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Author: Wu Jianping
The national capital is the command place of a state institution and the carrier of activities of the political, military, economic and cultural systems of the country. The capital of the State of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, from ancient times to the present, there are two people who speak, and there are also three capitals, and there are many opinions and no conclusions. Since the beginning of the new century, after the archaeological discovery of Danyang "Gecheng Ruins" in the Zhenjiang area, experts and scholars have determined that it is the largest "first city" in Jiangnan in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the "political center" of the middle of the Wu Dynasty for 500 years. So, is danyang 'Gecheng ruins' the "second capital city" of the Wu kingdom since the capital of Meili Taibo? This paper makes a preliminary exploration and research on this.
First, start with Taibo City and the "History of the Wu Taibo Family"
In the pre-Qin period, Tai Bo ben Wu and built the State of Wu in Meili, because of the good governance, "within a few years, the people were rich". At that time, the end of the Yin Dynasty declined, and the Marquis of Zhongyuan repeatedly used troops, fearing that it would reach Jingman, so Taibo built a city to guard against it. According to the "Wuyue Spring and Autumn" written by Zhao Ye of the Later Han Dynasty, "The city of Taibo, two hundred steps in Wednesday, and more than three hundred miles outside Guo, in the northwest corner, is known as the Ancient Wu Ruins, and the people are cultivating the fields." From the Taibo to the twenty-three kings of the king, all of them are here." In ancient times, Meili was known as Wu Xu, just as the Shang capital Anyang was originally called Yin Xu. The place name of Wu Xu confirms the name of Meili, where Wu Du is located. Song Leshi's "Taiping Huanyu Chronicle" Yun: "Taibo City is flat and five meters high, and the Taibo house, well and tangji in the city are seen in it." Ancient records show that due to its age, the ancient Taibo City has become a flat ruin, but its urban context and Taibo residences, wells and their historical relics and environment still existed during the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Cities are the products of the development of human society to a certain stage, and they are also an important symbol of the degree of civilization embodied by human beings, and the size and location of the capital are inseparable from the fate of the country. This has also been elaborated in the "Records of History", and Tai Shi Gong said: "In ancient times, Tang Yao dingdu Hedong Jinyang, Yin people Dingdu Hanoi Yin Ruins, Eastern Zhou Dingdu Henan Luoyang. Hedong, Hanoi and Henan are the centers of the world, like the three feet of Dingzhi, which are the places where the emperors alternately built their capitals, and the countries have a history of at least hundreds of years." Here is an explanation of the close relationship between the choice of a capital city and the fate of the country. We know that the "History of the Wu Taibo Family" is the earliest and more complete document to record the history of the State of Wu; however, the biggest flaw is that the capital of the State of Wu and its related problems are not involved in the whole text, and this historical defect has left a great problem for posterity to study the history of the State of Wu.
The so-called "Three Capitals Theory" of the Wu Kingdom, its "Three Capitals" are in addition to the Taibo City built by Taibo, there are also lujiang lu city and Gusu city at the time of the destruction of the country. In the article "Exploring the Changing Motives of the Capital of the Pre-Qin Wu State and Its Far-reaching Significance", the author analyzes the reasons for the relocation of the capital and proposes that, first of all, it is to meet the needs of the situation of the state's foreign expansion war; secondly, in the late period of the State of Wu, two major events occurred: "specializing in assassins" and "Fu Cha forcing Wu Zixu to die", the former was to move the capital to Lucheng, and the latter was an important factor in moving the capital to Gusu City. In addition to the above three capitals, did the State of Wu have other capitals? In order to fill the gap in the history of the middle of the Wu Kingdom, this is a very important and worthy of study.
Second, the perception of fragmented historical information
In the study and consultation of relevant Wuguo historical materials and the absorption of various archaeological achievements, a lot of scattered historical information can be obtained, which can be felt in relation to some of the confused capital cities in the history of wu, such as:
-- In terms of the "topics" proposed in the humble work "Outline on carrying out the Research on "Wu Studies" and the Conception of Institutional Establishment", it is mentioned that "it is necessary to study and collect the historical materials of the ancient Wu Kingdom from Zhou Zhang to Shou Meng in order to help enrich the historical gaps of the ancient Wu Kingdom"; and after "the insights and analysis of the two, three, or four sayings of the ancient Wu Kingdom", in the media news reports and archaeological results, the above contents are sometimes reflected in the shadows.
