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Extract from the Pingyao Travel Guides: The small town of
PINGYAO
, 100km south of Taiyuan, and the Shuanglin Si nearby, two of the most impressive yet least visited places in the area, are certainly worth making an effort to visit. A town has stood here since the Zhou dynasty (about 770 BC), but it reached its height in the Ming, when it was a prosperous banking centre, one of the first in China. Its wealthy residents constructed luxurious mansions and square walls around the city to defend them. In the course of the twentieth century, the town slid rapidly into provincial obscurity, which has kept it largely unmodernized, and it's one of the few places in this part of China...
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