Spring and Autumn Yancheng Relics Park

Yancheng takes on a unique look because it falls into three circles from inside to outside: imperial city and its moat; inner city and its moat; outer city and its moat. Now we stand outside the outer city. Cross the moat bridge at the oute...

  The place with foaming water, not far from here, is Dragon Spring, also called Dragon Pool. The pristine pool is infinitely deep. Local villagers ever fathomed it with a pole as long as a dozen or so meters, but still failed to touch...

  What pleases the eye to the left is a row of rustic dwellings, which imitate the ancient cottages of the Spring and Autumn Epoch. Owing to the heavy rainfall here, these folk houses, in fact wood structures, had deteriorated with gre...

What we can see in the front left-hand side is the relic site where Yue Fei, a generalissimo of the Southern Song, ever appointed major generals. When Jurchen army invaded the frontier during Jianyan Period, the generalissimo along with his...

  Now we can see the second moat of age-old Yancheng. The moat is 4 m deep on the average, but may be a dozen meters or so deep as well. The width, normally 30-50 meters, may be 60 meters at most. There have been 4 canoes unearthed fro...

  Now feast our eyes are three tall mounds: Head, Belly and Feet in order. In 1991, archaeologists excavated the head mound, thus discovering the owner’s coffin and nearly 300 burial artifacts. The tomb nestles in the outer city, which...

  Yancheng’s inner city sprawls 1,500 meters, about 3 li (a Chinese unit of length, 1 li=500 meters) while the outer city stretches 3,500 m or 7 li. Their areas fit well in with the relevant account in Mencius. Besides, the urban desig...

  Originally, Sun Wu’s Thatched Cottage was an ordinary thatched cottage. It is said that Sun Wu, the soldier saint, once lived in seclusion here to avoid war and study the art of war in memory of Sun Wu. Later generations renovated th...

  The third moat in Yancheng from outside to inside is called Imperial City River, which is 500 meters long and 30 meters wide surrounding Imperial City. Imperial City, also known as Ziluo City, is located in the center of Yancheng Rel...

  Bamboo Well is located in the Imperial City of Yancheng, with a history of about 3,000 years. The well is about 7 meters deep with square wellhead. Four corners of well are fixed with logs with a diameter of 10 cm. Thin bamboo is wov...