Daze Temple Site

Daze Temple Site

The Daze Temple Site is a protected cultural heritage site of Zhejiang Province.

The Daze Temple Site is located in Dazetemple Natural Village, Xianfeng Community, Maqiao Subdistrict, Haining. Dating from the Neolithic Age to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, it is approximately 2,500 to 4,500 years old.

The site was discovered in the winter of 1988, and archaeological excavations were carried out in April 1990. An area of 350 square meters was excavated, uncovering 12 tombs and yielding 131 artifacts. These included sand-tempered red pottery ding (tripod cauldrons) with fish-fin shaped, flat chisel-shaped, and T-shaped legs, as well as gray clay dou (food vessels) and guan (jars) from the Liangzhu Culture, along with stone and jade artifacts, including an ivory ring. Additionally, there were primitive celadon bowls and basins from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, as well as stamped hard pottery fragments decorated with small checkered and vein patterns. Among them, a jade dragon ornament with prominent eyes and upright horns, exquisitely crafted, is a second-grade collection item. There was also a coarse clay ding tripod, with both diameter and height measuring 60 cm, featuring an open mouth, narrowed neck, bulging belly, round base, and flat chisel-shaped legs. This large pottery ding is unprecedented among currently excavated artifacts from Liangzhu Culture sites. The excavation report was published in the Bulletin of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, 1997 edition.

Drilling surveys during the third national cultural relics census indicated that the site is approximately 120 meters long from east to west, 90 meters wide from north to south, covering an area of about 10,800 square meters. The surface soil layer is about 1.0 meter thick, and the cultural layer is around 1.3 meters thick. Currently, the surface is planted with mulberry trees. In addition, there is a plot of land near the southern edge of the site, approximately 100 meters long from east to west and 60 meters wide from north to south, covering about 6,000 square meters, where a partial cultural layer was found, though relatively thin at about 0.3 meters. It is considered to be in an incomplete form. Overall analysis suggests that the site is rich in content, well-preserved, and holds significant archaeological research value.

In January 2011, it was designated as part of the sixth batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Units.

Maqiao Subdistrict: Known as the "China’s Famous Warp Knitting Town," Maqiao Subdistrict in Haining is located 60 kilometers west of downtown Hangzhou, 100 kilometers east of downtown Shanghai, and 7 kilometers south of the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay. It is the largest warp knitting manufacturing base in the Yangtze River Delta region. The subdistrict governs 8 administrative villages, 191 villager groups, and has a total population of 27,365.

In 2004, the subdistrict achieved a GDP of 1.007 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.8%; per capita rural income was 6,967 yuan, up 11.8%; and available fiscal funds reached 25.9874 million yuan... More details about Maqiao Subdistrict ++

Further reading:

· Sixth Batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Units