- The Book of Wu Di says: "In the sixth year of King Jing of Zhou, the state of Wu cut down Chu Hui, and Wu Zixu transported Runzhou to build a favorable soil, which was insufficient, and took Wu Di Huangdu; it was a large and small city, named after Lu Lu." Tang Luguangwei wrote the "Book of Yue Jie" and also said: "Wu Yuan took Lipu and Huangdu soil to build Lu City". Fifty miles southwest of Wuxi County, how to take the soil to build the city, belongs to the near and far, who takes first, who takes after, which has a great relationship with the progress of the project and quality assurance, which involves the position of the national command organ, if it is still in Meili at that time, is this in line with logical thinking?
——In June 1954, at Yandun Mountain, Dantu Dagang Town, Zhenjiang, an early Bronze Artifact of the Western Zhou Dynasty was unearthed: Yihou Yagui. It is a place name, Hou is a title, Ya is a personal name, and Gui is an instrument with round mouths and ears. According to the inscription, yihou yagui is a relic of the Zhou royal family's title of Yihou. In 1956, experts Chen Banghuai and Tang Lan Kaoding pointed out that the "Yu" in the Inscription was "Wu", and the author of the instrument was Zhou Zhang, the great-grandson of Taibo and Zhongyong, who was crowned yihou when King Kang of Zhou was crowned, and the early Wu history provided evidence. Li Xueqin, an expert in pre-Qin history, also believes that "the people and land of Yihou Yagui indicate that the inscription seals the country, and the three hundred rivers of The River ... are consistent with the landform of the waterways in southern Jiangsu, thus deducing Tang Lan's insights." The discovery and explanations of experts from Yihou Yagui have greatly increased the probability of migration from the capital of the Wu state to the Dantu or Danyang areas of Zhenjiang since the beginning of the Zhou Zhang.
According to recent archaeological findings, a number of large bronze tombs have been excavated in the area of Dantu, Dagang and Jianbi, and in Situ and Guanxian in Danyang, large-scale bronze kilns of the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasties have been excavated. In the tombs of the kings in the early and middle period of the Wu Kingdom, except for Taibo (tomb Hongshan), Zhongyong, Zhou Zhang (all buried in Yushan) and the sixth Kexiang (buried in Xiyi Keshan), the tomb of Xiong Bao (buried in the area from Dagang in Zhenjiang to The area of Zhibi) to be determined, and the tomb of Yu Yu (buried in The town of Jiangdantu, Dagang, and the north peak of The North Mountain of Zhibi) to be determined, the tombs of the remaining more than ten monarchs have very little historical data, according to the analysis of recent archaeological results, it is possible to have a positive correlation ratio with the location of the capital of the early and middle wu kingdoms.
- According to historical records, in the first year of the reign of Shou Meng, the nineteenth monarch of the State of Wu, he personally led a team to The Capital Marshal Luoyi to meet the newly enthroned King Jian of Zhou, after the meeting, Shou Meng proposed to learn zhou rites, king Zhou Jian arranged for Shou Meng to go to the State of Lu and meet with Lu Cheng to meet yu Zhongli, Shou Meng, when meeting and chatting, called himself "King Han", which may have become the political and military town of the State of Wu at that time, the question here is: If the capital of the country was still in Meili at that time, then why did Shou Meng not call himself "King Wu" but to call himself "King Han"? In addition, if there are records in the "Shiben Ju Chapter" such as: "Yugu (i.e., Shou Meng) migrated to Wu, Zhu Fan migrated to Wu", so what is the interpretation of this "Migratory Sentence Wu" and "Migration Wu"?
