The site of store of Zhengzhou lies in city and suburb of Zhengzhou of Henan Province.
Zhengzhou of Henan Province is an old city with 3000 histories of more than years, the cultural relics and historic sites are very abundant, bury numerous historical relics, the site of store of Zhengzhou found here in the underground, it is one of China s archaeological important discoveries. Found in 1950 by a work team of historical relic of Henan Province in the site, the identification explored through the archaeology, this is that one is earlier than later period of Shang Dynasty in the capital -The site in Shang Dynasty of Anyang Yin Dynasty ruins, the research of trader s culture had important meanings.
The site covers an area of 25 sq. km., the large-scale capital lies in the middle part of the site. The level of the city location is similar to the rectangle, it is the high city wall that built all around, the wall girth is 7 kilometers, ground residual the intersection of wall and highest point reach 5, wall base widest up to 32 meterses.
About 400,000 square meters in the northeast corner open the area high in the city, discovering has a building base not of uniform size, the big one is up to 2000 square meters, the small one has 100 square meters, a set of Quito takes the form of the rectangle, the surface arranges neat column cave, some are still keeping the column plinth, ornaments such as bronze tube, jade tube, jade slice,etc.
are excavated near the base, infer here may be the palace group originally in view of the above. It have at palace district on one piece on north and south to trench,1.4 meter wide, 0.9 meter deep, find by 100 more than skulls personal abandoned to have on a long trench of about 15 meters that explored already, there are the shape of the wooden dipper of the saw more skulls.
In addition also find on the highland of northeast corner of the district of the palace that there are 8 that hold a memorial ceremony for dog s hole, some people and dog put in a hole together, these should be sacrificial traces that move about.
District, residential block, grave district of handicraft industry workshop are all distributed outside the city. The handicraft industry workshop includes the workshop of smelting copper, burning the pottery, making bone etc.. In addition, also find a bronze cellar to hide with the southeast corner respectively outside the west wall and excavate a large number of imperial bronze sacrificial vessels, Shang Dynasty masterpiece in the bronze ware all, square pot 1 meter high such as mountain range Du, it was 86.
4 kilograms in weight, it is the biggest bronze sacrificial vessel in earlier stage of Shang Dynasty known at present.