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Where is the Xiaopangou site?

Xiaopangou site is a cultural tourist attraction.

Xiaopangou Site is located in the southwest of Xiaopangou Natural Village, Menghui Town, Mengjin County, above the hilly platform on the south bank of the Yellow River. The site faces ditches in the south, the old course of the Yellow River in the north and expressway in Luo Ji in the west. The soil is loose and brown. 198310 June 16, Mengjin county people's government announced it as the first batch of cultural relics protection units.

Xiaopangou site is 270 meters wide from north to south and 200 meters long from east to west, with an area of 42,307 square meters and a cultural layer thickness of 1-3 meters. Rich Longshan cultural relics can be collected on the surface and cliffs of the site. The remains found in the site are mainly building foundations, ash pits and tombs in the late Longshan period and many semi-crypt architectural remains. There are two kinds of building foundations: rectangular and circular, both of which are semi-crypt buildings; There are two kinds of ash pits: irregular and bag-shaped; All tombs have irregular pits, but there are no funerary objects. The relics found in the site are mainly pottery, stone tools, bone implements and a small amount of jade, mussels and Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The pottery is mainly wheels, mainly muddy gray pottery and mixed sand gray pottery, with a small amount of polished gray pottery and black pottery. In addition to the plane, decorative patterns are mostly basket patterns and diagonal checks, as well as other strings, ropes and extra pile patterns. Pottery has a high temperature and is beautifully made. They are all small flat-bottomed and many handles. The main shapes are Ding, Wei, jar, cup, plate, filter, spinning wheel and so on. Stone tools mainly include axe, shovel, knife, sickle, plow, chisel, spear, bullet, stone ring and so on. Generally, those who make delicate holes are pulled out from one side. Bone artifacts mainly include _ _ _, awl, fishhook, bone ornaments, etc., and a complete Oracle bone has also been found. Jade mainly includes jade _, jade emperor, jade ornaments, jade shovel and so on. There are mainly knives and _ in mussels

The cultural characteristics of Xiaopangou site are relatively simple, mainly the remains of late Longshan and early Erlitou. From the excavation and collection of relics, the excavation of many wine vessels shows that the agriculture of this site is relatively developed and there is surplus food; Pottery, stone tools, bone implements and jade articles are beautifully made, with advanced technology and single-sided drilling, reflecting the improvement of advanced drilling technology at that time; The appearance of stone plough reflects the highly developed agricultural civilization; The discovery of jade, not produced locally, reflects the material exchange between the local and other distant tribes; The collected thick tires with sand show the appearance of local smelting and casting tools; Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery, in particular, reflected people's spiritual consciousness, revealed the harbinger of human civilization, and showed that people at that time were close to the threshold of class society. Therefore, Xiaopangou site is an important Neolithic Longshan cultural site, which has important research value for exploring the origin of civilization and the formation of class society.

Menghui Town: Menghui Town is located in the northeast of Mengjin County, bordering Gongyi, Yanshi and Xiaolangdi tourist attractions in the east, facing Luoyang Geely Petrochemical Industrial Base across the river in the north and Luoyang 10 km in the south. The total area of the town is 128.8 square kilometers, and it governs 20 administrative villages with a total population of 56,000. It is an important industrial town, a big agricultural town and a famous cultural town in Mengjin County. It was named as "Zhongzhou Famous Town", "East-West Cooperation Demonstration Zone for Township Enterprises", "Key Town for Small Town Construction", "Advanced Unit for Small Town Construction" and "Advanced Unit for Small Town Management" in Henan Province.