Yangzhou Ancient City Ruins

· Yangzhou Ancient City Ruins ·

The city of Yangzhou began in the late Spring and Autumn Period 2,400 years ago. Through the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Sui and Tang dynasties, although the city walls were built and destroyed, the city site remained unchanged. "Mengxi Supplementary Talk" records: "Yangzhou was the most prosperous in the Tang Dynasty. The old city was fifteen miles and 110 paces from north to south, and seven miles and 30 paces from east to west." In the Five Dynasties, a small city was built in the southeast corner of Yacheng; in the Song Dynasty, a large city was built In the late Southern Song Dynasty, Baoyou City was built to resist Yuan soldiers. After the death of the Song Dynasty, Baoyou City was razed to the ground, leaving only the dilapidated ancient city of the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the old city and the new city were built in the southwest and southeast of Song Dacheng respectively.

At the beginning of liberation, all city walls were demolished. Now on top of Shugang, looking north and south, one can still clearly see the intermittent old traces of the ancient city wall on the long and narrow plateau. In 1978, the Nanjing Museum and the Yangzhou Museum conducted surveys and excavations of Tangya City. They discovered the remains of city walls and city gates, and initially clarified the scale of the Tangcheng ruins. This was a major contribution to the study of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty and aroused the interest of Chinese and foreign archaeologists. Great interest.

The ruins of the Sui and Song Dynasties in Yangzhou have been listed as national key cultural relics protection units and have become tourist attractions.

Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty was the third largest city and the largest commercial city in China after the capital Chang'an and Luoyang. At that time, it had developed handicraft industry, prosperous commerce, prosperous culture and art, and a gathering of humanities. It was the largest city in the country. It is a trade market and cargo distribution center, and is also a famous port and international metropolis for domestic and foreign transportation. Yangzhou Tangcheng ruins are currently one of the best-preserved ancient city ruins in China. In 1957, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. In 1996, the State Council designated and announced the Yangzhou City ruins as a national key cultural relic protection unit.

The Yangzhou Tangcheng Ruins Museum was established in 1979 and is a professional museum engaged in the protection of Yangzhou Tangcheng ruins, the collection, collection and preservation of cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty, and the study of the history and culture of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. The museum is located in the southwest corner of the Tang Yacheng ruins and on the former official site of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. The museum contains more than 300 cultural relics unearthed from Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, including ceramics, bronzes, gold and silverware. There are basic displays such as an exhibition of cultural relics unearthed from Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty and a display of Cui Zhiyuan's historical materials. The ancient ruins of Tang City complement each other with Tang-style flat bridges, towers imitating Tang city walls, and Tang-style palace buildings such as Yanhe Pavilion, recreating the cultural style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Simple and elegant, connected by mountains and rivers, and with beautiful scenery, it is a famous heritage garden-style museum in Shugang Scenic Area. It is also an important patriot education base in Yangzhou. It is also a good place to appreciate Tang culture, appreciate Tang style and ancient charm, and go sightseeing.

Since its opening in 1979, the Tangcheng Ruins Museum has received many national and provincial leaders, domestic and foreign experts and scholars, and tourism groups. The number of visitors has reached millions of people, and it has provided experts and scholars with research on Yangzhou Tangcheng. , a base for primary, secondary, and university students to learn Yangzhou culture and carry out patriotism education, and has a great influence at home and abroad. The scenery in the museum is beautiful, and you can watch the scenery of the four seasons, which is beautiful, elegant and unique; famous trees and flowers compete for beauty; green lotus and strong bamboo, peach red and green willows, rockery ponds, stone bridges and flowing water complement each other. Appreciate the historical relics, precious relics, and appreciate the music of the Tang Dynasty, which is pleasant to the ears; feel the elegance of ancient culture, which is pleasing to the eye and lingers on.

Protection, display and scientific research of the ancient ruins of Tang City: Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty was divided into Zicheng and Luocheng above and below Shugang. The upper part of Shugang was Zicheng, also known as "Yacheng" or "Yacheng" ", is the seat of the government office; under Shugang is Luocheng, which is a residential and industrial and commercial area. The Tangzicheng ruins cover an area of ??about three square kilometers and are relatively complete. The walls are clearly defined on four sides. The rammed earth walls are about 6,850 meters long and 5-10 meters above the ground. The surrounding earthen walls, city rivers, turrets, city gates, roads within the city, etc. are all well preserved and are still clearly visible to this day. The Tangcheng ruins have extremely high historical value, archaeological value and research value. It is an important historical and cultural heritage and has great influence at home and abroad. Tangcheng archaeological research has been listed as an important national scientific research topic. Since 1986, a comprehensive archaeological exploration of the Tangcheng site in Yangzhou has been carried out. The results were rated as the top ten new archaeological discoveries in 1993 and the "8th Five-Year Plan" period. .

