Pochengzi Ruins - China Travel

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The site of Pochengzi is located in the west of Changle Village, Suoyang Town, Guazhou County. The local people have always called it "Pochengzi" and "Changle City". The city wall of the Pochengzi ruins is built of rammed earth, with the north gate open and a city outside the gate. The east, south, and west walls are well preserved, while the north wall was seriously damaged in the excavation of the production team in the 1960s. The surveying and mapping coordinates of the northeast corner pier. There are two cultural layers superimposed in the city, including soil blocks from collapsed houses, patterned bricks, red and stucco pottery pieces, yellow glazed porcelain pieces, and Kaiyuan Tongbao coins; the middle layer is the sedimentary layer of flowing water; Sand terracotta, Jomon, water ripples, hanging tent patterns, gray pottery fragments with piled patterns, bricks, animal bones, charcoal blocks, braised soil, etc. Judging from the relationship between the upper, middle and lower layers of the cultural layer and the sedimentary layer of sand and flowing water, and the shape of the unearthed artifacts, the upper layer is the Tang cultural layer and the lower layer is the Han cultural layer: From 1968 to 1970, local people dug an air-raid shelter outside the east wall of the city and discovered From the brick-chambered tomb, large Jomon pottery urns, pottery pots with water ripples, pottery vases, back pots, Ming ware pottery stoves, pottery spinning wheels, five baht coins, copper arrowheads, etc. were unearthed.