——The origin of the Xuxi Canal. Xuxi, also known as Xu River, originates from Gucheng Lake in Gaochun County; it is a section of the yangtze river that connects Jingxi and the Yangtze River in the southeast of Anhui Province, and is also the earliest artificial canal dug in China. In the Spring and Autumn Period, when King Wu of the State of Wu was cutting down Chu, Wu Zixu proposed to dig a canal to transport troops and carry grain, so that the east could pass through Taihu Lake and the west into the Yangtze River. The question that arises is: Why did Xu Xi start digging in Gaochun, and what is the relationship between this and the capital of the Wu State at that time?
-- In the 26th year of the Qianlong Dynasty, farmers in Linjiang, Jiangxi (present-day Qingjiang) found in the fields more than ten bronze chimes of the Wu kingdom in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the drum part of the bell was decorated with a spiral dragon; one of them, "The Bell Is Reduced", cast with 88 inscriptions such as "Gongyu (Wu) Wang Pi Nan's Son Reduced". Its smaller ones are: "Ji Dinghai at the beginning of the first month of the Jiazheng Dynasty, Gongyu", "The son of Wang Pi nan is reduced to the bell, and the descendants of the descendants are forever protected to use it." Gongyu is a sentence Wu. Wang Guowei thought in the "Attack on Wu Wangfu Cha Jian Bao" that "Pi Nan" was quite high in the "History of the Wu Taibo Family"; Guo Moruo thought that "Gongyu Wang Pi Nan" was quite high's father Ke Zhuan in the "Two Weeks of Jin Wen Ci Catalogue Examination". According to Changzhou Xie Pillow's "Yanling Shenlu" has a record of "quite high chasing, entering Jiangxi", forming a "Wu head Chu tail" pattern, quite high cast into "the person to reduce the bell", self-proclaimed as the king of Wu, leaving it in Qingjiang. The question here: Where does the rather high "chase" begin?
Based on the above information and insights, according to the sparse analysis of historical materials and archaeological results, in the early and middle period of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Wu Kingdom, that is, from Zhou Zhang to Zhufan, in the area from Meili to Hancheng, the possibility of deducing the emergence of the second Capital City of Wu after Taibo City was extremely high.
Third, the search for the development of tourist attractions is the cause and its process
According to Wu Wenxin, a local expert in Wu Guo culture, the excavation of the "Gecheng Ruins" was carried out by an innovative pioneer, Chen Lihui, the party secretary of the local town of Lizhuang, who since 1997 in the last century, in order to find tourist attractions, has repeatedly visited the unique terrain, trees and inaccessible areas; but contrary to his wishes, he was transferred from his post at this time. By 2005, after he became the director of the Danyang Municipal Bureau of Culture, he continued to carry out inspections of the site, and invited several times the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, the Nanjing Museum, the Zhenjiang Municipal Cultural Management Office, the Cultural Bureau and the Zhenjiang Municipal Museum and other departments and cultural relics experts to conduct field investigations at the "Gecheng Ruins" and actively carry out archaeological excavations in conjunction with the third national cultural relics census. Gecheng is not recorded in the local history documents, and there are very few folk word-of-mouth legends. Nearby villagers only know that there is a local "Black City" place name, and there is an ancient bridge called "Gecheng Bridge". Because Gecheng is in the remote area southeast of Erling, the traffic is inconvenient, so few people know about it and communicate with it. Since ancient times, the village of Katsujo has been located on a mound, with four high walls, a gate to the north and south, and a moat called the "Tsuruhama River". Before 1976, there were still villagers living in Gecheng Village, but due to the troubles caused by the surrounding city walls and moats, the villagers moved out one after another, and the city walls were torn down and soon became a farmland.
