The site of Chuwangcheng in Wuhu County, Anhui Province

The research on the history of Chuwangcheng has aroused the interest of many scholars and experts. In the autumn of 1978, Professor Hou Renzhi of Peking University led the teachers and students majoring in regional and urban planning of the Department of Geography and the comrades of the Planning Department of Wuhu Urban Construction Bureau to make a field trip. Hou Lao believed that "Chuwangcheng should be the site of Wuhu County in the Western Han Dynasty, that is, the place where Gujiuzi was located." In July 1985, Zou Houben, director of the Archaeological Department of Nanjing Museum, and Sharla Cheung, his assistant, thought it was Seoul. The Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has visited six experts for three times and conducted textual research in combination with unearthed cultural relics. During the general survey of cultural relics and the process of taking soil from Huangchi Rotary Kiln Factory, a large number of cultural relics were discovered and collected one after another. Among them, there are stone axes in the Neolithic Age, pottery tripod feet, pottery Yin fragments and printed hard pottery pieces in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Chu Bei in the Warring States Period (also known as ant nose money, commonly known as grimace money, which is the currency of Chu State), pottery sewer pipes, pottery beans, rope pottery pieces, Jane tiles fragments and five baht money in the Han Dynasty. There are also porcelain bowls, pots, pots of porcelain powder, pottery pots, etc. buried in the tombs of the Six Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, especially two tiger skin glazed vases. Hu Yueqian, an ancient porcelain expert in the Provincial Museum, was quite interested in them. After reading them, he was full of praise and repeatedly praised them, which was considered as a national first-class cultural relic treasure.

according to relevant documents, Huangchi area belonged to the "Wu Tou Chu Wei" in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Luxianggong belonged to Wu three years ago (57 BC), and then it was contested by Wu Chu. In the fourth year of Zhou Yuanwang (473 BC), the King of Yue Gou Jian destroyed Wu and once returned to Yue. In the thirty-sixth year of King Xianzhou (333 BC), the state of Chu was destroyed, and this area was officially returned to Chu. Today's Shuiyangjiang River is an important section of the ancient Zhongjiang River, which is connected to the Yangtze River in the west, from Wuhu Gaochun, Dongba and Liyang in the east longitude to Yixing Tongda Taihu Lake (it was impassable after the Dongba was built in the early Ming Dynasty), and it is a very important communication waterway in ancient times. As an important ferry on the Zhongjiang River, Chuwangcheng has obvious military and political significance. Guangxu's "Xuancheng County Records" records: Chu King City "tasted the shackles here when the soldiers were prosperous. The old cloud Wu Chu is apart, because the mountain creates the city, the situation is awkward, and the door is awkward. " For wuyue in the south of the Yangtze River, the importance of its geographical location is increasingly evident.

standing in the king city of Chu and looking at the northwest, the terrain is flat. In ancient times, it was mostly lake and swamp areas, such as Yitai Lake, Wanqing Lake and Tiancheng Lake, and only a few isolated mountains appeared near the river. The ancients liked to live in places that were sheltered from the wind and sunny, and surrounded by mountains and waters. The King of Chu City had such conditions. In the "Preliminary Investigation Report on Chu King City in Wuhu County" by the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, experts believe that "it was inhabited in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties before the city was built, and the old city continued to be used in the Six Dynasties, and it was gradually abandoned later." "According to the size and geographical location of the city, this is a castle with a military nature." When the King of Chu City was built still needs archaeological data to confirm. Archaeologists have pointed out that the city of Chu is still basically intact for more than 2, years, which is unique in southern Anhui and rare in several southern provinces. Chu King City is of great value for exploring the law of urban development in the south of the Yangtze River and studying the local history of southern Anhui. The site of "King Chu City" is an important ancient city site in Yunmeng County. It is located in Chengguan, Yunmeng County, with a total area of about 2. 1 square kilometers and a circumference of 7,7 meters. The existing rammed earth wall is about 2.7 meters above the surface, and there is a moat inside and outside the wall, with a river width of 43. 6 meters. The ancient city is generally an irregular rectangle with a length from east to west and a width from north to south, with a north-south wall in the middle, which divides the city into two parts. According to the preliminary investigation, the ancient city gate is opened in the east, west, north and south, the east gate is located in T-shaped mouth (also known as Jinzikou), facing Quyang Lake, and the other three gates each have a slope inclined to the gate, namely Pearl Slope, Jidu Slope (that is, Sleeping Tiger Land) and Loess Slope. There are residential relics from the Neolithic period to the Han Dynasty in the ancient city, and ancient tombs in different periods from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Qin and Han Dynasties are distributed around the city. According to Yunmeng County Records, the King of Chu was built in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period when King Zhao of Chu avoided the difficulties of Wu and entered the clouds.

