Two thousand years ago, shijiazhuang's Dongyuan City

The ruins of Dongyuan Ancient City are in the northeastern part of Taoyuan, the eastern and southern parts of The Ancient City Village, with a rectangular plan. From the west of Dongcheng Ancient City Village in the west, east to south, North Gaoying Village, south to Taoyuan Village north, the northern edge has been washed away by the Tuotuo River. It is about 2 km long from north to south, 1.6 km wide from east to west, and has an area of 3.2 square kilometers. The outline of the site can still be faintly recognized, and there are still local names such as "Chengjiao Temple", "Chengdaogou", "Chengpokou" and "Xichengpo".

Dongyuan was once an important city in the Zhongshan Kingdom during the Warring States period, and later belonged to Zhao. Qin set up Dongyuan County, because Hedong (present-day Shanxi) already had Yuan County, and it was located in the east, so it was called Dongyuan. In 199 BC, Han Liu Bang attacked the remnants of Han Wangxin at Dongyuan. In the tenth year of Emperor Han Gao's reign (197 BC), Yang Xia waited for Chen To rebel and sent the general Zhao Li to guard Dongyuan. The following year, Liu Bang personally led a large army to attack it, so it was renamed Zhending. In 113 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up the Zhending State here, with jurisdiction over the four counties of Zhending, Fat, Mianman, and Gaocheng. The Eastern Han Dynasty abolished the Zhending Kingdom and changed it to Changshan County. At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty (265 AD, the beginning of the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty), the changshan county administration was moved from the Yuan clan. In the second year of Jin Long'an (389 AD), Emperor Daowu of Northern Wei moved the county to rule at Anlelei. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Zhending County and the seat of government of Changshan County were moved north of the Tuotuo River (present-day Zhengding County), at which point Dongyuan lost its political and economic status and gradually fell into the cold. In the thousand years from the Warring States to the Tang Dynasty, the ancient city of Dongyuan, as the capital of a princely kingdom, Changshan County, and an ordinary city, flourished for a time. After natural and man-made disasters, the city gradually fell into ruin, and only its remains are still left, and most of the abandoned city became cultivated land.

On the tombstone of Zhao Gongliang, excavated 500 meters west of the Eastern Ancient City before liberation, in the village of Xigucheng, 500 meters west of the Eastern Ancient City, it reads: "On March 6 of the fifth year of Zhonghe (Tang Dynasty, 885 AD), the gods were moved to The Town Capital Zhending County's Nanchangshan City (that is, the present-day Eastern Ancient City) about one mile west of Zhongshan Township.....". In 1963, when the fertilizer factory was digging a ditch, under the original city site, qian fan, mud bowl, pottery horse and a large number of Yanzhao knife coins from the time of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty were found. This is of great value to the study of the ancient history of our city. At the same time, it also provides valuable cultural relics for studying the history of the rise and fall of the ancient city of Dongyuan.