Talk:Luoyang

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Coordinates are bad, more where Kaifeng is. Those are better: 112.4 34.66 (taken from German Wikipedia). --Equestenebrarum (talk) 07:54, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Here is a passage from the Chinese novel "The Three Kingdoms":

''Dong Zhuo sent five thousand troops out [to luoyang] to plunder and slay. They captured many thousand wealthy householders and, having stuck flags on their heads saying they were Traitors and Rebels, drove them out of the city and put them to death. Their properties were all seized. ''30 The task of driving forth the inhabitants, some millions, was given to two of Dong Zhuo's commanders, Li Jue and Guo Si. The people were sent off in bands, each band between two parties of soldiers, who drove them torward Changan. Enormous numbers fell by the road side and died in the ditches, and the escort plundered the fugitives and defiled the women. A wail of sorrow arose to the very sky.'' ''31 Dong Zhuo's final orders as he left Capital Luoyang were to burn the whole city: Houses, palaces, temples, and everything were devoured by the flames. The capital became but a patch of scorched earth.'' ''32 Dong Zhuo sent Lu Bu to desecrate the tombs of the emperors and their consorts for the jewels therein, and the common soldiers took the occasion to dig up the graves of officials and plunder the cemeteries of the wealthy. The spoil of the city, gold and silver, pearls and silks, and beautiful ornaments, filled several thousand carts. With these and the persons of the Emperor and his household, Dong Zhuo moved off to the new capital in the first year of Inauguration of Tranquillity (AD 190).''

''33 Luoyang being thus abandoned, the general of Dong Zhuo at River Si Pass, Zhao Cen, evacuated that post of vantage, which Sun Jian at once occupied. Liu Bei and his brothers took Tiger Trap Pass and the confederate lords advanced.''

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Maybe this event ought to be mentioned in the city's history?


 * Please do so. Down here things happen faster if you make them. :) --Plastictv 07:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Do not see much need for such additions. As the city witnessed quite a number of better or worse events in history, listing this event alone gives an incomplete, and biased indication.

Do you know there are actually four locations of the city, three as ruins under or near the present one? I am not against expanding the history section, but we it must be done with enough amount of material.

The standard of English employed in this article does not meet publication standards of English. -D.M.


 * I cleaned up the English and put the information in the history section into a more logical chronological order. Doudja

218.103.216.150 13:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)== RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN Luoyang AND KYOTO ==

218.103.224.151 12:18, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Shall we mention that Kyoto in Japan followed Luoyang and Chang'an as a model to build in A.D. 794 (Nara period,Tang Dynasty)!?????
 * We probably should, if we can find a reputable source for that statement. _dk 04:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Here the source is: Kyoto was founded in 794 AD and patterned after Chinese ancient capitals such as Chang'an and Luoyang.(www.city.kyoto.jp/sogo/sousei/teigen/teigen-eigo.pdf)Kyoto city web(Official website)

History is Lacking
There is a nothing in the History section after the 5th century. UncleMatt (talk) 05:31, 30 April 2009 (UTC) Why is no mention made in this article of more recent events in or near Luoyang such as the nightclub fire of 2000 that claimed more than 300 lives, or events that took place near Luoyang in the Cultural Revolution? Rashomon digger (talk) 17:29, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Split article
There are several ancient cites all called Luoyang in the prefecture level city of Luoyang. Some are built atop each other but not continuously inhabited; i.e. a city was built then abandoned then several centuries later another city was built atop the ruins. Some are several kilometers away put still within the adminstrative division of modern Luoyang. Some are built on top of each other AND continuously inhabited. It seems misleading to have several different urban settlements sepearted by both time and space listed together in the history section AS IF they were one city. To further add to the confusion some were originally called by another name but listed in histories as Luoyang because of the proximity.

I suggest the article called Luoyang refer only to the modern city, and separate articles be created for each of the other settlements:
 * bo
 * chengzhou
 * luoyi
 * Han luoyang and Wei luoyang (treated as one city)
 * Tang luoyang

I am using the article on the other chinese captial as a precedent
 * xian
 * Han changan and Tang changan
 * xiangyang

if no objections I will make the split --Gurdjieff (talk) 12:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Chengzhou
According to Chinese Wikipedia, Luoyi was also known as Chengzhou. It's purpose was to provide increased control in the east, not as a home for the remnants of the Shang Dynasty. see http://zh.wikipedia.org/城周 Philg88 (talk) 23:33, 12 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045-771 BC by Li Feng (17 Aug 2006) - archaeological evidence suggests they may be the same, but ""While this seems to have been supported by the current archaeological evidence that is mainly concentrated on the two banks of the Chan River, the locally discovered early Western Zhou inscription on the Ling fingyi (JC: 9901) says quite explicitly that the minister Mingbao performed sacrifices in both Chengzhou and Wang +., which reasonably refers to Wangcheng. The inscriptional evidence seems to work well with the ancient geographical works to suggest that Wangcheng and Chengzhou were different cities. Therefore, scholars working with inscriptions tend to think that they were twin cities in the Luoyang region during the Western Zhou."7 Perhaps the specific location of Chengzhou has to await future archacological discovery."


 * Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming by Roger V. Des Forges (1 Feb 2003)"The founders of the Zhou (1045-256 bc:k) originated in the west and established their first capitals in die Wei River valley, but they effected the first changc of mandate (geming) in Chinese history in die central plain. They established a secondary capital at Chengzhou, near present-day Luoyang in Henan province."


 * The Magic Square: History of Chinese City Planning by Alfred Schinz (19 Aug 1996)"The ruins of the city wall of Chengzhou were recently investigated about 15 km east of the old part of the present-day city of Luoyang."


 * There are more sources similar to these, just as there are sources identifying the two as the same city. I suspect that the geographical distance was small enough so that earlier texts just ignored them,but that's just my guess. What does seem clear is that we can't assert these are the same city. Dougweller (talk) 13:30, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

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Missing district
Why isn't the Yibin District (伊滨区) mentioned in this article? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 19:50, 31 October 2021 (UTC)