Anyang
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Anyang (安阳; Ānyáng) is a city about 120 km north of the Yellow River (黄河) in Henan Province.
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Anyang is 460km south of Beijing and is a prefecture-level city. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the east, Hebi and Xinxiang to the south, and the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei to its west and north, respectively. Anyang was the first capital city of China dated back to the bronze age Shang Dynasty (1554BC–1045BC). Huge amount of oracle bones were discovered in Xiaolitun Village, located at the northwest of Anyang City. The oracle bones were primarily used for divination, and the language used is believed to be the original of Chinese characters.
[edit] Get in
By bus or train. From Beijing, about 3.5 hours, depends on which train or bus. There are 5 high speed trains run between Bei Jing and Anyang on daily basis.
Vehicle # Time (Beijing - Anyang)
- D124 12:30pm - 16:11pm
- D132 19:30pm - 23:02pm
- D138 10:24pm - 14:05pm
- D134 08:50am - 12:26pm
- D136 13:46pm - 17:22pm
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- Yinxu, (Taxi fare from downtown is about ¥10), [1]. Capital of the Shang Dynasty about 1300BC. This site contains a museum, foundations of the Shang Capital, the tomb of Fuhao a Shang dynasty concubine and general. A site where many Oracle turtle shells where found. Questions where written on the turtle shells and heat applied causing cracks from which the answer to questions were deduced. An important source of early Chinese writing. A pit where chariots were buried. edit
- Shang Dynasty Royal Cemetery, (Taxi fare from downtown is about ¥20). Several of the Tombs have been turned into museums by a building being erected over the tomb. edit
- Youli Townlet, (Taxi fare from downtown is about ¥20). Youli Townlet is a cultural remains from Longshan to the Western Zhou periods. The cultural layer is about 7 meters thick. Youli Townlet is also a remains of the national jail with the longest history in China. It is the very place where "the Western Duke (JiChang) deduced the trigrams into hexagrams during his imprisonment in Youli". Being the leader of the Zhou clan in the end of the Shang Dynasty and with the name of Jichang, King Wen was adhered in the policy of benevolence widely, which aroused the suspicious and jealousy of King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty. King Zhou put King Wen into the jail in Youli. During the 7 years of imprisonment, Jichang deducted the 9 trigrams of Fuxi into the 64 hexagrams, and wrote the cassics "Yi-Ching (the book of changes)". Hence Youli became the birthplace of the "Yi-Ching", which is known as the origin of the Chinese culture) The later generations built the temple of King Wen into memory of this greate man, which has become the sacred place for people to pay respects to the late sage King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty./n Youli Townlet is famous both at home and abroad with its profound and comprehensive intentions of the culture. It was declared as a National Important Protective Unit of Historical Relics by the State Council in 1996 edit
- Red-flag Canal, (In Linzhou). Man made canal built in the 1960s due to water supply shortage in the area. edit
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- (1 and a half block east of the train station, across the street from the UBC coffee). Small clean hotel. ¥58-108.
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By bus or train. The bus station is 2 blocks south of the train station.
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