The top four cities in China

Luoyang:

Luoyang: At the beginning, I want to describe her with a famous saying of Sima Guang: "Ask the rise and fall of the world, please only look at Luoyang City." In ancient China, the only city named after "God Capital" was a city with the status of legal natural capital. In the long history of China, before the Song Dynasty, Luoyang and Chang 'an occupied an absolute center. It can be said that the dynasties that did not build their capitals in these two cities were not great, and the literati who had not been to these two cities could not write beautiful sentences that would last forever! These two cities are China's version of A Tale of Two Cities! I don't want to describe these two cities too much, because their splendor has transcended the territory of China and influenced the world, and their historical records are also vast.

Xi'an

Xi 'an, once Chang 'an. Foreigners who have never been to China know little about other cities except Beijing and Shanghai, only her splendor. Until today, when you get off the train and walk out of the square of the railway station, the ancient city wall you see can still bring you great shock, but when you learn that the area of this ancient capital more than 1000 years ago is ten times that of the old city of Xi' an now; When the area of a Daming Palace is three times that of the Forbidden City in Beijing, she can imagine his achievements at that time. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the population of Chang 'an exceeded one million. East Rome made five missions to Chang 'an from Zhenguan to Kaiyuan, Persia made more than ten missions to Kaiyuan and Tianbao, and Japan made thirteen or four missions to the Tang Dynasty. The number of people who come each time reaches about 500, and they have lived in Chang 'an for twenty or thirty years. South Korea has sent more envoys than Japan. Chinese civilization can be said that all countries come to Korea, shining the most dazzling light, radiating neighboring countries and affecting the politics, economy, architecture, culture, living habits and so on of other countries. Nowadays, millions of foreign tourists come here every year, just to find the most shocking city features in ancient China. It can be said that everything has changed, and it is difficult to hide the past.

Nanjing:

Nanjing is one of the four ancient capitals in China, and it is also known as "the ancient capital of six dynasties" or even "the city of ten dynasties". Among the famous ancient capitals in China, Nanjing is unique. Nanjing was called Jinling from the Warring States Period, and its status rose from Wu Dong, then it became the capital of the Six Dynasties almost continuously (the middle was destroyed by the Western Jin Dynasty for nearly 40 years), and then it was interrupted for nearly 800 years. But he soon left the center of this country, where Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom proclaimed himself emperor, and struggled with the Qing Dynasty for more than 10 years, and finally ended up with Beijing as the capital of the Republic of China. As a city, from the Three Kingdoms to the Republic of China, it played the role of the capital in 2000 from time to time. In China, only Chang 'an, Luoyang and Beijing are second to none. It can be said that Jinling's popularity is not diminished! Before 1949, it was still the capital of China, which always reminded people of countless feasts, affairs, joys and sorrows, and hatred between the country and the enemy!

Wuhan:

Since the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, Wuhan has been one of the largest industrial and commercial cities in China. During the reign of Huguang in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zhidong built Hanyang Iron Works (the predecessor of WISCO today marks the rise of China's modern iron and steel industry and the beginning of China's heavy industry), Hanyang Arsenal ("made in Hanyang", used in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in eight years), Luhan Railway, Yuehan Railway and Chuanhan Railway, making Wuhan located in the middle of China. There is also a golden waterway like the Yangtze River, and a good location advantage immediately appears. It is a veritable "thoroughfare of nine provinces". At this time, Wuhan has made great progress in industry, education, finance, transportation, commerce and other aspects, and the city has quickly entered the early modernization, which is known as "Chicago of the East". It is no accident that the Revolution of 1911 took place in Wuhan.