This territory, called The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, included a part of northern Shanxi.

Its territory lay between the states of Qin and Qi and included parts of modern day Henan, Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong.

Its territory included areas in modern Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.

The defeat of the Former Qin in the Battle of Fei River and the subsequent uprisings split the Former Qin territory into two noncontiguous pieces after the death of Fu Jiān: one located at present day Taiyuan, Shanxi and was soon overwhelmed in 386 by the Xianbei under the Later Yan and the Dingling.

Under his governance, Fu Jiān's empire expanded from encompassing only most of Shaanxi, eastern Gansu, and extreme western Shanxi and Henan, to covering nearly all of then-Chinese territory north of the Huai River and the southwest.

By using the old Warring State name Zhao, they claimed to be the rightful rulers of the old Zhao territory ( now Shanxi province and South Hebei ).

Modern scholarship has identified the Sheep's Head Mountains () just north of Gaoping in Shanxi Province as his homeland and territory.

During the Warring States Period, King Wuling ( 340 – 295 BC ) of the state of Zhao based in what is now Hebei and Shanxi provinces pursued an expansionist policy towards the region.

Finally, when the fifth of the Five Dynasties ( Later Zhou Dynasty ) emerged, the jiedushi of Hedong at the time, Liu Chong, rebelled and established an independent state called Northern Han, one of the Ten Kingdoms, in what is now northern and central Shanxi.

The Jurchens then invaded territories under the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty and overran most of northern China, first setting up puppet regimes like Qi and Chu, later directly ruling as a dynastic state in Northern China named Jin (" Gold ", not to be confused with the several Jin Dynasties named after the region around Shanxi and Henan ).

* Guan ( 官 ) the Region name of Shanxi Province in Jin ( state ) ( 晉 )

Han (, 403 – 230 BC ) was a state that existed during the Warring States Period of ancient China, located in modern-day Shanxi and Henan.

The state of Yan stretched from the Yellow River to the Yalu and from the mountains of Shanxi Province to the Liaodong Peninsula.

Jin (), originally known as Tang ( 唐 ), was a major state during the middle part of the Zhou Dynasty, based in southern Shanxi Province near the center of what was then China.

Most officials were more concerned about the Xianbei and Qiang rebellions and also with another non-Han people — the Xiongnu, who had settled down in modern Shanxi after the dissolution of their state by Cao Cao in 216 under the watchful eyes of Chinese officials, and were feared for their military abilities.

They lived in the state of Chu during the Warring States period, but in the 3rd century BC a man named Ban Yi moved north to Loufen ( modern Yanmenguan, Shanxi Province ).

Emerging as the partially sinicized state of Dai between AD 338 and 376 in the Shanxi area, the Toba established control over the region as the Northern Wei Dynasty ( AD 386-533 ).

After eviscerating Former Qin, the people of the state abandoned the Guanzhong region and headed east back toward their homeland, but eventually settled down in modern Shanxi.

The Later Liang Dynasty controlled most of northern China, though much of Shaanxi ( controlled by the Qi ) as well as Hebei ( controlled by the Yan state ) and Shanxi ( controlled by Shatuo Turks ) remained largely outside Later Liang control.

In May 2005, Shanxi University was co-established by the state Ministry of Education and the People's government of Shanxi province.

Shanxi University also hosts one key ministerial research center for humanities and social sciences ( i. e.: Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology ), three provincial research bases for humanities and social sciences, one state key laboratory of quantum optics and optical quantum devices, one key ministerial laboratory of chemical biology and molecular engineering, and one key laboratory to circulate intelligence and process Chinese information, which was co-established by the provincial and ministerial Education Department and three key provincial laboratories.

Hainan Airlines owned a 92. 51 % stake in Shanxi Airlines, acquired in a deal approved by state authorities as part of China's airline consolidation.

Most local governors in the Tang empire recognized the new Later Liang emperor as their emperor, with the exceptions of Li Keyong the military governor of Hedong Circuit ( 河東, headquartered in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi ), who carried the title of Prince of Jin ; Li Maozhen the military governor of Fengxiang Circuit ( 鳳翔, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi ), who carried the title of Prince of Qi ; Yang Wo, who carried the title of Prince of Hongnong ( each of whom claimed continued loyalty to the defunct Tang Dynasty but are generally viewed as independent states from this point on ); and Wang Jian the military governor of Xichuan Circuit ( 西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan ), who carried the title of Prince of Shu ( and who soon thereafter declared his own state of Former Shu as its emperor ).

