Jiuliancheng site

Jiuliancheng site

Jiuliancheng city is located 3 kilometers north of jiuliancheng Township in the west of Guyuan County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. The city covers an area of 700000 square meters. The base width of the city wall is more than 20 meters. There are 28 turrets and platform stumps around the city wall and at the corner of the city. There is one stump every 100 meters or so. From each angle, there are nine. Therefore, it is called jiuliancheng. It was once one of the three important towns outside the Great Wall in the Jin Dynasty

It is the cultural heritage of the shogunate

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On May 25, 2006, jiuliancheng site was announced as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the people's Republic of China

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Historical evolution

In the Jin Dynasty, Changzhou (the site of Jiulian city) was built, which was one of the three important towns outside the Great Wall in the Jin Dynasty

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In the 25th year of Jin Dading (1185), because changzhounao was rich in nitrate, the Xijing Salt Department was set up here; and because of the rich water and grass, zhangku Avenue passed through here

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In 1319, Changzhou was changed into baochangzhou, which was also an important post station on the patrol road of the two capitals in the Yuan Dynasty

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In 1358, Liu Futong, the rebel army, sent Guan duo and Pan Cheng out of Shanxi, conquered Datong and Xinghe counties outside the Great Wall, conquered Shangdu and burned the palace. Baochang Prefecture may be destroyed in this battle (the site of Jiulian city has traces of fire burning)

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During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, jiuliancheng became a nomadic area of the Mongols

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In the autumn of 2016, Guyuan County Culture, tourism, radio, television, press and Publication Bureau commissioned the archaeological team of the provincial cultural relics protection center to carry out archaeological exploration on the site of jiuliancheng

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Site features

Jiuliancheng is a square city, 930 meters long from north to South and 760 meters long from east to west

The city covers an area of 700000 square meters, and the base of the city wall is more than 20 meters wide. Each city wall has an enemy tower, with three gates of East, West and south. The gate is 13 meters wide and has a Guo. There are 28 turrets and platform stumps around the city wall and at the corner of the city, one at every 100 meters. From each point of view, there are nine, so it is called jiuliancheng

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Cultural relics

In the autumn of 2016, an ancient kiln site was found in the south of jiuliancheng city. It is an ancient kiln site with two firing pottery side by side. In addition to the collapse of the upper part of the kiln, the parts below the surface are well preserved, which are respectively composed of operation room, fire door, fire chamber, kiln bed and flue. Some muddy gray pottery pieces and firing isosceles laminated triangular pottery cutting were unearthed in the kiln site. This is a dense kiln site The large-scale ancient pottery workshop covers an area of about 200 m × 300 m, with more than 30 kiln sites. It is a semi underground six style kiln

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In jiuliancheng site, there are various kinds of gray tiles, white glazed black edged ceramics, orchid, rabbit hair, LIUCai and other fine porcelain fragments. These porcelain fragments are from Ding, Jun and other famous kilns of Song Dynasty. Among a large number of ancient coins unearthed here, Xiangfu, Jingde, Yining, Zhihe and other coins of Northern Song Dynasty are the most, as well as several Taiping Tongbao of Liao Dynasty. In the 18th year of Dading reign of emperor Shizong of Jin Dynasty, a Dading Tongbao was made in daizhou by Zhang Dajie, a doctor of the Ministry of industry, and wailang Magui, a member of the Ministry of official affairs. On the back, there is the word "you"

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Research value

The ancient kiln site on the south side of jiuliancheng site is a newly discovered and unregistered ancient cultural relic site in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. It is also the first ancient kiln site found in Guyuan County, filling the gap of immovable cultural relics in Guyuan County

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protective measures

On July 23, 1982, jiuliancheng site was announced as the second batch of provincial cultural relics protection units by Hebei Provincial People's government

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On May 25, 2006, jiuliancheng site was announced as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the people's Republic of China

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In 2012, the people's Government of Guyuan County set up the protection scope and some protection facilities inside and outside the city wall of Jiulian city. The protection scope: take the outer edge of the city wall foundation as the baseline, expand 40 meters to the East, South, West and north respectively (with an area of 0.768 square kilometers); construction control zone: take the protection boundary as the baseline, expand 40 meters to the East, South, West and north respectively, and reach Donglu dongcaotan in the East, South, West and north respectively Protection measures: mainly planting grass and trees to restore his original appearance and prevent further erosion by man-made and natural disasters. An amateur protection team was set up to take care of and protect the jiuliancheng site 24 hours a day

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History and culture

According to the records of Fang Yu, Baochang city is located in the northwest of Xinghe. Jinzhichang Prefecture was changed into Jianchang County, belonging to Huanzhou. In the seventh year of Ming Dynasty, Changzhou was restored to Dexing Prefecture. The Yuan Dynasty is called baochangzhou, which belongs to Longxing road. It was abandoned in the early Ming Dynasty. Baoshan abandoned County, in the south of the city, the name of gouluo. Jinmingchang county is located in the middle of Changzhou. Yuanfei

。” According to the historical records of the Yuan Dynasty, jiuliancheng had more than 100 households in a hundred Li area

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Tourism information

transport line

Zhangjiakou City - West Ring Road - Xihai line - Zhangjiakou North overpass - Zhangshi Expressway - Jinnong West Street - Jiudeng line - jiuliancheng city site.

Address: Guyuan County, Hebei Province, 076550

Longitude: 115.68504586983

Latitude: 41.664845032892

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