Han Zhuang Town

Located in Huan Zhuang Township of Long Yang District in Baoshan City, the town is the largest existing architectural evidence from Han Dynasty, a must - see in Baoshan. With an area of 116,00 square meters, 315 meters long from north to south. The ancient city wall, its base and top are 15 and 9 meters wide respectively, were built of temped red and white clay. The walls ranged in height from 2 to 5 meters. Its cross section reveals layers upon layers of red and white tamped clay. At its highest points, there are more than 40 layers, a remarkable construction project. In the general survey of cultural relics conducted in 1981, a pebble road found earlier by local village farmers, a house basement made of tamped clay and jars of copper coins were discovered. Since then, a great deal of large heavy bricks and tiles of the Eastern Han Dynasty style were unearthed, of which, the most intact plate tile is 36cm by 37cm, its both sides are carved with exquisite patterns. The most intact semicircular tile is 40cm long with a diameter of 15cm. the bricks are mostly rectangular and in different sizes. Another kind of bricks takes the form of a wedge, and bricks of this kind are engraved on all sides with various decorative patterns and designs, such as prismos, grass coils, magpies, and wuzhu coins. One of them carved with the epigraph of being made in the forth year of the Taikang Period written in Chinese official script Li.

According to its scale, layout, relics, location as well as the year noted by the epigraph, experts have concluded that the Han Zhuang Town was the main site of Yong Chuan Prefecture in the Han and Jin Dynasties.