For this cultural site, experts from Xiaogan Museum initially verified it as a garrison town. However, Professor Lao Qi of Wuhan University believes that the new town residence is probably only the ruins of feudal manor in the third century AD.
Archaeologists from the museum drove to this mysterious ancient city.
There is a moat around the city.
Xinfucheng is located in Xinfu Village, Putan Town, 23 kilometers southeast of Yunmeng County. This place is the lake area, and the ruins of the ancient city are located on the plain where the tributaries of Fuhe River meet and impact. Now, the city is surrounded by farmland and ponds.
The location of the whole new town is irregular, with a total area of about 1 km2. The city is now farmland, and the city center is Xiaxindian Zhenjiang Jiamenwan. On the north wall is Beiyuan Bay, a residential building; Taiwan Province Province and Xinfu Street once lived in Dongyuan. East Wang Wan and West Wang Wan live in Nanyuan; However, Xiyuan was badly damaged and was razed to the ground when the land was leveled in the 1980s.
There are many unearthed cultural relics.
In order to dissect the city wall, archaeologists dug a trench and scraped off the section with natural sections to understand the internal structure and causes of the city wall. The bottom of the section is 4.82 meters long, 3.2 meters deep and the slope is 25 degrees. * * * It is divided into seven floors: the 6th-7th floors are rammed with brown yellow sand or brown lime soil, which contains the remains of green and yellow glazed bowls in the Six Dynasties, and should be the remains of early city walls. ②-⑤ Layer soil is yellowish brown or grayish brown, containing a small amount of broken blue bricks, tiles and blue and white porcelain pieces. , has been compacted, (2) there are blue bricks at the foot of the slope, with a wall width of 30cm and a height of 50cm, which are collected layer by layer, and each layer is sloping. The unearthed cultural relics were all from the Ming Dynasty, so they were supplemented and repaired many times in the later period.
There are five sluices.
Archaeologists found that there are five sluices in this city. Namely south gate, east gate, north gate, west gate and southwest gate. Sluices are generally 9-13m wide and 3-3.8m deep. The entrance is splayed outside, connected with Daming Pool, with moat and river outside. The thickness of green-gray silt at the bottom of the door is 0.30-0.70m.. At the south gate, an external red sandstone strip base was found, and a horse face was built with bricks; Under the gate of the east gate, archaeologists found wooden stakes for protection and reinforcement.
No land gate was found on the city wall, so it is considered that Xinfu City was a water city when it was first built, and the main means of transportation was boats or rafts. Due to serious damage and not being excavated, the superstructure of the sluice is still unknown.
When drilling the abutment in the city 15, a abutment located in the center of the city was found, which was divided into 7 floors: the 6th and 7th floors were rammed soil layers, the soil was hardened, and the soil color was brownish gray, which was similar to the northern city wall. The 4th floor was accompanied by pieces of celadon bowls, which should be equivalent to the 6th and 7th floors of the city wall, belonging to the architectural relics of the Six Dynasties. There are many blue-and-white porcelain pieces and tiles in the Ming Dynasty on floors ③-⑤. The first and second floors are mixed with modern relics.
The platform base is oval, with a length of 155 m and a width of 55 m, which is 0.8-2 m higher than the sky. Now he is a resident of Jiangjiamen Bay. In addition, archaeologists found relics from the Song and Ming Dynasties in several small platforms. There are also relics of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Among them, on the east side of a foundation, two wells in the Ming Dynasty were discovered. According to the investigation of archaeologists, these wells are made of thin blue-gray bricks with a diameter of nearly 1 m and a depth of 6 meters.
Garrison city
According to Yunmeng County Records, the new city is the new city, which was built by Huan Wen, the great master of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Yonghe five years, AD 349).
In the first month of the fifth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 349), the late Zhao Guojun Shi Hu in the north died and Taizi Stone became king. Soon, the Buddha of Wang Pengcheng killed the stone lion and became the emperor. At this time, Huan Wen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was promoted to be the general of the Western Expedition, and he was the third division of Kaifu Instrument. He heard about the chaos in the post-Zhao Dynasty, and worried that Shi Zun would go to war with the Eastern Jin Dynasty like Shi Hu when he came to power, so he sent troops to Anlu in advance to prepare for defense. When the soldiers arrived in Anlu, he saw that Fuhe was a rare place to station troops, more than fifty miles southeast of Yunmeng. He built strong fortifications there and named it "New Town", which is the new city of Xindian Town today.