Shangbo City Site

Shangbo City Site

Shangbo City Site is a cultural heritage site protected by Shanxi Province.

Shangbo City Site (Fifth Batch Provincial Protection)

Era: Warring States – Han Dynasty

Address: 50 meters east of Shangbo Village, Wangmao Town, Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City

Shangbo City Site is an ancient city site from the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty. Covering an area of 1.2 million square meters, it is divided into eastern and western sections. The remaining structures include the northern, southern, and eastern walls, with the central wall shared by both sections. The northern wall is 1,530 meters long, the southern wall 880 meters, the eastern wall 890 meters, and the central wall 600 meters. It is an ancient city site from the early Warring States period to the Han Dynasty. The western section of the western wall has partial remains, with a surviving length of 26 meters and a height of 1.5 meters. The city foundation is nearly 15 meters wide, with rammed earth layers ranging from 0.04 to 0.15 meters in thickness. The rammed pits have a diameter of 0.07 meters, and the fill includes mixed sandy gray pottery with rope patterns, clay gray pottery fragments, mottled rope-patterned roof tiles, red fired earth, and bronze arrowheads. The site yields abundant artifacts, covers a large area, has thick cultural layer deposits, and dates from the early Warring States period to the Han Dynasty. It is one of the more intact and valuable city sites of its kind.

Source: Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau

Shangbo Village: Located five kilometers southeast of Wangmao Town, Shangbo Village is traversed by the Dongji Trunk Road, offering convenient transportation. It is a resettlement village for migrants from the Xiaolangdi Dam project and was relocated as a whole to Wangmao Town, Yuanqu County, in 2000. The village has 316 households, a population of 1,076, and 39 Party members. It is divided into seven residential groups: Guanbei, Langou, Dongjie, Xijie, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest. The village covers a land area of 3.86 square kilometers and has over 1,600 mu of arable land. Its main industries include vegetable greenhouses, fruit cultivation, chicken farming, and pig breeding. Guided by the town government’s “31126” planning goals, Shangbo Village began development in 2010... More details about Shangbo Village++

Further Reading:

· Fifth Batch of Shanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Units