Guozhong Ancient Cultural Site

Guozhong Ancient Cultural Site

Guozhong Ancient Cultural Site is a cultural relic protection unit of Henan Province.

Qujialing Cultural Site. The site is scattered with relics. The mound is circular, with a thick cultural layer, standing 9 meters high and covering an area of 40,000 square meters. The surface of the site has a dense distribution of artifacts, including chisel-shaped plain pottery tripod legs, short-legged low-rim li tripod legs with fine cord marks, and pottery pots with fine cord patterns. There are also red-painted pottery trumpet-shaped high-footed cups, black pottery jars with spiral patterns and flat bottoms, and black pottery vessels with gold-lipped mouths; as well as perforated crescent-shaped stone knives, stone sickles, plain pottery spinning whorls, sawtooth-shaped clam sickles, stone adzes, broken polished stone tools, bone awls, and a large number of clam shells, mussels, animal bones, deer antlers, and pottery shards. The northern part mainly consists of red-fired soil and pottery shards, with more gray pottery and less red pottery, and few finished artifacts. The site has not been excavated. In 1981, it was identified by the regional cultural relics survey team as a Neolithic Qujialing Cultural Site, dating back 6,000 years.

The mound is located 250 meters northeast of Guozhong Village, Guanjin Township, on the south side of the Hewan Dam Highway on the north bank of the Ruhe River, 4 kilometers southwest of Xincai County. It is 4 kilometers east of National Highway 106, 4 kilometers north of Minglin Road, and 5 kilometers from Zhumadian–Xinxiang Road. It is 106 kilometers from Zhumadian City, over 130 kilometers from the Shiren Mountain Scenic Area, over 120 kilometers from the Boshan Lake Scenic Area, and over 160 kilometers from the Tongshan Scenic Area.

In 1981, it was identified by the regional cultural relics survey team as a Neolithic Qujialing Cultural Site. In 1982, it was designated as a county-level key cultural relic protection unit by the Xincai County People’s Government. In 1988, after approval, it was recognized as a provincial-level key cultural relic protection unit.