Longmai Tuan Mountain Ruins

Longmai Tuan Mountain Ruins

The Longmai Tuan Mountain Ruins are designated as a Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

The Longmai Tuan Mountain Ruins are situated on Tuan Mountain Road in Runzhou District, Zhenjiang City, near the residential complex "Junlin Nanshan." They are one of the few well-preserved Shang and Zhou dynasty platform-shaped ruins in the urban area of Zhenjiang. Since their discovery during the 1959 survey of “Hushu Culture” sites in the Ningzhen Mountain Range and Qinhuai River Basin by the Nanjing Museum, the site has been preserved to this day and stands as one of the better-maintained “Hushu Culture” ruins in Zhenjiang.

The Longmai Tuan Mountain Ruins stretch 60 meters in length, 50 meters in width, and rise 5 meters above the ground. The top is flat, and the entire site forms an oval-shaped platform. The hilltop is a flat area where numerous fragments of Hushu culture pottery were discovered. These mainly consist of sand-tempered red pottery, along with small amounts of black pottery, stoneware, and proto-porcelain.

Many pottery fragments of various shapes can be found in the soil. Three representative pieces include: a typical piece of sand-tempered red pottery, which is very thin, with white sand particles visible inside the red clay; a fragment from the rim of an earthenware jar, likely part of a broken black or gray pottery vessel; and a thick piece of red clay, originally part of a building structure, featuring one side with curious, continuous arc shapes. The curved edges of this clay piece are related to the construction techniques used in the buildings of that time. These arcs were formed from bundles of thin branches and reeds. The houses were built with a wood-and-earth structure—thick wooden posts were first erected, then woven with thin branches and reeds to form walls, and gaps between them were filled with red clay. This clay fragment serves as evidence of the architectural methods used at the time.

On December 19, 2011, the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province designated it as part of the seventh batch of Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units.

Further Reading:

· Seventh Batch of Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units