On the Layout of the Palace-city of the Han–Wei Luoyang - 中国考古.PDF

On the Layout of the Palace-city of the Han–Wei Luoyang City in the Light of the Changhemen Gate Qian Guoxiang _ Keywords: Han Wei period Luoyang City Changhemen Gate layout of the palace-city _ The Old Luoyang 洛阳 in the Han Wei period was one Northern Wei times, the layout of its palace-city is of the important cities of ancient China, functioning as difficult to be reconstructed completely and exactly in the capital for a long period of time, from the Eastern the light of available archaeological data. Among the Zhou to the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The previous studies only Prof. Wang Zhongshu’s 王仲殊 architectural form and evolution of its palace-city have reconstruction can be taken to be a deep-going all along been a topic of general interest among scholars. investigation. Based on related archaeological and tex- However, it is extremely difficult to clarify the shape and tual evidence, I would attempt to offer some amend- layout of the palace-city in different periods as Luoyang ments and supplements to its details so that it might be had a long history and went through a lot of dynasties, its more reliable (Fig. 1). buildings were repeatedly destroyed and renovated, and 1. Southern wall of the South Palace the related literal records are rather confused. According to documentary sources, the Ping- From 2001 to 2002, an overall excavation was car- chengmen 平城门 Gate, functioning as the main gate of ried out on the site of Changhemen 阊阖门, the main gate the greater city and also called palace gate, must have of the Northern Wei palace-city, which revealed that the been closely related to the