Qin Xinggong site

Qinxinggong site is located in Jinshanzui and its vicinity, Beidaihe District, Qinhuangdao city. It was once the center of Fang Shi's pursuit of immortality and the place where boats and masts gathered. The qinxinggong site was excavated in 1985.

The site covers an area of 60000 square meters and was excavated from 1987 to 1991. The remains include building sites, pits, wells, water pipes, stoves, etc. The relics include tile, water pipe, well circle, basin, Jian, steamer, urn, bean, pot, kettle, etc. All the relics indicate that there were large-scale buildings in this area. It is speculated that this is the site of Jieshi in 215 BC, which is the same as the similar remains in Suizhong waizili (i.e. the stone tablet site), and is the site of the imperial palace of Qinshihuang's eastward inspection.

The Qin Palace site in Beidaihe

synonym

The Qin Palace site generally refers to the Qin Palace site in Beidaihe

Beidaihe Qin Palace site, also known as "Jinshanzui ancient city site", has a total area of about 60000 square meters. Jinshanzui, with "one peak pressing water and three clear waves", was once the center of Fang Shi's pursuit of immortality and the place where boats and masts gathered. In 1985, the site of Qin Xinggong was discovered.

The Qin Palace site in Beidaihe, as well as the remains of pottery wells, wells, stoves, water pipes and kiln caves, is also a large number of unearthed building components such as plate tiles, tube tiles, pillar base stones, diamond shaped hollow bricks, giant Kui shaped half tiles, cloud shaped tiles, and a small number of living utensils such as pottery pots, pottery steamers, kengs, pots and urn.

In 1996, the State Council announced that the Qin Palace site in Beidaihe was the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

archaeological discovery

The scale of these building sites is huge, and the materials used are extraordinary. Experts agree that the main body of their era is Qin Dynasty, which may be used until the early Western Han Dynasty.

It is a part of Qin Jieshi palace, the place where Qin Shihuang founded his country, and a symbol of the first great unity of the Chinese nation. Its significance is no less than that of the Great Wall.

The discovery of the Qin Palace site in Beidaihe is of great significance for exploring the history of the Qin Dynasty and the origin of the place names of Qinhuangdao. The discovery of Qin Xinggong site was listed as one of the "top ten archaeological discoveries" during the Seventh Five Year Plan by the State Administration of cultural relics. The State Council announced in 1996 that it was a national key cultural relics protection unit. The Bureau of cultural relics of Hebei Province has set up a special organization for the protection and management of the sites, and started the work of the protection, development and utilization of the sites. It is planned to build it into a base for promoting national culture and patriotism education. The small exhibition room has been built, displaying some cultural relics unearthed from the site, and has been opened to the outside world.

Main features

According to the investigation, the three main sites of Qin Dynasty architectural sites are distributed on the north-south axis starting from Jinshanzui: one is on Jinshanzui; ten is on Hengshan, 300 meters north of Jinshanzui; three is on the highland, 500 meters north of Hengshan. However, over the years, the architectural sites in Jinshanzui and the north of Hengshan have been destroyed, so archaeologists decided to excavate the better preserved Hengshan site.

Since 1987, Li Enjia and others of Hebei Institute of cultural relics have begun their arduous excavation in Hengshan. In order to find the excavation site, they made careful drilling and research. Considering that ancient palaces usually built houses at the highest place, they said, "just start at a slightly higher place! "With the deepening of the excavation, a rectangular building from the south to the north is increasingly clear in front of you. It has walls of 1.5-2 meters thick on all sides, and a partition wall in the middle divides it into two independent houses. This discovery makes us both surprised and happy. Is the 2-meter-thick wall what ordinary people's houses can have? In October 1987, experts from inside and outside the province gathered in Qinhuangdao twice. After inspecting the Hengshan excavation site, they unanimously determined that there were royal buildings here. This conclusion has strengthened the confidence of archaeologists in Hebei Province.

architectural composition

From 1988 to 1991, Kong Zhesheng and Li Enjia of the Provincial Institute of cultural relics excavated the carpet like square layout in the area of 15836 square meters around the rectangular house. After the efforts of archaeologists in Hebei Province for six years, in 1991, a large building complex with compact layout, neat planning and reasonable structure finally appeared in front of the world. A large area of housing sites, as well as cooking stoves, wells, water pipes, pits and other architectural remains, a large number of building components such as boards and tiles, and a small number of pots, steamers, pots, urn and other living utensils.

Archaeologists are gratified to find out that the architectural components unearthed from Hengshan site have been seen at the palace building site in Xianyang, the capital of Qin Dynasty; the shape pot recovered after excavation is a unique living utensil of Qin people; the inscription "jianjunyang" on the pottery mirror is very similar to the Qin Bamboo Slips Unearthed everywhere

Relics of the same kind

All these show that Hengshan building site is a building of Qin Dynasty! Although the jinshanming site has not been excavated, the architectural components collected before are the same as those of the Hengshan site, and the three sites are of the same age.

The area of Jinshanzui site is about 60000 square meters, and that of Hengshan site is about 20000 square meters, which is no less than that of hengbei site in Hengshan. The nearly 100000 square meters of large civil engineering buildings show that it is by no means possible for ordinary counties to complete it, and the huge half tile and big round tile unearthed in Jinshanzui can not be used by the folk.

Cultural relics protection

The Qin Palace site in Beidaihe was announced as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council on November 20, 1996.

Address: No.8, Jinshanzui Road, Beidaihe District

Longitude: 119.52913065872

Latitude: 39.817964315584

Tel: 0335-4042327

Tour time: 2 hours

Traffic information: take bus No.15 to the pipeline training center and walk 800 meters along Jinshanzui road

Ticket information: tickets are free

Opening hours: 8:00-18:00

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