Gansu C position｜Sanjiaocheng Site, looking back at the distant pre-Qin era from the walls

Sanjiaocheng Site, the earliest and only pre-Qin city site in Hexi region, surrounded by farmland, tells the memory of more than 2000 years ago with a touch of loess and a piece of pottery. Standing in front of the broken walls, touching the thick loess, blowing the northwest wind, looking back at the distant pre-Qin era. Sanjiaocheng Site is located in Sanjiaocheng Village, Shuangwan Town, Jinchuan District. The site was discovered by Swedish archaeologist Antsen in 1924. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has conducted several archaeological excavations, including 4 cemetery groups, city sites, as well as houses, cellars, sacrificial pits, etc., covering an area of 4.3 million square meters, and unearthed more than 3,000 cultural relics such as stone tools, pottery, bronze ware, gold ware, iron ware, bone and horn tools, flax and hemp textiles, shell money, etc. Sanjiaocheng Site is the only site of its kind in the Hexi region of Gansu that has been formally excavated. The unearthed artifacts are exquisite and unique, the cultural accumulation layer is deep, the continuation time is long, it belongs to the remains of the Bronze Age Shajing culture, it is a large-scale settlement site built by the Yuezhi (or Wusun) people during the Western Zhou to the Warring States period, and it is a treasure trove for understanding the historical connotations of the northern nomadic people in the pre-Qin period. Sanjiaocheng Site has no special protection, has experienced thousands of years of sun and rain, dust sealed in the fields, standing on this land, simple, primitive, exuding an ancient flavor. Sanjiaocheng Site 📮Address: Sanjiaocheng Village, Shuangwan Town, Jinchuan District, Jinchang City, Gansu Province 💴Ticket: Free