Another Chinese city of Nanjing has a similar meaning, in the south of the capital.
In times of history, the capital was in Nanjing, as Beijing, depending on whether the current PowerBase laity in the north or the south of China.
Emperor Wu was the first to declare the site as the capital Beijing in 1057 BC. Later, the city named Ji Zhongdu, Dadu, and finally Beijing when the name was adopted by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty ChengZu 1421st Before 1949, Beijing was known as Peking by the Western world. Beijing was once again the capital, when Mao Zedong said the Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
Beijing, first as capital of a (more or less) united China in 1264 when Kublai Khan Mongolian victorious troops of the city of Dadu (Grand Capital) of the rule of their new kingdom, north from a place near the home of Mongolia. After the overthrow of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the capital was in Nanjing, but 1403, on 3 Ming Emperor Zhu Di moved back to Beijing and also has the city its present name.
This was the golden era Beijing: the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven in Beijing and many other monuments were at this time. Beijing, the capital remained in the period of the Qing’s revolutionary and close early 1900, but in the chaos following the abdication of the last emperor, Beijing has been victims in the fight against the warlords. The Kuomintang, therefore transfer of the capital again in 1928, Nanjing, Beijing Beijing rename ( “Peace of the North”) stress that it is no longer capital. The Kuomintang was finally by the Communists, in 1949 proclaimed the Republic of China, with the capital Beijing.
Beijing has 18 districts. Some districts are central Haidian District Beijing (China House Zhongguancun, the Silicon Valley and 39 universities, including Beijing, Tsinghua University and Renmin), Chongwen District Xuanwu District (for the traditional medicine), Chaoyang District (District Art and Flea Market of the district) , Dongcheng District and Xicheng District. The last two areas are very pleasant, where the parks and green spaces and boutique hotels nestled in the cargo hold traditional Hutong (such as Spring Garden Courtyard Hotel) or in many of the former youth hostel for backpackers in the second.
9. Dragons Youth Hostel, the saga on the homepage of the hostel, in the Courtyard Hotel, Beijing Harbor Inn Hostel, Beijing New Dragon Hostel, Beijing City Central Youth Hostel, some of them.
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