Chenghu Site

Chenghu Site

The Chenghu Site is located in Chengdun Village and Dayao Village, Chefang Township, Wuxian County, covering a vast area. Part of it is submerged at the bottom of the lake, while another part lies beneath the farmland along the lakeshore, spanning approximately 2 to 3 square kilometers. In 1974, the Nanjing Museum and the Wuxian County Cultural Center excavated over 150 ancient wells and unearthed or collected more than 1,200 artifacts dating from the Neolithic Age to the Song Dynasty.

The Neolithic earthen wells had a diameter of about 1 meter and depths ranging from 1 to 3 meters, with smooth walls. The pottery unearthed from the wells was mainly gray and black clay pottery, including vessels such as tripods, cauldrons, jars, pots, bowls, cups, beans, and plates. Artifacts belonging to the Songze and Liangzhu cultures were also discovered, including painted jars, bird-shaped handle pitchers, four-ring turtle-shaped jars, pig-shaped jars, carved patterned jars, inscribed pottery fish-basket-shaped spouted jars, and stone axes with wooden handles. These items date back approximately 5,500 to 4,000 years.

Among the remains of earthen wells from the Shang and Zhou periods were red pottery ring-footed round-bottom concave jars with basket patterns, twisted-pattern hard pottery duck-shaped jars, rope-patterned red pottery cauldrons, coiled dragon-pattern glazed pottery tripods, cloud-thunder-pattern hard pottery zun vessels, double-handled string-patterned black pottery jars, linen-patterned hard pottery jars, and glazed pottery bowls.

Han Dynasty wells were built using stacked pottery well rings, each with a diameter of 70 centimeters and a height of 21 centimeters, featuring water seepage holes on both sides. Artifacts found in these wells included gray-black clay pottery string-patterned jars and glazed pottery jars. Tang and Song Dynasty wells were often constructed by stacking trapezoidal well bricks with tenon marks on both sides, and unearthed items included wide-mouth celadon bowls, diamond-patterned bowls, brown-spotted short-spout ewers, black-glazed ewers, Han bottles, wooden buckets, and iron hooks.

The excavation of the Chenghu Site provides valuable examples for studying the ancient cultural landscape of the Taihu Lake Basin and the historical changes of rivers and lakes in the region.

Luzhi Town: Located 25 kilometers southeast of Suzhou City, Luzhi is bordered by the Wusong River to the north, Chenghu Lake to the south, the Suzhou Industrial Park to the west, and Kunshan to the east. The town covers an area of 115 square kilometers (including 40 square kilometers of Chenghu Lake waters), and administers 16 administrative villages and 2 communities, with a total population of over 200,000. Major roads such as the Suzhou-Shanghai Expressway, the Outer Ring Expressway, Luzhi Avenue, and East Avenue run through the town, offering excellent location advantages and convenient transportation.

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