1 fev 494 ano - Capital Moved Luoyang Wearing of Non-Chinese Apparel Banned

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After being designated the capital of the Cao-Wei in 220,
Luoyang saw significant growth. But it was destroyed again when the
Xiongnu and their allies sacked the city in 311, and it lay essentially dormant
for almost 200 years. It was from the ashes of this Wei-Jin city that Northern
Wei’s Luoyang (494–538) rose. The planner enclosed an extensive Outer City
surrounding the old city enceinte—which had been revived as the new Inner
City. With a walled area of seventy-five square kilometers (a size record
unbroken until the Sui built Daxingcheng in the Chang’an area) and
a registered population exceeding half a million in the early 500s,72
Northern Wei Luoyang was by then the largest urban center in population
and in area.73
Planned on a majestic orthogonal grid, Northern Wei Luoyang was first and
foremost the political center of the North with a sizable foreign population
and a vibrant business community. Restricted business transactions were
conducted in the three marketplaces in the Outer City. Businessmen and
craftsmen lived nearby in what seemed like segregated communities. The
powerful were concentrated in the Inner City and the westernmost part of the
Outer City. Foreigners, including numerous defectors from the South, were
confined to their enclave in the south Outer City. A striking feature that
reflected the spirit of the age was the preponderant presence of Buddhist
monasteries, 1,367 of which were counted in 534.
pg. 328

"Then, in quick succession, in 494, the
wearing of non-Chinese apparel was banned; in 495, the speaking of non-Chinese
languages was banned at court" Holcomb: The Xianbei in Chinese History pg. 25

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