The royal city of the ancient kingdom of Liangzhu has a total of more than 3 million square meters.

This was already a very large city in the era of 5,000 years ago.

And the core area of this ancient city is the current Mojiao Mountain ruins.

The Mojiaoshan site is the largest site in the Liangzhu cultural site, located 25 kilometers northwest of present-day Hz City.

The central mound of the site is rectangular in the east-west direction, about 670 meters long from east to west, about 450 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of about 300,000 square meters and a soil layer thickness of 10.2 meters.

There are also three small mounds on the big earth platform, showing a three-legged trend, the south is the turtle mountain, the north is the small Mojiao mountain, and the east is the big Mojiao mountain.

The entire artificially built huge mound platform is shaped like a so-called "earthen pyramid".

On this large earthen platform, a large area of rammed foundation sites and large pillar cave remains have been found, which are the remains of large-scale buildings in those years.

That is to say, 5,000 years ago, the ancestors of Liangzhu Kingdom artificially built these three large mound platforms in the center of the city.

And these three mounds, many large buildings were built on them.

After these years of archaeological exploration, it can be basically determined that this large earthen platform is the royal palace of Liangzhu, as well as the sacrificial area similar to the "Taimiao".

Immediately to the northwest of the Mojiao Mountain site is the so-called "Liangzhu King Mausoleum" of the tomb group of the anti-mountain site.

It can be said that the culture of Liangzhu is indeed the source of influencing Chinese civilization for thousands of years.

Their imperial palace will also be equipped with the Temple of Heaven, and their "imperial tomb" will also be built next to the ruling center.

The birth of the ancient kingdom of Liangzhu is a "***" for the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River!

More than 10,000 years ago, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, prehistoric settlements were still very rare, and only in the northeast of Jiangxi were found individually, and caves were used as dwellings.

However, 10,000 years later, in the mountain basin in the middle reaches of the Qiantang River, there were many ruins represented by the Shangshan culture, and more than 20 have been found so far, all of which are wilderness-type settlements near the river, and agricultural settlement has appeared.

Although there are temporal differences in these settlements, they have generally become large-scale and have expanded to the surrounding area to the east of Kuocang Mountain and the north to the northern foot of Siming Mountain.

Around 8,000 years ago, there were also scattered settlements in the intermountain basin in the middle reaches of the Qiantang River and in the plains on the south bank of the lower reaches.

Six or seven thousand years ago was a period of great development of settlements, but seven thousand years ago, the settlements in the whole region did not show obvious hierarchical differences.

The phenomenon of combining the ancient river channel and the artificial ring moat at the Shangshan Cultural Qiaotou Site is only used as a defense need.

Since 6,000 years ago, due to the emergence of a small number of super-large central settlements, the hierarchical differences have become increasingly apparent.

For example, Hanshan Lingjiatan, which covers an area of millions of square meters, and Zhangjiagang Dongshan Village, which covers an area of hundreds of thousands of square meters, were all important central settlements at that time.

There are already differences between the different settlements, between the central settlements, the ordinary settlements, and even the intermediate settlements.

The hierarchical differences are also reflected in the refinement of the internal functions of the settlements and the differentiation of cemeteries.

For example, the appearance of large altars in Lingjiatan, the separation of high-level cemeteries from ordinary cemeteries, and the huge differences in burial goods are all important signs that social complexity has begun.

However, the most significant changes occurred during the Liangzhu cultural period.

From the end of Songze to the early Liangzhu period, the use of jade in the cemeteries of the Guanjingtou settlement in the Liangzhu area has been differentiated.

In the early days of Liangzhu, large altars and high-grade tombs appeared in the Yaoshan cemetery, and a large number of jade artifacts became an important identity symbol, and the largest number of jade artifacts buried in the tombs reached more than 700 pieces (sets), which formed a huge difference from ordinary cemeteries such as the temple.

Roughly starting from the middle of Liangzhu, the anti-mountain cemetery is a relatively independent cemetery that can be called the "royal tomb", which is completely different from a large number of ordinary cemeteries in the surrounding area.

More importantly, the Liangzhu area adopts a high and low dam water conservancy system built with "grass wrapped in mud bags", and there is an overall plan for flood storage and water regulation, which can form a reservoir area of 8.5 square kilometers.

The area of about 30 million square meters, about 10 meters high Mojiao Mountain large-scale artificial pile foundation site, and the city wall with a total area of more than 290 million square meters, the bottom width of the city wall is about 40-60 meters, and the outer outline city surrounded by more than 8 million square meters, the moat outside the city wall and the inner city river and the main river channel excavated, forming a "well" shaped river network in the city, constituting a quite complete waterway system.

At the same time, there are a number of large-scale, rich burial goods, and high-grade cemeteries with jade as burials in the entire Taihu Lake Basin, such as Jiangyin Gaochengdun, Changzhou Sidun, Shanghai Fuquan Mountain, etc.

However, it is incomparable with the Yaoshan and Anti-Mountain cemeteries, so it has become a second-level central settlement.

There are a certain number of ordinary settlements outside the central settlement, and there are 6 small settlements in the periphery of the ancient city of Liangzhu.

The Maoshan site may be a grassroots settlement mainly engaged in rice farming, and the same is roughly the case around other sub-center settlements.

It can be seen that the central settlement established in the Liangzhu area, with Mojiao Mountain as the core, the ancient city as the focus, supplemented by the dam and river network system, has been carefully planned, and finally became the center of the entire Liangzhu culture, and a "pyramid-shaped" social structure that may have certain centralized characteristics has been formed in the Liangzhu culture.

As we all know, the evolution of human development generally goes through the era of primitive tribes, then to the era of settlements, and finally gradually enters the era of city-states and Fangguo.

After that, it was the era of feudal states.

The Liangzhu civilization obviously broke through the settlement era, expanded step by step from the mature central settlement in the settlement era, and formed a mature Fangguo system.

The core area of the center is 30 square meters, which is the palace area and sacrificial area of the Liangzhu Kingdom, and the city wall with an area of nearly 300 square meters completed later is the inner city of the Liangzhu Kingdom surrounded by the middle.

And the width of this city wall is even 40-60 meters, which was definitely a bear city comparable to Tiandu 5,000 years ago!

Outside the inner city, there is an outer city surrounded by more than 8 million square meters.

Moreover, the capital of Liangzhu is still a city built on water like the water city of Venice.

With the moat of the outer city, the inner city river, and the branch rivers excavated between the main rivers, a complex river network has been formed in the city, connecting the various areas of the entire Liangzhu ancient city.

This shows that the water transportation of the Liangzhu people is very developed, and there is a mature "river network" system!

In the land of China 5,000 years ago, it was simply a Zenith star civilization!

And this is just the capital of Liangzhu Kingdom.

Outside the capital, Liangzhu also ruled a large amount of territory in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and even went north to wage war with settlements in Shandong and plunder land!

Even a foreigner wearing colored glasses would not dare to deny that Liangzhu, where the civilization is so highly developed and the city is so mature, is not an ancient Fang country, just a tribe!