The site was discovered in 2005, and by June 2007, the Zhenjiang Museum had been allowed to conduct archaeological surveys and exploration tests. In early July, led by Xiao Menglong, a researcher at the Zhenjiang Museum, and Yang Baocheng, a professor at Wuhan University, after more than two months of hard work, the mystery of the "Gecheng Ruins" was revealed for the first time. Archaeologists first excavated the site for two or three explorations to find out the accumulation of underground cultural levels; and excavated artifacts such as stone tools, bronze tools, tools, primitive porcelain beans and bowls. In the middle of "Katsuragi", a house with an area of about 25 square meters of ruins was also found. Soon after, archaeology excavated the "Ruins of Ercheng City" and "Ruins of Shendun". On August 11 of that year, the Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, the Zhenjiang Municipal Bureau of Culture and the Danyang Municipal People's Government organized experts to demonstrate the results of archaeological excavations; by September 7, the "High-level Expert Demonstration Meeting on the "Wuguo City Site" (Gecheng and Ercheng Ruins) in Jiangsu Danyang was held by well-known national cultural relics experts, and expert arguments were uniformly formed, holding that the "Gecheng Ruins" of Aering Town, Jiangsu Province, are the ancient city of Wuguo more than 3,000 years ago. So far, the ruins of the early wu ancient city in the Spring and Autumn Period have been found for the first time in China, which has high historical, cultural and academic value.
4. Archaeological achievements and special evidence of the "Gecheng Ruins"
The "Gecheng Ruins" are located in Gecheng Village, Erling Town, Danyang City. The village is 23 kilometers away from the city, and its landform belongs to the water network area east of the low hills of Ningzhen. Due to its age, "Gecheng" has long disappeared from the ground, but the outline of the ancient city is still faintly visible. According to archaeological research, the site has the following achievements and special evidence.
First, the "Gecheng Ruins" confirmed the status of the early political center of the Wu kingdom. On October 16, 2008, according to the media report of "China News Network": According to the website of the Ministry of Culture, the ruins of Danyang Gecheng and Shendun have achieved significant results after more than a year of archaeological excavations; after the demonstration of archaeological experts, it is unanimously agreed that the Danyang Gecheng site is the earliest, longest-lasting, relatively intact and extremely rich ancient city of Wuguo in Jiangsu so far. The Shendun site is the first preliminary identification in Jiangsu Province, from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Warring States period, an important relic related to sacrifice, and is an organic part of the "Gecheng Ruins", which is of great significance for the identification of the early political center of the Wu Kingdom, as well as the study of many issues such as the shape and layout of the city of the Wu Kingdom.
Second, the "Gecheng Ruins" have special evidence of the capital city. The ruins of the city cover an area of 86 acres, the city wall is more than 10 meters high, about 24 meters wide, and the existing 50 meters of the city wall is 5 to 6 meters high. The area of Sandao Huanhao is about 200 mu, the core area of the site is 64 mu, the height of its city wall is about 5 to 6 meters, the length of the ancient city is 200 meters from east to west, and the length of the north and south is 190 meters. The layout of the moat site and the accumulation of cultural dimensions are clear and largely intact. The shape of the site is also very special, the water and the city ring are set together, from the inner city to the outside, over the 8-meter-wide Haogou, that is, to the outer city with a width of 60 meters, the outside of the city is a Haogou, which is currently determined to be a three-layer water environment, a two-story city; so that the water ring city, the structure of the city ring water, and Changzhou's Spring and Autumn Yancheng, but gecheng's inner city is earlier and larger than the Yancheng era.
Third, the "Gecheng Ruins" discovered at the same time as the Shendun and Ercheng ruins are the Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Festival altars. Two kilometers west of Gecheng, adjacent to the long ditch led out of Gecheng, is a man-made mound, this large square earthen platform, called the God Dun. The pier is in the shape of a compound bucket, the bottom of the mound is 80 meters long from north to south, 70 meters wide from east to west, the top is 70 meters and 50 meters, the elevation is 4 meters, the top is flat; the outer side is surrounded by a 30 to 35 meters hao ditch, and the bottom of the mound is excavated with plaster mud, and built with mud piles, which as a whole presents the characteristics of a large-scale pile. In the center of the mound is a large ash pit with an area of 400 square meters, with a depth of 3 meters, the pit is filled in many times, the texture is fine and pure, the whole pier is divided into six layers, a large number of pottery and stone tools appear in the filled soil, and there are neatly arranged and complete artifacts excavated. According to the analysis of the relics excavated in the inner layer of the central Dakeng, the site was divided into four periods from the early and middle periods of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and from the geographical level analysis, the Shendun site and the Gecheng site have an organic composition of the correlation, it is a large altar dedicated to heaven and earth in the spring and autumn.
