Shanxi is introduced as follows:

Shanxi Province, referred to as "Jin" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), with Taiyuan as its capital. It is located in North China of China, bordering Hebei Province in the east, Shaanxi Province in the west, Henan Province in the south and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north.

There are 14 cities in Shanxi province, namely: Taiyuan, Datong, Yangquan, Changzhi, Jincheng, Shuozhou, Jinzhong, Yuncheng, Xinzhou, Linfen, Lvliang, Gujiao, Gaoping and yongji city.

Shanxi Province is a parallelogram inclined from northeast to southwest, which is a typical loess-covered mountain plateau with high terrain in northeast and low terrain in southwest. There are ups and downs in the plateau and vertical and horizontal valleys. Landforms include mountains, hills, plateaus, basins and platforms, of which mountains and hills account for 80%.

Shanxi province spans the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the rivers belong to the self-produced outflow system. Shanxi Province is located in the hinterland of the mid-latitude zone and belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate. Shaanxi is located in Qin Jin Cultural District, and its historical representative culture is "Sanjin Culture".

Shanxi is one of the earliest cradles and central areas of human and Chinese civilization. Archaeology shows that in ancient times, southern Shanxi was the birthplace of human beings. The discovery of the "Century Shu Ape" fossil in Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City has advanced the appearance time of apes by 6.5438+million years.

Archaeology also shows that in the early Paleolithic period, about 6.5438+0.8 million years ago, primitive people flourished in Jinnan, Shanxi Province, and the burnt bones found in Xihoudu cultural site in Ruicheng County, Yuncheng City advanced the history of human fire discovery in China by 6.5438+0.8 million years. About 10-20000 years ago, in the middle paleolithic period, there were relatively concentrated primitive people and villages on both sides of Fenhe River in Shanxi and in Datong and Shuozhou.

Entering the Neolithic Age, about 7000 years ago, agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts in southern Shanxi have reached a fairly developed level. About 4,500 years ago, in the late Neolithic period, the south of Shanxi had become the center of many countries at that time.