Chengtou Mountain Scenic Area

Chengtoushan Scenic Attraction is a national 4A-level tourist Attraction, including Chengtoushan National Archaeological Site Park, Chengtoushan Ancient City Site Museum, Chengtoushan Agricultural Grand View Garden and Chengtoushan Customs Town. The Attraction takes the ancient city culture, rice culture and sacrificial culture as its soul, combines the site landscape with the Souvenir ecological environment, architectural landscape and other elements, and provides a series of experience products, leisure projects and ecological landscapes to form a complete recreation system. Chengtoushan National Archaeological Site Park is built based on the Chengtoushan Site, a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is a national large site protection demonstration area and undertakes three major functions: site protection, cultural display and tourism and leisure. The park covers an area of ​​662 acres. The layout of the park is designed to extend two entrance roads to the south and west with Chengtoushan Site as the axis. Construction started in 2011, was basically completed and opened to the public at the end of 2015, and officially opened on June 7, 2016. The site park has attractions such as the entrance gate, visitor service center, painted garden, inscription stele, South Gate Ecological Square, moat landscape belt, and site area. Chengtoushan Ancient City Ruins Museum is a landmark building in Chengtoushan Tourist Attraction, covering an area of ​​100 mu. It displays the brilliant ancient civilization of southern China represented by the prehistoric ruins of the Liyang Plain, with the Chengtoushan Ruins as the "leader", based on the prehistoric human remains of the entire Liyang Plain for hundreds of thousands of years. The museum has an art hall, a basic cultural relics exhibition hall, a temporary exhibition hall, a multimedia demonstration hall, etc. The Chengtoushan Ancient City Ruins are located in the northwest of Lixian County, about 10 kilometers away from the county seat, covering an area of ​​18.7 hectares. From 1991 to 2014, it was hosted by the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and 15 archaeological excavations were carried out (including joint excavations with Japanese archaeological experts from 1998 to 2001), revealing a total area of ​​nearly 9,000 square meters and unearthed more than 16,000 cultural relics. According to research, it is the earliest (6300 years ago) well-preserved ancient city site in China, rich in content, and with a very clear cultural sequence; the site area contains the earliest (6300-6500 years ago) and well-preserved rice field remains discovered in the world. The discovery of Chengtoushan Ancient City is of great significance to the study of major academic issues such as the development of prehistoric settlements, the history and technology of city construction, the formation of civilization factors in the Yangtze River Basin, and the rise and development of rice farming.