Qicun Town has a long history and many cultural relics and historic sites. Famous historical villages include Guocun, which was built in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Qicun and Zengdian, which were built in the Tang Dynasty, Kekou, which was built in the Song Dynasty, and Fenghuangling, which was built in the Ming Dynasty.
The ancient cultural site of the Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties is located 100 meters north of Dayu Village. The unearthed cultural relics include animal bones, spinning wheels, pottery feet, pots, bowls, etc. The ancient city of Hanmengrang is located in the southwest of Guocun, about 500 meters from north to south and from east to west. A small number of cord-grained gray tube tile fragments and sand-filled red pottery fragments are scattered throughout the city. The unearthed objects include iron, arrowheads, and hoe feet. The ancient city is closely related to the Kekou Han Dynasty ancient tombs located in its east.
The Kekou Han Tombs are located in the Yangtze River of Diaotai Mountain, with an area of ??15,000 square meters. By 1985, the government had cleared 126 tombs and unearthed more than 1,200 artifacts. Among them, pottery is the most common, and others include iron knives, bronze kuei, bronze mirrors, jade coins, half-liang coins, five-baht coins, currency, etc.
The ancient kiln sites include Fenghuangling, Qicun, Hubu, Baishan, Kekou and Diaoyutai kiln sites. Among them, the specimens from the Fenghuangling kiln site belong to the celadon kiln series, dating from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty. The Qicun kiln site adopts the sand circle stacking firing technique that began to appear in the Jin Dynasty, which should belong to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Ancient temples include the Ganquan Temple built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. There is a kiln temple stele in the temple that records the history of coal mining in Zaozhuang. The treasures in the collection include copper bubbles, Wang Shantou portrait stone hunting pictures, etc., all of which are stored in the Municipal Museum.
There are countless historical and cultural celebrities in the territory. Cui Guangyuan, a Jinshi under the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, was a native of Qi Village in Yixian County (now Zhong District of Shishi City). In the 15th year of Guangxu's reign (1889), he passed the imperial examination, and in the 16th year of his reign, he was awarded the title of "Jinshi" (Jinshi) by the Hanlin Academy. He once served as the director of the Hanlin Academy and the magistrate of Suixi County, Guangdong. He attached great importance to education and was good at calligraphy and painting. In his later years, he entertained himself with poetry, calligraphy and painting, and wrote "Keyuan Poetry Collection". Dong Dayong, the imperial doctor of the Qing Dynasty, was good at internal medicine and acupuncture. He wrote "Collection of Medical Cases", "Test Analysis of Typhoid Fever", "Meridians and Meridian Medication Tips", etc. which were passed down to later generations. Dong Zhiyi, a well-known calligrapher and painter in the late Qing Dynasty, was good at painting flowers, birds, and landscapes. He was good at painting flowers, birds, and landscapes. During the Guangxu period, the "Comprehensive Map of Yijing Yuge", "Xiao Cui in the Immortal Altar", "Xian Cave Hanging Clouds", " Five pictures including "Junshan Looking at the Sea" and "Liu Ling Ancient Terrace" were all written by him. During the Revolutionary War, there were Cui Yuan, deputy commander of the 50th Detachment of the Fifth War Zone during the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Fulin, leader of the Zaozhuang labor movement, Wu Hongqi, the "hero mother", Dong Mingchun, acting commander of the First Military Division of the Lunan Military Region, etc., who all fought for national independence and Made significant contributions to the people's liberation.