周口店“北京人”有70万年历史,是最早的土著。后来燕国抗拒强秦,派荆轲刺秦王,事败,燕太子丹逃到辽宁本溪,秦兵穷追不舍,他投河自尽,太子河因而得名,传说很悲壮。秦灭赵、燕,数十万战俘被杀,也很惨烈。“风萧萧兮易水寒,壮士一去兮不复还!”这样的燕赵悲歌,唱出了北京人最崇尚的正义感。我国历史上大多是南北打仗,东西贸易(例如丝绸之路),因而有了成语“南征北战”和“买卖东西”,连物品都叫东西。北京既然是联接南北的通衢大邑,也就成了各民族逐鹿中原的必争之地。这些大规模的南征北战:契丹族、女真族、蒙古族、满族南下,汉族北上,一千年间,给北京带来六次大规模的南北人口、语言、文化交流和融合。譬如,金海陵王调集东北、华北百万工匠,仿照宋都汴梁建造起繁华 Zhoukoudian “Beijinger” 700,000 years of history, is the earliest indigenous. Yan later refused to resist the strong Qin, Jing Ke thorn Qin King, the defeat, Yan Prince Dan fled to Benxi, Liaoning, Qin Bing chase, he cast himself to death, Prince Edward River hence the name, the legend is very tragic. Qin off Zhao, Yan, hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war were killed, but also very tragic. “Wind Xiao Xi Xi Yi Shui Han, Warriors Come to Come Come!” This kind of Yanzhao sad songs, sung Beijing most admired sense of justice. Most of our history is war between the north and the south, and trade between the east and the west (such as the Silk Road). Therefore, there is the idiom “North-South Campaign” and “buying and selling things”, even the goods are called things. Since Beijing is a thoroughfare linking northeast and north, it has become a contested place for all ethnic groups competing in the Central Plains. These large-scale south expeditions and the northern battles: the Khitan, the Jurchen, the Mongolian and the Manchus southward, the Han up north, brought a total of six large-scale North-South population, language and cultural exchanges and integration to Beijing in a thousand years. For example, Jinhaoling Wang mobilized the northeast, one million North China craftsmen, modeled on the Song dynasty Liang beam built bustling