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Han Zhuang City Site

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Last updated 2026-11-16 — Han Zhuang City Site is located about 4 kilometers southeast of Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, on the eastern side of Zhugeying Village. It is the largest, most regularly laid out,...

Han Zhuang City Site

Han Zhuang City Site
  Han Zhuang City Site is situated about 4 kilometers southeast of Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, on the eastern side of Zhugeying Village. It is the largest, most regularly laid out, and best-preserved ancient city site from the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) in Yunnan Province.

  The site has an approximately rectangular layout, covering an area of 116,000 square meters. The city walls were built by ramming a mixture of red clay and sandstone. Within and around the site, a large number of square-grid patterned bricks, diamond-patterned bricks, and wuzhu coins have been discovered, along with fengshui tiles featuring designs such as the vermilion bird and cloud scrolls, as well as flat and tubular tiles. In the vicinity of the city site, several tombs have been found, yielding inscribed bricks from the years "Jianwu 4th Year" and "Yuan Kang 4th Year," as well as auspicious phrase bricks reading "Long Happiness, Unending Life" and "Prosperity Without End." All of these are relics from the Han and Jin periods.

  Han Zhuang City Site is the most representative example of Han Dynasty historical and cultural heritage in Yunnan Province. It holds significant value for the study and understanding of the ancient civilization in the Yunnan region, the political, economic, and cultural connections between frontier ethnic minority areas and inland China, as well as ancient transportation and trade routes connecting China to foreign lands.

Han Zhuang City Site is a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

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