Black Ju Tui Ruins

Black Ju Tui Ruins

The Black Ju Tui Ruins are a cultural heritage site protected at the municipal level in Heze City.

The Black Ju Tui Ruins are located 500 meters northeast of Dongzhuang Village, Baifutu Town, Chengwu County. Above ground, there remains an earthen mound that is 10 meters long from east to west, 7 meters wide from north to south, and about 5 meters high. Because the soil of the mound is black in color, it is commonly referred to as the Black Ju Tui. Originally covering an area of 7,200 square meters, the site was later severely damaged when local residents excavated parts of it to use as fertilizer for their fields. During the digging process, a large number of stone coffin burials and brick-built tombs were discovered, many of which contained numerous funerary objects such as pottery tripods, pottery pots, pottery beans, pottery horses, pottery figurines, bronze mirrors, as well as Han dynasty bricks, stone axes, deer antlers, and pictorial stones. The unearthed items were extremely rich. Among the preserved artifacts, pictorial stones were the most numerous. To this day, intact and fragmented pictorial stone blocks can be seen throughout the village, with carvings of snakes, bears, dogs, waterfowl, fish, and other patterns. Though seemingly rough and simple, the lines are smooth and lively, and the images vivid and expressive. These patterns vividly record many aspects of the social life at the time, providing valuable material for understanding the socio-economic, cultural, and artistic conditions of the period. Judging from the preserved fragments of samples such as deep-bellied jars, basket-patterned jars, li tripods, yan steamers, small-mouthed jars, interlocking mouth jars, and weng vats, the Black Ju Tui Ruins were an early settlement site belonging to the Longshan Culture, Shang Dynasty, and Zhou Dynasty cultural layers. It became a burial ground during the Han Dynasty, exhibiting a very rich cultural content and serving as physical evidence for studying the early residential distribution, living environment, and living conditions of people in southwestern Shandong.

In 1989, the Black Ju Tui Ruins were designated as part of the first batch of county-level cultural heritage protection units by the People’s Government of Chengwu County. In 2009, they were listed as part of the first batch of municipal-level cultural heritage protection units by the People’s Government of Heze City.

Source: Heze Municipal Office of Local Chronicles

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