Site of the E’wang City

　　   An ancient city site from the Eastern Zhou period. Located 500 meters south of Huyangui Village, Gauhe Township, Daye City, Hubei Province. It covers an area of approximately 120,000 square meters. It is an extremely important historical and cultural ancient city site in southeastern Hubei, and was a significant Chu city site during the Eastern Zhou period.

　　   According to the "Hubei General Annals · Historical Sites · Wuchang County," there was an E’wang City in Maji Township. The current E’wang City was originally under Maji Township, Wuchang County, and is believed to be the E’wang City recorded in the literature. In 1982, the Huangshi City Museum and other institutions conducted multiple surveys of the site. The city is built along a ridge, with the southwestern part being higher and the northeastern part lower, rising about 5–10 meters above the surrounding ground. The layout is an irregular rectangle, approximately 500 meters long from east to west and 400 meters wide from north to south, with a perimeter of 1,533 meters. The city walls were constructed from red-brown soil mixed with yellow-spotted soil, with rammed layers about 0.1 meter thick. Parts of the southern and northern walls have been destroyed, while the eastern and western walls are relatively well-preserved, with a base width of about 20 meters and a remaining height of about 4.5 meters. There are currently seven breaks in the wall, including one on the northern part of the eastern wall about 15 meters wide and one in the middle of the northern wall about 12 meters wide, which may have been the locations of the east and north gates. Outside the walls, traces of a moat remain, about 10–20 meters wide. Inside the city, one rammed earth foundation site has been found, covering about 2,000 square meters; two kiln sites, oval in shape, are about 1.2–1.4 meters wide and 1.4–1.5 meters high. Outside the city, on the western and southwestern-northwestern ridges, there are clusters of burial mounds, about 1–3.5 meters high and 14–20 meters in diameter, filled with white clay, charcoal, and pebbles. Stone axes, bronze ge (dagger-axes), arrowheads, halberds, iron axes, knives, as well as pottery fragments such as ding (tripods), li (tripod cauldrons), dou (stemmed bowls), guan (jars), yu (basins), and weng (pots) have been collected from inside the city and its surroundings.

　　   In 2001, it was announced by the State Council as part of the fifth batch of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites.