Why is Yuncheng in Shanxi called Yuncheng? Who is the most famous historical figure in Yuncheng?

Yuncheng has a long history. It is the ancestral root of Chinese culture, the place where people used fire for the first time, the place where people used salt for the first time, the place where people started smelting and farming civilization, the place where China ancestors first gathered and lived, and the place that was first called China, China and China. Known as "five thousand years of civilization to see Yuncheng".

The source of China's earliest poetry anthology "The Book of Songs" and the source of the pre-Qin ancient book "Shan Hai Jing" are both in Yuncheng.

The discovery of the world's earliest ape fossil with the characteristics of higher primates, the Century Shu Ape, advanced the appearance of apes by 6.5438+million years, which proved that Yuncheng was the origin of human ancestors.

Xihoudu site is the oldest known Paleolithic site in China, which is about 654.38 0.8 million years ago. This is the earliest evidence that man used fire.

Yuncheng was called "Salt Town" in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States period, it was called "Yanshi"; In the Han Dynasty, it was renamed as "Four Yancheng" and "Salt Supervision City"; During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was named Phoenix, Yunsi and Yuncheng, and the world called it "Salt Specialized City"-China became the only city because of salt transportation.

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Guan Yu, Xue, Liu Zongyuan, etc.