Shengweicheng Relic Site

The site of Shengwei City is located in Miaotai Township, Huinong District, Shizuishan City. The existing city site is slightly square. The city wall is rammed with loess. The residual wall is 2 to 4 meters high and the base is 13 meters wide. The north wall is 588 meters long, the south wall is 587 meters long, the east wall is 593 meters long, and the west wall is 590 meters long. There is a city gate on the south wall, and the city gate has only one doorway, which is 13 meters long and about 4 meters thick. On both sides of the door is paved with a layer of long stone, on which there are four circular stone pillar foundations. There is a stone threshold in the doorway, which is 0.3 meters above the ground. There is a stone door pillow on each side of the stone threshold, and there are grooves for the door frame. The higher part of the site is a beacon tower more than 4 meters high. According to literature records, there was a major earthquake here, and the entire city fell into the ground. Now the only thing left in the city of Shengwei is the broken wall. After a thousand years of baptism of wind, frost, rain and dew, the city wall became short and intermittent. The east wall has changed beyond recognition, it was leveled, houses and courtyards were built, and the north and south walls are relatively intact. People used local materials and transformed several sections of the city wall into brick kilns! Although the brick kiln has been abandoned, each piece of red brick has been exchanged for scars that cannot be erased everywhere in the city of Weicheng... The city wall is now riddled with holes and dilapidated. There are traces of ditches in the city, showing that the ruins were once developed into farmland. Archaeologists excavated the site of Weicheng in the province and unearthed a large number of cultural relics, including: ancient coins, porcelain, iron and so on. Importantly, a bald head made of porcelain was also unearthed here. Since Li Yuanhao ordered baldness as early as 1033 AD, this piece is even more precious as a cultural relic. Archaeologists also found that, except for a small amount of bricks, tiles and other building materials found at the Nanchengmen site, no bricks and tiles were found in the site, indicating that most of the houses in the city were earthen houses. As the sun sets in the west, in the high sky, clouds and smoke flow, misty and confusing. In the city, it is empty, with towers lined up like stars. Looking to the west, the Helan Mountain is born in the sky, and it stands majestically. Against the backdrop of the setting sun, the ancient city is still desolate and heavy, and the silence adds a bit of mystery to the ancient city.