Huifa site

Huifa site

Huifa city is located on Huifa mountain, 4km southwest of Huifa town government, Huinan County, Tonghua City, Jilin Province. It is the capital of Huifa department, one of the four departments of Nuzhen Hulun in Ming Dynasty

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Huifa city is surrounded by water on three sides and river valley plain on the other. The city is divided into inner city, middle city and outer city. A large number of cultural relics, such as gold hat top, blue and white porcelain, were unearthed from the Royal Cemetery at Huifa city site

. Huifa site is of great value to the study of the history of Northeast China in Ming Dynasty

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On May 25, 2006, Huifa site was announced as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the people's Republic of China

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Historical evolution

In the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of Korea, the Koryo mountain city (Huifa city site) was built

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In the Tang Dynasty, Huifa city was successively administered by Shenzhou Prefecture, weilezhou Prefecture, and huiba city of Bohai State

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In September of the 35th year of Wanli (1607), Huifa city was captured by Nurhachi's army

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In 1957, the Huifa site was first discovered when the Huinan cultural relics survey team conducted a cultural relics survey

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In 1961, the cultural relic survey team of Tonghua area investigated Huifa ancient city

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In June 1986, Huinan cultural relics investigation team went to Huifa city twice to investigate, draw, record and take photos

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In 2013, Jilin Provincial Institute of cultural relics and Archaeology carried out active archaeological excavation on Huifa city site

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Site features

City site layout

Huifa city is located on the top of Huifa mountain and on the platform at the foot of Huifa mountain. Its geographical form is dangerous, with an altitude of 333 meters. The city is integrated with the city, road and river. It faces Huifa River in the south, North and West, and valley plain in the first. There are cliffs in the south, steep slopes in the north and gentle in the East Third floor, outer city

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Main distribution

Cultural relics

Huifa city site is rich in relics. In the Royal Cemetery, the gold hat top was unearthed, including brick and tile and other building components, bronze ware, iron horse pedal and other iron ware, as well as five color porcelain pot, blue and white porcelain pot, white bowl, five color pot, blue and white plate, three color porcelain, black glaze and other porcelain

In addition, 2479 pieces of cultural relics such as earrings, silver ornaments, stone mortar, iron knife, fork and arrow were unearthed

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Research value

Huifa city site is the capital of Huifa tribe, one of the four Hulun tribes in the northeast of Ming Dynasty. It is also one of the representative cultural heritages of Nuzhen nationality in the northeast of Ming Dynasty

It is a typical representative of the combination of plain and mountain city in Northeast China, which has important historical and cultural value for the study of the history of Northeast China in Ming Dynasty

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protective measures

On April 13, 1961, Huifa site was announced as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by Jilin Provincial People's government

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On May 25, 2006, Huifa site was announced as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the people's Republic of China

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In 2013, in order to better protect the Huifa site, the "Huifa site heritage protection plan" was completed after two excavation by Jilin Provincial Institute of Archaeology and field investigation and data collection by Beijing Construction Engineering Design and Research Institute and other relevant departments

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History and culture

"Huifa" is a Khitan language, which means "there is no ban on communication". In the history of Liao Dynasty, "huiba" was written. In the works of Ming and Qing Dynasties, some wrote "huiba", while others wrote "Huibi" and "huiba". According to the record of lost history of Liao Dynasty, after Liao destroyed the Bohai Sea, the restrictions on the Bo people were very strict, and they were not allowed to communicate with each other freely, while the Huifa tribe, which was far away from the Bo people, was more lenient and allowed to communicate with other tribes. This is the origin and meaning of the tribe's name

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Tourism information

geographical position

Huifa city is located on Huifa mountain, 4km southwest of Huifa town government, Huinan County, Tonghua City, Jilin Province. Its geographical coordinates are 42 ° 44.095 ′ N and 126 ° 11.269 ′ E

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Opening Hours

Huifa site is open all day.

admission ticket

Admission to Huifa site is free.

Address: Chaoyang Town, Huinan County, Jilin Province

Longitude: 126.07710357354

Latitude: 42.6922369479