the Changzhi Archaeological Research Institute recently excavated three brick-chamber tombs with murals from the Jin Dynasty ...