Shaimicheng site

The shaimicheng site is located in nigou Town, 15 kilometers north of Taierzhuang. It is irregular dumbbell shaped in plane, 90 meters long and 80 meters wide, with a total area of 7200 square meters and a height of 4-6 meters. The high platform of the site is located in pingye, overlooking the appearance of Mazhuang village and the old road of MAOCI River to the East, and the North-South stream of Zaotai highway to the West. It is like a civil castle, which is particularly eye-catching. Zaozhuang Municipal People's government announced it as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit in 1980, and it was identified as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by Shandong Provincial People's Government in 2007.

Shaimicheng site

The shaimicheng site is located in nigou Town, 15 kilometers north of Taierzhuang. It is irregular dumbbell shaped in plane, 90 meters long and 80 meters wide, with a total area of 7200 square meters and a height of 4-6 meters. The high platform of the site is located in pingye, overlooking the appearance of Mazhuang village and the old road of MAOCI River to the East, and the North-South stream of Zaotai highway to the West. It is like a civil castle, which is particularly eye-catching. Zaozhuang Municipal People's government announced it as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit in 1980, and it was identified as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by Shandong Provincial People's Government in 2007. In July 2011, it was officially declared as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Archaeological excavation

Shaimi city should be the remains of an ancient castle accumulated for thousands of years. Since 1974, the provincial and municipal departments of cultural relics and archaeology have made many investigations and excavated more than 400 specimens of various cultural relics. Among them, the complete and recoverable relics are pottery, stone and bone. The pottery is mainly black pottery, decorated with bamboo and string patterns. The shape of the pottery is large and the shape is beautiful. It is the best of ancient tile pottery. Stone tools mainly include stone axes, stone hammers, stone knives and so on. Bone ware mainly includes bone arrowhead and bone horn handle. Bone cluster is a primitive hunting weapon, and bone horn handle is a stone tool handle. In addition, there are also gray pottery folding abdomen pot of Zhou Dynasty, complete bronze arrowhead of spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, pottery beans of Han Dynasty, petal pattern tile of Wei and Jin Dynasties, flower mouth bottle of Song Dynasty, etc.

In addition, by observing the section of the site, we can have a clear view of the accumulation of the ancient cultural layers. The upper layer of the soil is about 2 meters thick, which contains fragments of pottery from the Han and Zhou dynasties. The shapes of the pottery include the gray pottery Dan, the tube Dan, the polar tile, the pottery jar, and so on. The second layer is deposited in the Shang Dynasty. The septum of the utensils is made of gray pottery, such as the foot of the oyster, the mouth of the oyster, the fragments of the stone tools, the cylinder pieces, and the clam pieces. The thickness of the septum is about 2 meters. This layer can be divided into several sub layers, each of which is about 0.1-0.5 meters. Some of the sub layers are the accumulation of lime and soil, while others are the accumulation of unburned charcoal or braised clay. The third layer is the Longshan culture accumulation, with a large number of mussel shells, conch shells, residual stone tools and polished black pottery pieces mixed in the lime soil. Among the fragments of pottery, the types of objects that can be identified are ghost face dingzu, Dingkou edge, penkou edge, can handle, bean handle and so on. It is inferred that the lowest layer of the site belongs to the chengziya type of Longshan Culture in Shandong Province. The stratum contains the relics of the early, middle and late Longshan periods, which is consistent with the cultural features of the same type of sites distributed in the surrounding areas. After the residents of Longshan culture period, the ancestors of Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty and Han Dynasty all left hard and heavy footnotes in shaimi city.

Legend of shaimicheng site

The value of the shaimicheng site is very precious, which originates from the long history of the remains and the grand scale of its specifications. But its original appellation is unknown. As for the present name of shaimi City, it is said that it originated from a folk legend related to Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty.

Liang Wudi (464-549), named Xiao Yan and named Shuda, was a native of the central capital of Lanling County in the Southern Dynasty. He had outstanding political, military and literary talents and achievements. He made many miraculous achievements in assisting the Southern Qi Dynasty in governing the country and finally established the Liang Dynasty. During Xiao Yan's assistance to the Ming emperor of Qi in the Southern Dynasty, the Southern Qi Dynasty was attacked by the 300000 troops of Emperor Xiaowen in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Xiao Yan was ordered to go to the front line of the Huaihe River to fight against the enemy, and asked himself to be the vanguard, sending troops to rescue Yiyang's trapped army. Xiao Yan led the army to the xianshou mountain, which was only a few miles away from the Northern Wei army, and ordered the soldiers to fill the mountain with flags. At daybreak, the Qi army in Yiyang City saw the banners waving all over the mountain. They thought that the heavy troops had arrived to help them out, so their morale increased greatly. They immediately gathered their troops to attack the Northern Wei army and set fire to the wind. Xiao Yan also took the opportunity to attack the Northern Wei army. Xiao Yan went to the battle himself, waving the flag and beating drums. Qi's morale was high, and they all fought bravely. Under the attack of Qi army, the Northern Wei army was defeated and had to retreat. The Qi army finally won the battle. It is said that during the campaign, Xiao Yan collected a large number of military supplies from his hometown Lanling County, and transported them along the MAOCI River to support the former enemy. Unexpectedly, the ships in distress turned over the supplies on the way. The soldiers salvaged the grain bags out of the water, and then spread the grain on the bases of the two ancient cities on the West Bank to dry, the wheat in the West and the rice in the East. After the founding of the Liang Dynasty by Xiao Yan, ertai was highly valued by the world. It was said that it was called "Liangwang shaimaicheng platform" and "Liangwang shaimiicheng platform", which were referred to as "shaimaicheng" and "shaimicheng" for short.

Historical records

As for the ruins of shaimi City, there is a special record in the historical records of Yi County: "shaimi city and shaimai city are all thirty miles southeast of the county. The two cities are opposite to each other, separated by one road. It seems that one city is divided by road." The road between shaimi city and shaimai city described here is an ancient road which is the predecessor of Zaotai highway. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the present, this road has always been the main traffic route of Taierzhuang, Nantong, across the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou to Xuhuai. Here, Zaozhuang Zhongxing company built a special railway line from Zaozhuang to Taiwan, which crossed the canal to Longhai via Taierzhuang. Its subgrade occupied the sunmai city site. In addition to the large amount of soil used later, the sunmai city no longer exists, and the Sunmi city site has been eroded repeatedly. Today, it is actually a remnant.

There are similar, similar and related sites with shaimicheng site, provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units such as Lanqi ancient city site and nantanzi site, and Leitai, fenghuangtai and dunshang sites near Taierzhuang. Most of them belong to Han Dynasty and pre Han Dynasty. Compared with the shaimicheng site, the cultural heritage and archaeological value of these remains are greatly inferior. Shaimicheng has accumulated in Yitai for 6000 years, and its remains are more valuable. In order to maintain this important heritage of human civilization, Zaozhuang Municipal People's government announced it as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit in 1980, and it was identified as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by Shandong Provincial People's Government in 2007.

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