Kaifeng has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (K?ppen Cwa) that borders on a humid continental climate, with four distinct seasons. Winters are cool and mostly dry while summers are hot ...
The Chinese Postal Map Romanization for the city is "Kaifeng". Its official one-character abbreviation in Chinese is 汴 (Biàn). Historically it has also been known as:Dàliáng (Chinese: 大梁)Biànli ...
Yinchuan originally was a xian (county) under the name of Fuping in the 1st century BC; its name was changed to Huaiyuan in the 6th century AD. After the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907, it was occupi ...
Despite its relatively modern origin, Tokmok stands in the middle of the Chuy Valley, which was a prize sought by many medieval conquerors. The ruins of Ak-Beshim, the capital of the Western Turkic Kh ...
During the 15th and 16th centuries, banditry was common near Beijing despite the presence of imperial government. Due to inadequate supervision and economic privation, imperial troops in the capital r ...
The earliest events of Beijing's history are shrouded in legend and myth. The epic Battle of Banquan, which according to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, occurred in the 26th century BC, ma ...
The city of Acheng has a long history. It is the site of the ruins of Huining, a prefecture in Shangjing which served as the first capital (1122–1234) of the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), and a subsidiary ...
Jingci Temple is located just south of West Lake.Lingyin Temple (Soul's Retreat) is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) west of West Lake. This is believed to be the oldest Buddhist temple in the city, which ...
Arab merchants lived in Hangzhou during the Song dynasty, due to the fact that the ocean going trade passages took precedence over land trade during this time. There were also Arabic inscriptions from ...
History The famous painting Qingming Scroll is believed by some to portray life in Kaifeng on a Qingming Festival day. The painting, of which several versions are extant (the above is an 18th-century ...
For roughly a millennium a series of Chinese dynasties had controlled northern Vietnam, until the independence of the Ng? dynasty (939–967). Early Song armies had fought and lost to the Early Lê dy ...
Contemporary Chinese writers ascribed Jurchen success in overwhelming the Liao and Northern Song mainly to their cavalry. Already during Aguda's rebellion against the Liao, all Jurchen fighters were m ...
Main article: Jin–Song WarsThe Jin dynasty was created in what would become northern Manchuria by the Jurchen tribal chieftain Wanyan Aguda (完顏阿骨打) in 1115. Aguda adopted for his state the Chine ...
The full title of the Western Xia as named by their own state is "Western Xia 2.svg" reconstructed as /*phiow?-bjij?-lhjij-lhjij?/ which translates as "The Great Xia State of the White and the Loft ...
Spoken and written languages The Memorial for Yelü Yanning, which contains 271 characters of Khitan large scriptThe Khitan spoken language is most closely related to the Mongolic language family; som ...