When Shi Le established the Later Zhao state, it is thought that many of the Uar from around Pingyang ( 平陽, in modern Linfen, Shanxi ) fled west along the Silk Road.

In 304 the sinicised Liu Yuan, a grandson of Yufuluo Chizhisizhu stirred up descendants of the southern Xiongnu in rebellion in Shanxi, taking advantage of the War of the Eight Princes then raging around the Western Jin capital Luoyang.

Later the Southern Song Dynasty abandoned all of North China to the Jurchen Jin Dynasty ( 1115-1234 ) in 1127, including Shanxi.

* The Three Jins: Northeast of Qin, on the Shanxi plateau, were the three successor states of Jin.

Jin was located in the lower Fen River basin on the Shanxi plateau.

Jin is spoken over most of Shanxi province, except for the lower Fen River valley ; much of central Inner Mongolia ; as well as adjoining areas in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces.

From the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, a rivalry had developed between the successor Later Liang Dynasty, formed by Zhu Wen and the State of Jin by Li Keyong in present-day Shanxi.

Also, the Fen and Jin region modern Shanxi requires pacification right now, and I am not yet able to arrange a time for the meeting at Mengjin in modern Zhengzhou, Henan, where King Wu of Zhou met his supporters before attacking Shang's King Zhou ).

* The Pagoda of Fugong Temple of Shanxi in northern China is built during the Liao Dynasty.

During the invasion of northern nomads during the Sixteen Kingdoms period ( 304-439 ), several regimes including Later Zhao, Former Yan, Former Qin, and Later Yan continuously controlled what is now Shanxi.

Shanxi was also a major battlefield between the Japanese and the Chinese communist guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army during the war.

The reforms that Yan subsequently conducted won Yan widespread acclaim, and Shanxi gained a reputation during the Warlord Era as being the " Model Province ".

Yan's opposition to Chiang during the 1930 Central Plains War caused Yan to formally retire from all positions of leadership in Shanxi, and to flee to the Manchurian city of Dalian.

Chiang then invited Mao to Chongqing for peace talks, during which, Yan Xishan sent his armies to attack CPC territories in Shanxi under Chiang's authorisation.

During the Ming dynasty Taiyuan became the capital of Shanxi, and it remained Shanxi's capital during the subsequent Qing dynasty ( 1644-1911 ).

Because Yan succeeded in keeping Shanxi uninvolved in most of the major battles between rival warlords that occurred in China during the 1910s and 1920s, Taiyuan was never taken from Yan by an invading army until the Japanese conquered it in 1937.

Taiyuan was the last area in Shanxi to resist Communist control during the final stages of the Chinese Civil War.

Emperor Gaozu's rule immediately faced a major challenge from Xue Ju, an agrarian leader who had declared himself the Emperor of Qin, as Xue, during the fall of 618, took advantage of Li Shimin's illness to defeat an army commanded by Li Shimin and Liu Wenjing at Qianshui Plain ( in modern Xianyang, Shanxi ) and approach Chang ' an.

He's responsibilities increased during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in 1943 he was promoted to be the overall commander of Communist forces in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia.

In August 2011, the Shanxi Zhongyu played an exhibition game against the Georgetown University Hoyas during the Hoyas ' two week trip to China.

Born in the impoverished village of Nanweiquan in Shanxi, Han first came to international prominence when, as a railway worker in Beijing, he helped set up the Beijing Workers ’ Autonomous Federation ( BWAF ) during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

He traveled to several different provinces of China including Hebei, Gansu, Xinjiang, Shanxi ( 陕西 ), Henan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shangdong, Shanxi ( 山西 ), and wrote more than 200 poems during the trip.

Wei Qing (, died 106 BC ), born Zheng Qing ( 鄭青 ) in Linfen, Shanxi, was a famous general during Han Dynasty of China, whose campaigns against the Xiongnu earned him great acclaim.