Recently, in the first Liao Shangjing Culture Forum held in Bahrain Left Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, experts introduced that the liao shangjing site archaeology has made a series of new breakthroughs.
Dong Xinlin, head of the team and a researcher at the Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the team, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Inner Mongolia Institute of Archaeology, has confirmed the location and scale of the city for the first time through archaeological investigation, drilling and excavation since 2011.
The palace is located in the east of the middle of the imperial city, the plane is nearly square, east, south, west of a door, no north gate found.
Through the local trial excavation and dissection of the four walls of the palace, the construction practices, structure and age of the palace wall.
At the same time, for the first time, the east gate of the imperial city, the east gate of the palace, a group of large building courtyards in the palace, and the east-west road sites running through them, in an east-west axis layout.
The east gate of the imperial city and the east gate of the palace are all three patterns. The west gate of the west gate of the imperial city and the west gate of the south gate of the palace are all single doors. The width of the street outside the east gate of the palace is at least twice that of the south gate street.
These new discoveries proved that the east of Liaoning had existed in the archaeological capital, and promoted the study on the layout and planning concept of the site.
The archaeological team also learned that the city gate is mainly divided into the hall gate girder gate represented by the east gate of the imperial city and the hall gate represented by the east gate of the palace city.
Further excavation of various types of sites, and obtained rare archaeological data on the form, technology and origin and development of architecture in the Liao Dynasty.
In particular, according to the archaeological unearthed relics and relics, the team confirmed that the West hillside was a Buddhist temple site built in the Liao Dynasty, with an important location and large scale, which was one of the landmark buildings in the Liao capital at that time.
Located in the center of a large tower, a large number of exquisite and realistic clay Buddhist statues have been unearthed, which have attracted wide attention of multidisciplinary scholars at home and abroad.
This will have a very important impact on the reunderstanding of the layout and evolution of the imperial city of Liao.
” The chronology of important relics has also made new breakthroughs.
” Dong Xinlin said that the Liao Shangjing site contains different periods of the Liao, Jin and early Yuan dynasties, and is a large site of ancient overlapping pressure.
In the past, it was difficult for scholars to distinguish between the Liao and Jin dynasties.
Team through exploration and excavation, a comprehensive understanding to the original topography and formation accumulation, a series of stratigraphic relationship clear tile and porcelain and other important relics, can initially establish some relics s sequence, for the presumption site age foundation, effectively promote the liao city site construction, development, abandoned the understanding of historical evolution process.
Liao Shangjing site is located in the south of Lindong Town, Bahrain Left Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced in 1961.
The Liao Dynasty established by the Khitan people (907-1125 AD),.Five capitals were built successively, and the Liaoning capital was the earliest, the longest use and the most important capital in the Liao Dynasty.
(Reporter Jia Lijun)