大同古城的历史变迁

The Historical Vicissitudes of the Ancient City Datong

大同古城自秦汉建立城邑,有确切记载的历史距今已有2200多年,城市的名称屡有变化,城市布局和规模也因政治需要或军事防御有所损益,但其位置始终未发生大的变动。现存的明代府城和北面的操场城,大部分城垣存在早、中、晚三期墙体相互倾斜挤靠叠压的现象,较晚的墙体依次倾斜靠压在较早的墙体上,从早期到晚期为自内而外的方向排列,真实显示出大同古城从秦汉县邑、北魏京师、辽金陪都、隋唐军镇到明清重镇的历史变迁。

In the Chin and Han Dynasty, the site of Datong city was set up. By authentic recordation, it has been 2, 200 years. The name of the city was changed several times. Distributions and scales of the city sometimes were increased sometimes decreased on the basis of the demand of politics and military affairs, however, its location has been changed not much. In Existent Official Zone and the North Drill Ground Zone of the Ming Dynasty, most of the ancient city walls built in different dynasties leaned and crushed together. The later city walls leans against the earlier ones. All the walls disposed inner and outer. The process, in which the walls came into being, truly recorded the vicissitu＇de of the ancient Datong City, that is, it once was the county of the Qin Dynasty, the capital of Northern Wei Dynasty, the capital of Liao and Jin Dynasty, the military town of Sui-Tang Dynasty, the town of military importance of Qing Dynasty.