Recently, the Lianyungang Museum said that the Haizhou District of Lianyungang City found a large-scale building site in the Tang Dynasty. The east side of the excavation project is close to Kongwang Mountain and 5.2 kilometers west of the ancient city of Haizhou in the Ming and Qing dynasties. A total of 44 tombs from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, 2 building sites, 3 wells, 19 ash pits and 2 ash ditches were excavated and cleaned, and a total of 260 pieces (sets) of various cultural relics and specimens were excavated. The most important result of this excavation was the discovery of a large Tang Dynasty architectural foundation site, which was well preserved and was the first discovery in the Lianyungang area.
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The tang dynasty building site found is located in the southwest-central part of the excavation area, its plan is rectangular, and it covers an area of 1475.72 square meters. The exposed remains show that the foundation site of the building is a two-entry courtyard facing north and south, with a total of 21 relic units preserved from south to north.
The foundation of the four walls of the building site is mainly based on the stone wall foundation, and the north main room and the west wing are better preserved, and the east wing is poorly preserved. The Yonglu and cloister are well preserved, the shape is regular, paved with tiles, the top surface is turtle-back-shaped, and the middle is higher than the two sides, and the width is 92 cm. Its laying method is: vertical vertical tile wrapping edge, middle horizontal staggered vertical tile, part of the spacer stone embellishment.
The south main entrance is located in the middle of the south base trough, and there is a layer of hardened surface doped ginger stone in front of the door, and there are remnants of tile and stone mixed steps in the west of the middle. The north main house is rectangular in plan and well preserved, consisting of a wall base groove, a stone wall base, a pillar hole, and a doorway. It is 31.6 meters long from east to west and 9.7 meters wide from north to south, and covers an area of 306.52 square meters. The surface is five rooms wide, one deep, and there are 4 columns of north-south longitudinal stone wall base wall partition wall.
The size of each room in the North Main Room varies. The easternmost two rooms are smaller and the largest in the middle, with a square independent room and aisle corridor in the northwest corner. More broken brick tiles and ceramic pieces have been excavated from the base site of the building, and the recognizable shapes include ceramic sockets, lotus petal pattern tiles, plate tiles, cylinder tiles, porcelain bowls, porcelain bowls, clay pots, etc., and 8 "Kaiyuan Tongbao" copper coins were found.
According to industry insiders, no relics with a clear chronology have been found at the excavated building sites, so the age can only be preliminarily inferred based on its shape, the characteristics of the excavated artifacts and the relationship between the layers.
During the Tang Dynasty, the book "Entering the Tang Dynasty and Seeking the Law" once recorded that "there is a temple of the Sea Dragon King on the west bank". The Sea Dragon King Temple mentioned here is basically consistent with the ground view and duration of the building's base site. According to this, it is speculated that the construction date of the foundation site of the building is roughly from the Sheng and Middle Tang Dynasties periods, and the abandoned date is roughly from the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period, and its nature and use may be for the office or temple building.
Source: Jiangsu Radio and Television Rong Media News Center