被誉为元代第二首都的上都城,现在研究它的一些学者,往往多注重它的政治作用,把它作为夏宫,注意皇帝盛夏避暑生活,或者根据当时中外文献,探讨它的建筑艺术,有关城市经济和社会生活方面的研究,却显得有些欠缺。作为忽必烈的发迹之地,它曾有过繁荣的商业贸易、相当兴旺的手工业生产和丰富的多民族的社会生活,并因此而成为当时草原上最发达的大城市。 Known as the capital of the second capital of the Yuan Dynasty, some scholars studying it tend to pay more attention to its political role, regard it as a summer palace, pay attention to the emperor summer summer life, or according to the literature at that time to discuss its architectural art However, studies on urban economic and social life seem somewhat deficient. As a land of fortune Kublai Khan, it had prosperous commerce and trade, quite prosperous handicraft production and rich multi-ethnic social life, and thus became the most developed metropolis on the prairie at that time.