Centered around the ancient town of Qingshan, 45 kilometers from the county seat, the museum features 12 Yelang historical sites including Tonggu Mountain, Daying Mountain, Xiaoying Mountain, Lion Mountain, Dapo, and Tongguan Mountain. Of the 21 ancient Yelang sites in the province, 12 are located in Qingshan, Puan County alone, with two Yelang sites at Tonggu Mountain in Qingshan. Through two archaeological excavations conducted between 1978 and the present, over 2,000 cultural relics have been unearthed. These include bronze swords with straight grooves, bronze arrowheads, and human-face-shaped bronze buttons. The sites date from the Warring States period up to the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. They were workshops for casting bronze swords, firing pottery, and producing weapons during the ancient Yelang period. The Qingshan sites and the unearthed artifacts fully demonstrate that Qingshan was an important political, economic, military, and cultural center of the ancient Yelang Kingdom.
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