Archaeological Remains of Weiyang Palace Site in Chang 'an City of Han Dynasty

During the decade of 1980s, the archaeological excavation and research of Weiyang Palace achieved fruitful academic results. Qian Dian's affiliated building sites, Pepper Room Temple, Shaofu Palace, the central government office building, Miyagi turret and other sites were excavated, and tens of thousands of cultural relics were unearthed. Weiyang Palace Miyagi's plane is almost square, surrounded by palace walls. The width of the city wall is 8- 10 m, the length of the east-west city wall is 2 150 m, and the length of the Nangong north city wall is 2250 m.

Miyagi has a circumference of 8800 meters and an area of 5 square kilometers, accounting for about one-seventh of the capital area. There is a palace gate on each side of Weiyang Palace, which is called Sima Gate. East Sima Gate is the main entrance of the palace, and the princes visit the Emperor, who enters and exits Miyagi at the north gate. Civil and military officials and palace dignitaries entered and exited the palace from the North Sima Gate. Outside Sima Gate in the east and north, there are tall pavilions, which are the famous East Que and North Que in the Han Dynasty. Xisimamen and Nansimamen are rarely used. All four Simamen sites have been surveyed and their locations have been determined. East Simamen is located in the southeast of Daliuzhai Village, and West Simamen is in the middle of Lujiakou Village. The proven east-west road to the Han Dynasty on the north side of Qian Dian is just connected with the east-west Sima Gate. South Sima Gate is 850 meters west of the southeast corner of Weiyang Palace, and there is an 8-meter-wide north-south road leading from the gate to the palace. It is located1300m east of the northwest corner of Weiyang Palace and 60m northeast of the Luge Site of Tiangong, which is the site of North Sima Gate. There is a north-south road in the Han Dynasty with a width of 10 meter, which leads to the east of Qian Dian.

In addition to the four Sima doors, Weiyang Palace has more than a dozen "Yi doors", which were specially built for some people to enter and leave the palace. For example, the workshop gate built 800 meters west of North Sima Gate is a doorway designed for all kinds of craftsmen in the palace workshop to enter and leave the palace. Shiquge site is located in the northwest of Weiyang Palace, 45 meters south of the North Palace wall and 500 meters east of the West Palace wall.

Shiqu Pavilion is a popular high-rise building since the Warring States Period. The abutment of the central main building still exists. The existing rammed earth abutment is 7 meters high, 60 meters from east to west at the bottom and 50 meters from north to south. The whole construction site is east-west115m, and north-south120m. Zhou Monastery in Taiji Town. Tianluge Site is located 520 meters east of Shiquge Site, 720 meters north of Qian Dian, 60 meters north of Gongbei City Wall, and 35 meters east of Nanbei Road connecting North Simamen. Tianlu Pavilion is also a tall building, slightly smaller than Shiqu Pavilion.

The existing Tianluge abutment is 6-7 meters high, with a square bottom plane and a side length of more than 20 meters. There are also cloisters around Tianlu Pavilion. The site is 55 meters long from east to west and 60 meters long from north to south. There is a low-lying land in the southwest of Weiyang Palace, which was the location of Cangchi. Cangchi is located 700 meters east of Xigong Wall and adjacent to Nangong Wall in the south.

Archaeological investigation shows that Cangchi site is about 500 meters long from north to south and 400 meters wide from east to west, with a total area of 196000 square meters. Cangchi water is introduced from Zhangchengmen by the water outside the city, and it is called "open channel" after entering the palace. The old open channel has been basically explored: the channel water is injected into Cangchi from west to east, and then flows out from south to north from northern Cangchi, passing through Qian Dian, Jiaofang Temple and west of Tianluge, and flows out of Weiyang Palace to the north. Qian Dian is the main building of Weiyang Palace in the center of Miyagi. It is the tallest and largest building. The Yangshao Cultural Tomb of Neolithic Age was excavated on the abutment, which shows that the abutment of Qian Dian existed in Neolithic Age.

The front entrance of the front hall is in the south, and there is a vast courtyard inside the door. To the north of the courtyard are three halls above the front hall. The main hall of the dynasty is the main hall on the middle table. Qian Dian base site is 350 meters long from north to south and 200 meters wide from east to west. It is high in the north and low in the south, and the highest point in the north is 15 meters higher than the ground today. From south to north, the base site can be divided into three countertops: low, medium and high.

