Site of Daizhou City

Site of Daizhou City

The Site of Daizhou City is located around Dongguan Village, Shangguan Town, Dai County. It has a rectangular layout, stretching approximately 1,400 meters from east to west and about 1,300 meters from north to south, covering a total area of around 1.82 million square meters. The existing remnants include an eastern wall section 42 meters long, a western wall section 1,270 meters long, and a northern wall section 825 meters long, with a base width of 5.5–15.8 meters and a top width of 1–10.8 meters, and remaining heights of 3–10 meters. The walls were built using rammed earth, with layers 0.07–0.20 meters thick. Currently, one western gate along with its barbican, two corner towers, and fourteen battlements remain. In addition, there are three auxiliary walled towns to the east, west, and north. According to the *Daizhou Annals* from the Guangxu era of the Qing Dynasty, the city was relocated here from Guangwu City during the Xiping period of the Northern Wei Dynasty (516–518), was first named Daizhou in the fifth year of the Sui Kaihuang era (585), and was expanded during the sixth year of the Ming Hongwu era (1373) on the original foundations, with the walls rebuilt using bricks and stones and heightened and thickened. Only Ming Dynasty remains have been discovered to date. In 1996, the People’s Government of Dai County designated it as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. (Excerpted from *Highlights of Cultural Relics in Xinzhou*)

Source: Xinzhou Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics