What are the most historically important Chinese cities?

What are the most historically important Chinese cities?

Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang and Xi'an

xi'an
nanjing
beijing

Singapore.

do you mean Peking

What about Wuhan?

If you want to romanize it, sure

That's an important one too, though not as historically important as Beijing or Nanking.
China has a lot of very old cities

>Nobody mentions Chengdu, Kaifeng, and Hangzhou
Unfilial.

Xi'an/Chang'an was pretty weird.

It was consistently a capital city from the Qin-Tang dynasties, but then afterwards, the last dynasties from Song- Qing ignored it.

Toronto
San Francisco

Also, what does Sofia Vergara have to do with this?

Because the niggery of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period burned it to the ground during their Anti-Tang uprisings.

So when the Zhao clan founded Song, the classical capital wasn't glorious anymore.

>glorious

falling for gooks' meme
It never was

Some other important other cities not mentioned by others are:
Suzhou
Yin
Anyang
Hao
Quanzhou
Fuzhou
Guangzhou
Jinan
Changsha

Got some sources to back that up old chap? The academic consensus even for non-chinks points otherwise.

quality post

>It never was
Chang'an was literally considered the ideal traditional East Asian city. It's layout was copied not only within China, but also in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.

Kyoto being the most famous of Chang'an's copycats, considering the Yamato clan were massive weeabs to Classical Chink culture.

Shanghai, Xi’an, Luyang, Vancouver.

t. chinese """""historian"""""" aka fairytale writer

Thanks dude!
Now I'm motivated to give brief descriptions of each city with their modern province locations.
Suzhou- Major terminus of the Grand Canal. In Jiangsu.
Yin- A capital of the Shang Dynasty (which itself is sometimes referred to as the Yin). In Henan.
Anyang- A capital of the Shang Dynasty. In Henan.
Hao- Capital of Western Zhou. In Shaanxi.
Quanzhou- Major trading port for maritime trade with Southeast Asia and beyond starting from around the Tang Dynasty. In Fujian.
Fuzhou- Similar to Quanzhou. In Fujian.
Guangzhou- Southern city in Guangdong with access to trade. Similar to Quanzhou and Fuzhou in that regard.
Jinan- Major city in Shandong since Han Dynasty. Recently gained close access to mouth of Yellow River.
Changsha- Major transit point between north to south China. In Hunan.
Correct me if I wrote anything wrong.

Begone shitposter. Even the japs themselves acknowledge this point.

>REEEEE JAPANESE CULTURE IS TOTALLY UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL BONZAI ARE A PROUD JAPANESE INVENTION TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM PENZAI

>Hey what's that gaijin screeching about?
>He's apparently saying 盆栽 and 盆栽 are totally different.
>How scary. Do you think he's on drugs? Should we call the police?

Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang, Xi'an, Kaifeng, and Hangzhou

>Chengdu
Literally everone there was killed by Zhang Xianzhong.

Chengdu was already a backwater by the time Zhang Xianzhong came along (it being so since the Mongol invasions). The Ming-Qing transition is what killed it off, with Zhang being only one of Sichuan warlords during the collapse of the Ming. The Qing invasion of Sichuan was about as devastating for Chengdu as Zhang's reign of terror. Furthermore, not everyone was killed by war/famine/disease/whatever. A lot of people fled to other provinces and returned when things settled down again.
By the mid-Qing period, Chengdu once again became a major city.

Source: The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet by Dai Yingcong

>Kyoto being the most famous of Chang'an's copycats, considering the Yamato clan were massive weeabs to Classical Chink culture.
Only up until Heian era, glad they developed their architecture into different direction and abandon chinese grid symmetrism and gaudy decoratives

>tfw Bashu Chinese got replaced by steppenigger influenced Mandarin
Feels bad mang