When it comes to the Jiucheng Palace of the Tang Dynasty, many calligraphy lovers can be described as thunderous. The "Liquan Inscription of Jiucheng Palace" written by The famous Tang dynasty minister Wei Zheng and the famous calligrapher Ouyang Shudan narrated here.
Baoji City Linyou Sui Renshou Palace Tang Jiucheng Palace ruins, is the Sui and Tang Dynasty emperors of the summer away from the palace ruins, known as the "crown of the palace". Among them, Palace No. 4 is a high-grade hall building, which typically shows the renovation and expansion of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
The series of reports "The Story of Revealing the Remains of Cultural Relics" tells the mysterious story behind the first six new archaeological discoveries in Shaanxi, and today we are with Lin Yan, a reporter from Shaanxi Tv, to approach the site of Hall 4 of The Sui Renshou Tang Jiucheng Palace.
Linyou set up a county system in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and during the Tang Dynasty, the famous summer palace - Sui Renshou Palace was built in the location of the present-day county seat Tang Jiucheng Palace, known as the "Crown of the Palace", has excavated dozens of hall building sites.
Sui Renshou Tang Jiucheng Palace excavation site
In order to cooperate with the planning project of Jiuchenggong Cultural Square, the Shaanxi team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences excavated the site of Hall 4 from April 2019 to August 2020. The excavation area is about 2300 square meters, and more than 500 relics of various types have been excavated.
Li Chunlin, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: "Hall 4 is in the southwest corner of the original exploration area, and we considered that the road involving the modern urban area in the east was only the western half, revealing the western half of the Sui and Tang Dynasty hall abutments, but it is already possible to restore the temple abutment as a whole." ”
Preservation status of the southwest of the abutment of Hall 4 (comparison of height difference between human and stone structures)
From the observation and analysis of building structure, rammed earth stratigraphy and broken stubble damaged on the west and south sides of the hall, the foundation of The No. 4 hall can obviously be divided into two phases of Sui and Tang Dynasties, of which the Tang Dynasty part is superimposed on the Sui Dynasty remains.
Li Chunlin: "It can be seen more clearly, the bottom is all Sui Dynasty, three-story base, and then go up to the stone foundation, and then add the part, to the Tang Dynasty, basically directly along the Sui Dynasty stone structure part up, through ramming and adding stone seats, and then in the form of bricks wrapped in the outer wall." Therefore, the two practices of the two eras, the materials used are also different, one is a stone structure and the other is a brick structure, which is very characteristic. The most representative, can reflect the changes of the Ninety Percent Palace. ”
There are still 14 pillars of the temple, of which 8 are still in place. From the analysis of the pillar foundation, the Tang Dynasty hall surface can be roughly restored to 38 meters from east to west, 25 meters from north to south, nine rooms wide, and three deep, which is a high-grade tabletop hall building with a temple foundation of 4.2 meters. The remaining columns, compartmentalist columns and tangled honeysuckle patterns carved from the ground stone are rare in the archaeology of ancient temple architecture in the past.
Li Chunlin: "This wadang is the largest wadang we have found in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it is actually 24.5 centimeters, indicating that it has a building volume that matches it." This kind of cylinder tile, plate tile, the use of the sun side is the exposed part is all polished, polished, the quality is very high, and now the knock can also produce a crisp sound, which shows the quality of the project at that time. ”
The west side of Hall 4 steps south
In addition, the stone incense burner, silver hairpins, glass residues, gilded milk nails, "Kaiyuan Tongbao" copper coins and ceramics excavated in Hall 4 are also precious materials for studying the historical connotation and court life of Sui Renshou Tang Jiucheng Palace in many aspects.
Archaeologists speculate that Hall 4 is a high-table hall building that was used more frequently during the Tang Dynasty.
Li Chunlin, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "Hall No. 4 was originally built in Sui and reconstructed in the Tang Dynasty, which has important academic value for the study of Sui and Tang architecture, technology and technology. Another Tang Dynasty document involving the record of water damage in Jiucheng Palace also confirms this point, and also has a great effect on the archaeology of the local hydrological situation. ”
The staff drew a detailed map of the ruins of the Sui Renshou Tang Jiucheng Palace
Zhang Jianlin, former vice president of the Provincial Archaeological Research Institute and distinguished professor of the School of Cultural Heritage of Northwest University, introduced that the Sui Renshou Tang Jiucheng Palace has left many breathtaking historical relics and precious cultural relics, including the famous "Liquan Inscription of Jiucheng Palace" written by Wei Zheng, a famous calligrapher of Tang Dynasty, and the "Liquan Monument of Jiucheng Palace" written by The famous calligrapher Ouyang Shudan, the "Inscription of the Ten Thousand Years Palace" signed by 48 civil and military officials of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and the "Monument of the Ten Thousand Years Palace" signed by 48 civil and military officials above three pins, and the Yunutan Pond where Wu Zetian bathed.
This excavation is an important measure to restart the archaeology of the JiuchengGong site after a gap of 25 years.
Zhang Jianlin: "After years of archaeological exploration and excavation, the entire scale and layout of Jiucheng Palace are relatively clear. Moreover, the entire site from the initial construction to the reconstruction and expansion to the reconstruction process is revealed, and then a relics excavated through excavation, let us understand that the planning and design of large-scale palace buildings at that time and the level of construction technology make us get a very intuitive understanding. In addition, it provides a point for jiucheng palace to be displayed as an important site and cultural heritage in the future. ”
The lotus pattern tile printed on the back of "Xiangzhou Guozong"
Producer: Recreation Group
Editor-in-charge: Wu Wei
Reporter: Lin Yan
Edit: Tuo Ziyun
Reprinted from: Listen to Shaanxi
Original title: The story of revealing the remains of cultural relics (4) | Linyou Sui Renshou Tang Jiucheng Palace No. 4 Hall Ruins: "Crown of the Palace" to build a high platform