Qin dynasty was the first feudal dynasty in Chinese history. What the world knows is the prosperity of the Qin dynasty, but the origin, early life and the history of the eastward spread of the Qin people have always been a historical mystery in academic circles. According to Historical Records of Qin Benji, the "Xigou Mountain" where the ancestor of Qin people, Princess Daluo, lived, and the central activity area of Qin people during the Qin Dou and Western Zhou Dynasties were located in Longnan and Tianshui in the southeast of Gansu. In the 1920s, the famous "Qin Gong Turtle" was unearthed in Yan Guan-Luo Jiabao area of Lixian County. In the early 1990s, the Qin Cemetery in Dabaozishan was stolen, and a large number of precious cultural relics were lost overseas. Among them, there are more than 0/00 bronze weights/kloc, with inscriptions such as "Qin Gong Zhu Ding", "Qin Gong Zhu Hu" and "Qin Gong Zhu". During the period of 1994, Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carried out a rescue excavation of Dabaozishan Cemetery, and confirmed that the cemetery was the tomb area of Xi Huang, Qin Gong; In 200 1 year, Dabaozishan Qin Cemetery in Lixian County was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
In order to further explore the face of the early Qin culture and find out the location of the people's capitals and their ancestors' tombs in the early Qin dynasty, with the approval of National Cultural Heritage Administration in 2004, Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Peking University Institute of Archaeology and Culture, National Museum, Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology, Northwest University and other units formed a joint research group to start the archaeological investigation, excavation and research projects of the early Qin culture, and successively carried out a series of archaeological work and achieved important academic results. Dabaozishan site is located on the northern bank of the Western Han Dynasty at the junction of Yongping Township and Yongxing Township in Lixian County. The river is opposite to the site of Shanpingcheng on the south bank, and Yongping River flows into the Western Han River from north to south in the west. The West Han Valley in the east of the site is flat and open, and the west is narrow and winding. The total area of the site is about 6.5438+500,000 square meters.