Site of Black Water State & Tombs Complex of Han Dynasty An
ancient cultural site of the New Stone Age and a cultural relic
under provincial protection. There is Tombs Complex of Han
Dynasty in the site which covers about 4 square kilometers. The
site of Black Water State and Tombs Complex of Han Dynasty is
about 15km long from south to north and 10km wide from east to
west. The Tombs Complex covers about 4 square kilometers, and
most of them have been buried by the desert, while the ones that
still remain were mostly resurrected before the liberation of
China. In 1956, the National Geological Prospect Team confirmed
that there was an ancient city beneath the site, in which the
Huns had ever been living before the era of West Han Dynasty.
They delimited the place as the national capital of the small
Yueshi State. The state got its name "Black Water State "because
of the fact that native people usually called the Hans "Black
Huns". According to the Dushi General Book quoted in the Medical
Book of All States an