Fenyang has a history of more than 2600 years of county establishment, of which more than 1600 years have been the state capital and county seat.
From the 23rd year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1595), when Fenzhou was transformed into a prefecture, to the first year of the Republic of China (1912), when it was abolished, Fenyang city has been the center of Jinzhong's political, economic and cultural life, and nowadays, Fenyang city is the city of the Fenzhou Prefecture and Fenyang County, which is the city of Fenyang.
The original Fenzhou City is a rare "five cities", the main city and the east, west, south, north and south of the four passes of the city arch and become.
The four passes of the city wall is not as good as the main city, but also tall and thick, and even a lot of packaged bricks.
The formation of this unique city wall is mainly due to its political, cultural and economic center of the position, so that the main city of the royal family, temples, temples and other altars accounted for most of the space, more and more residents have to be opened outside the city of the living area, and so long as the formation of the southeast, northwest and north of the four settlement areas.
Over the centuries, Fenyang City has been a large-scale capital city, the royal residence, the bookstore, the temple, the nobility, rich merchants everywhere.
The foundation of the Ming and Qing Fenzhou Prefecture City, is the Yuan Zhizheng twelve years (1352) Fenzhou governor Eddie Zhu built the city wall, when the scale of the "week nine miles and thirteen paces, Chong three zhang two feet," that is, the perimeter of the 4,522 meters long, 10.7 meters high, when it was just a city wall of earth, has not yet wrapped the bricks.
The city's original Xifu Street, Fuxue Street, Taiheqiao Street and other 9 streets and Yangji Lane, Tofu Lane and other 18 alleys, there are bell towers, drum towers, Temple of Literature, Yonghe Wangfu, Qingcheng Wangfu and other ancient buildings, history, war, natural disasters, man-made disasters, the stormy ancient city of more than 600 years is now only a few remains to be followed.
Fenzhou City has been called the "Four Suns City", named after the sunlight on all sides.
Unlike the ancient Chinese cities that were located in the north and south, Fenzhou City was built at an angle of about 33° to the meridian line, which gave it great light, so it was also known as "Zhu Rong City" after Zhu Rong, the god of fire.
Therefore, most of the streets and houses in Fenyang city have deviated from the geographical direction.
Fenzhou city gate name and building plaque:
East Gate: Jinghe Gate, building plaque: Fenshui Circle
West Gate: Jingning Gate, building plaque: Panfeng Shoucui
North Gate: Yongtai Gate, building plaque: Locked and Keyed Xiongzhen
South Gate: Laikoumen Gate, building plaque: Qinjin Thongqu Fenyang is a provincial-level historical and cultural city, is a large city of cultural relics, and is also known as "Zhu Rong City. .
As of June 2014, Fenyang City has 113 key cultural relics protection units at all levels, including 6 national key cultural relics protection units and 14 provincial key cultural relics protection units.
In terms of intangible cultural heritage, there are national intangible cultural heritages of Fenzhou Di Yangge and Fen wine making process.
In addition, Xinghuacun Town is also a provincial-level historical and cultural town, and the old Fenjiu workshop in Xinghuacun has been included in the preparatory list of world cultural heritage.
Fenyang city also retains two historical and cultural neighborhoods in the northwest (Erfu Street Historical and Cultural Neighborhood) and southeast (Wujia Lane Historical and Cultural Neighborhood), where the Ming and Qing Dynasty styles have survived.
Fenyang city has paleontological fossil sites, neolithic sites and more than 70 cultural monuments.
There are the Ming Dynasty Nanxun Building, the highest brick tower in China, Wenfeng Pagoda, the Jin Dynasty building Taifu Guan, the mythological Horse Shaving Divine Springs, the Virgin Mary Temple with gold frescoes, and the well-protected natural landscapes such as the Thirty Mile Peach Blossom Cave and the Golden Lock Pass.
Ancient cultural heritage sites are Yu Daohe site, Xinghua Village site, Beiguidi site, Duanjiazhuang site, Renjia Fort legacy of the Kung Village site and so on.
