What was the name of Beijing in ancient times?

The ancient names of Beijing are: Ji Cheng, Yan Dou, Yanjing, Dadu, Beiping, Shi Jing and Shun Tianfu.

1, Yan Dou: According to historical records, in 1 122 BC, it was sealed in the state of Yan after its business was destroyed. Yan Dou was named after being the capital of Yan State in ancient times. Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, there is a state of Yan, which is said to be named after its proximity to Yanshan Mountain, and its capital is called "Yan Dou".

2. Beijing: Beijing generally refers to the national capital. After Beijing became the national capital, it was also called the national capital.

3. Shi Jing: Ming Chengzu moved to Beijing in the 18th year of Yongle (1420) and changed its name to Shi Jing until the Qing Dynasty.

As early as the early Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wuwang sealed Zhao Gong in Beijing and its vicinity, calling it Yan. The capital is Liu Lihe Town, Fangshan District, and the site still exists. After the Yellow Emperor, people were named Ji, in today's southwest of Beijing. After Yan was destroyed, it moved its capital to Hebei, which was collectively called Yan Dou or Yanjing.

During the Qin Dynasty, Jixian County was established in Beijing, which was under the jurisdiction of Yang Guangjun. In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu, it was placed under the jurisdiction of Yan State. In the first year of Yuanfeng, it was restored to Jixian County, Yangguangjun County, belonging to Youzhou. In the first year, it was the capital of Yang Guangguo, because the emperor personally enfeoffed it here.

When Guangwu was reformed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the secretariat department of Youzhou was located in Jixian County. In eight years, Yongyuan reinstated Yangguangjun Institute. In the Western Jin Dynasty, the court changed Yangguangjun to Yan State, and Youzhou moved to Fanyang. After the Sixteen Kingdoms, Zhao moved back to Jixian County, and Yan was changed to Yan County. After Yan Qian, Qian Qin, Hou Yan and the Northern Wei Dynasty, it remained unchanged.

Yan County was abolished in the third year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (583). In the third year of Daye (607), the Sui Dynasty changed Youzhou to Zhuo Jun. During the Wude period in the early Tang Dynasty, Zhuo Jun was also called Youzhou. In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Youzhou was placed under Hebei Road. Later, it became the residence of the special envoy of the john young era. During the Anshi Rebellion, An Lushan proclaimed himself emperor in Beijing, and the founding name was "Dayan". After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, it was restored to a secluded state controlled by Lu Long.

At the beginning of the Five Dynasties, Liu Rengong, a warlord, established a local regime here, called the Prince of Yan, which was later destroyed by the later Tang Dynasty. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizong fought Liao in Gaolianghe (now Haidian District, Beijing) and was defeated in the Northern Song Dynasty. He longed to see sixteen states from now on. Liao made Beijing its capital in the first year of Huitong (938) and changed its name to the Western Jin Dynasty in the first year of Kaitai.

In the first year of Zhenyuan in the Jin Dynasty (1 153), Di Chin Yan Hongliang officially made Beijing the capital, which was called Zhongdu in history and located in the southwest of Beijing today.

1 year 1 October1day, the Central People's Government of People's Republic of China (PRC) was proclaimed in Beijing. Beijing is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The west, north and northeast are surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the southeast is a plain slowly inclined to the Bohai Sea.

The main rivers flowing through the territory are: Yongding River, Chaobai River, North Canal and Juma River. Most of them originated in the mountainous areas in the northwest, crossed the mountains, meandered across the plains to the southeast, and finally merged into the Bohai Sea. Beijing's climate is a typical warm temperate semi-humid continental monsoon climate, with high temperature and rainy summer, cold and dry winter and short spring and autumn.

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