6000 years ago, our ancestors developed Dalian. When the Xia Dynasty was founded, although Dalian was vast and sparsely populated, it was deeply influenced by its close ties with Shandong Peninsula.

The third generation king of Shang Dynasty moved from Liaodong to Shangqiu, Henan Province, and began to enter the Bronze Age. Out of nostalgia for his hometown, he traveled between Liaoning and Henan, and opened a route from Penglai to Dalian, which made the economic and cultural exchanges between Dalian and the northern coastal areas of Shandong increasingly prosperous.

About17th century BC, the summer died out in Shang Tang. By the time of Di Xin, Dalian's society had changed from a regional organization to a square country. The wheel pottery unearthed from Shuangtuozi site in Jinyingchengzi area proves the influence of Shandong Yueshi culture on Dalian.

At the end of Shang Dynasty and the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, there were many stone sheds in Dalian today, which was the most widely distributed, complete and numerous area in Liaodong Peninsula. Most of them are located on hills near rivers, including 7 stone sheds at 18 and 38 small and medium-sized stone sheds, which are mainly distributed in Jinzhou District, Pulandian, Wafangdian and Zhuanghe.

Location context

Dalian is located at the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula, between 38 43 ′ ~ 4012 ′ north latitude and 0/20 58 ′ ~123 31′ east longitude. It borders the Yellow Sea in the east, the Bohai Sea in the west, the Shandong Peninsula across the sea in the south and the vast Northeast Plain in the north. The whole terrain is high in the north and low in the south, wide in the north and narrow in the south.

The total land area of the city is 12574 square kilometers, including 24 14.96 square kilometers in the urban area and 0/0/0/58.89 square kilometers in the counties (cities) under its jurisdiction. The city's coastline is 22 1 1 km long, of which the mainland coastline is 137 1 km long and the island coastline is 840 km long.