As early as 5000 years ago, there was a splendid culture of the Chinese nation along the Dawen River. Dawenkou Town, a suburb of Tai 'an City at the southern foot of Mount Tai, is the discovery and naming place of the famous Dawenkou culture. According to research, this ancient cultural site belongs to the Neolithic Age. The unearthed pottery, stone, jade, bone and other utensils and sacrifices with different textures are extremely exquisite. There are hieroglyphs on the late pottery statues, which experts believe are the ancestors of China characters. Historical documents and unearthed cultural relics prove that this area is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation. Tai 'an is an ancient and magical land, which has nurtured a splendid Dawenkou culture. Dawenkou culture reflects the whole process of the transition from matrilineal clan to paternal clan society and the disintegration of primitive society. After Xia and Shang Dynasties, ancient countries such as Mou, Zhu, Sui and Su appeared in Wenhe River Basin, and the economy and culture developed first. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qilu became a battleground for military strategists. The famous "Battle of the Long Spoon" took place at the eastern foot of Mount Tai. The military defense line built by the State of Qi is the Great Wall, and the residual wall still exists. In the history of China, there were counties, roads, states, governments and personnel. Red Eyebrows in the Western Han Dynasty, Yellow Scarf in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Huang Chao in the Tang Dynasty all came to camp here.
Mount Tai is known as the "head of the five mountains" with profound historical and cultural connotations. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qilu culture in the north and south of Mount Tai was spectacular. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Emperor Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu, Tang Gaozong, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Song Zhenzong, Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Qianlong, etc. 12 have successively climbed Mount Tai and held ceremonies to worship the gods of heaven and earth and pray for peace and prosperity. Scholars of all ages have also come here to express their feelings. Li Bai's "Tianmen Long Whistling, Wan Li Breeze Coming" and Du Fu's "It will be on the top of the mountain, and other mountains will look short under the sky." Have become eternal songs. There are more than 2,000 cliff stone carvings in Mount Tai, which are unparalleled among famous mountains at home and abroad for their large scale, high-quality products, long time and complete calligraphy style. It can be called a natural calligraphy art museum. Dai Temple is located in Tai 'an City, with towering old trees and numerous inscriptions. The Palace of Heaven, the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City and the Confucius Temple in Qufu are called the three ancient palace-style buildings in China.
In the long historical development process, the ancient city of Tai 'an has gradually developed due to the meditation of the emperor, the ritual system of the people and the travel of literati and poets, and gradually formed a unique pattern of "mountain city integration".
Taian is an important open tourist city in eastern China. Taian borders Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in the north, Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, the founder of Confucian culture in the south, Zibo, the capital of porcelain in the east, and the Yellow River in the west, with an area of 7,762 square kilometers and a population of 5.386 million (1999). Among them, Tai 'an has a population of 374,000. It has jurisdiction over Daiyue District of Taishan District, Dongping County of Ningyang County, Feicheng City, xintai city and other six counties and cities. As an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, Tai 'an had human existence and reproduction as early as 500,000 years ago. Xintai people 50,000 years ago have entered the stage of Homo sapiens, and the splendid Dawenkou culture was bred here 5,000 years ago, which became an important milestone in the history of Chinese civilization. Due to the ancient people's worship of the sun and mountains, from Yao and Shun to Qin and Han Dynasties, until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mount Tai has always been a sacred mountain for emperors to worship heaven. With the emperor's worship of Zen, Mount Tai was deified, and two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, scholars and celebrities poured in, leaving many places of interest to Mount Tai and Tai 'an. Tai 'an is also named after the mountain, which comes from the old saying "Mount Tai is safe in the world", meaning "peaceful country and peaceful people". The natural landscape of Mount Tai is majestic and tall. Thousands of years of spiritual and cultural infiltration and the contrast of humanistic landscape are the epitome of the spiritual culture of the Chinese nation and have now become a precious heritage of the world.
In natural science, the Taishan Rock Group, which constitutes Mount Tai, is an Archean stratum formed 2-2.5 billion years ago. Studying the genesis of this kind of rocks is of typical significance to the division, correlation and history of Archean strata in eastern China.
More importantly, Mount Tai became the earliest famous mountain in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the first of the five mountains, and also the mountain where emperors closed their temples to worship. This period of history runs through the whole feudal society, thus making it have supreme historical status. From the pre-Qin period to the end of the feudal society in China, hundreds of emperors or envoys representing the emperors paid homage to Mount Tai for 4,000 years in a row, forming the most representative route of the emperor's worship of Zen and the people's worship of mountains, that is, from Song Lishan, where the emperor was stationed, to Yuhuangding, forming a 10-kilometer axis of the underworld. In the history of Taishan civilization for thousands of years, there are not only the history of Taishan meditation, but also the rich history of religion, aesthetics, scientific research and peasant movement. Especially in the history of aesthetic development, the aesthetic value is very prominent, and the towering Mount Tai gives people a magnificent aesthetic feeling. Tai 'an is an excellent tourist city in China, and Mount Tai is the "first of the five mountains". Taian is a national health city. City clothes are built on Mount Tai, and the mountain city is integrated. The ancient Mount Tai and the modern city have formed a harmonious unity of the new and the old. Tai 'an is a place where scientific research is concentrated in colleges and universities in Shandong Province. It has four influential universities in China, including Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Taishan Medical College and Taishan College, and three academicians of China Institute of Technology of China Academy of Sciences. Taian is located in the north-south transportation hub of China. Taian is also the main producing area of gypsum, natural sulfur and granite in China. Taishan granite is endowed with the meaning of "stable as Mount Tai" and "heavier than Mount Tai". Taishan granite is used in the Great Hall of the People, Tiananmen Square, Monument to the People's Heroes and other China buildings. Taian electromechanical textile chemical building materials coal electricity food industry has traditional advantages. Tai 'an's four stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets, including Taishan Petroleum, Taishan Tourism, Luneng Taishan and Lurun, all performed well. Taishan International Mountaineering Festival, held in early September every year, is a new festival for Tai 'an people and a golden bridge for Tai 'an people to connect friends all over the world.