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Xue Old City (7)
11/10/2008 4:25:52 PM
Ancient city,Ancient Tombs,, Scenic spot historical site, Shandong
Ancient city,Ancient Tombs,, Scenic spot historical site, Shandong
Ancient city,Ancient Tombs,, Scenic spot historical site, Shandong
Ancient city,Ancient Tombs,, Scenic spot historical site, Shandong
Ancient city,Ancient Tombs,, Scenic spot historical site, Shandong
Ancient City Wall Ruins
Ancient city,Ancient Tombs,, Scenic spot historical site, Shandong
Ancient city,Ancient Tombs,, Scenic spot historical site, Shandong
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Located in the southern city of Tengzhou official of the Town, about 17 km away from the urban area. "This is the Warring States period have more than 60,000 of the city." Xue of China's Old City is well-preserved ancient city is one. City and the especially the city within the city in two parts. Irregular plane was outside the city square, the perimeter for the 10,615 meters, Wei Yi wall and downs, the existing wall above the ground 4 - 7 meters wide at the bottom of 20-30 meters. Thick rammed 19 - 22 centimeters in diameter and nest rammed 6 - 7 cm. There Shing Mun 5, 2 to the south, the other three sides of a form in the Warring States period. 9 live sites, pottery, iron, Ye Tong, bone-ashamed Square more than 10. In the largest city within the city's southeast corner, the plane was irregular rectangle, the perimeter of 2750 meters. Wall about 10 meters wide, Cheng Hao 8 meters wide, that is, within the Western Zhou City, the Spring and Autumn Xuecheng. And until the Han Dynasty. Within a large area north of the city wall there is the Longshan culture, Yueshi culture and business. Western Zhou Dynasty, the site of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, outside the central city, a large-scale iron of the Warring States to the Han Dynasty ruins, scattered on the ground a large number of iron ore, smelting slag and the Warring States period, the Han Dynasty Wadang. Old City has a central village of Royal Palace Kong, the terrain higher than the four-week shoot, "Long live the future" Wadang cirrus and copper weapons, according to legend is the monarch Xue palace sites. Meng Changjun northern city cemetery, north-western city of Maosui cemetery there. Afternoon from 1984 to 1986, the Archaeological Institute of Shandong Province, Xue in the Old City to explore the Spring and Autumn to battle hundreds of ancient tombs in the same period, tens of thousands of archaeological finds. In 1988, Xue Old City was announced as the third batch of national key cultural unit.

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