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Bigger than the Qianqing Palace! Another large palace was found in Luoyang, Henan

author:Bright Net

According to the "Luoyang Release" news, on the 18th, the reporter learned from the Luoyang Hanweicheng Team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that in 2021, the archaeological results of the site will be fruitful, the Xianyang Palace courtyard and the Yongxiang ruins will be newly discovered in the Miyagi District, and the layout of the Miyagi shape system will be clearer, laying a further foundation for the restoration and display of the site.

According to Guo Xiaotao, deputy captain of the Luoyang Han Weicheng team at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Xianyang Hall was called the Zhaoyang Hall during the Wei and Jin dynasties. According to the literature, the Northern Wei Xianyang Hall was built during the Xuanwu Emperor period after the relocation of Luoluo, and was built at about the same time as the Taiji Hall and the Luoyang Palace Castle, and is an important building in the south of the Palace City second only to the Taiji Hall. According to relevant literature, during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Xianyang Hall was slightly different from the Taiji Hall as a place for the Northern Wei Emperor to entertain the children of the Clan, or as an envoy of the Northern Wei Emperor to receive the surrender of the Emperor, or as the residence of the Emperor before he ascended the throne.

Located in the south of Jincun, Pingle Town, Mengjin District, Luoyang City, the Xianyang Hall is a large rammed earth platform foundation building located on the north side of the Taiji Hall and on the axis of the Han Wei Luoyang City Palace. Archaeological excavations have shown that the foundation of the rammed earth hall of the Xianyang Hall is in a "convex" shape, with a width of about 70 meters from east to west, about 35 meters from north to south, a residual height of about 1 meter on the south side of the foundation, and some bricks and brick grooves remain on the outside of the foundation. Due to late destruction, no remains of the pillar pit were found on the top surface of the platform.

Guo Xiaotao introduced that in terms of the scale of the building, the Xianyang Hall is even larger than the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City. An autopsy of the Xianyang Hall and its surrounding outbuildings shows that there are at least four rammed earth buildings in the area that are no later than the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Jin, Northern Wei and Northern Zhou.

Source: CCTV

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