Shanyu Dadu site of the Tang Dynasty

The so-called Chanyu Dadu Prefecture is the capital of the prefecture where the Turks live. It is the political and cultural center of the Turks in southern desert. In the third year of longshuo (663 A.D.), the Tang dynasty built a city in Helingeer and set up the Yunzhong capital mansion. The site is still clearly visible. The city wall was rammed with earth, with the highest remaining about 5 meters. The outer city is slightly rhombic. The east wall is 1750 meters long, the west wall is 1200 meters long, the north wall is 1250 meters long, and the south wall has been washed by Baobao River, with a residual length of more than 500 meters.

Shanyu Dadu site of the Tang Dynasty

The site of Shanyu Dadu mansion in Tang Dynasty is located in Tuchengzi, Helingeer County, Hohhot city. The so-called Chanyu Dadu Prefecture is the capital of the prefecture where the Turks live. It is the political and cultural center of the Turks in southern desert. In the third year of longshuo (663 A.D.), the Tang dynasty built a city in Helingeer and set up the Yunzhong capital mansion. The site is still clearly visible. The city wall was rammed with earth, with the highest remaining about 5 meters. The outer city is slightly rhombic. The east wall is 1750 meters long, the west wall is 1200 meters long, the north wall is 1250 meters long, and the south wall has been washed by Baobao River, with a residual length of more than 500 meters.

Now the Chengmen site and the Wengcheng site can be seen in the East, West and North. In the south of the outer city, there is the inner city, commonly known as the Imperial City, which is slightly square and about 500 meters long on each side. The inner city is the thickest cultural accumulation layer in the city, in which there are large-scale building foundations, stone column foundations, and dense broken bricks and pottery fragments. According to the surface survey, the city was built in the northern part of the ruins of the old city in the Eastern Han and Northern Wei dynasties in the Tang Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, the buildings were stacked in the inner city, forming a cultural accumulation of 3-5 meters thick, some protruding about 2-3 meters above the ground. As early as before liberation, stone inscriptions such as "Tang Zhenshi Jiedushi Chanyu Dadu protecting Zhang Weiqing's Dezheng tablet" were unearthed here in 820 A.D.

Among the cultural relics unearthed after liberation are bronze and porcelain statues, bronze seals, porcelain, bronze mirrors and so on. In 1960, a large pottery urn containing "Kaiyuan Tongbao" copper coins weighing about 500 kg was unearthed. Many Tang tombs were also found near the site.

Address: Tuchengzi, Helingeer County, Ulanqab League

Longitude: 111.78802612305

Latitude: 41.692305487565

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