Visit the "Ancient City of Pompeii in the East": A Millennium Old Site Tells the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Kingdom
2023-03-28
Chengcun Hancheng Site is located in Chengcun Village, Xingtian Town, Mount Wuyi City, Fujian Province. The picture shows the ruins of Dongcheng Gate. Ye Qiuyun took a photo of "City Village, named after the city." Recently, a reporter from China News Network visited the only large-scale urban site of the ancient era surrounded by city walls found in Fujian Province - the City Village Han City Site, which was deeply impressed by the Minyue civilization. The site of Chengcun Seoul is located in Chengcun Village, Xingtian Town, Mount Wuyi City, Fujian Province. Chengcun Seoul follows the rule of capital construction popular since the Warring States Period. The inner city and the outer wall are surrounded by four gates in the east, west, north, south and three water gates; Beigang and Nangang outside the east gate are separated into "Zuozu Youshe", which are the ruins of Minyue Temple and Altar; Within the city, there are tall and wide flat rammed earth foundations, and palace gardens of varying sizes are scattered. Exterior view of the Seoul ruins in Chengcun. Ye Qiuyun photographed that in 1999, when Mount Wuyi declared as a world heritage site, the UNESCO World Heritage Site Investigation and Assessment Expert made a field visit to the Chengcun Seoul site and said, "This is the best preserved site of the Han Dynasty King City in the Pacific Rim, a typical representative of ancient southern cities in China, and plays an important role in the history of Chinese and world architecture." Chengcun Seoul has a history of about 2200 years, "It is an ancient city once deeply buried underground. Due to its complete preservation, it is known by foreign experts as the" Ancient City of Pompeii in the East. "". The Museum of Minyue King City in Fujian is a Han style building. Walking into it, you can feel like walking back to the Western Han Dynasty and Minyue Kingdom. Ye Qiuyun photographed "Chengcun Seoul Site is not only the most fully preserved ancient city in Fujian Province, but also one of the most fully preserved ancient cities of the Han Dynasty in the country." Zhang Tao, the head of the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Protection of the Minyue King City in Fujian Province, came here after graduation in 2012 and is now mainly engaged in the construction of national archaeological sites parks, cultural heritage monitoring, cultural relics protection, and other work. The Seoul site of Chengcun was discovered in 1958 and has been buried underground before. According to Zhang Tao, the Chengcun Seoul Site has high historical, scientific, and artistic values, and is a rare and important historical and cultural heritage. In December 1999, Mount Wuyi was included in the UNESCO "World Cultural and Natural Heritage" list, of which the city and village Seoul sites are an important part of Mount Wuyi's cultural heritage. In order to strengthen historical and cultural protection and archaeology, in 2001, the People's Government of Fujian Province approved the establishment of the Fujian Minyue King City Museum as the management organization of the national key cultural relics protection unit - Chengcun Hancheng Site. The Museum of the Minyue King City in Fujian is a Han style building. Walking through it, it looks like walking back to the Minyue Kingdom in the Western Han Dynasty. More than 10000 cultural relics and specimens in the museum, such as Long Live Tiles in the Western Han Dynasty, Hollow Bricks in the Western Han Dynasty, and Jade Belt Hooks in the Western Han Dynasty, tell the glorious past and profound historical culture of this ancient kingdom. The picture shows the cultural relics on display at the Museum of Minyue King City in Fujian Province. "The cultural relics on display, such as incense, gray pottery rhinoceros horns, and orange yellow pottery rhinoceros horns, indicate that there was overseas trade at that time." Zhang Tao said in his explanation that no specific written records have been found at the moment, and it can be inferred from the excavated cultural relics that there are traces of overseas trade to follow. For example, the use of aromatherapy requires the import of spices from overseas, while gray pottery
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