Daha Meng Site

Daha Meng Site

The Daha Meng Site is a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

Daha Meng Site

Batch and announcement date: Sixth batch, May 31, 2007

Address: Yangtun, Wulajie Manchu Town, Longtan District

Period: Bronze Age – Tang Dynasty

Category: Ancient site

Managing unit: Jilin Cultural Relics Management Office

Open to public: No

Located in Yangtun Village, Wulajie Town, Longtan District, it covers an area of 60,000 square meters. The site contains cultural remains from the Bronze, Han, and Bohai periods. Four excavations were conducted in the 1970s and 1980s, uncovering 17 house foundations, 6 tombs, 5 urn coffins, and over 2,800 artifacts. It has greatly enriched the understanding of the late Xituanshan culture.

In 2019, the Daha Meng Site was included in the eighth batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units.

Wulajie Town: Wulajie is located within the Longtan District of Jilin City, Jilin Province, which is part of the national Spark密集区 (Spark Dense Area). It lies on the upper reaches of the Songhua River and at the original alluvial plain section of the river. To the south is Longtan Mountain, to the north it connects with Fenghuang Pavilion, to the west is the Songhua River, and to the east are the various ranges of the Changbai Mountains. Covering an area of 188 square kilometers, it is a precious land rich in mineral resources and with relatively developed agriculture.

Once an ancient city, now a town, Wulajie is a long-established cultural town of Guandong (the northeast region of China) along the Songhua River. As far back as five thousand years ago in the Neolithic Age, the ancestors of the Manchu people, the Sushen, labored, lived, and thrived in this riverside and mountainous region... More detailed information about Wulajie Town++

Further reading:

· Eighth Batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units