Location: The capital of Jin State in the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, located in houma city. Year: 585 BC ~ 4 BC16 years. Excavation year: 1952 to present. Introduction: The site of the Old Town of Jin State is the former site of Xintian, the capital of Jin State in the late Spring and Autumn Period. The ancient city ruins are about 1400 meters long from north to south and about 1200 meters wide from east to west. Some relics have been found in the city ruins, such as workshops for making bronzes, pottery, stone tools and bones. Among them, the copper casting site covers an area of more than 3,000 square meters, and the unearthed cultural relics are very rich, including more than 30,000 pieces of copper ingots, lead ingots, copper casting production tools 100 and pottery models. In addition, more than 400 earth pits were found in the ruins of the south of the city, where cows, horses, sheep and jade coins were buried, among which 4 1 pit unearthed the Book of Later Names. Significance: The discovery of the ruins of the ancient city of Jin provides important information for studying the history of Jin and the shape of the capital in the Spring and Autumn Period. Seven ancient sites of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were discovered. The city wall is rammed earth, only buried underground, with a width ranging from 3m to16m. The four ancient cities in the northwest are adjacent. Among them, the ancient city of Baidian is located in the south, which is poorly preserved and the overall situation is unknown. The overall plane of the other three ancient cities is zigzag. The ancient city of Shen Tai in the southwest is about 1700 meters long from east to west and about 1250 meters wide from north to south. The northeast of Niucun Ancient City in the southeast is angular, with a length of1650m from north to south and a width of1100m from east to west. In the north, the northeast corner of the ancient city of Wang Ping stands out, with a length of1025m from north to south and a width of 900m from east to west. These three ancient cities, covering an area of about 4.7 square kilometers, should be the main parts of Xintian. There are 1 large rammed earth abutments in the middle of the ancient city of Wang Ping, which are about 95 meters long from north to south and 75 meters wide. The height in the north is stepped, and the existing height is about 8.5 meters. There are more than 20 large rammed earth-based sites in the south of Taiji. There is a 1 square rammed earth mound in the northwest of Niucun ancient city, each side is about 52.5 meters long and the existing height is 6.5 meters. There are also some broken rammed earth foundation sites in the south, and there are rammed earth walls about 400 meters long on the east and south sides, which are connected with the wall of Niucun ancient city. These places should be the palace area at that time.

In addition, there is a large rammed earth abutment on the bank of Fenhe River in the northwest of the ancient city of Shen Tai. Mazhuang ancient town in the northeast has an arc-shaped plane with a north-south wall in the middle. The east side is about 350 meters long and 300 meters wide, with rammed earth piers 1 seat. Xicheng is about 250 meters long and 200 meters wide from north to south. The eastern part is in the shape of square feet of the ancient city of Wang, and the middle part is separated by the east-west wall. The north city is about 400 meters long and 168 meters wide, and there are several building bases in the city. Cheng Nan is about 214m long from east to west and about105m wide. Beiwu Ancient City is located in the southeast of Beiwu Village in the northeast of the site, far from the central area, from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States Period, including two nearly square ancient cities juxtaposed east and west. The east side is about 550 meters long and the west side is about 380 meters long. The foundation site of the group building was excavated in the middle of Dongcheng, and the Sanbao site was excavated in the southwest, with a length of 58 meters from north to south and a width of 16 meters. According to its time and shape analysis, it may be the fief of Doctor Qing. In the southern suburbs of Niucun ancient city, there are intensive workshops for casting copper, making stones, making bones and making ceramics. To the east of Ma Shang Village on the south bank of Huihe River is the cemetery from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The southeast area of the ancient city of Wang Cheng is the site of tombs, burial pits, oath sites and buildings related to sacrifices.