During the Northern Song Dynasty, The city of Tokyo was the most luxurious city in the world at that time, but unfortunately it was buried deep underground. However, through the excavation of some brick sewer pipes excavated by archaeologists in the Tuanjie Middle Road Resettlement Housing Project in Dengzhou, Henan, we can glimpse the prosperity of the city at that time.
What kind of city was Dengzhou in the Song Dynasty? In the tenth year of Ming Hongzhi (1497), Wu Da of Dengzhou Zhizhou recorded in the "Record of the Creation and Repair of Outer Cities": When the Song Dynasty was young, the north and south of the river, the east and west of the mountains, the soldiers and merchants Jia Fengduo gathered together, began to build the inner city, formed in three winters, the scale was high, and it was a square place to win the danger. "It shows that dengzhou in the Song Dynasty already had a city.
After extensive field excavations, archaeologists discovered brick drainage facilities from the Song Dynasty in Dengzhou. These discoveries not only confirm the comparison of the "rolling water window" system in the Henan region where it was born, but also improve the description of the architectural technique of "exposed gum making" in the nullah paragraph, which is of great significance for further study of the urban drainage system of the Song Dynasty. (Reporters Chen Zhuo, Zhang Tiyi, Wen Xiaojuan)
Source: Henan Daily