Dengzhou Yanggang Site

Dengzhou Yanggang Site

The Yanggang Site in Dengzhou is a cultural heritage site protected at the municipal level.

The Yanggang Site is located in Yanggang Village, Xiaoyangying Township, approximately 25 kilometers southeast of Dengzhou City. It is an archaeological site containing both Neolithic and Shang-Zhou cultural layers. The site features a gentle slope, covers an area of about 60,000 square meters, and has cultural layers 2 to 4 meters thick. It was discovered in 1957 and designated as a county-level cultural heritage site by the former Deng County Revolutionary Committee.

Neolithic artifacts collected from the Yanggang Site include stone tools such as stone axes, knives, and sickles, pottery items such as spinning whorls, gray pottery ding (tripod cauldrons), jars, bowls, and cups, as well as bone tools such as bone arrowheads. At the southern edge of the site, tombs and chariot pits dating back to the Warring States period have also been discovered, yielding bronze ding, bronze hu (wine vessels), and chariot fittings.

The Yanggang Site is large in area and well-preserved, making it an important site for studying the prehistoric and Shang-Zhou cultures of Dengzhou.

Yanggang Village: Located 3 kilometers north of the Xiaoyangying Township government, Yanggang Village consists of three natural villages. The village administers seven villager groups, has 345 households, a total population of 1,480, cultivates 1,790 mu of farmland, and has 21 Party members and 36 village representatives. It has one village-run primary school, two cultural teahouses, and one new rural cooperative medical clinic.

Agricultural production mainly focuses on wheat, corn, peanuts, and cotton. Animal husbandry, led by duck farming, is developing rapidly, with an annual output of 100,000 ducks. Over the past few years, under the correct leadership of the township Party committee and government, the village's “two committees” have made full use of the “4+… Yanggang Village detailed information++