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According to the Chinese historic materials, Luoyangjialanji, epitaphs excavated in Luoyang, in the capital of BeiWei dynasty, Luoyang was the cosmopolitan city where Xianbei rulers, including Royal families and Xianbei noblemen called Xunchenbacheng, Chinese civil officials, the Central Asians, the Goguryo peoples, Turk nomads, the Arabs, African people and Chinese commoners, and so on. According to the Luoyangjialanji, the population of Luoyang was about 109,000 households, of which the Central Asians were 10,000 households, and capitulants from Nanchao were 3,000 households. the Central Asians were 9.1% of Luoyang households, and the foreighners were at least 11.9% of Luoyang households. The most populous residents in Luoyang were probaly the Xianbei People moved from Pingcheng, the old capital city to Luoyang, the new capital city who changed the permanent address from Dai to Luoyang Henan, lived in the Luoyang city and were buried in Beimangshan, a famous cemetery of ruling class. Luoyang, the cosmopolitan city was the salad bowl where the people from China, Mongolia, Manchuria, Central Asia, and India etc. and coexisted in multiculture of Confucian culture and buildings, Buddhism and Buddhist temples, nomadic and Central Asian food, life style, music, dancing, hunt and circus. Sitongshi, the international trade market in the south of Luoyang city was the symbol of the cosmopolitan city Luoyang, and the place of multi-race people’s meetings and economic exchanges. Central Asian goods were traded in Sitongshi and consumed by Xianbei rulers. In short, Luoyang, the capital city of the second half of BeiWei dynasty was the cosmopolitan city prior to Chang’an, the capital city of Tang dynasty. Luoyang became the cosmopolitan city of Multi-racial Residents and Coexistence of Multiculture in the Second half of BeiWei dynasty, because of Xianbei rulers's relative openness of the engagement of the conquested multi-ethnic people and the trade policy of Xuanwudi, which brought about the incoming of the Central Asians, Indians, and Arab traders.