Site of the Deer Terrace

　　The site is located 24 kilometers west of the county town, between Liuzhai and ShenZhai, bordered by the Qi River to the west and south, covering an area of over 100 acres. Over time, the site has been divided into six terraces arranged in an orderly fashion from east to west.

　　This site contains cultural relics from the Neolithic Age through the Han Dynasty. Observations of the exposed ruins along the surrounding cliffs reveal a cultural layer about three meters thick. The upper layer belongs to the Han Dynasty, followed by cultural layers from the Zhou, Shang, Longshan, and Yangshao periods. The site is rich in content, featuring multiple layers of white lime stone house foundations, as well as ash pits and red burned earth chunks. A large number of pottery fragments are scattered on the ground, including red, black, and gray pottery. The decorative patterns are predominantly rope and basket designs, followed by plain and checkered patterns, with very few additional appliqué designs. The site includes a wide variety of artifacts such as stone axes, arrowheads, spades, adzes, knives, and sickles, as well as painted pottery bowl fragments, tripod legs, li tripod feet, bone awls, hairpins, bone arrowheads, bronze mirrors, iron axes, and iron hook-on guards. Provincial and regional cultural relic experts have conducted several surveys of the site, collecting physical samples and unanimously recognizing it as an ancient cultural site of high historical value. During the 1980 cultural relics survey, terraces two and six were leveled, terrace three retained only 667 square meters, and terrace four survived with 2,668 square meters. Only terraces one and five remain well-preserved.