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The ruins were found in the northwest section of Yuanmingyuan at the Danbo Ningjing (literally Simple and Calm) site. Completed in the fifth year of the Yongzheng Emperor (1727).
The remains of a razed royal rice field and its related buildings were discovered in the northern section of Beijing s Yuanmingyuan Park, or the Old Summer Palace, during a recent archaeological excavation, providing new materials for the study of agricultural technology and imperial garden architecture during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
With an area of about 700 square kilometers, Liyang Plain in Central China's Hunan province on the northwest bank of Dongting Lake boasts more than 700 prehistoric sites.