{"id":3141,"date":"2024-03-29T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2024-03-29T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:14:06","slug":"zhengzhou-one-of-the-8-greatest-ancient-capitals-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/zhengzhou-one-of-the-8-greatest-ancient-capitals-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhengzhou- One of the 8 greatest ancient capitals of China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lists, lists, lists&#8230;. China has had many historic capital cities over the many centuries, no millennia! of its existence. Lists of these capitals generally follow the format of: the 4 greatest ancient capitals&#8230; the 6, the 7, the 8&#8230;<br>In the near future I will be working on the sixth and final installment of my &#8220;Capital cities of China&#8221;.  That set of videos mostly focused on the capitals of provinces and autonomous regions. But the last installment will include an overview of the 8 most important ancient capital cities of China.  Included in that list is Zhengzhou due to it&#8217;s role during the Shang dynasty (roughly 3,600 to 3,000 years ago!)<br>Among the relics from that period are the earthen remains of the city walls of  &#8220;Xiao&#8221; (as Zhengzhou was known at the time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSC02491-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3137\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSC02568-1024x826.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3138\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Remains of Shang Dynasty city walls in Zhengzhou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"remoji_bar\"><div class=\"remoji_add_container\" data-remoji-id=\"3141\" data-remoji-type=\"post\"><div class=\"remoji_add_icon\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"remoji_error_bar\" data-remoji-id=\"3141\" data-remoji-type=\"post\" style=\"display: none;\">Error happened.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lists, lists, lists&#8230;. China has had many historic capital cities over the many centuries, no millennia! of its existence. Lists of these capitals generally follow the format of: the 4 greatest ancient capitals&#8230; the 6, the 7, the 8&#8230;In the near future I will be working on the sixth and final installment of my &#8220;Capital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/zhengzhou-one-of-the-8-greatest-ancient-capitals-of-china\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zhengzhou- One of the 8 greatest ancient capitals of China<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-china","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}