Photos of Heishantou Ancient City

The ancient city of Heishantou is located 10 kilometers northwest of Heishantou Town, Ergun City. The ancient city is divided into an inner city and an outer city, and the city walls are all made of earth. The ancient city is the site of the Liao Dynasty. According to the records of "The Yuan Shi Translation Zhengbu: The Genealogy of Taizu's Brothers" and Schlater's "History" and relevant experts' demonstrations, during the Mongolian Khanate, the Erguna River Basin was the younger brother of Genghis Khan, Hasa Er's fief. The remaining height of the city wall is 1-2 meters, and there is a moat outside the city wall. The bottom of the trench is 5-9 meters wide and 1-2 meters deep. There are city gates on all sides, and the gate wall is 9-12 meters wide. There is a urn outside the gate, and there is a horse face every 100 meters or so outside the city wall. At the corner of the city wall, there are tall turrets protruding beyond the wall. The inner city is located in the middle of the outer city to the west and north. It is rectangular in shape and has a circumference of 560 meters. There are two small gates in the east and west, and there are trenches outside the city. The whole building is in the shape of "dry", and the granite circular column bases are arranged in an orderly manner with a spacing of 4 meters. On the north side of the outer city, there is a building with an inner square and an outer circle. The top of the outer wall is 2 meters wide, and there is a south gate with a width of 5 meters. In the northeast corner of the outer city, there is a sub-city and a water well, which has collapsed; a series of small residential sites remain in the north wall of the outer city.