On the left bank of the Huang River, Shangjing Linhuang Mansion, the capital of Daliao. It has only been more than 50 years since the establishment of the capital of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji to the accession of Ye Luxian of Liao Jingzong, and the capital of Shangjing City has already had a considerable scale, although its prosperity and wealth are far less than that of Tokyo Bianliang, the capital of the Zhao and Song dynasties in the south, but it should not be underestimated.

Long before Liao Taizu became the emperor and founded the country, based on the recognition and learning of the Han farming culture, with the help of the Han scholars around him, Abaoji had built 30 cities similar to the Han people in the Central Plains on the left bank of the Huang River.

These castles include sturdy and comfortable houses, noisy and convenient markets, and even places for cultural exchange such as Confucian temples, Taoist temples, and temples.

Some large-scale cities even have wide city streets, inter-city roads, post stations and other facilities, which are not inferior to the cities of the Central Plains Dynasty.

These dotted grassland cities, like the spark of civilization, gradually spread with the development of the Khitan nation.

The convenient and fast exchange place in the city is not only a place for various grassland ethnic groups to witness and learn the advanced culture of the Han ethnic group in the Central Plains, but also an important economic and cultural bond between various ethnic groups in the grassland.

Therefore, the scale of the city of Shangjing at this moment has long been different from what it used to be: the circumference of the whole city is more than 27 miles, the city wall is two zhang high, and there are urn cities outside the city gates, and outside the urn city there are horse faces similar to those of the Central Plains city, so as to increase the defense function of the city.

As a grassland people, it is not easy to build such a big city on the thousand-mile prairie of northern China.

The capital of the Great Liao Kingdom was divided into three parts: the imperial city, the inner city, and the Seoul. The imperial city is in the north, also known as the north city, similar to a square shape structure, surrounded by a wall as high as three zhang, the city walls are all made of yellow-brown rammed earth, the bottom is wide and the top is narrow, the top is about two meters wide, and the bottom base is about 12 to 16 meters wide.

The south wall is about 1,550 meters long, the west wall is about 1,800 meters long, the east wall is about 1,450 meters long, and the north wall is about 1,470 meters long, and the entire imperial city covers an area of nearly 600 hectares.

There is a gate on each side of the imperial city: the west is the Qiande Gate, the east is the Anton Gate, the south is the Dashun Gate, the north is the Gongchen Gate, and the width of each gate varies from about 25 meters to 30 meters.

In the imperial city, there are all kinds of official offices and temples of the Liao State, such as the east of Zhengnan Street, there are the Yamen of the Left-behind Division, the Salt and Iron Division, the South Gate, the Longtai Temple, the Linhuang Mansion and so on.

There were two north-south and east-west streets in the imperial city, which divided the whole city into

The shape of the word "well", so if you stand on a high place and look down on the entire imperial city, you will find that the imperial city is very neat.

Although Ouchi is a part of the capital, it is not actually an independent part, but a part of the imperial city, located in the middle of the imperial city in the north, the scale is still small, about 600 meters long from north to south, and about 300 meters long from east to west.

There are also three doors in the interior: the south is called Chengtian Gate, and there is an attic; The east is called Donghua Gate; There is Xihua Gate in the west.

The inner building imitates the shape of the Han nationality in the Central Plains, it is also the front hall and the harem, the front hall is built with three major halls, namely the opening of the emperor hall, the Ande hall, the Wuluan hall, and the north of the three halls is the harem of the Liao country.

Khitan customs are all respected to the east, so the three major halls all sit west to east. Seoul, located in the south of Shangjing City, so it is also called Nancheng, between the north and south two cities is bounded by the tall city wall, also close to the square, the east and west are about 1,700 meters wide, the north and south are about 1,100 meters long, the area is similar to the imperial city, the city is built with rammed earth all around, and there are city gates on all sides.

Seoul, as the name suggests, is an area where Han Chinese gather in Shangjing. There was a post house in Hannai to entertain foreign envoys.

Among them, there was also the Uighur camp, which was used to entertain Uighur traders. The handicraft industry in Seoul is developed, especially the iron smelting industry, porcelain industry, jade antiques are very famous, the weapons they manufacture, armor is the favorite of the soldiers of the Liao State, although the black and white glazed porcelain they make is not as good as the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, but it is also the premier boutique at that time, and it is very national, such as the black and white glazed porcelain leather pot.

This kind of leather pouch pot is named because it is shaped like the water bladder sewn from the leather that the Khitan people carry, its shape is flat, straight, the lower part is plump, the two sides of the pot follow the shape of the line, such as the traces of stitched leather, there is an upright short stream at one end of the mouth, the middle is concave, the other end is cocked and flush with the flow mouth, the shape is like a hump, there are round holes on both sides, and the rope can be lifted.

The early shape of the pot body is short, the lower part is fat, because the shape is like a stirrup, so it is also called

"stirrup pot"; After the middle period, the body of the pot increased, and the stitching marks gradually disappeared. In addition, Seoul has a large population, including eunuchs, Hanlin, tricks, Jiaofang, Jiaojiao, Confucianists, monks and nuns, and Taoist priests. The houses are all complete, and the business is also very prosperous, and there is an endless stream of business travelers from the Central Plains and the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the grassland.