It gives a detailed and intuitive introduction to the city size, scope, layout, commercial prosperity, developed handicraft industry, and culture of Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty from the aspects of city and administrative area, handicraft industry and commerce, culture and art, and foreign exchanges. Prosperity and frequent foreign exchanges showed the prosperity of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. Hundreds of unearthed cultural relics including octagonal stone pillars inscribed in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Sanjue stele, Tang Xiantong 14th year scripture building, Tang canoes, Tang Dynasty gold and silverware, bronzes, and ceramics are on display, reflecting the rich historical and cultural connotation of the Tang Dynasty.

Yangzhou Tangcheng Zicheng Ruins

Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit. Located in the northwest suburb of the old city of Yangzhou City, it is a famous Tang Dynasty urban site in southeastern China. In the fourth year of Jianzhong of the Tang Dynasty (783), Chen Shaoyou, the Huainan Jiedu envoy, built Guangling City with deep ditches and high fortifications. In the sixth year of Qianfu's reign (879), the Huainan Jiedu envoy Gao Pian "completed the repairs of the city fortress." Tangcheng consists of two parts, Zicheng and Luocheng, with a city circumference of 20 kilometers. Zicheng was built on Shugang. It was built on the basis of King Wu's Chengcheng, Guangling City of Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Song Dynasty, and Jiangdu Palace City of Sui Dynasty. It was a centralized area for government offices, also known as Yacheng or Yacheng. The city has a circumference of 6850 meters and an area of ??about 26 square kilometers. The city wall is made of earth, with only the city gate and corners covered with bricks. The remains of the rammed earth city wall are well preserved so far, with some sections about 10 meters above the ground. There is Hao outside the city. There is a gate on each side of the city, and a cross street runs through the four gates. The north-south streets are 1,400 meters long, the east-west streets are 1,860 meters long, and the street width is about 10 meters.

The south gate is the main gate of the city. It has a "one gate and three lanes" structure. The middle gate is 7 meters wide and both sides are 5 meters wide. It is the only passage to Luocheng. Luocheng was built under Shugang and was a residential area and an industrial and commercial area. Today's urban area is located in the southeast of Luocheng. The monuments and city walls in Luocheng in the Tang Dynasty have been destroyed, and only a rammed earth section of the northern city wall about 2 meters above the surface remains. wall. Luocheng is rectangular, 4,300 meters long from north to south and 3,120 meters wide from east to west.

Yangzhou Tangcheng ruins - Chengxiang Garden, a famous ruin garden in Shugang Scenic Area and an important tourist attraction, is located to the east of the famous Pingshan Hall and Guanyin Mountain. Simple and elegant, connected by mountains and rivers, the scenery is beautiful and beautiful, making people feel relaxed and happy. It has rich cultural heritage, Tang Dynasty style, Tang-style architecture, the ancient city walls of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, precious cultural relics unearthed in the Tang Dynasty, and the ingenious combination of historical and cultural relics with cultural landscapes and natural scenery, allowing you to feel the style of Tang culture and appreciate the prosperity of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. Bustling scene.

Yangzhou Tangcheng Ancient Ruins: Currently one of the most complete ancient city ruins in China. The surrounding city walls, rammed earth city walls, city gates, and turrets of Yangzhou City Government Office in the Tang Dynasty were 5-10 meters above the ground. They are still well preserved and clearly visible, and are listed as national cultural relics protection units.

"Thousands of willows hang down the street, and the glow reflects the double city." The Yangzhou city site in the Tang Dynasty was divided into Shugang: "an upper and lower city". Above Shugang is Zicheng (also known as Yacheng), and below Shugang is Luocheng. Zicheng and Luocheng are connected up and down, forming Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty with a circumference of about 40 miles.

Imitation Tang city wall: imitation of Tang style architecture. Designed with reference to the murals of the Tang Dynasty and combined with archaeological data, it was built on the southern wall of Tang Yacheng in the south of Shugang.

