History of Cross Town, Lingtai County, Gansu

Shizi Town, the name should be taken from the Shizi Plateau! With a long history, Shizi Town has the remains of the Neolithic Age.

Neolithic Lingtai, the primitive ancestors of the settlement site of 380, located in the town of Zhongtai Xujiagou village of the West Hill site, Liangyuan Township cross the ditch of the West Fortress Hill site and Dujiagou village of the Yangmianling site, Shizi Township, the grass pulse village of grass pulse Hall site, are provincial heritage conservation units, its rich Yangshao, Qijia culture pottery, ground stone, bone and other relics remains show that as early as 5,000 years ago! Lintai's ancestors had already stepped into human civilization. During the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty, the Mishu State was established in Lingtai. There are nearly 200 sites of Zhou culture that existed in the territory along with the Neolithic period, distributed in 13 townships (towns) of Shaozhai, Dudian, Xitun, Shizi, Shangliang, Chaona, Liangyuan, Baili, Zhongtai and Xinkai. During the period of King **** from the early to the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lintai was a vassal state of the Ji family name, "Miguo". During this period, Lintai was close to the capital in the east and rejected the Dajong in the west, and it was both a courtier's cognizance and a military fortress. Therefore, the bronze culture of Lintai in this period is famous in Longshang, which is called the essence of cultural relics. Shizi within the Zhou cultural accumulation, remains of more than 40, Yaojiagou unearthed good uncle tripod, West Tun Baiqaopo 潶 ber, "爰伯" graveyard unearthed bronze as well as the bridge, Temple Bay unearthed jade and its grave goods, are seen in the early Western Zhou cultural characteristics, has important historical significance, scientific and academic research value. A large number of site relics show that the lower reaches of Daxi River to the tributary Puhe River as the center of the distribution of a Xishan site group, in the middle and upper reaches of the Daxi River in the long and narrow Chuan Road, to the Midu Baili for the radiation area of the huge Western Zhou site group, in which the new set of Western Zhou tombs in the and the Bo, according to expert testimony, for the military governor of the Western Zhou, the Department of Yinzhou Bigan tribal affiliation, the discovery of which, the Western Zhou of the early political, military, cultural and artistic research provides an important physical data. The discovery, the study of early Western Zhou politics, military, culture and art provides important physical information.