Linzi old county seat with ruins of Linzi city

Walking around Linzi Ancient City, you can also see 6 iron smelting sites, 2 copper smelting sites, 1 coin foundry, and 4 bone making sites. From these sites, giant iron slag, copper slag, furnace slag, and a large number of Qidao coins, Qian Fans, etc. have been continuously produced. Facing these monuments, people seem to see that countless working people were busy and creating with simple crude tools more than 2,000 years ago. It was they who created the vast ocean of knowledge and the magnificent picture of history.

Looking at these vivid cultural relics and historic sites, you can enter the old county of Linzi without even realizing it. The old county seat of Linzi is recorded in "Qingzhou Prefecture Chronicles" written by Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty: "Linzi County seat is located southwest of the ancient Linzi city, across its southern former site, and is less than half of the ancient city. In the late Yuan Dynasty, it was built by Li Zhongming of Daru Huachi, and it was three feet high on a Saturday... "The city wall is slightly rectangular, with only the southeast corner slightly missing. There is a moat (moat) in the outer ring that is more than two times wide, and the city walls are built with three layers of glue and ramming. In 1466, the second year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Feng built it again and built enemy towers on the four gates. On the stone, there was a seal script inlaid with a plaque saying "Chaoyang" in the east and "Ziliu Xianbao" inlaid on it; in the west it was called "Tonghua". On the top is "Yuling Yaopan"; on the south is "Ying'en", with "Niufeng Cuiyu" on it; on the north: "Wangjing", with "Mianchi Jindai". During the Zhengde, Wanli and Chongji years, it was continuously renovated and consolidated and became the county administrative area since the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Although Linzi began to decline in the late Western Han Dynasty, it has never had a county and has not been abolished. Therefore, the streets of Linzi Old City are quite bustling with shops and people coming and going. There is an east-west street that leads directly to the east gate and west gate. The road is six to seven meters wide and is the main street of this county. The old county government office is located on the north side of Dongxi Street Road. According to the "Linzi County Chronicle" in the 9th year of the Republic of China: "The county government was originally located in the northwest corner of the city. It was built in the 15th year of the Yuan Dynasty. In the 4th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the county magistrate Ouyang Ming moved it to the city. In the 6th year of Zhengde, it was destroyed by bandits. Magistrate Ma Yu Renovation. "The main building of the county government is the lobby, with a building in front, blue bricks and gray tiles, slightly overhanging eaves, a hard top, and a wooden carved fan in the front. The layout is coordinated and the architectural style is solemn and simple. There are rooms for Cao officials on each wing of the lobby. There is a stone pavilion built in front of the hall. There is a land temple to the east and a prison to the west. The prison wall is a masonry structure about 5 meters high and slightly tilted inward. There is a stable built next to it. There is a woodcutter tower built on the gate of the county government office. Outside the gate, there are Shenming and Qishan pavilions on the side, and Huimin Pharmacy on the right. There is a memorial pavilion behind the lobby. Further inside is the magistrate's residence.

On the left side of the magistrate's house is the county magistrate's house, and on the right side are the main book house and Dianshi house. The county government office was destroyed by war in the late years of Chongzhen. In the 18th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the county magistrate Yu Fang rebuilt the lobby. Later, it was continuously renovated during the Kangxi and Guangxu years, basically maintaining the original architectural style. Before and after liberation, the old county government office had always been the county seat of Linzi County. In 1974, the county seat was moved to Xindian and it was rebuilt into the Zibo Colored Weaving Factory. In order to research the ancient cultural center of Linzi area during the Longshan Culture period and explore the origins of Qi culture, on September 16, Peking University, Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology and Linzi District Culture Bureau jointly began to inspect the national key cultural relics protection unit "Tonglin Tianwang Site" "Start digging. This is the first large-scale re-excavation since the site was discovered in 1965.

Captain Wang of the Linzi District Cultural Relics and Archeology Team told reporters that the site is a Longshan cultural site of primitive society and is a key national cultural relic protection unit. During the review, it was discovered that the rammed earth ruins surrounding the site were irregular in shape, with the widest point from east to west reaching 400 meters, and the widest point from north to south reaching 450 meters, covering an area of ??180,000 square meters. Because it is less than 10 kilometers away from Linzi, the ancient city of Qi State, from the scale of the site, its cultural connotation and the characteristics of the unearthed artifacts, this site occupies an important position in the study of Longshan Culture and is by no means an ordinary village residence.