Shunshan Ancient City Site

Shunshan Ancient City Site

Shunshan Ancient City Site is a cultural heritage site protected at the provincial level in Jilin Province.

Shunshan Ancient City Site

Batch and announcement date: Sixth batch

2007.5.31

Location: Shunshan Village, Xinyang Township, Nong’an County

Era: Liao and Jin dynasties

Category: Ancient site

Management unit: Nong’an County Cultural Relics Management Office

Is it open to the public: No

The ancient city is square in shape, oriented in all 360 degrees. It is 370 meters long from north to south and 360 meters wide from east to west, with a perimeter

of 1460 meters. The city walls are made of rammed earth. The base of the walls is 8 meters wide, and the remaining height is about 2 meters on average. There is a gate in the middle of each of the four walls, still faintly visible, approximately 7 meters wide. The structure of the gates is unclear. There are corner towers at each of the four corners, with the remaining bases standing about half a meter above the walls. On each section of the remaining wall, there are two battlements, spaced roughly equidistant between the corner towers, the gates, and each other. Interestingly, a ditch about 6 meters wide, shaped like a recess, runs straight through the eastern gate, clearly dividing the city into two sections, and connects to a water channel outside the city.