Huining Fu (), or Shangjing Huiningfu (), was a
Fu in the Shangjing region of
Northeast China
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. It served as the first superior capital of the
Jurchen Jurchen may refer to:
* Jurchen people, Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until the 17th century
** Haixi Jurchens, a grouping of the Jurchens as identified by the Chinese of the Ming Dynasty
** Jianzhou Jurchens, a grouping of ...
-led
Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
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It may refer to:
States Jìn 晉
* Jin (Chinese state) (晉國), ...
from 1122 to 1153 (and was a secondary capital after 1173). Its location was in present-day
Acheng District,
Harbin
Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest c ...
,
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () Postal romanization, formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a Provinces of China, province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is th ...
Province.
History
During the early years of building up their empire,
Jurchen Jurchen may refer to:
* Jurchen people, Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until the 17th century
** Haixi Jurchens, a grouping of the Jurchens as identified by the Chinese of the Ming Dynasty
** Jianzhou Jurchens, a grouping of ...
rulers often moved people from elsewhere in China to their capital, Shangjing. The first emperor of the Jurchen-led
Jin dynasty,
Aguda (Emperor Taizu) (r. 1115–1123) resettled captives to the Shangjing area during his war against the
Khitan-led
Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty (; Khitan: ''Mos Jælud''; ), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: ''Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur''), officially the Great Liao (), was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yelü ...
. Aguda's successor,
Wuqimai (Emperor Taizong) (r. 1123–1134) conquered most of northern China in the
wars against the
Han Chinese
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-led
Northern Song dynasty
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* Northern Province, Sri Lanka
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. He continued the policy, resulting in numerous wealthy people, skilled craftsmen from Yanjing (present-day
Beijing
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) and the former Song capital, Bianjing (present-day
Kaifeng
Kaifeng () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China. It is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China, having been the capital eight times in history, and is best known for having been the Chinese capital during the Nort ...
), being relocated to Shangjing. Historical accounts report that, after the
fall of Bianjing in 1127, the Jurchen generals brought to Shangjing (and elsewhere in North China) several thousand of people, including: "about 470 imperial clansmen; erudites and students of the imperial academy; eunuchs; medical doctors; artisans; prostitutes; imperial gardeners; artisans of imperial constructions; actors and actresses; astronomers; musicians". A variety of valuable goods captured in Bianjing was brought to the Jin capital as well.
[Tao (1976). Pages 28-32.]
In Aguda's days, palaces were not much more than tents, but in 1123, the Jurchens built their first ancestral temples and tombs (where the captured Song emperors
Huizong and
Qinzong were to venerate the Jin emperors' ancestors in 1128), and in 1124 the Jin dynasty's
Emperor Taizong ordered a Han Chinese architect, Lu Yanlun, build a new city on uniform plan. The city plan on Shangjing emulated major Chinese cities, in particular Bianjing, although the Jin capital was much smaller than its Northern Song prototype.
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The capital was moved to Yanjing (present-day ]Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the Capital city, capital of the China, People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's Li ...
) in 1153 by Wanyan Liang, the fourth emperor of the Jin dynasty. Yanjing was more centrally located within the Jin Empire, and it was easier to supply it with food. Wanyan Liang is said to have support of most of his officials in this move.[Tao, p.44] In 1157, Wanyan Liang even went so far as to destroy all palaces in his former capital.[
While Yanjing and later Bianjing were the Jin dynasty's principal capitals thereafter, Shangjing continued to sometimes play an important role in the Jin Empire. Wanyan Liang's successor, Emperor Shizong, who strove to revive ]Jurchen language
Jurchen language ( zh, t=女真語, p=Nǚzhēn yǔ) was the Tungusic language of the Jurchen people of eastern Manchuria, the rulers of the Jin dynasty in northern China of the 12th and 13th centuries. It is ancestral to the Manchu language. ...
and culture, spent a year in Shangjing from 1184-85, greatly enjoying hunting, traditional dancing, and speaking in Jurchen.[Tao (1976). Chapter 6. "The Jurchen Movement for Revival", Pages 78-79.]
Modern state
Ruins of the city were discovered and excavated in present-day Acheng District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost provinc ...
, about 2 km from Acheng District's central urban area.[ The site of the ruins is a national historical heritage site, and includes a museum open to the public, renovated in the late 2005.][金上京历史博物馆]
(Jin Dynasty Shangjing History Museum) Many of the artifacts found there are on display in Harbin.
References
Citations
Sources
Harbin government web site. (Retrieved September 25, 2006).
PlanetWare, 2006. (Retrieved September 26, 2006).
*Jin Hongjui
"The Setting of the Forbidden City and Its Protection"
Chinese Association of Cultural Relics Protection. (Retrieved September 28, 2006).
*Lu Rucai
''China Today''. December 2003. (Retrieved September 28, 2006).
*Theobald, Ulrich
ChinaKnowledge. 2000. (Retrieved September 28, 2006).
*Jing-shen Tao, "The Jurchen in Twelfth-Century China". University of Washington Press, 1976, .
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