Original title: Major Breakthrough! The location of the ruins of the Minoru Gakugu Shrine is basically determined
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After nearly five years of archaeological excavations by the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
"The search for the ruins of minoru Gakugu" made a major breakthrough
The location of the ruins of the Minoru Gakugu Shrine is basically determined
It is located in the west of Xiaoxu Village, Qidu Town, Linzi District, Zibo City, Shandong Province
A group of building sites outside the west gate of the small city of Qi
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According to historical records, the Jixia Xuegong was founded in 374 BC and named after its location under the Linzi Ji Gate, which lasted for more than 150 years. The Minoru Gakuen Palace is the world's first institution of higher learning in a special form organized by the government and hosted by private individuals, and is an institution with a variety of properties such as research institutes, university halls, and administrative consultation, which has contributed to the formation of the situation of "a hundred schools of thought" in the world, and is a monument in the history of China's ideological and cultural development.
Regarding the location of the Jixia Xuegong, more historical documents point to the area near the west gate of the ancient city of qi, such as the Western Han Dynasty Liu Xiang "Beilu" "Qi has Jimen, qi city ximen also." There was a school outside, that is, the Qi Xuanwang Lixue Institute, so it was called the Study of Jixia"; the Northern Wei geographer Li Daoyuan's "Water Through the Injection of Zishui" recorded that "the water flows north of the city, the west of the Yang Gate, and the water has a place of old sealing, the so-called Qi Zhi Ji Xia Ye".
The importance of the Minoru Gakuen Palace in Chinese history is beyond doubt, and although its location is well documented in the literature, its site has not been known.
In 2017, the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology set up an archaeological team for the ancient city of Linzi Qi and began to search for the "Jixia Xuegong". Zheng Tongxiu and Sun Bo were the leaders of the two institutes as the project leaders, and Dong Wenbin was the team leader.
After nearly five years of archaeological excavation, experts have solved a series of questions using the "exclusion method", the stratigraphic relationship is clear, the shape of the system has begun to take shape, and from the perspective of literature, orientation, archaeological findings, etc., it is basically possible to judge the location of the Minoru Gakuen Palace.
The building base site group is connected to the small city of Qi Gucheng in the east, the south width and north are narrow and slightly right angle trapezoidal, the maximum width from east to west is about 210 meters, the length from north to south is about 190 meters, the total area is nearly 40,000 square meters, and a total of four rows of building sites have been found. The building site group is in a closed area, surrounded by walls and trenches, of which the trenches and the small city moat are connected as one, and the road is found between the building base site group and the small city, leading north to the west gate of the small city and south to the south gate of the small city.
In 2022, experts will continue to fully expose the south gate, and search for the western and northern walls, excavating the building foundation sites in the site to further explore the specific uses of these buildings.
Editor of this article: Yan Yihan
Reviewer: Huang Pengwei