Research center aims to dig into Yan culture
China DailyAn archaeologist displays a relic unearthed at the Liulihe relic site in Beijing, capital of China, Dec 7, 2021. A research center that will combine archaeological efforts from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province in the study of Yan culture and its influence, dating back thousands of years, was inaugurated in Beijing on Sunday. The Research Center for Archaeology of Yan Culture was established by the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the National Centre for Archaeology, the Beijing Institute of Archaeology, and the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. Lei Xingshan, the head of Beijing Union University and director of the center's academic committee, said Yan culture refers to the culture of the Yan state, which was established as a vassal state in the Western Zhou Dynasty and fell in 222 BC, the year before Emperor Qinshihuang unified the country and established the Qin Dynasty. The scope of Yan culture covered what is now Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province, and it had close cultural links with the Loess Plateau to its southwest and the Mongolian Plateau to its north.
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