Dawang Site

Dawang Site

The Dawang Site is a cultural heritage site protected at the provincial level in Zhejiang Province.

The Dawang Site is located at Dawangwei in the northeast of Zhanxing Village, Yaozhuang Town. It is a site dating from the Majiabang Culture of the Neolithic Age to the Maqiao Culture of the Shang and Zhou periods.

The site has a rectangular layout, covering an area of approximately 30,000 square meters. Two rescue archaeological excavations were carried out in 1985 and 1991. The deposits span a long period of time, with the cultural layer being over 1 meter thick. Artifacts belonging to the Majiabang Culture include waist-rimmed cauldrons, ox-nose style loop handles, and stone axes; those from the Songze Culture include cord-patterned pottery urns, dou (food vessel) bases, and tile-shaped ding (tripod) feet; artifacts from the Liangzhu Culture include double-spouted ewers, T-shaped and fish-fin shaped ding feet, segmented stone adzes, stone chisels, and willow-leaf shaped stone arrowheads; and items from the Maqiao Culture include concave-bottomed jars, duck-shaped zun (wine vessels), as well as pottery shards with cord, stripe, thundercloud, and large checkered patterns, stone knives, and bronze arrowheads.

The Dawang Site is one of the confirmed sites in Zhejiang Province that exhibits a complete prehistoric cultural sequence from Majiabang to Songze, Liangzhu, and Maqiao cultures. With rich content and a long continuity, it provides important material for studying the development and evolution of prehistoric cultures in the Taihu Lake basin.

In December 1989, it was announced as part of the third batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Units.

Zhanxing Village: Located in the northern part of Yaozhuang Town, Jiashan County, Zhanxing Village covers a total area of 3.09 square kilometers, governs seven natural villages and 12 villager groups, with a total of 433 households and a population of 1,650. The village has 2,250 mu of arable land. The village Party branch has 51 members, and the village committee consists of four members.

The main agricultural activities in Zhanxing Village involve growing greenhouse vegetables and fruit trees. In recent years, following a series of adjustments to the agricultural industrial structure, there are now 1,200 mu of greenhouse vegetable cultivation, 700 mu of various fruit trees, and 1.5 million square feet of mushrooms, forming a fairly large-scale agricultural industry… Detailed information about Zhanxing Village++

Further reading:

· Third Batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Units