Since 1958, professors from Peking University History Department, comrades from China Institute of Geography, and archaeologists from provincial and municipal museums have repeatedly investigated and explored the ruins of this ancient city. In the cultural layer about one meter away from the surface of the city, relics from Neolithic to Han Dynasty have been collected, such as stone axes, shovels, sharpening stones in Neolithic Age, cone-shaped and big-mouthed statues in Shang Dynasty, and flat-crotch statues in Spring and Autumn Period. In the early 199s, archaeologists conducted a comprehensive exploration and trial excavation of the Chuwang City, and found important relics such as pottery wells, rammed earth abutments, red sandstone pillars with a diameter of 54 cm, neatly arranged pottery sewers, etc., initially determined the shape and scale of the city, the distribution of gates, drainage channels, rammed earth abutments and cultural accumulation, and the architectural form and age of the city wall, and found the basis for the Qin and Han Dynasties to continue to use part of the Eastern Zhou City. According to the stratigraphic relationship and the architectural characteristics including relics and city sites, it is inferred that the architectural age of Chu King City should be late in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which has the characteristics of Chu culture; The northeast of the city site is the core area, and its rammed earth platform is the base of the palace building, among which TJ1 is determined as the main palace building base.

around the site of Chuwangcheng, there are a large number of ancient tombs: Zhenzhupo Warring States Cemetery in the south, Dafen Tomb in the early Han Dynasty and Shuihudi Tomb in the Qin and Han Dynasties in the west, Carpenter Tomb in the Qin and Han Dynasties and Zhoutian Tomb in the northwest, Chenzhao and Shuguang tombs in the north, and Zhaoxu Tomb in the east. A large number of precious cultural relics unearthed in these cemeteries have witnessed the long and glorious history of Chu King City.

the king city of Chu is an important ancient city site that continued to be used from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was once an important economic city of Chu in eastern Hubei, and later entered the political center of Anlu County in Qin Wei, where Jiangxia County was established in the sixth year of Emperor Gaozu. The site of Chuwangcheng is of great value to the study of politics, economy, culture and military affairs in Yunmeng area. The site was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province in 1992. Dongyong's Tomb

Dongyong's Tomb is 2.5km south of Xiaogan, on the shore of Donghu Lake, on the right side of his father's tomb. According to legend, in the old days, villagers looked forward to it, repaired deafness repeatedly, and then gradually became barren. The existing site is connected with the stone tablet erected in the 16th year of Qing Daoguang (1836). A pass is 2.1 meters high and .9 meters wide, with seven characters engraved in it: "Tomb of Dong Gongyong, the son of Han Dynasty". The other one is 1.4 meters high and .5 meters wide, and it is engraved with ten Chinese characters "Tomb of Dong Gongyong, the filial son of Han Dynasty". Calligraphy is meaningful, round and intriguing. Surrounded by smoke and willows and winding paths, it is quite interesting.

Jade Girl Spring

Jade Girl Spring is also known as Tang Chi. It is 2 kilometers northwest of Yingxian County. According to legend, it used to be an alchemist for a jade girl, hence the name. The spring is divided into three eyes, with an upper pool, a middle pool and a lower pool. The water spouts from the eyes, billows and rolls, and the fog is steaming. The weather is spectacular.

