Wuchuan County
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Wuchuan (Chinese: 武川县; pinyin: Wǔchuānxiàn), is a county within Hohhot City, capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in the People's Republic of China.
[edit] History
The name Wuchuan, from the earliest record, was from the Zhou Book(周书), 398AD, and North History (北史). Human activity may be be traced back 10,000 years.
The archaeology site of Dayao Culture (大窑文化) was found at Daqingshan (大青山) village, Wuchuan, and proved that this area was suitable for humans living at that time. Another Paleolithic site at Erdaowa (二道洼) Village in Wuchuan, dated as 10,000 years old, lots of stone tools were found, including stone knives, cutters and axes, tell us that the main human activities at that time were hunting and gathering.
A later site dated 5,000 BC at Jinergou (井儿沟), better stone tools and pottery were widely found, the tools were used for production, harvest and making clothes. These showed that agriculture is already very common at that time.
In Five Emperors Period (五帝时期)，about 2800BC, many tribes lived at Wuchuan, such as Yunzhou (荤粥), Shefang(舌方), Tufang (土方)and Guifang (鬼方). Among them, The Yellow Emperor's war with YunZhou was recorded in the Historic Record (史记). During the Shang Dynasty, Emperor Wu (武王) also fought the Guifang many times.
Around 302BC, Wuchuan was a city belongs to the war states of Zhao (赵国). The king of Zhao defeated Hulinloufan and built a wall near Daqingshan to stop northern tribes. This event was recorded in Water Jingzhu (水经注), the wall now is called South Daqingshan Great Wall, located in Wuchuan. The history of Wuchuan could also be found in Qin Dynatiy, Han Dynasty, especially the Changping Battle (长平之战) of Zhao Kuo(赵括).
Wuchuan was one of the capitals of the South-North Dynasty. A tomb was found at Tuchenliang village, containing ancient coins, weapons, and bronze and iron containers. Scientists stated that Wuchuan would have been the capital of Northern Wei, according to the Water Jingzhu.
In AD 916, Wuchan was a town belongs to Qidan (契丹). Archeological sites were also found in the Yuan, Liao and Jin states, some Song Dynasty coins were also found in Wuchuan.