Among them, the Yu Daohe site is located 6 kilometers north of downtown Yu Daohe town people *** around the site, the site across the ages, can be divided into the Yangshao, Longshan, Xia, Shang, Eastern Zhou and Han several periods; Xinghua Village site is located in downtown, 15 kilometers northeast of the town of Xinghuacun Dongbao Village northeast of the area of about 150,000 square meters, terrain, north high and south low.
It is divided into several naturally formed or artificially created terraces, with abundant remains.
According to the obtained layer relationship and the analysis of its connotation, the archaeological formation of its accumulation is divided into eight stages, belonging to the Yangshao, Longshan, Xia and Shang cultural periods.
Fenyang City, the national and provincial list of important cultural relics protection units level announced batch categories of cultural relics name age address Remarks national fifth batch (2001) Ancient Architecture Taifu Guan gold to the Qing Xinghuacun town on the temple village provincial first batch of the sixth batch (2006) Ancient Architecture Fenyang Wuyue Temple Yuan to the Qing Sanquan Town, North Elm Court village provincial third batch of the Wunfeng Pagoda Ming to the Qing Wunfeng street Jianchang community provincial third batch Xinghuacun Fen Wine Workshop Qing Xinghuacun Town Dongbao Village Fourth Batch at the Provincial Level Seventh Batch (2013) Ancient Burials Donglongguan Tomb Complex Song, Jin, Yuan Yangcheng Township Donglongguan Village - Ancient Architecture Baicaopo Longtian Land Temple Yuan to Republic of China Yudaohe Township Baicaopo Village - Second Batch at the Provincial Level (1986) Ancient Sites Xinghuacun Site Neolithic Xinghuacun Township Dongbao Village - Yudaohe Site Neolithic Yudaohe Township Beiguidi Site Neolithic Lijiashuang Beiguandi Village, Township - Ancient Architecture Houtu Shengmu Temple Ming Lijiazhuang Township Tian Village - Third Batch (1996) Ancient Tombs Di Qing Tomb Song Yudaohe Township Liu Village - Ancient Architecture Guandi Temple Ming Downtown Miaofangjie - Fourth Batch (2004) Ancient Architecture Yucheng Wuyue Temple Jinyangcheng Township Yucheng Village - Fayun Temple Yuan Sansquan Township Pinglu Village - Baocheng Temple Longwang Temple Yuan Yudaohe Township Baocheng Temple Village - Yuqiu Shengmu Temple Yuan Yudaohe Township Yuqiu Village - Qi Sheng Guangyou Temple of Literature Yuan Sanquan Town Yifeng North Village - Repayment Temple Yuan, Ming downtown Weixiang Street - Chanding Temple Yuan, Ming, Qing Yangcheng Township Puhui Village - Modern Fenyang Mingyi Middle School 1915 downtown Hero Road - Note: The table information is collated from the Shanxi Cultural Relics Network "Fenyang Ground Rice-planting Song" is a unique folk art circulating in the area of Fenyang City, Shanxi Province, is a Square folk song and dance art, because of the neighboring Xiaoyi City, there are parts of the area remains, the folk collectively known as "Fenxiao ground Yangge" or "Fenxiao Yangge", is the local social fire, ***, welcome, celebrate the indispensable form of performance in the activities, is divided into a dance-based It is divided into the dance-based "martial arts field rice-planting" and the singing-based "cultural field rice-planting".
Fenyang rice-planting songs have participated in the Shenyang International Rice-planting Song Festival and the Shenzhen Chinese Temple Fair Folk Art Exhibition and won the Grand Prize.
Among the more than 30 kinds of Yangge existing in Shanxi, Fenyang Earth Rice-planting Song has very unique and distinctive artistic characteristics: distinctive role modeling of actors, very rich performance routines, fancy dance movements, and props and dual-use rhyme and harmony.
In 2008, Fenyang Rice-planting Song was recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage protection project.