The ruins of the Minoru Gakugu Shrine excavated in the farmland.
The original appearance of the site was cleared out of the site.
Excavation site of the ruins of Minoru Gakugu.
"Archaeological excavations in our village have been nearly two years, and the name of the archaeological project previously released to the public is the archaeology of the ancient city of Qi, and I recently watched the news to know that this is the ruins of the Minoru Gakuen Palace." I really have a heartfelt sense of pride in my heart, I didn't expect that the ruins of The earliest institutions of higher learning in China were in our village, then our village was the earliest university town in China! On February 21, Liu Ying, a member of the "two committees" of Xiaoxu Village, said happily.
Qidu Town is regarded as the "imperial city root" of the ancient Qi state, in Qidu Town has excavated well-known cultural relics such as the martyrdom pit, and excavations in recent years have further clarified the scope of the ruins of the ancient city of Qi, and the determination of this site is called "the greatest spiritual wealth" by Liu Ying.
With the basic determination of the ruins of the Jixia Xuegong, The earliest official institution of higher learning in China, which was hosted by private institutions of higher learning, was more and more clearly displayed in front of the world. On the 21st, a reporter from the Zibo Rong Media Center of Dazhong Daily came to the building base site group outside the west gate of the small city of Qiguo's ancient city located in the west of Xiaoxu Village, Qidu Town, Linzi District, Zibo City, which was basically identified as the ruins of the Jixia Xuegong.
The xiaoxu village building site group has been examined as the ruins of the Minoru Gakuen Palace, which is undoubtedly sensational news. The reporter saw at the archaeological site of this site that the base site of the building is located in a wheat field in the west of Xiaoxu Village, and the burial depth of the base site is not deep, and the difference with the level of the surrounding wheat field is only about 50 centimeters. The villagers who have lived here for generations could not have imagined that this place has such a glorious history. "We have generally dug 30 to 40 centimeters deep in the ploughing fields over the years, and we are only about 10 centimeters away from these ancient building complexes. The main road built, The Tai Tai Road, passed precisely from the periphery of the site, and it took so many years to reveal the true face of the Minoru Gakuen Palace. Liu Ying said.
Although it was not originally known that this was once the ruins of the Minoru Gakuen Palace, the road that crossed the ruins, the "Koji Road", was famous. Villager Hu Shiyi told reporters that hóng means "ancient school", and huangda road is the avenue leading to ancient schools.
At the archaeological site, the reporter saw several workers cleaning up the felt cloth and floating soil covered on the ancient ruins, and the felt cloth that was cleaned was used for the "warmth" of the site in winter. As the weather warms up, the pace of archaeological excavations will accelerate further. The current excavation and exploration area is about 2,000 square meters, and the outline of the building ruins is clearly visible. From the scene point of view, the posted "Introduction to the Rammed Earth Foundation Site on the West Side of the West Gate of the Ancient City of The Ancient City of The Qi State of Linzi" shows that the site is located on the southwest side of the West Gate of the Small City of the Ancient City of the State of Qi, close to the city wall, and the rammed earth building complex is located on the outside of the west wall, close to the west wall, about 150 meters away from the west gate. The whole is east-west, about 220 meters from east to west, about 190 meters from north to south, and the total area is about 40,000 square meters. The distribution law of the base site is distributed in four rows, a total of 15 groups, 3 groups in the northern three rows, many large buildings, and 6 groups in the southern row, all of which are small buildings. Large buildings are based on about 650 square meters, and small ones are mostly 150 to 400 square meters. Through more than two years of excavation, it can be seen that the foundation site of the building is connected to the western wall of the town, and there is no trench; there is a rammed earth wall about 6 meters wide in the south, and some areas are preset under the wall wall, and there is a trench about 6 to 8 meters wide on the south side of the wall.
Known as the "source of the axial era of ancient Chinese thought", the Minoru Gakuen Palace was a higher education institution in the Warring States period, and as the central garden of the hundred academic controversies at that time, it effectively contributed to the formation of the situation of academic controversy in the world, and its cultural value and historical significance were of great significance, which was of great benefit to the in-depth excavation of the cultural value of the city.
In this year's Zibo Municipal Government Work Report, it is proposed to implement the innovative breakthrough action of Qi cultural heritage, accelerate the construction of projects such as the Qiguo Ancient City Archaeological Site Park, the Qi Great Wall Cultural Park, and the "QiFeng Shengjing" Cultural and Tourism Complex, and promote the declaration of the Qiguo Ancient City Ruins and Keju as world cultural heritage. In the 2022 Linzi District Government Work Report, it is clearly proposed to do a good job in protecting and inheriting the historical context. In the future, as the project is further advanced, it will bring greater surprises.
Dazhong Daily Zibo Rong Media Center reporter Sun Yinfeng Xu Jin Li Chaoying correspondent Gao Mingchen