In 2800 BC, in the legendary Yao and Shun era, Wei Xiao invented a calendar based on fire, and built a platform for observing stars while managing fire, so as to measure the natural changes and quality of a year on this basis, which made a contribution to ancient astronomy in China.
Wei Xiao worked in his fief "Shang" (now Shangqiu) and was deeply loved by the people, so people respectfully called him "Vulcan". Wei Xiao died and was buried in a fief. Because Wei Xiao's country name is Shang, his tomb is also called Shangqiu, which is the origin of Shangqiu today.
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Ancient city scenic spot
1, guide building wall
In the 15th year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (1502), Guide City in Yuan Dynasty was flooded, and the city was besieged by soil the following year. In the sixth year of Zheng De (15 1 1), a new city was rebuilt in the north of the old city, with the wall of the Yuan Dynasty as the south wall. In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), bricks were built.
The south wall is 950.6m long, the north wall is 993.4m long, the east wall is1210m long, and the west wall is 120 1 m long, with a circumference of 4,355m. It is 6 meters high, 6 meters wide at the top and 9 meters wide at the address. In the south, there is Yanggongmen, an arch coupon building with a total length of 2 1 m and a platform height of 8 meters. Binyangmen in the east, Gezemen in the west, Yanggongmen in the south and Chengongmen in the north.
2. Yingtianfu Academy
Yingtian Academy and Suiyang Academy were formerly known as Du Nan Academy, which was founded by Yang Yun, a Shangqiu native in the last five generations of Jin Dynasty. They are located in Nanhu, the ancient city of Shangqiu, and they are one of the four famous academies in ancient China. In the second year of Northern Song Dynasty (1009), Song Zhenzong officially awarded Yingtian Academy, and in the first year of Song Renzong Jingyou (1034), Yingtian Academy was changed to Fu Xue, namely Yingtianfu Academy.
In the third year of Li Qing (1043), Nanjing (the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, now Shangqiu, Henan Province) was changed to imperial academy, the highest institution of learning in the Northern Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the academies were located in mountain resorts, but Yingtian Academy was located in a bustling downtown area with a lot of talents. With the participation of Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan, Yingtian Academy gradually developed into the most influential academy in the Northern Song Dynasty, ranking first among the four major academies in the Northern Song Dynasty.
3. The Ancient City of Song Dynasty
Located in the southwest corner of the ancient city of Guide House in Suiyang District, Shangqiu City, it is the site where Wei Zi was sealed by the Western Zhou Emperor in the capital of Song State, and it is also one of the political, economic and cultural centers of Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China history. Song kingdom is a very important vassal state in the history of Zhou dynasty, and it is one of the three tyrants in Zhou dynasty and the five tyrants in Spring and Autumn Period, which has a great influence in history.
Most of the western wall, the southern wall and the western section of the northern wall of the ancient city of Song Dynasty have been well preserved so far, and the top of the wall is about one meter away from the shallowest part of the surface. The plan of the city site is rectangular. The east wall is 2900 meters long, the south wall is 3550 meters long, the west wall is 30 10 meters long, and the north wall is 3252 meters long, with a total area of 10.2 square kilometers, which is about 10 times that of the ancient city of Shangqiu today.
In 2000, the old city of Song State was listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. Now it is the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Baidu encyclopedia-Shangqiu ancient city