Houma, known as Xintian in ancient times, was the late capital of Jin, one of the "Five Hegemons" during the Spring and Autumn Period, with a history of more than 2,500 years. In 585 BC, Duke Jing of Jin, "Xintian, thick soil and deep water, the residence is not fast, there are Fen, Hwoe to flow its evil, and the people from the teachings, the benefits of the tenth" and moved the capital here, and then passed the throne to the thirteenth, which lasted 209 years, during which the continuation of the hegemony of the state of Jin for one and a half centuries. In 376 B.C., Han, Zhao and Wei divided Jin into three, and became the hero of the Warring States. So the later Shanxi is called "Jin" or "three Jin".
The long history of civilization has left a rich and splendid cultural heritage for Houma. Now there are excavated: the ancient city site, ritual sites, burial sites, copper casting sites, temple sites and hundreds of thousands of valuable excavated artifacts. Houma "Jin ruins" was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council in 1961; "Houma Allied Book" has unearthed more than 5,000 pieces of jade tablets and stone tablets written with brushstrokes, which recorded the oath of the Marquis of Jin, and the political, military and social situation at that time. In 1995 was named one of the country's top ten archaeological discoveries since the founding of the country.
Houma is a place of great wealth and talent, and it has been a place of great talent from ancient times to the present day. Jin thirteen six ministers staged a historical drama, the Tang dynasty, Pei Tai, five generations after the Jin general Qin Xian, the late Yuan and early Ming dynasty, the gold belt commanders Wang Jin, the Ming dynasty, Li Hao, General Pei Liangzhi, the Qing dynasty, the governor Pei 亻率 度, Pei Zongxie, the late Qing dynasty, early Republican leaders of the peasant revolt, Zhong Renyi, Zhong Jintian, Jin Danghua was born in this hot land. Peng Zhen, an old proletarian revolutionary, was born on October 12, 1902 in Anthill Village, Houma City. Tan Jing, the outstanding young singer of the General Political Bureau Song and Dance Troupe, is also a lark from Houma.
Houma based on the long and splendid Xintian culture, the implementation of the management of cultural strategies to create cultural brands. Since the new century, Houma has held "two sessions of a", "two sessions of a" and two "Shanxi Houma - Xintian Spring and Autumn Ancient Capital Cultural Festival", the construction of the Xintian Plaza, the ancient capital of the Jin State The construction of Xintian Square, the ancient capital of the State of Jin, the Museum, the Temple Ruins Park, Pingyang Copper Casting Ruins Park, the Temple of Taimyr and thousands of acres of lotus ponds, Jin treasures tripods and other cultural and tourism facilities, the Xintian cultural resources have been effectively protected and developed and utilized. The City Federation of Literature, Writers' Association, Calligraphers' Association, Photographers' Association, Artists' Association, Folk Artists' Association and other organizations and groups have frequent activities. The annual three-month summer cultural activities are well organized. Festival culture, community culture, rural culture, enterprise culture, campus culture and other mass cultural activities are exceptionally active. The ancient capital of Xintian culture has added colorful connotation of the times, and has become a new advantage of Houma opening up to the outside world.