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| Beijing Liao & Jin City Wall Museum |
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The Beijing Liao & Jin City Wall Museum of is located in the Yulin community, Youanmenwai in Fengtai District. In 1990, the ruins of the 800-year old water gate of the Jin dynasty (1115-1235£©central capital were discovered here. In 1995, the Beijing municipal government listed it as a Beijing key cultural heritage protection site and officially opened it to the public in April.
The Beijing Liao & Jin (916-1234) City Wall Museum has a construction area of 2,500 square meters. The water gate ruins are exhibited in the underground exhibition hall. The entire ruins were a wood and stone structure. They are 43.4 meters long, but across the water culvert they are 21 meters long and 7.7 meters wide. To date this is the largest of its kind that has been discovered. It is an important evidence to determine the site of the Jin dynasty's capital city and to study ancient architecture and irrigation works of China.
The first-floor consists of five sections illustrating the excavation process, the research achievements, and the development of Beijing centering around Jin dynasty's central capital. The unearthed cultural relics were mainly from the Liao & Jin Period. Examples are: the tri-colored glazed pottery Goddess of Mercy at Longquan valley in Beijing's Mentougou District, stone inscriptions unearthed at Jinling (another name for Nanjing), copperware to get rid of evil spirits unearthed in the imperial palace of Jin's central capital, wooden furniture and chinaware from the Jin Dynasty. In addition, visitors to the museum can review the evolution of the site of Beijing in past dynasties, the Liling irrigation works, the Chexiang Canal built in the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280), the cutting of Jinkou River in the Jin Dynasty, as well as the water conservancy works of today's Beijing-Miyun Water-diverting Canal. |
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