With high historical, scientific and artistic values, the City Ruins of Luoyang from Sui to Tang Dynasties is a relatively well-preserved large-scale ruins of an ancient city in the dynasties of Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907).
Distributed along the Luohe River and covering an area of about 47 square kilometers,the city ruins once served as the capital of Yang Guang (605-616), the second emperor of the Sui Dynasty. With Yique (Longmen in present day) in its south, the Mangshan Mountain in its north and the Luohe River flowing through, Luoyang was the starting point of the Silk Road in the East and a hub of the Grand Canal of Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Luoyang's population during the Sui and Tanghad already exceeded 1 million.Since Yang Guang moved the capital eastward to Luoyang, the city was named Dongjing, Dongdu, Luoyanggong, Shendu and Xijingsuccessively in its over 530 years of history of being a capital of different dynasties, witnessing the most prosperous period of China's feudal society. It is a valuable heritage for the study of the capital construction, urban layout, social life and other aspects of ancient China, and its layout and architectural form had a far-reaching influence on later dynasties.
Since the 1950s, archaeologistshave carried out in-depth investigations and excavations here and basically made the location,scale and overall layout of it clear. In 1988, the site was put by the State Council as one of the third batch of national key cultural relic protection units. (Zhao Hanqing & Yang Jiaxin)
