Luoyang Eastern Zhou Dynasty, King City Layout

From the city of East Zhou dynasty was discovered in 1950s, scholars carry on first step of research on it and obtain some research achievements, such as the position of the city of East Zhou dynasty, the position of palace area in the city, the prediction about when the city was first built and so on . but lacks a systematic study to the whole layout of the city. It utilizes other scholars ' research results to strengthen the writer's views on the layout of the city with the method that combines both archeological data and history records.The course of building city wall of East Zhou dynasty adopt the principle that artificial construction and natural river combine together, which have the layout characteristics that the city defense system is in its integrity but the city wall construction is not. City wall's construction time is not earlier than spring-autumn earlier period, and is not later than spring-autumn later period either; its starting time of setting up is during spring-autumn middle period. The palatial area of the earlier period should be located in southwestern of the city, and the new-found site of hang tu was a palace that belongs to the king of Xi Zhou dynasty and king Nan of Zhou dynasty . When the war period come, the center of the palatial area already moved from inside of the city to the position that is outside of southwestern of the city, where is located in QuJia Tun now. King tomb area was divided into a mausoleum area of wang-city, which is composed by a mausoleum area of zhou wang and a mausoleum area of west zhou king, a mausoleum area of zhou shan a mausoleum area of cheng zhou The eastern region of the bury area was planned: time of tombs that are close to south area is aerlier than that close to north , since the southerner tombs belonged to spring-autumn period and the northerner ones belonged to war period, existing a process of extending from south to north The handicraft workshops mainly distribute in Wang Cheng park and XiaoTun village neighborhood, other places only distribute piecemeal Moreover, this article introduces the layout of food warehouse in war period and speculates the district of business area sacrificed areaCompared with other cities belong to contemporary times, it is found that: the layout of East Zhou city is a system of a city wall and the outer wall of a city, which is combined with palace and the outer wall of a city, but not only a city wall circle. Its basic layout is not the kind of square and palace in the center of the city, which is as history records said, but form of "Ancestry in left, temple in right, palace in front and living room in back " conforms to the history records. The form of East Zhou dynasty is very strongly military guarded, which is closely-related with the social condition...