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The excavation of the Taiji Hall complex in Han-Wei Luoyang City

Archaeological Team of Han-Wei Luoyang City, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Published/Copyright: November 18, 2017
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From the journal Chinese Archaeology Volume 17 Issue 1

Abstract

Since 2011, Archaeological Team of Han-Wei Luoyang City of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted coring tests and excavations to the site of Taiji Hall complex in the palace city of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Han-Wei Luoyang City Site, by which the east half of the foundation of the main hall and that of the Taiji East Hall and the aprons, paths, courtyards, gateways, side houses and draining ditches around them were recovered, and the artifacts including bricks, tiles, tile-ends, stone slabs for paving the floor and bronze coins were unearthed. The excavations confirmed that the Taiji Hall in Luoyang was first built in the Three-Kingdoms Period and the layout of the Taiji East and West Halls flanking the main hall in the middle was also formed at that time. This layout was succeeded, rebuilt and reused by the Western Jin, Northern Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties in the later times. This palace system and capital city planning established by the Wei Kingdom of the Three-Kingdoms Period in the Han-Wei Luoyang City were followed by the later dynasties and periods and introduced to Korea and Japan.

Keywords: Imperial palaces--China; Luoyang; rammed earth (architecture); Three-Kingdoms to Southern and Northern Dynasties Periods (220-581 CE)--archaeology

Postscript

The original report published in Kaogu 考 古 (Archaeology) 2016.7:63–78 with 26 illustrations was authored by Tao Liu 刘涛, Guoxiang Qian 钱国祥 and Xiaotao Guo 郭晓涛. This English full-text translation is done by Xiaolei Ding 丁晓雷.

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Published Online: 2017-11-18
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

© 2017 Walter de Gruyter, Inc. ⋅ Boston ⋅ Berlin

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https://doi.org/10.1515/char-2017-0005
Keywords for this article
Imperial palaces--China; Luoyang; rammed earth (architecture); Three-Kingdoms to Southern and Northern Dynasties Periods (220-581 CE)--archaeology

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  2. New archaeological discoveries
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  4. New archaeological discoveries
  5. The Remains of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site in Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu
  6. New archaeological discoveries
  7. The 2014-2015 excavations of the Zhouyuan Site in Baoji, Shaanxi
  8. New archaeological discoveries
  9. Marquis of Haihun’s tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Nanchang, Jiangxi
  10. New archaeological discoveries
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  12. Spotlight
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