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Jinan
www.hb66.cn 2007-1-6 13:02:51
This old town five kilometers north of Jiangling town was the capital of Chu under twenty rulers during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. For four hundred years, it was the political, economic, and cultural center of Chu and the most important metropolis in South China. The old city wall made of mud still exists today. Three ancient cemeteries outside the town contain more than seven hundred large and medium-size tombs of royal families and high-ranking persons who died more than two thousand years ago. The cemetery of the Qin and Han dynasties (221 B.C. - A.D. 220) can be found on Phoenix Hill in former downtown Jinan. A mummy of a high-class woman of the Western Han Dynasty has been unearthed here. The site has also yielded a large number of bamboo slips used for writing dating from the Han Dynasty and exquisite painted lacquerware.
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