Shanxi, referred to as "Jin", is a provincial-level administrative region of the People's Republic of China, with the provincial capital Taiyuan. It is located in North China, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, Henan to the south, Inner Mongolia to the north, and between the northern latitude

34°34′-40°44′, 110°14′-114°33′ east longitude, with a total area of ??156,700 square kilometers.

The terrain of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram that slopes from northeast to southwest. It is a typical mountainous plateau covered with loess. The terrain is higher in the northeast and lower in the southwest.

The interior of the plateau is undulating, with criss-crossing river valleys. The landforms include mountains, hills, terraces, and plains. The mountainous area accounts for 80.1% of the total area.

Shanxi Province spans two major river systems, the Yellow River and the Haihe River. The rivers are self-generated and outflow-type water systems.

Shanxi Province is located inland in the mid-latitude zone and has a temperate continental monsoon climate.

Shanxi Province has shown signs of human activities since ancient times and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization.

Archeology shows that in ancient times, southern Shanxi was the origin of the dawn of mankind.

The discovery of the fossil "Auropod of the Century" in Yuanqu County, Yuncheng has pushed forward the time when great apes appeared by 10 million years.

During the Paleolithic Age about 1.8 million years ago, primitive people thrived in the Jinnan area of ??Shanxi Province. Among them, the fire-burned bones discovered at the Xihoudu Cultural Site in Ruicheng County, Yuncheng, pushed forward the history of human fire use found in China.

1 million years ago; in the middle Paleolithic Age about 100,000 to 20,000 years ago, relatively concentrated primitive populations and villages appeared on both sides of the Fenhe River in Shanxi and in the Datong and Shuozhou areas.

In the late Neolithic Age, southern Shanxi had become the center of many states at that time.

The discovery and research results of the Taosi ruins in Linfen Xiangfen County show that this is the location of the capital of Emperor Yao and the earliest region of China.

This makes the Yao, Shun, and Yu eras of Chinese prehistoric legends roughly around 4,500 years ago turn from legends into believed history, and the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization has been confirmed.