Yongcheng Ruins - China Travel

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The Yongcheng site is located in the south of Fengxiang County, Baoji, on the loess plateau north of the Yongshui River and west of the Zhifang River. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit. The plane is an irregular square, 3300 meters long from east to west and 3200 meters wide from north to south. In addition to natural barriers such as Zhifang River and Yongshui in the east and south of Yongcheng City, artificial moats were excavated outside Xiyuan as part of the defense facilities.

Yongcheng was the capital of the Qin State in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China. It was the political and economic center of the Qin State for nearly 300 years from the Spring and Autumn Period to the middle period of the Warring States Period. For more than 290 years from the first year of Degong (677 BC) to the second year of Xiangong (383 BC), Yongcheng has always been the political, military, economic and cultural center of Qin State. After the painstaking efforts of the nineteen monarchs, a solid foundation was laid for Qin Shihuang to unify the whole country. As the capital of the country, Yongcheng built a ? ?