Shanxi is a major region for Chinese civilization and the origins of the state, with the Taosi site manifesting the earliest kingly authority and state format, corresponding perfectly with the legendary Tangyao period. The Shanxi of the Xia-Shang-Zhou period possessed those most critical copper resource and copper-smelting technologies, which had an indispensable supportive effect on the development and thriving of a bronze culture. Beginning as a “small state of a hundred li” enfeoffed in the early Western Zhou, the Jin put all energy into state administration, into opening borders and pioneering lands, into carrying down traditions, sharply innovating, and absorbing new blood from the surrounding states and nomadic cultures, slowly forming a Jin culture with its own clear characteristics. Central Plains culture, as represented by Jin culture, had a profound and far-reaching effect on the formation of the Chinese culture of later generations.