Top News Henan Business News (Reporter Yang Xiao)
Approaching the Spring Festival, Xinxiang archaeology ushered in new discoveries. On January 25, a reporter from Henan Business Daily learned from the Henan 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, Yujia County, Xinxiang, and a large building remnant of multiple sets of courtyard structures, a pottery workshop and a cemetery was cleared.
According to Li Huiping, director of the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Xinxiang City, the remains of the buildings that have been exposed so far are multiple courtyard structures, with a south-facing layout, 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.
In the remains, 2 courtyards side by side were found, of which Courtyard 1 is the best preserved, the courtyard is empty, rectangular in an east-west direction, with a total area of 160 square meters, and there is a small house in the northwest of the courtyard, which archaeologists speculate as a gatehouse.
A pottery firing area was found on the outskirts of the courtyard, with a total of 7 pottery kilns and 4 sinks, and a large number of pottery-related tools appeared, including circular pottery turntables, pottery auctions, pottery prints, etc.
Li Huiping speculated that this was most likely an official workshop in the State of Wei. 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.
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.
In addition, according to Li Huiping, because the ground has been destroyed, the preservation of the underground is not very good, and the site has been landfilled.
(Edited by Wang Hongchun)