1980. At the same time of comprehensive exploration of Qian Dian, some corridors and slow-moving road stations in Qianfeng were explored. There are 43 rooms in the north and south of the western wall and 3 rooms in the east and west of the southern wall, totaling 49 rooms. The planes of these houses are rectangular or square, and the rooms are separated by walls. The layout is generally the front hall and back room, and the floor of the room is either grass mud or adobe.

Pot tiles, board tiles and tiles were unearthed in the site. The tile characters are mostly "eternal life without promise", as well as pottery, weapons and coins. In addition, some western Han wooden pipes barbecued by fire and some short articles belonging to medical records were found in the house. For example, the words "Feng's wife" are engraved on the top of a medical record, which indicates that there were medical records in the Western Han Dynasty.

In the northeast corner of Qian Dian site, a rammed earth abutment and some houses were excavated. There are grass, mud and brick fields in the room. A large number of brick and tile building materials have been unearthed from rammer platforms and construction sites, including plain long bricks, square and zigzag bricks, slab tiles, simple bricks and bricks with patterns and characters. Pottery, coins and weapons were unearthed in the room. Pepper Room Temple is located 360 meters north of Qian Dian, which is a real "harem". Daxiong Hall is located in the south of Jiaofang Temple. Its rammed earth platform is rectangular, with a length of more than 50 meters from east to west and a width of more than 30 meters from north to south, with an area of about 1500 square meters. The corridor around the platform is brick, and the outside of the corridor is aproll. The main hall faces south, and there are two pavilions in the south of the main hall. The distance between them is 23.5 meters, which reflects that the specifications of this group of palace buildings are very high.

The south of the inner courtyard is adjacent to the main hall, and the plane is also rectangular. The yard is surrounded by corridors and aprons. The ruins of rammed foundation, courtyard, roadway and wing were excavated on the east and west sides of the inner courtyard respectively. In particular, it is necessary to point out that the remains of tunnels in buildings were discovered for the first time in archaeological excavations. These tunnels were built for the safety of palace owners and have the same properties as the back tunnels in modern buildings.

Jiaofang Temple complex has complete water supply and drainage facilities. There is a water well on the east side of the complex, with a depth of about 8 meters. The well platform is paved with square bricks, the upper part of the shaft wall is covered with vouchers, and the lower part is covered with ceramic wells. There are drainage pits in the building complex, and the accumulated water is discharged through the open channel in the north. Judging from the only architectural relics, the main hall and its affiliated buildings are very beautiful. The ground in the building complex is paved with square bricks, and exquisite copper components are unearthed in the site.

Bricks for building steps unearthed from the site of Pepper Chamber Temple include plain square bricks, round square bricks and hollow bricks. Tiles include pipe tiles, slab tiles, plain round tiles, moire tiles, and tiles with the words "endless life" and "Changle Weiyang". During the period of 1986- 1987, archaeologists conducted a large-scale archaeological excavation of a central yamen site in Weiyang Palace, with an excavation area of 9,600 square meters. The site is located 100 meters east of Lujia Village, Weiyanggong Township, weiyang district, Xi City, 880 meters northwest of Qian Dian Site and 105 meters west of the West Palace Wall of Weiyanggong. 6.3 meters south of the site, there is an east-west road that runs through Weiyang Palace in Han Dynasty. A wall was built around the ruins of the central government office, forming a closed courtyard. The courtyard is rectangular, with a length of134.7m from east to west, a width of 65.5m from north to south and an area of 8822.85m. There are piles inside and outside the four walls, which are symmetrically distributed inside and outside, making the walls more solid. In addition to the east wall, there are corridors outside the west, south and north walls.

There is a north-south drainage channel in the courtyard, which is located in the east of the central part and divided into two courtyards, namely the East Courtyard and the West Courtyard.

The East Campus covers an area of 3,733.5 square meters, with a width of 57 meters from east to west and a length of 65.5 meters from north to south. The south wall and the north wall of the East Courtyard are the eastern parts of the south wall and the north wall of the official compound respectively. The east wall of the East Courtyard is the east wall of the official compound. The west courtyard is 72.7 meters long from east to west and 65.5 meters long from north to south. The west, south and north walls of the quadrangle are the west wall of the government compound and the west section of the north and south walls respectively.

There are many relics unearthed from official sites, mainly including bricks, tiles, tiles, stone tools, ironware, bronzes, coins, bone markers and so on. The inscriptions unearthed from the central yamen site of Weiyang Palace are important archaeological discoveries in China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is mostly distributed on the ground of Han Dynasty near the wall of yamen. Dominoes are made of animal bones (mostly cattle bones), and their shapes and sizes are basically the same.

