Seventy-four immovable cultural relics in East China's Jiangsu, physical heritage sites like temples that are fixed in place and cannot be relocated, were recently included in the province's ninth batch of cultural relic protection units, with two included from Taizhou city in the region.
Dating back over 7,000 years, the first is the Caoyangang Ruins from the Neolithic Age, with a total area covering over 80,000 square meters. Archaeological discoveries include ash pits, house sites, water wells, fences, wooden structures and other relics.
Thousands of cultural relics of different materials, such as pottery, bones, stones, wood and jade, have been unearthed, as well as a large number of organic matter remains and animal and plant specimens.
An aerial view of the Caoyangang Ruins. [Photo/WeChat account: tzfabu]
The second is the Taichangsheng Muhao architectural complex, situated in the Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone. In the early years of the Republic of China, Liu Hanfang, a wood merchant from Hubei province, hired skilled craftsmen to build it according to the architectural style of his hometown.
The architectural complex also blends the traditional residential style of Taizhou and classic Huizhou-style architecture, giving it historical, artistic and social value.
A bird's-eye panorama of the Taichangsheng Muhao architectural complex. [Photo/WeChat account: tzfabu]
