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According to the Hunan Provincial People's Government

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Notice on the List of the Eleventh Batch of Provincial-level Cultural Relics Protection Units

(Xiang Zhenghan [2021] No. 172)

Ningxiang has three entries

They are

Ruins of Luo Jia Chong

The ruins of the Bronze Heavy Ware Cellar

(i.e. the excavation point of the Four Sheep Fangzun)

Memorial Tower for the Martyrs of the Battle of Dujiashan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

So far, there are 98 cultural relics protection units at all levels in Ningxiang: including 5 national key cultural relics protection units, 15 provincial cultural relics protection units, 21 municipal cultural relics protection units, and 57 county-level cultural relics protection units, which are veritable cultural relics counties.

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Luojiachong ruins are located in a group of Qingshanqiao Zhenqiao North Community, which is a typical mesa site in the south about 4500 years ago in the late Neolithic period, and several nearby site groups surround the Luojiachong site, and the Luojiachong site is a central settlement with a high social level.

Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit! Three new places were added in Ningxiang...

The Luojiachong site excavated large-scale braised earth architectural remains and large-scale cloister-style building sites, and unearthed a large number of artifact specimens, of which the number of stone tools is large, the variety is complete, well preserved, and the characteristics are distinctive. The Luojiachong site has been awarded the "Important Archaeological Discovery of Hunan Province in the Decade (2006-2015)" and was selected as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in the "13th Five-Year Plan" in Hunan, providing important physical evidence and research directions for the development of Neolithic cultural sequences in the Xiangjiang River Basin, the Tanheli culture, and the genealogical changes of Hunan bronze culture.

The site of the Bronze Heavy Instrument Cellar (i.e. the excavation site of Siyang Fangzun) is located on the Zhuan'erlun Mountain in Longquan Village, Huangwu Town, where siyang fangzun was excavated in 1938, a large bronze with elephant patterns was unearthed in 1983, and a bronze cup with a dragon pattern in The Western Zhou Dynasty was unearthed in 2002.

Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit! Three new places were added in Ningxiang...

As a typical cellar site of Ningxiang Shangzhou bronze culture, the Siyang Fangzun excavation site provides direct evidence and supporting materials for the burial and excavation of Ningxiang bronzes and the use of sacrifices. In 2020, the Siyang Fangzun Excavation Site Protection and Display Project was successfully selected as one of the "Top 100 Cases of Innovative Development of Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization in Hunan" as an excellent case of cultural and cultural resource expansion and cultural tourism integration.

The Battle of Dujiashan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

Memorial Tower of the Fallen Martyrs

From May to June 1944, the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on Hunan, when the first battalion of the 174th Regiment of the 58th Division of the 74th Army, under the command of Commander Zhou Yu, blocked the enemy at Dujiashan, the county seat of Ningxiang County, and all 206 officers and men of the battalion died heroically.

Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit! Three new places were added in Ningxiang...

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order to commemorate the heroic deeds of the martyrs who died for the country at the Battle of Dujiashan. In 1946, the people of Ningxiang built the Memorial Tower of the Anti-Japanese Martyrs of the 58th Division's Ningxiang Campaign and the Tomb of the Martyrs, which was engraved with Chiang Kai-shek's inscription "Haoqi Eternal Survival", General Wang Yaowu's inscription "Qizhuang Mountains and Rivers", and Chen Yinglong, then the county magistrate of Ningxiang County, inscribed "Jie Li Suiyang" and other words. The Ningxiang Anti-Japanese Memorial Tower provides an important platform and venue for remembering the martyrs, carrying forward the national spirit, and carrying out patriotic education.

Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit! Three new places were added in Ningxiang...

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Source: Ning Vision

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