Jingguoli Burial Mounds

Jingguoli Burial Mounds

The Jingguoli Burial Mounds are located 500 meters northwest of Shanzao Village, Xianyuan Township, approximately 47 kilometers northwest of the county seat. This burial site sits on a hill that rises 30 meters above the surrounding terrain and slopes from the northwest to the southeast. To the east lies Baiwuzi Wuchang (a residential cluster), while to the south, at the foot of the hill, there is a mechanized farming road. The northwest is bordered by continuous mountain ranges.

The burials are densely distributed. Over an area of approximately 10,000 square meters, a large number of pottery fragments have been exposed, most featuring decorative patterns such as large and small square grids and cloud-thunder motifs. Artifact types include shoulder-folded jars and ou-shaped vessels. In October 1982, the county cultural relics survey team collected a ding (tripod) from an earthen pit tomb in the northeastern part of Jingwo Li. It was made of gray clay pottery, decorated with fine square grid patterns, and measured 8 cm in height, 11.3 cm in mouth diameter, and 2 cm in ear height. Except for one broken ear, the ding is largely intact. Two round-bottomed jars were also found, both made of gray clay, with cloud-thunder patterns above the shoulder and fine square grid decorations below.

In January 1983, the provincial cultural relics team unearthed three pottery jars and one pottery ding from a ditch in the eastern part of the burial site. Among them were two gray pottery jars: one with a mouth diameter of 10.5 cm and a height of 11.3 cm, decorated with square grid patterns; the other with a mouth diameter of 14.2 cm and a height of 16 cm, decorated with cloud-thunder patterns. There was also one yellowish-brown pottery jar, with a mouth diameter of 9 cm and a height of 9.5 cm, featuring fine square grid decorations. The pottery ding had a mouth diameter of 16.5 cm and an overall height of 14.2 cm. Made of soft, fragile red clay, it had a flared mouth, two upright ears on the rim with circular holes drilled through them, a round belly adorned with six spaced-out nipple-like studs, cloud-thunder patterns along the sides, a wide flat crotch, and three feet shaped like the character “丁” (ding). After restoration, five of the six original nipple studs remained.

Xianyuan Township: Located in the northwest of Wanzi County, Xianyuan Township is about 45 kilometers from the county seat. The entire region features a long, narrow mountainous terrain, sloping from north to south, with the highest peak in the county—Huangpijian (Yellow Skin Peak)—at its northern end, standing 1,182.1 meters above sea level. The township covers a total area of 167 square kilometers, including 23,600 mu of cultivated land and 200,000 mu of forest, resulting in a forest coverage rate of 85%. It administers eight administrative villages, one neighborhood committee, 147 villager groups, and has a population of 17,590 residents across 5,140 households. The township Party committee oversees 14 Party branches with 452 Party members. The township has a total of ... Xianyuan Township detailed information++