The city wall is six meters high. The city gate has an eight-character lintel with two gates standing side by side, with a doorway in the middle and the words "Tianxing Gate" written on it. The colorful flags of the Tang Dynasty on the city wall are fluttering in the wind, and the ringing sounds are sweet and majestic. Looking to the south, you can have a panoramic view of Yangzhou, and the green mountains of Wu and Chu in the south of the Yangtze River are faintly visible; looking to the north, you can see the ruins of the ancient city of Shugang, apricot flowers and reeds, filled with the nostalgic meaning of Tang poetry.

Yanhe Pavilion: imitation of Tang style architecture. Gao Pian, the last governor of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, built the famous "Yanhe Pavilion", which was eight feet high. It is still named after the "Yanhe Pavilion" built by Gao Pian, and was built according to the Tang Dynasty palace architectural form of verandahs and double eaves, reproducing the architectural style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

An octagonal stone pillar named in the Tang and Qing dynasties: a precious cultural relic of the Tang Dynasty, with an angular shape. The stone pillars are engraved with inscriptions by two great scholars, Du You from the Tang Dynasty and Ruan Yuan from the Qing Dynasty, which is very rare. The octagonal stone pillar is engraved with Du You's inscription and was originally located in the Huainan Jiedushi Yamen in Tang Yacheng, Yangzhou. Later, the official office was changed to Xingjiao Temple. The stone was missing. Ruan Yuan of the Qing Dynasty searched for it and wrote an inscription to record the search process. After that, the stone pillar was lost and recovered many times, and it is even more rare that it can be preserved to this day.

Jingzhu: It is the earliest important Buddhist cultural relic discovered in Yangzhou so far. In June 1976, it was unearthed from the ruins of a Tang Dynasty temple at the Normal College of Yangzhou University (west of Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty). It is 114 centimeters tall and about 30 centimeters in diameter. The entire "Buddhist Dharani Sutra Preface" is engraved on eight sides. It was built by Wang Kan for his wife Peng's Seventh Lady. It was built on June 21, the 14th year of Xiantong in Tang Dynasty (873). Yangzhou is one of the earliest cities where Buddhism was introduced.

National "Eighth Five-Year Plan" Yangzhou Archaeological Major Achievements Exhibition: Shows the major achievements of archaeological scientific research on the Songcheng site in Yangzhou during the Sui and Tang Dynasties over the years.

This result was twice rated as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 1993, and one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country's "Leading Five" in 1995. The Yangzhou City ruins of the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties were announced by the State Council as a national cultural protection unit.

Exhibition of exquisite cultural relics unearthed in Yangzhou during the Tang Dynasty: Yangzhou during the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous period in history. During the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou City was rich in accumulations, and archaeological excavations have unearthed numerous cultural relics. The exhibition displays more than 300 various unearthed cultural relics from the Tang Dynasty, which details and intuitively displays the prosperous scene of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty and the archaeological achievements of Tangcheng in contemporary Yangzhou from several aspects.

——City and Administrative Region: Introducing the scope, scale, layout, shape, construction age, evolution relationship of historical sites, etc. of Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty, and displaying cultural relics of Tang bricks and Tang tiles.

——Handicrafts and commerce section: Displays handicraft workshop ruins and unearthed cultural relics such as bronzes, gold and silverwares, ceramics, tricolor ware, glassware, imported Bosnian pottery, etc., which fully illustrates the Tang Dynasty Yangzhou's business prospered. Among them, the blue and white porcelain pieces from the Tang Dynasty are the only ones found in the country.

——Culture and Art Section: The culture and art of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty were prosperous, and the humanities gathered together. Great literati such as Li Bai, Luo Binwang, Bai Juyi, Meng Haoran, and Zhang Ruoxu were produced and brought together, leaving behind "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" Waiting for an immortal work that will last forever.

——Foreign exchanges: Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty was a port for international exchanges. It had frequent trade and exchanges with Japan, South Korea, North Korea, India, Iran, Arabia and other countries. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a "Hudian" in Yangzhou, where monk Jianzhen traveled east to Japan.

Tangcheng Scenery: Yangzhou Tangcheng Ruins - Chengxiangyuan is located in Shugang, with undulating hills, connected mountains and rivers, and beautiful scenery. Climb the Tang Dynasty city wall, overlooking Shugang and Yangzhou, which is pleasing to the eye and refreshing. Watch the scenery of the four seasons, beautiful, elegant and unique; famous trees and flowers compete for beauty; green lotus and strong bamboo, peach red willows, rockery ponds, stone bridges The flowing water complements each other interestingly. Appreciate the historical relics, precious cultural relics, appreciate the melodious music of the Tang Dynasty, and feel the elegance of ancient culture. It is pleasing to the eye and will never leave.