Fuquanshan Site 福泉山遗址Fúquánshān Yízhǐ

About Fuquanshan Site

A 7.5-metre man-made mound in Chonggu town, raised by people of the Neolithic Liangzhu culture as a high-status cemetery on top of an older Songze settlement and nicknamed the 'Eastern Pyramid'. Excavations since 1982 have recovered more than 2,800 objects, including jade cong, ivory sceptres and a burial with evidence of human sacrifice, and the mound is open to visitors as a heritage site.

How to get to Fuquanshan Site

In Chonggu town, Qingpu District, about 4.5 km north of Zhaoxiang station on Metro Line 17, a short taxi ride.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 20 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 30 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 30 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 30 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 30 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite

Also within 20 km: Qinglong Town Site and Qinglong Pagoda 青龙镇遗址 (under 10 km), Songze Site 崧泽遗址 (under 10 km), Shanghai Auto Expo Park and Auto Museum 上海汽车博览公园 (under 10 km), Lianyi Loquat Park 联怡枇杷乐园 (under 10 km), Moon Lake Sculpture Park 月湖雕塑公园 (10 km), Sheshan Hills 佘山 (10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)