The origin of the name of Taiyuan Jinci

Jinci Temple, formerly known as Tang Shuyu Temple, was built to commemorate Tang Shuyu, the founding emperor of Jin State. Uncle Yu made great efforts to use Shanxi River to build farmland water conservancy and develop agriculture, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty lived and worked in peace and contentment, and lived a prosperous life, which resulted in a favorable weather, a prosperous country and a peaceful people for the next 800 years. After Yu Shu's death, in order to commemorate him, later generations chose this beautiful place, which is surrounded by mountains and waters, and built an ancestral temple to worship him, and named it "Tang Shuyu Temple". After his son Xie's father succeeded to the throne, the title of the country was changed from "Tang" to "Jin" because of the current in the territory, which is also the origin of Shanxi's abbreviation of "Jin", and the ancestral temple was renamed as a shrine or simply "Jinci".