China News Service, February 15th. According to the official WeChat account of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held an important progress meeting on the "Archaeological China" major project in Beijing on February 15th, and notified the Sitai site in Shangyi, Hebei, and the ancient city of Jinning, Yunnan. Five important archaeological achievements including the village site, the Sijiaoping site in Lixian County, Gansu, the Suyukou porcelain kiln site in Helan, Ningxia, and the Liaoshangjing site in Balin Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia.
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Among them, the remains of the first and second groups of the Shangyi Sitai site were preliminarily judged as a new archaeological culture, which provided typical and direct evidence for the study of the transition between the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages in northern China; the Jinning ancient city village site is the first A complete ring trench settlement in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties was discovered in the core area of the Dian culture. In order to construct the archaeological cultural system of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in Yunnan, and to study the settlement form, livelihood mode, ethnic composition, ancient Important issues such as environmental changes in Dianchi Lake provide key evidence.
The Sijiaoping site in Lixian County is a large-scale architectural site of the Qin Dynasty, which has important academic value for the study of the politics, etiquette system and architectural history of the Qin Dynasty; the Helan Suyukou porcelain kiln site is the earliest Xixia porcelain kiln site discovered so far, revealing A brand-new type of kiln industry. It is the first time to discover the large-scale filling and firing technology of sealing the mouth of the sagger with glaze outside Shanglin Lake in Zhejiang Province. It is the first time to discover the porcelain making technology of using a large amount of quartz in the porcelain body, enamel and sagger in the northwest region. , filling the blank of fine white porcelain firing in Northwest China.
The No. 1 building foundation site discovered at the Liaoshangjing site in Balin Zuoqi is the largest building site in the southern area of the Liaoshangjing imperial city. It has not changed, and the scale of the building exceeds the palace buildings in the palace city of the Liao Dynasty that have been discovered so far. It is inferred that it should be an extremely important royal building in the capital. According to the "History of the Liao Dynasty", there are Confucian temples, Guozijian, temples and Taoist temples in the southwest of the imperial city of Liao Shangjing The early buildings of the Liao Dynasty provided clues for confirming the nature of the No. 1 construction site.
The five important achievements in this notification are vivid manifestations of China's prehistoric culture and social development, national etiquette and sacrificial system, handicraft technology, and capital city architecture, and demonstrate the splendid historical achievements of Chinese civilization.
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