Qingyang Ancient City is located around the villages of Fan Ancient City, Ye Ancient City and Wang Ancient City in the east of Yang Lou Township, about 9 kilometers west of Ruzhou City. It is located on the second terrace between the south bank of Ruhe River and Lugou River. The city site is rectangular, 2600 meters long from east to west and 1300 meters long from north to south, with a total area of 3.38 million square meters. There are three existing east, south and west walls, and the north wall may be washed away by Ruhe River. The city wall is 34 meters wide, and the east-west moat is 20 meters wide, with Ruhe and Lugou as natural barriers in the north and south. The central part of the northern part of the city is the plateau. An iron smelting plant covering an area of 5000 square meters was discovered in the west of the city. Found slag, slag, ash layer thickness 1.5 meters, as well as iron cones, balls, spears and other relics. Judging from their relics, the city was built in the Warring States period and is still in use in the Han Dynasty.
According to legend, this is the palace in East Zhou Nanwang. After the demise of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Nanwang fled Luoyang and was named Qingyang City. There is a saying that Zhou Nanwang is "sitting in Qingyang". In line with historical facts. Qingyang ancient city ruins are basically well preserved. It is of great value to study the urban organizational system, layout and iron smelting technology in the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty. 1999 was identified as the key cultural relics protection unit in Henan province.
Yang Lou Town: Yang Lou Town is located in the southwest of Henan Province, in Pingdingshan, with Funiu Mountain in the south, Ruhe River in the north, Wangzhai Township in the east and Ruyang County in Luoyang City in the west. There are 4 1 administrative villages, 108 natural villages, 742 19 people, more than 28,000 households and 9 administrative villages on Funiu Mountain. The main agricultural products in this township are corn, wheat, peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans. It is also a big farming town. There are two large chicken farms in the township, covering an area of more than 60 mu, each of which can be raised.