Ancient Facts of Yangtze River Ⅲ

In 1950s, a batch of historic relics of Yin-Shang Dynasty has been explored in Yangtze River Basin. In Yangtze River history, Yangtze River Basin is the birthplace of Chinese Culture. Nowadays, Yangtze Cruise always ship along Yangtze River witness the historic change.

Ancient Facts of Yangtze River Ⅲ – Ancient Town of Shang Dynasty

The first ancient town of Shang Dynasty has been found in Hubei Province in the middle reaches of Yangtze River. The ancient town belongs to Panlongcheng historic relics dating back over 3500 years ago. The whole city and the palace of the ancient town are totally retained well. The relics, the remains and the bequeathals prove that the divided class of slave society. Besides that, the massive of ancient copper mines belong to the late Shang Dynasty are the earliest ones of the world, which are preserved well.

There is another historic relics found in Jiangxi Province. It belongs to the Wucheng historic relics. In 1989, large numbers of bronze wares, jade articles, potteries of Shang Dynasty have been excavated, which could date back to 3200 years ago. All of the stuffs are representative of the features of Southern China.

The historic relics have great significance of science and research Shang Dynasty culture of Yangtze River Basin.

Ancient Facts of Yangtze River Ⅲ – Ancient Culture

In two thousand years after the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 B.C), many ancient buildings, ancient tombs, ancient statues, ancient stone inscriptions, ancient kilns and other ancient relics have been saved in Yangtze River Basin. All of which respectively witness the history of different dynasties such as Ba-Shu Culture, Jing-Chu Culture and Wu-Yue Culture. (All of the Ba, Shu, Jing, Chu, Wu, Yue are kingdoms.)

Ancient Building

Fenghuan Que is a kind of Stone Que of Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), which is the earliest Stone Que of Sichuan Province. Fenghuan was an official in Eastern Han Dynasty. The Stone Que is kind of decorations for recording the official status of the owner of the tomb. The Stone Que is always building on both sides of entry of the tomb. The Stone Que culture is developed gloriously in Han Dynasty.

The Chinese Ancient Dwellings Museum of Anhui Province is praised as the treasure-house of Chinese ancient building features. It is called the epitome of Chinese traditional culture.

Ancient Tomb

Chinese ancient tombs mainly include Hubei Tomb, Jiangzhou Tomb, Qin-Han Dynasty Tomb in Jingzhou, Han Dynasty Tomb in Changsha, and Lizicheng Tomb, Zhangheng Tomb, Lishizhen Tomb and other imperial Tombs. (Lizicheng is the leader of farmers' insurgents in late Ming Dynasty; Zhangheng is a great astronomer of Eastern Han Dynasty; Lishizhen is a great doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in Ming Dynasty)

Ancient Stone inscriptions

Ancient stone inscriptions mainly distributed in Mt. Beishan, Mt. Baoding, and Mt. Leshan. All of the stone status and stone inscriptions are the important historical relics of good relationships of nationalities.