East-west juxtaposition, south-facing layout, multiple courtyard structures... On January 24, the reporter learned from the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that a settlement from the Warring States to the Han Dynasty was found in the west of Chen Xiao Village in Yujia County, and a large building remnant of multiple sets of courtyard structures, a pottery workshop and a cemetery were cleared. This discovery is an important archaeological discovery in Xinxiang City in recent years, and is of great significance for the study of the historical evolution of Hanoi County in the Han Dynasty.
At present, archaeologists have revealed that the remains of the building are multiple courtyard structures, facing south, distributed in the range of 63 meters long from east to west and 25 meters wide from north to south, with an area of nearly 1600 square meters. At the same time, it can be confirmed that there are at least two east-west side courtyards, with north-south roads between the courtyards. The courtyard is a courtyard in the middle, surrounded by rammed earth walls and row houses, and some of the outer areas have cloisters. The best-preserved courtyard No. 1, the courtyard is empty, the plan is east-west rectangular, with a total area of 160 square meters. A small house was also found in the northwestern part of the compound, which archaeologists speculate is the genus of the porter.
The large courtyard complex discovered this time coexists with the surrounding pottery kilns or has a slight relationship between morning and evening, but mainly concentrated in the late Warring States period to the early Han Dynasty. Experts said that the courtyard is large in scale, the pottery kiln is widely distributed, the number of brick and tile utensils produced is extremely large, and the design and planning of the pottery kiln and the ditch are fully utilized, so it is afraid that it is not able to be operated by the people, and it is very likely that it is an official workshop of the Wei state. The Qin burial custom of the Qin people in Shaanxi appeared in the tombs of the late Warring States period, which can be corroborated with the documentary record that Wei ceded the land to Qin and then returned to Qin jurisdiction. (Reporters Wen Xiaojuan and Zhang Tianyi)
Source: Henan Daily