The Han'ancheng Ruins

The Han'ancheng Ruins

The Han'ancheng Ruins is a cultural tourism attraction.

【The Han'ancheng Ruins】The ancient city of Han'ancheng, a once-glorious historical city with a history of over 2,000 years that has long been debated and remained lost, was built in the early Western Han Dynasty — the sixth year of Emperor Gaozu’s reign (206 BC), 88 years before the establishment of Zhengyang County. It was abolished and incorporated into Ruyang (now Runan) in the early days of the Sui Dynasty's Daye era (605 AD), spanning a history of 811 years. There has been much debate among various circles about whether the site of the ancient city of Han'ancheng is located in Runan, Pingyu, or Zhengyang. However, Mr. Xu Qiping (a highly respected figure in the cultural circle and a staff member of Runan County Cultural Center with profound expertise in Chinese historical research) has, through extensive reference to both ancient and modern literature, more than ten years of repeated research, and personal field investigations of the ancient city ruins, fully demonstrated that it is located in Gucheng Temple Village, Handong Town, within our county. In July 2007, he published “An Investigation of the Ancient City of Han'ancheng” in *Cultural Relics of the Central Plains* (Issue 3, 2007), and in November 2006, he published “In Search of a Historical City from Two Thousand Years Ago — A Visit to the Han'ancheng Ruins in Zhengyang” in the *Zhumadian Daily*, which had a significant impact and holds high value for preservation and research. Although the ruins of the ancient city of Han'ancheng have now become rubble, according to Mr. Xu Qiping’s research, the tall and square earthen mounds and the large, deep trenches within the city still reveal the prosperity of ancient Ancheng at the time — with visiting officials, bustling traffic, pavilions and terraces, and birds singing and flowers blooming. Therefore, the discovery and verification of the Han'ancheng ancient city ruins is undoubtedly a major contribution to Zhengyang County, which is relatively lacking in historical and cultural resources. Although there is currently a lack of very detailed historical documentation, its historical and cultural value remains profound.