Liye

Liye ( Chinese  里耶 , Pinyin Lǐyē ) is an archaeological site dating back to the Warring States Period , the Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty in circles Longshan of Autonomous Prefecture of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao in the northwestern Chinese province of Hunan .

An important text find on bamboo tablets comes from here, the Qin period bamboo texts from Liye (Liye Qinjian 里耶 秦 简).

The site of the ancient city of Liye (Liye gucheng yizhi 里耶 古城 遗址) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-519) since 2001 .

Web links

• The village of Liye
• China's oldest household registers on bamboo from the Qin Dynasty deciphered

Coordinates: 28 ° 47 ′ 20 ″  N , 109 ° 17 ′ 40 ″  E