In Gecheng to the north of Liulixu, also found with Gecheng contemporary ancient city site: The ruins of Ercheng, which is a tall mound surrounded by water on three sides, its site area of 50 acres, archaeologists believe that the site can be called "Gecheng ruins" of the "brother and sister city", here may also be an economic or military town.
Fourth, the excavation of the "Gecheng Ruins" is rich in cultural relics. Its cultural relics are: 1, stone tools: including stone, stone plough, stone arrow; 2, bronze: including arrows, bronze fragments; 3, tools: there are pottery fish net pendants; 4, pottery cooking utensils: red sand pottery cookware cone-shaped feet, mane rim and abdomen, etc.; as well as clay gray pottery plates, beans, round-bottom red clay urns, pots, etc.; in addition, there are geometric printed hard pottery altars, pots and original porcelain beans, weaving patterns, etc.
5. Comments and prospects. The Zhenjiang area in southern Jiangsu was one of the birthplaces of ancient Wu culture; it was the center of wu's political activities in the Western Zhou Dynasty after Meili, the capital of the Wu kingdom. Over the centuries, thousands of Wuguo duns and more Wu village ruins have been found in zhenjiang territory, which is an important basis for judgment, and with the discovery of the ruins of Danyang Wuguo City Pool, it has also added important evidence for the expansion of the territory and ruling area of the Wu kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, from the Taihu Lake Basin to the Ningzhen area.
The archaeological achievements of Danyang "Gecheng Ruins" are extraordinary and brilliant. After examination, the comments put forward by famous archaeology experts are extremely high: Yang Baocheng, head of the archaeological group, believes that there was no big city in the early days of the Wu Kingdom, and the newly discovered "city site" of the Danyang Wu Kingdom spanned more than 500 years, and its discovery had great academic significance for the study of the history and culture of the Wu Kingdom. It is also said that in the "Records of History" written by Sima Qian, Wu Guo only talks about Taibo and Zhongyong Ben Wu, and the focus below is written on Fu Cha, and there is a large historical gap in the middle. Since there is little written information, it is necessary to resort to archaeology.
Liu Qingzhu, a member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and former director of the Institute of Archaeology, believes that if the city of the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty is found, its significance is extraordinary, and it may be more important than some of the sites of the Eastern Zhou City found in the previous ones. If you make Gecheng a city, you will find the center of political activity. The city is a microcosm of our social life, and the city is important for historical research, archaeological research and cultural heritage protection. For the heritage class, it is first and foremost the city, and to seize the city is like to grasp the "bull's nose". The emergence of the city is also the emergence of civilization in this area, and in this sense, the ruins of Gecheng and Ercheng that are seen today are very important. If Gecheng is the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, this is not only an early problem, but it is linked to some of the records of the "History of Zhou Benji", which will be very important for the study of our southeastern region, especially the study of Wu culture. That is to say, this region has entered the ranks of the formation process of the Chinese nation with the Han nationality as the main body, and before that, it can only be the formation process of Chinese civilization.
Luo Zhewen, vice chairman of the National Famous City Committee, head of the ancient architecture expert group of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and professor-level senior engineer, believes that from the perspective of architectural history, the discovery of the site of Wuguo City (Gecheng and Ercheng ruins) is also remarkable. As part of the regional culture, it filled a gap in the western zhou to spring and autumn period in the southeast region, and its value was very high. Judging from the excavated pottery pieces and bronze fragments, its specifications are very high, it is a center of political activity, and from the architectural point of view, the technical content of the building is very rich and the value is very high.
Looking forward to the future, "harvest the mulberry elm". History is the memory of mankind in the long river, and history is also the process of flowing through the years. With the opportunity of the "Gecheng Ruins" to expand in depth, as well as the excavation of the tombs of the Wu nobles in the surrounding area one after another as evidence; looking to the future, it is not far to confirm that the "Gecheng Ruins" will become the second ancient city of the capital since the "Taibo City" in Meili!
