Shitaizi Mountain City Ruins in Shenyang

The Shitaizi Mountain City Ruins are located on the north bank of the Qipanshan Reservoir in the Hui[...]

The Shitaizi Mountain City Ruins are located on the north bank of the Qipanshan Reservoir in the Huishan Scenic Area, 35 kilometers northeast of Shenyang urban area. It is adjacent to Tieling in the north and faces Fushun in the southeast. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit.
The Shitaizi Mountain City is an important mountain city built by Goguryeo when it occupied Liaodong. It is artificially built by taking advantage of the natural situation of the mountain and is a closed stone-built mountain city. The plane of the mountain city is an irregular triangle with a circumference of 1384.1 meters. There are 10 horse faces and 4 city gates around the city wall. The mountain is high in the west and low in the east, wide in the south and narrow in the north.

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The four corners are relatively high. The section of the mountain city wall is trapezoidal. The inner and outer walls are built with regularly shaped wedge-shaped stones. The inner wall is built with regularly shaped wedge-shaped stones. Inside the wall are prismatic inserted stones. There are rammed earth slope protections extending slowly inward around the inner wall. In some places, there are still slope protection stones.

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