Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology The Yangyuanfang site is an important Shang ear site nearby the Feng-Hao site It lies to the northeast of Yangyuanfang village at Chang’an,Shaanxi Province, and the north bank of the ancient valley of Haohe River The site was found when Shaanxi provincial institute of archaeology made the archaeological investigations in Chang’an and Huxian county in March 2000,and excavated a remnant storage pit Lots of potteries, stones and oracle bones were unearthed in the pit The potteries include li, yan, guan, pen, dou,and zun etc They not only contained the factors of Shang culture but also had the factors of proto-Zhou culture The date of the remains can be roughly assighed to the first period of Yinxu Shang culture It Provided an important clue to understand the culture characteristics of shang ear and in relation to problems in Feng-Hao region before Zhou Wen wang moved to
The tile-end with characters of Jinpu (禁圃) of the Western Han unearthed from Aozi village, Huxian county and another same one early found from Zhuyuantou village, Zhouzhi county show that two offices subordinated to Jinpu (forbidden park, belong to Shuihengduwei, 水衡都尉) located there. According to historcal records such as Shuijingzhu （《水经注》） etc., Weipu (reed park ) and Zhupu (bamboo park ) just located there or nearby. It is possible that the two parks were subordinated to Jinpu. That is to say, Jinpu consisted of Zhupu and Weipu at least. Because that Jinpu was belong to Shuihengduwei which was in charge of Shanglinyun (上林苑, a very famous empiral park of Western Han ), Jinpu’s western border was that of Shanglinyuan. The author points out that Jinpu took the responsibility of producing fruits, bamboo, and reed, etc. for the court and government. So Shanglinyuan in fact became a basement of supplying materials for the court and government. Take this in mind we can understand why Emperor Wudi (汉武帝) extensively enlarged Shanglinyuan.