This paper: was included in the 3rd Tabor Forum in October 2017. Collected essays, "Lights, Always On"— 48th.
Author: Wu Jianping, Senior Research Expert of Wuxi Wu Cultural Research Association; Proposed in December 2014: Outline of Ideas on the Research and Institutional Establishment of "Wu Xue" (New Theory); August 2020: Published and distributed "Wu Xue (History) Research and Writing Anthology".
This paper is recommended by Wu Wenxin
Reprinted from Wu's Online http://www.cnwu.net/wuxueyanjiu/799.html
Gecheng Ruins Source: Zhenjiang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Release date: 2015-03-19 16:40
The gecheng ruins are located in the southeast of Therassalon Natural Village in Danyang City, southeast of Erling Town. The site is irregularly rectangular in plan, with an east-west length of about 230 meters and a north-south length of about 180 meters. There are many trenches outside the city, the surface of the city is about 3 meters higher than the surrounding farmland, and the remaining western city wall is generally 5 meters above the surface of the city. Archaeological excavations have proved that the Gecheng site is an ancient city site from the Western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are three periods of the western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn Period. After expert argumentation, it was unanimously determined that the Gecheng ruins are an ancient city from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, and are the ancient city sites with the earliest archaeological discovery time, the largest area, the highest specifications, the most well-preserved and the highest utilization value in Jiangsu Province. It has the characteristics of the capital city of the State of Wu, and its era runs through the entire process of the history of the State of Wu. The ruins of Gecheng filled the gap in the early political activities of the Wu state and had irreplaceable historical value.
In 2013, the ruins of Gecheng were announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
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After nearly two months of archaeological trial excavation, archaeologists basically determined the era and nature of the site, and confirmed that the Gecheng site is the most important central city site in the Spring and Autumn Period discovered so far in the concentrated areas of Danyang, Jintan, Jurong and Dantu mound tombs, and the status is very important, and further detailed archaeological investigation and archaeological excavation will be carried out in the area in the future, in order to solve the layout and era of the city sites in various periods.
After the archaeological team conducted a 100,000-square-meter general survey and 12,000-square-meter secret exploration of the Gecheng site, the results showed that the Gecheng ruins were a rectangular city site with an irregular length from east to west and a width from north to south, with gates in the southeast, southwest, and northwest, and the width of the gates was about 6 meters. There are intermittent east-west, north-south roads between the four gates, 3-4 meters wide. The walls range from 18 to 40 meters wide, and a pile of braised earth 22 meters long from east to west and 18 meters wide from north to south has been discovered in the northwest corner of the city. There are roads between the first and second trenches outside the east and west gates that are about 8 meters wide. The archaeological team conducted trench exploration test excavation at the Gecheng site, and opened a total of six trenches with an area of 355 square meters. The results show that the Gecheng ruins have three phases of the early, middle and late city walls from the Western Zhou To the Spring and Autumn Period, each wall has its corresponding city moat, there are multiple trenches outside the first city moat on the outside of the city wall, and the long ditch around the outermost part of the city site can be determined to be connected with the city moat of the city site; the Qinglonggang between the northeast of the city site and the Dingyi River is determined to be built in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are relics related to the Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn Period in the area outside the city site and within the Dingyi River. The first phase of archaeological test excavation basically clarified the era and nature of the three sites, and had a new understanding of the layout of the Gecheng site.
According to Li Zebin, head of the gecheng archaeological test excavation of the Nanjing Museum, the gecheng site is a city site in the Spring and Autumn period, according to the signs of the current ground, the first and second trenches surround the city wall, and there is a long ditch on the outside of the second trench to lead out from the second trench on the west side, stretching south for more than 800 meters and turning east into Dingyi ditch (that is, the ancient river channel extending south of the second east trench). The width between the first and second trenches is 50-60 meters, and there is an earthen mound called Qinglonggang in the northeast, and a mound with a maohua pier in the northwest of the second trench. The layout and water system of the city site are particularly complete, which is very rare in the ancient city sites in the Spring and Autumn Period of Jiangsu. Li Zebin believes that the status of the Gecheng ruins is very important, and it can be considered that it is the most important central city site of the Spring and Autumn Period found in the distribution areas of Danyang, Jintan, Jurong and Dantu Mound Tombs, so it is extremely necessary to conduct further detailed archaeological investigation and archaeological excavations in the area in the next step, in order to solve the layout and era of the city sites in various periods. In the future, archaeological work will be fully carried out throughout the city site to gradually solve the mysteries of Gecheng.
