Shang culture is the site of the Yangtze River.

Wucheng Site is located in Wucheng Village, Qian Shan Township, Zhangshu City, Jiangxi Province, on the hilly slope of the upper reaches of Xiaojiang River. This is the first large-scale inhabited site of the Shang Dynasty discovered south of the Yangtze River. 1973 discovered when Qiuwucheng Reservoir was built.

1973 Since the discovery of Wucheng site in September, under the guidance of leaders and experts from National Cultural Heritage Administration and Peking University Institute of Archaeology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen University and Sun Yat-sen University have successively carried out nine large-scale excavations with provincial and municipal cultural relics authorities.

The exposed area is more than 6,000 square meters, 3 houses have been cleaned, 2 ceramic kilns 12, 92 ash pit caves, 20 tombs, 2 wells, and bronze artifacts 1 piece.

It is the first large-scale Shang human settlement site discovered in Jiangnan area, and it is also the first area in Jiangnan area to enter the threshold of civilization. Its discovery broke the conclusion that Shang culture was just a river, and it was rated as one of the archaeological discoveries of China 100 in the 20th century.

Restoration and Protection of Wucheng Site

"Yin ruins culture spans the Yangtze River, and there is another spring in Jiangnan." Facing the ruins of Wucheng, a national key cultural relic protection unit, Su, an archaeological researcher of China Academy of Social Sciences and former chairman of China Archaeological Society, can't help but sigh.

According to the analysis of stratigraphic superposition and archaeological data, Wucheng culture can be divided into three periods: the middle of Shang Dynasty, the late of Shang Dynasty and the third day of Zhou Dynasty. This is the capital of Wucheng culture, which lasted for 400 years.

400 years is only a short moment in the long river of history, but it has become the "key" to open the treasure house of ancient culture in Jiangnan and the "ruler" to study chronology.

According to the survey, there are city walls, houses, pottery kilns, tombs, wells, religious places of worship, etc. in this Shang Dynasty city site, which is known as the "soul of Jiangxi". This is a fairly complete capital structure. More than 4,000 complete cultural relics such as stone tools, bronzes, ceramics and jade articles were unearthed, more than 200 pieces of Wen Tao or symbols were carved, and more than 40 kinds of geometric printed pottery patterns were found.