City slowly reveals its history
1 year, 2 months ago

City slowly reveals its history

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A technician works on excavation at the Zhongdu site of the Jin Dynasty in Beijing. Large-scale foundations and precious cultural relics, such as jade books, porcelain, mirrors, pottery figures and building elements have been discovered at the Zhongdu site, which dates to the Jin Dynasty, the National Cultural Heritage Administration announced at a news conference in Beijing on Sept 28. The earlier complex dates back to the late Liao and the early Jin dynasties, while the later complex dates from the middle to late Jin Dynasty, possibly even the early Yuan Dynasty, according to Wang Jihong, the researcher at the Beijing Institute of Archaeology responsible for this dig. The later site has a clear, complete layout, with two large symmetrical palaces in the north and south, and two symmetrical side rooms in the east and west. According to Wang, the No 1 building base in the southern part of the later complex is a little smaller than the No 9 building base at the Taizicheng site in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, and of a similar size to the palace of the shrine relics in Antu county, Jilin province, both of which have been identified as Jin royal architecture.

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