A Sacred Place of Civilization
The Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City Park
The second exhibition hall introduces the ancient city of Liangzhu. It is known as the “First City of China”. More than eighty years of archaeology have shown that the planning, construction and structural layout of the Liangzhu Ancient City is a model of early urban civilizations in East Asia.
The Liangzhu Ancient City features a triple centripetal structure composed of Palace Area, inner City and Outer City. The Palace Area is at the heart of a complex civil and architectural site. In the Inner City, there are royal tombs, workshops, horizontal and horizontal waterways and the Jiangnan life pattern of living by the water. The Outer City has a layout of many buildings around the leading one, where villagers lived on manmade terraces. In the outer suburbs, there are large villages, altars and cemeteries, trenches and settlements, large paddy fields and so on. The water conservancy system in the northwest of the Liangzhu Ancient City is composed of the High-dam at the Mouth of the Valley, Low-dam on the Plain and the Causeway in front of the Mountains, which is the earliest scientifically planned water resources management system in China.
As the center of power and belief of Liangzhu Culture, the Liangzhu Ancient City is an outstanding example of early urban civilizations in the history of human civilization, with its rational planning, well-planned construction, complete structure and huge project scale.
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