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7. Ancient city relics of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in Yanbian City, Jilin Province
The ancient city relics of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) were made in Yanbian, northeast China‘s Jilin Province, in a small village called Xigucheng.
The village was called "cheng," meaning "city" in Chinese, because it used to be a great city in the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907). It was the Zhongjing (central capital) of the Bohai Kingdom, which occupied Northeast China, the sea-border areas of Russia and part of the Korean Peninsula from AD 698 to 926.
According to historical annals, the kingdom, built by the Mohe ethnic group, was an autonomous power under the Tang Dynasty. It reached its peak of prosperity while trading with Russia, Japan and the Korean Peninsula, and its capital was built in the style of Chang‘an (today‘s Xi‘an), the Tang capital.
In AD 926, the Khitan army surrounded the grand capital of the kingdom.
Historical records say that, after days of fruitless struggle, the Bohai king walked along the city‘s Phoenix Avenue, wearing white robes and holding white banners, and surrendered before the horse of the Khitan king.
Three years later, the Khitans forced 94,000 Mohe households to move south to today‘s northeast China‘s Liaoning Province. To prevent the Mohes from returning to their hometowns, the Khitans burnt down the magnificent Bohai capital.
About 400 years after the fall of their kingdom, Mohes disappeared from the history books. Some scholars believe Koreans surnamed Tai descend from the Mohes.
Today, only the ruins of a few palaces in the kingdom‘s capital have been brought to light.
But archaeologists have found at the latest site a glazed green porcelain artifact in the shape of an animal head, according to Song Yubin from the Jilin Provincial Archaeological Research Institute.
With its clenched big, sharp teeth and flying horns, the dragon-like animal combines the Tang style with those of the ethnic culture.
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