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Located in the West of Henan Province, Luoyang got its name due to its

location in the adret of the ancient Luoshui River. It is a historic city with more

than three thousand years history. It was the capital city for nine dynasties,

including the East Zhou, East Han, Caowei, West Jin, North Wei, Sui, Wuzhou,

Late Liang, Late Tang, so it is named as the "Ancient Capital of the Nine

Dynasties", ranking top one among the seven ancient capitals in China. The

Heluo area with Luoyang as the center is the important origin of the Huaxia

Civilization. The most prosperous period of Luoyang was in t LuoYang City Instruction Luoyang is located in the western part of Henan

province, stretching across the middle reaches of the Yellow River. It has jurisdiction

over 1 city, 8 counties and 6 districts with a total area of 15,208 square kilometers

including 544 square kilometers of urban area. Its population totals 6.24 million of

which over 1.40 million living in urban areas. As a city famous for its splendid history

and profound culture, Luoyang has become a shining gem in central part of China for

its abundant and characteristic modern civilization.----Luoyang has been known as

"an ancient capital of nine dynasties ". It is among the first cities to be declared by the

State Council as the ancient capitals and famous historical and cultural cities. Starting

from the first dynasty of China---Xia, it served as capital for 13 dynasties---Shang,

Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui,

Tang, etc. It served as a capital for 1,529 years, and thus of the 7 great ancient capitals

in China, it was the first one to have served as the capital for the most numerous

dynasties and for the longest time. Luoyang is one of the important birthplaces of the

Chinese civilization. Culture in the Yellow River and the Luo River symbolized by the

Pattern of the Yellow River and the Writing of Luoyang is regarded as a key origin of

the ancient Chinese civilization. It was here that Taoism initiated, Confucianism

originated. Buddhism first introduced and Li School--a Confucian school of idealist

philosophy of the Song and Ming Dynasties born. Many Chinese descendants found

their roots here and cherished a deep love for the homeland.----Luoyang is one of the

top tourist cities in China with its numerous cultural relics dotted everywhere,

picturesque landscape and national flower-Tree Peony. The city has inherited from

history such cultural heritages as ruins of the old capital, temples and stone caves, and

tombs and steles. It has 10 national sites, 75 provincial sites, and over 571 municipal

sites to be protected as cultural relics with nearly 400,000 items of relics having been

unearthed and kept in museums. The rare ruins of the capitals from the Xia, Shang,

Zhou, Han and Wei, Sui and Tang dynasties are named "Assembly of Five Capitals ".

Longmen Grottoes is one of the three great banks of Chinese stone sculptures that is a

World Cultural Heritage. The White Horse Temple is the first officially built

monastery in China after the introduction of Buddhism. In the Mangshan Mountain

there remains the largest group of ancient tombs in China featured by royal tombs,

which took form since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. To the north of Luoyang is the

Mother River of the Chinese nation---the Yellow River that together with a tourist

resorts around the Xiaolangdi Reservoir and Wanshanhu tourist area in Xin'an. To the

south are spots of interests such as the Songshan Mountain which is the central one of