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Site of Luoyang City from the Eastern Han to Northern
Wei Dynasty hosted the capital cities of four important
imperial dynasties in the evolutional history of Chinese
civilization (1st Century-6th Century AD). Situated in
the Luoyang Basin of Central China, being the oriental
starting point of the Silk Roads in this period, it
demonstrates cultural characteristics of the Central
Chinese dynasties from the Eastern Han to Northern
Wei Dynasty and testifies to the unique urban culture
resulted from the assimilation of nomadic people with
farming people during the Northern Wei Dynasty ,
cross-region and cross-period evolution of urban layout,
and the spread and localization of Buddhism in Central
China.
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