In the Yuan Dynasty, it was first called Guide Mansion, and its current name is Shangqiu.
Shangqiu Ancient City is located in the south of Shangqiu City. It has a history of more than 4,000 years since the establishment of the capital under the Shang Dynasty. Due to the long history, wars and natural disasters, the ancient city has been destroyed many times and rebuilt many times, but the scope is within ten miles from north to south. The ancient city of Shangqiu was built in the sixth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1511). "Shangqiu", "Suiyang", "Song State", "Nanjing" and "Guidefu" are all the names of each period in Shangqiu's history. The more famous names in China are "Suiyang" and "Guidefu".
The trinity of city wall, city outline and city lake makes the ancient city round on the outside and square on the inside, forming a huge ancient coin shape. The architecture is very unique. There is a metaphor for Shangqiu as the birthplace of commodities, commerce, and business culture in China. The city wall is 3.6 kilometers in circumference and has four gates: east, west, north and south.
The city gate is of arch type and is well preserved to this day. Outside the original city gate, there is also an urn city. The urn city is in a semicircle. The city gates do not conflict with the main gate. The north gate faces west, the east gate and west gate face south, and the south gate faces east. Therefore, the ancient city of Shangqiu has "four gates and eight gates". "Open". The topography of the city is turtle-back-shaped, and most of the buildings in the city are courtyard buildings. According to the theory that the five elements complement each other, in order to prevent metal and wood from interfering with each other, the east and west gates of the ancient city are separated by a street, making it the only ancient city in China.
Today, the streets in the ancient city of Shangqiu still maintain the ancient architectural style. Located in the ancient city, the "Zhuang Regret Hall" of Hou Fangyu, a famous writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, attracts tourists from all over. On the bank of the ancient Song River in the south of the city, there is the famous Baguanzhai, which is famous both at home and abroad, and is engraved with the "Baguanzhaihuibaodeji" written by Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. From the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, the ancient city of Shangqiu produced two great scholars (prime ministers), five ministers, and more than ten ministers, governors, censors, general soldiers, and famous literati. Due to the breach of the Yellow River over thousands of years, ancient cities from several dynasties such as the Suiyang Ancient City of the Western Zhou, Song and Han and Tang dynasties, the Nanjing City of the Song Dynasty, and the Guide Fucheng of the Yuan Dynasty are now superimposed below the ancient city of Shangqiu. The ancient city of Shangqiu is now one of the best-preserved ancient cities in China and a national key cultural relics protection unit. The entire existing Shangqiu ancient city has strict planning, reasonable layout, and simple shape, which is rare in the world. It is a famous historical and cultural city with great scientific research value.
Shangqiu is located on the east coast of the Eurasian continent, in the hinterland of the Central Plains of China. Shangqiu is a famous historical and cultural city in China. It is the ancient capital of six dynasties and the birthplace of Chinese civilization. It is the earliest city to establish its capital in the Xia and Shang dynasties in China. It has a history of 5,000 years of civilization and more than 4,600 years of city building history. It is the birthplace of the Yanhuang, Suiren, and Shennong dynasties. Waiting for the capital of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Because merchants, commerce, and commodities originated in Shangqiu, the Shang Dynasty established its capital in Shangqiu. Shangqiu is known as the "source of the three merchants and the capital of Chinese merchants". In ancient times, it was called Bo, Song State, Liang State, Liangyuan, Suiyang, Songcheng, Songzhou, Yingtianfu, Nanjing, Guidefu, etc. Shangqiu borders Anhui and Jiangsu to the east, the Central Plains to the west, Qilu to the north, and Jianghuai to the south. Longhai and Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Shanghang-Xulan High-speed Railway, Lianhuo and Jiguang Expressway, and National Highways 105 and 310 intersect in Shangqiu urban area. With superior location and convenient transportation, it is an important comprehensive transportation hub and trade logistics center in China, an important central city in the Chinese section of the Eurasian Continental Bridge, and the economic, transportation, and industrial and commercial center in the eastern part of the Central Plains Economic Zone.