Binzhou Daily/Binzhou Network News A few days ago, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Utilization of Large Sites", and a total of 145 large sites and 5 inter-provincial large sites in all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government were selected for planning. The Binzhou Yangjia Salt Industry Site Group was included.
The ten major sites selected by Shandong are: Dawenkou Ruins, Jiaojia Ruins, Two Towns Ruins (including Yaowangcheng Ruins), Chengziya Ruins, Daxinzhuang Ruins, Dongpingling Ancient City, Linzi Qiguo Ancient City, Qufu Luguo Ancient City, Yangjia Salt Industry Ruins Group, Jimo Ancient City and Liuqu Mountain Tomb Group (including Langyatai Ruins). In addition, the Grand Canal (Shandong section), the Great Wall (Great Wall of Qi), and the Ming and Qing Dynasties Haiphong (Penglai Water City Ruins) are also in Shandong, and the overall number is not small.
The Yangjia Salt Industry Site Group in Binzhou, Shandong Province is a national key cultural relics protection unit
The Yangjia Salt Industry Site Group is located about 2.5 kilometers northwest of Dongyang Village, Fuguo Street, Zhanhua District. In the spring of 1950, when the Tujiao River was widened and deepened, the site of the Yang family's ancient kiln was discovered, and a number of "general helmets" were unearthed. In 1955, a large number of ceramic helmets were unearthed during the dredging and widening of the Tufa River. It has been investigated four times since its discovery. The site is 650 meters long from east to west and 240 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of about 156,000 square meters, including 12 Zhou Dynasty salt-making sites. Most of the specimens collected are helmet shapers, filters, gray pottery mouth edges, gray pottery beans, etc., all used in the production of salt industry, a small number of daily necessities, such as thick square lip merchant guithers, jomon small mouth jars (urns), etc., and later excavated bronze swords, shell coins and other cultural relics. In December 1977, the "Yangjia Ancient Kiln Site" was identified as the first batch of provincial key cultural relics protection units.
Helmet-shaped vessel excavated from the Yangjia Salt Industry site
The Yangjia ancient kiln site group belongs to the salt industry site, and the era mainly belongs to the Warring States, some to the early Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period. The scale of the site group is very large, and the scope may reach the county seat of Zhanhua County. The Yangjia Salt Industry Site Group is the largest salt industry site group currently found in the Yellow River Delta region. Through the excavation of a large number of helmet-shaped vessels, this is the site of an ancient kiln group. Due to the silt cover, there should also be a considerable number of salt industry sites around it that should be buried underneath undiscovered. According to the analysis of the excavated helmet and filter, there were two ways to make salt by hand and dry salt from the beach. The ancestors of The pottery used the advantages of the coast to carry out large-scale beach dish salt, and the kiln industry was needed to be matched first, and the pottery kiln mainly fired the utensils for boiling salt. The Yangjia Ancient Kiln Site Group provides important historical materials for studying the salt production and pottery industry development of the Qi state in the northern coastal area during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. In May 2013, it was approved and announced by the State Council as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Editor-in-Charge: Xu Mingyue