While it was one of the five capitals in the  Liao Dynasty, the Southern Capital was not a capital literally because the power center did not move here unless it was winter, for the emperors of the Liao Dynasty observed the four-season residential system £¨¡°ËÄʱÄɲ§¡±ÖÆ£©of living and hunting in different places in the four different seasons.. The Khitan nobility¡¯s transference with the Liao emperors resulted in the fact that both the central and local official positions of the You area were mostly occupied by the Han people. Most of the inhabitants in the Southern Capital of the Liao Dyansty were the Han grandees and the well-known families, which was proved by the fact that the tombs of the Liao Dynasty unearthed in the Beijing area turned out to be all but those of the Hans. The Han, Liu, Ma and Zhao families were all the old and well-known living in the Southern Capital. They made suggestions and advice for the Liao rulers, and in the end most of the Liao systems kept the essence of the Tang Dynasty.

There were two Han clans in the Southern Capital: the clan of Han Zhigu-Han Derang and the clan of Han Yanhui. Han Zhigu, born in Yutian of Ji Region captured by Emperor Taizu of the Liao Dynasty, became a senior minister of in the Liao court and contributed immensely to the establishing of the Liao Dynasty. His son, Han Kuangsi was nominated Acting Governor (ÁôÊØ) of the Southern Capital. And Han Derang, son of Kuangsi, had more prominent reputation in the Liao Dynasty and was very popular with the Queen of Emperor Jingzong, Xiao Chuo by name. He had a very successful official carrier, cultimating in the important position of the prime minister in the Liao court. He was bestowed with the royal name Yel¨¹ Longyun and listed in the royal family. He played an important role in the prosperity during the reign of the Liao Dynasty.

Han Yanhui was also one of the credited ministers during the reign of Yel¨¹ Abaoji. He gave counsel vigorously to Abaoji and contributed prominently to the aftercare of the captured people of Han nationality. The tombs of his family was discovered in the neighborhood of today¡¯s Babaoshan, from which were found out the tombs of his grandson, Han Yi, and HanYi¡¯s wife and the tomb of his grand-grandson of the sixth generation, Han Zidao. The delicate relics from the tomb of Hanyi provide precious material subjects for the research about the real life of the well-known families living in the city of the Southern Capital of the Liao Dynasty.