The proud history of the 'azure dragon town' endures

Qinglong town, or "azure dragon town", 10 kilometers north of Taiyuan in Shanxi, used to be a village surrounded by sweet wormwoods sitting at the main road connecting Shanxi province, a historical economic powerhouse, with Inner Mongolia, since early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) .

The village prospered with the booming of a big family surnamed Wang from early Qing Dynasty, when an uprising farmers' troop led by Li Zicheng deposited some military supplies at the warehouse of Wang's home as they fled from Beijing.

Li said that if they did not come back in three years, those materials left behind would belong to the Wang family. Three years later, after the Wangs heard that Li had died in southern China, they opened the warehouse, and found it filled with gold and silver.