Site of Xishi Mountain

Site of Xishi Mountain

The Site of Xishi Mountain is a Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

Site of Xishi Mountain (Provincial-level Cultural Relics Protection Unit)

Era: Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods

Announcement date: March 11, 1963

Located 1.2 km northeast outside Wuyun Gate in the urban area. Xishi Mountain, also known as Tucheng Mountain and called Beauty Palace, is said to be the place where Xishi practiced walking. Bronze items such as plows, hoes, picks, and sickles have been collected here, along with primitive celadon, stamped hard pottery, and black-glazed gray pottery fragments. Beneath the Niànfó Bridge next to Xishi Mountain, a cultural layer 0.4 meters thick was found at a depth of 2 meters below the surface, yielding bronze swords, spears, iron spears, as well as fragments of primitive celadon, stamped hard pottery, and black-glazed gray pottery.

Source: Zhejiang Cultural Relics Website

Further reading:

· Second Batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units