63,850 Chang 'an Oracle Bone Inscriptions were unearthed, of which 57,482 were engraved. Dominoes are mostly cow bones, and the colors are mostly white and yellow. About the same size, generally 5.8-7.2 in length, 2. 1-3.2 in width and 0.2-0.4 cm in thickness; The shapes of bone markers are basically the same, they are all long bone blocks, and the upper and lower ends are arc-shaped. From its cross section, the front is slightly curved, the back is flat, there are vertical saw marks on both sides, and the back is rougher. The upper part of the domino front is polished, 3.5-4 in length and 1.5-2 cm in width, with lettering on it; There is a half-moon groove on the waist side of the bone sign. Generally, there is only one line of lettering on the domino, and the groove is on the left side of the domino. For bone labels with more than two lines of characters, the groove is located on the right side of the bone label.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's content can be divided into three categories: the first category is articles, figures, quantity, names, specifications and so on. This kind of Oracle Bone Inscriptions generally has one or two lines, and the number of words ranges from two or three to seven or eight; The second kind is a domino with the contents of "Guan Gong of Henan", "Guan Gong of Nanyang" and "Guan Gong of Yingchuan", which is generally engraved with two or four lines; The third category is related to the central government office. , with one to four lines of lettering.

The upper limit of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Chang 'an is in the early Western Han Dynasty, and the lower limit is in the late Western Han Dynasty, which is more than that in the late Western Han Dynasty. The earliest dating of Oracle Bone Inscriptions appeared in the first year of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty (BC 104), and the number of "three officials" was the largest in Shiyuan and Yuanfeng periods (Zhao Di). The use of Oracle Bone Inscriptions lasted for more than 100 years, even almost consistent with the Western Han Dynasty. During the period of 1987- 1988, archaeologists excavated the palace building site belonging to Shaofu in Weiyang Palace, with an excavation area of 6040 square meters. The site is located in the southwest of Kejiazhai Village, Weiyanggong Township, weiyang district, Xi City, 400 meters northwest of Weiyanggong Qian Dian Site and 350 meters east of Pepper Room Temple Site.

The excavated building site is 1 10 meters long from east to west and 58 meters long from north to south. It mainly includes the main buildings-the South Hall and the North Hall, as well as the ancillary buildings and passages, corridors, courtyards and pools on both sides. It is a group of multifunctional palace buildings.

The South Hall is the main hall in the building complex, or "main hall", facing south, with a length of 46. 1 m from east to west, 17.5 m from north to south, 7 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep, with an area of 806.75 square meters. The North Hall should be the inner hall of the building complex, facing south and using the same back wall as the South Hall. The North Hall is 3 1 m long from east to west, 0/2.9 m long from north to south, 5 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep, covering an area of 399.9 square meters.

There are two large houses symmetrically distributed on the east and west sides of the south hall, each with an area of about 170 square meters, and there are compound bucket piers in the rooms, which belong to the auxiliary office building of the south hall.

North of the main building North Hall is a courtyard, which is 54.4m long from east to west and14.7m long from north to south, with an area of 799.68m.. Although there is no archaeological excavation in the south of the South Hall, it is likely to be a "court" according to the drilling situation. The main building of this group of buildings is in the middle, with front hall and backyard, and annex halls on the left and right.

The first discovery of a large area of floor in Shaofu building site can also reflect the luxury of this palace complex. In addition to the unearthed bricks, tiles, tiles, pottery, ironware, bronzes and coins, the site also unearthed 1 12 pieces of pottery clay, the contents of which are "I respect", "I fill", "my friend", "my dragon", "my guest" and "my gain". The site of the southwest corner building of Weiyang Palace Miyagi is located in the north of Liu Che Village, Sanqiao Town, weiyang district, Xi City, with a south wall of 55 meters and a west wall of 34 meters. Archaeological excavation was carried out in 1988- 1989.

The existing abutment plane of Jiaolou site is in the shape of a curved ruler, which is 67 meters long from east to west, 3 1 m long from north to south, 57 meters long from east to west and 19 meters long from north to south. The abutment is11-13m wide in the east, and connects with the southern end of Gongcheng South Wall in the east.

The building materials unearthed from the turret site include bricks, tiles and tiles. Bricks are plain small square bricks with floor tiles. Strip bricks vary in size, including medium and small, divided bricks, sector bricks and hollow bricks. Tiles include board tiles and pipe tiles, and some tiles are also printed with Wen Tao's imprint, such as "Great World Six" and "Work Left", which is the embodiment of the strict quality management system of "testing sincerity with things" in Qin and Han Dynasties.