The Jin Dynasty and the Three Jin Dynasties have developed distinctive features that are different from those of other regional cultures. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Shanxi's historical culture has become even more colorful and splendid
. The completeness, advancement and artistry of Shanxi's history and culture have played an important role in the formation of the Chinese nation, had a great impact on the five thousand years of Chinese civilization, and made Shanxi
one of the regions with the strongest local cultural characteristics.
Shanxi is one of the central regions of the origin of Chinese civilization. The word "China" first appeared in history books, referring to the southwestern part of Shanxi in the ancient times of Yu and Shun.
In China's indigenous civilization, from Yao, Shun and Yu to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the cultural heritage of Shanxi has never been interrupted.
Since ancient times, Shanxi has been a natural channel for the cultural convergence between the Chinese and the northern ethnic groups in the central plains, and a frontier position for the collision and buttressing of the agrarian economy in the central plains and the nomadic economy in the north.
In the ancient times, the economic and military strength of the Central Plains countries continued to grow, making the northern ethnic groups gradually integrated into the Huaxia, and accepted the more advanced Huaxia culture. By the late Spring and Autumn period
the boundary between the two sides had nearly disappeared. In more than five centuries during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Shanxi merchants began in the salt industry, developed into cotton, cloth, grain, oil, tea, medicinal herbs, fur, finance and other
various industries, and expanded their trade activities from their hometowns to all parts of the country, and even as far as today's Mongolia **** and the country, Russia, North Korea, Japan and other countries. Jin merchants of the vigor of the big, foot
Tracks of the far, the wealth of the huge, so that the world identified with the "no west is not a business" of the historical facts.
Shanxi region's historical evolution, linked through the up and down five thousand years of Chinese civilization, leaving behind 35,000 cultural relics and monuments, the State Protection Unit 119, ranking first in the country. Therefore,
Shanxi is the most qualified to become the world to understand and appreciate the Chinese civilization "theme park".
Shanxi's history and culture are characterized by constant change and progress, always in the forefront of the times. The development of Shanxi's history and culture has proved that social change and progress are based on
advanced ideas and the cradle of new ideas.
Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Shanxi became the birthplace of the Warring States Legalists, Zongheng and Hengjia, famous debaters and military, but also an important tributary of pre-Qin and early Confucianism, which led to the formation of the spectacular
Sanjin Confucianism. These progressive trends of thought are in the same era of a hundred schools of thought, not only have mutual reinforcement and agitation, but also have each other's complementary and promotion, *** with the creation of the progressive characteristics of the
Sanjin culture.
Hundreds of bone fragments with artificial traces carved on their surfaces have been found in the remains of the Zhiyu culture in Shuozhou, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago, suggesting that the Zhiyu people may have begun the primitive art of carving
. Two rock paintings at the Kakizitan site in Jixian County, where the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic took place, are regarded as the earliest art treasures of mankind. In the Taosi site, which is 4,000 to 5,000 years old, drums and chimes belonging to the early Xia culture have been unearthed
, and one- and two-tone hole ceramic ocarinas unearthed in Yijing, Taiyuan, belonged to Neolithic musical instruments. Shi Kuang, a great musician from the state of Jin, was famous for his zither skills and sound
and Xunzi, a native of the state of Zhao, founded the theory of art. The Han pictorial stones in Li Shi, the Yellow River iron ox of the Tang Dynasty in Pu Jin Du, and the Jinnan miscellaneous dramas of the Yuan Dynasty all show that Shanxi has been
at the forefront of the world's oriental art parks in the evolution of human civilization. In many art categories, Shanxi ancient architecture and its reliance on ancient architecture and the survival of murals, sculpture and grotto art, ancient cities and residential construction
art, more prominent achievements, more distinctive features.