The water temperature is as high as 7 degrees, and it contains minerals such as sulfur, which is effective for rheumatism and dermatosis. Surrounded by lush trees, lush flowers, rolling hills and gurgling water, the scenery is extremely beautiful. There are baths, sanatoriums, hotels, restaurants and so on to receive tourists.

car cover pavilion

car cover pavilion is also called car cover cloud pavilion, which is abbreviated as car cover pavilion. According to "Annals of Anlu County", "The address is located in the northwest of the country. There is a stone pavilion in Kaolin Longtan, which is covered with Wei Wendi's poems. There are clouds in the northwest, and the pavilion is like a car cover, which seems to be close. " Today's Kaoche Pavilion, commonly known as Liangumbrella Stone, is located 15 kilometers northwest of Anlu City, opposite to Pinglin City in Guangshui across the river. On-the-spot investigation found that the car cover pavilion is a two-story square stone pavilion carved artificially on the basis of red sandstone, which is quite similar in shape to the ancient car cover. There are many legends about this stone, the most famous of which is the place where Li Bai and his good friend Yuan Danqiu played chess. It is said that Li Bai and Yuan Danqiu walked hand in hand along the Laishui River one day. When the boat sailed here, they saw a big stone on the west shore, and they became very interested in chess, so they went ashore to play chess. It's really diamond cut diamond. It's still hard to tell the winner until sunset. Li Bai took a stone in his hand and pressed the chessboard down, and the two of them drifted away. Li Bai and Yuan Danqiu never came back after they left, and this small stone slowly grew together with the big stones on the chassis, so some people later called it "Taibai Chess". The unique shape of the car cover pavilion has attracted tourists and poets of all ages. In 1982, Anlu County People's Government listed it as a key cultural relic protection unit.

The shallow and dry river course of

Ji Chu Wang Cheng Ruins

is a deposit with a long history.

Dense thatch and thorns come from below,

which just makes a dynasty sleep quietly. The collapsed beacon tower,

in a meadow, is still

like a pillar of the sky,

patrolling the ruins of this ancient country,

the ancient wind shuttles between the scattered trees,

pushing the annual green,

like a kind of Chu culture.

There is a congenital hidden injury in my body,

Chu Wangcheng,

When I call out this name, there is a heartbreaking pain in my heart.

More than 2,4 years ago, you were young and brilliant.

More than 2,4 years later, you are barren and mysterious.

The ruins of Wu Wangcheng

The dust of history cannot hide it. Sun Yuntai has been leveled,

Wenchang Tower has already collapsed,

King Chu City,

How can I restore you,

The cheek-like appearance of an ancient princess,

Only in this thatched thorn bush,

spread out a piece of white paper,

freeze you into a short poem with thick ink. Project content: It is planned to build 125 Gongqing Chuwangcheng Ruins Park and relocate Dacheng Hall and Museum.

Construction conditions and market prospects: Yunmeng County has a long history and is one of the cradles of Chu culture. There are a large number of ancient cultural sites in the county, among which Chuwangcheng, located in the county, was built in the Spring and Autumn Period when Wu Shi entered Ying and Chu Zhaowang took refuge, and gradually became a regional political and economic city in eastern Chu. Since the 195s, Yunmeng has unearthed more than 1, kinds of cultural relics, including more than one kind of national first-class cultural relics. Bamboo slips, lacquerware, lying deer and birds, pottery buildings in the Eastern Han Dynasty and other cultural relics are well known. In order to rationally develop and utilize the cultural heritage of the motherland and show the style of the ancient city of Chu culture, it is planned to build the ruins park and museum of Chu King City on the basis of the pattern of the ancient city, combine the protection of cultural relics with scenic tourism, and recover the investment through tourism and entertainment income.

investment amount and composition: the total investment is 28 million yuan, including 8 million yuan for amusement.

economic benefit evaluation: the annual income is 5 million yuan, and the investment is expected to be recovered in six years.

progress of the project: some scenic spots such as artificial lake and Baibu Tower have been completed.