The latest archaeological progress of the Gecheng ruins: the remains of the city gate and bridge have been confirmed
According to the Municipal Department of Culture, after a month of archaeological test excavation by the personnel of the Nanjing Museum Archaeological Institute, the walls and moats of the ancient city site of Gecheng have been newly discovered.
On the basis of a comprehensive exploration of the site, the staff of the Archaeological Institute of the Nanjing Museum selected different directions and different functional areas on the city site for test excavation. Up to now, 6 trenches have been excavated for trial excavation, and the excavation area is 355 square meters. Through the trial excavation of the main city wall, archaeologists have determined that Gecheng existed in the spring and autumn period of the two walls, because the construction time is first and then, there is a clear superimposed relationship. At the same time, several moats have been found outside the city walls, and there are differences in the construction time between morning and evening. Judging from the excavations, the remains of wooden bridges spanning the city moats have been found, ash pits, pottery pieces and red burnt earth and other remnants of life in the Spring and Autumn Period. Archaeologists confirm that the city existed for quite some time and was used. The highest height of the main city wall is now 7.5 meters, which shows that the city wall was very magnificent at that time. At the same time, the four gates of Gecheng, the southeast, northwest, and northwest of Gecheng, as well as the two roads in the east, west, south and north of the city, the entrances and exits across the moat and the remains of bridges have been confirmed.
The person in charge of the Gecheng Archaeological Test Excavation of the Nanjing Museum believes that the layout, nature and era relationship of the Gecheng Spring and Autumn City Site are very complicated, and the archaeological work will be fully carried out in the entire city site, and it is believed that the mysteries of Gecheng will be gradually solved in the future excavation work.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > Archaeological excavations at the Wuguo city site have entered a new stage The Shenhetou Mound Tomb will open the mystery</h1>
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As an important part of the site of Danyang Wuguo City - Shenhetou large mound tomb site has entered the stage of archaeological excavation, the reporter learned from the municipal cultural department yesterday, 2-3 months later, the historical information of shenhetou large mound tomb will be expected to be completely revealed.
The site of Danyang Wuguo City is composed of the ruins of Gecheng, The ruins of Ercheng and Shenhetou, and the three sites are each thousand meters apart. According to archaeologists, within the scope of the city site, there was originally an earthen tomb in the northeast, southwest and northeast of Ercheng, but it was all leveled during the "Cultural Revolution", and now only one mound tomb at the head of the Shenhe River remains. Due to its remote location, the site's ontology is well protected. The archaeological excavation of the tomb will play an important role in guiding the comprehensive and in-depth archaeology of the wuguo city site.
The large mound tomb of Shenhetou is located in the northwest of Shenhetou in Xiangli Village, Erling Town, and has been preliminarily identified as the site of a large mound tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period. The tomb is shaped in a circle, surrounded by water on all sides, with an area of 18 acres of mounds and 18 acres of water surface around it. According to local legend, there was a prime minister in the Yuan Dynasty named Wang Monk, who was wrongly killed because he was killed by an adulterer. Later, the monk Wang was rehabilitated, and in order to show comfort, the imperial court specially made a gold head for him, buried it here, dug up soil as a pier, and named it Shendun.
For hundreds of years, the legend of the shrine has been widely circulated in the folk, so what is the truth? The archaeological team of the Nanjing Museum is about to lift the mystery of the large mound tomb at the head of the Shenhe River during the archaeological excavation. It is understood that archaeologists will conduct a comprehensive excavation of the entire tomb site to clarify the identity of the owner of the tomb and the relationship between the tomb and the ruins of Gecheng and Ercheng.
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