The Han Dynasty style of the ruins of Yongcheng Chongfa Temple

The Ming Dynasty", yongcheng County Chronicle, said that Chongfa Temple was founded before the Tang Dynasty, and judging by the honeysuckle pattern in the broken bricks and tiles excavated from its ground, Chongfa Temple should have been built during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. So what was the appearance of the place at the site of Chongfa Temple during the Han Dynasty?

Judging from the many broken Jomon bricks and fragmented Han tiles excavated near the chongfa Temple Park, from the section of the nearby underground soil layer, there are also architectural remains here in the Han Dynasty, but there is no cultural layer accumulated by large-scale settlement sites. The bricks with patterns on the sides of these Jomon bricks are all Han tomb bricks, and the main Han brick patterns are a combination of milk ding pattern and diamond pattern, a combination of milk ding pattern and deformed cirrus pattern, a combination of milk ding pattern and persimmon pattern, a combination of milk ding pattern and cross wear ring pattern, and a combination of milk ding pattern and geometric pattern. These Han bricks have western Han dynasty, but most of them are from the Eastern Han Dynasty. It shows that there are scattered Han Dynasty buildings and Han Dynasty small brick chamber tombs scattered around the site of Chongfa Temple in the Han Dynasty. These small tombs were destroyed early in history, and the patterned bricks were almost all broken.

Both the settlement and the Han tomb were built on a higher ground, from which it can be inferred that the site of Chongfa Temple was a highland in the Han Dynasty, which is consistent with the judgment that the site of Chongfa Temple is a levee on the north bank of the Pushui River. It is recorded in the Northern Wei Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Water Classics", flowing from the Shangqiu Valley to the southeast. According to historical data, the Yongcheng City of the Han Dynasty should have been called Fucheng at that time, spanning both sides of the River, and the Grand Canal excavated in the first year of the Sui Dynasty was transformed by using the ancient river channel.

As a natural river, the banks of the river are relatively open, and now the outline of the ancient river beach can be seen in the north of the Sui Causeway in the Houling area of Yongcheng, which is very obvious. Scattered small Han Dynasty ruins and small brick chamber tombs are scattered on the high ground on the top of the embankment on both sides, and these ruins have been found on both sides of the Sui Causeway during the construction of Sun Moon Lake. The inhabitants of Fucheng in the Han Dynasty lived on both sides of the river and buried their graves high on the embankment, especially the river sun with better feng shui was preferred. It is natural that the ruins of Chongfa Temple became a Han Dynasty settlement and Han tomb burial ground as the north embankment.