河南洛阳市汉魏故城发现北魏宫城太极东堂遗址

The Foundation of Taiji East Hall of the Northern Wei Palace City Discovered in Han-Wei Luoyang City Site, Henan Province

2013年7月至2014年12月，为全面了解汉魏洛阳城宫城太极殿的总体形制布局与时代沿革，结合国家大遗址保护和考古遗址公园建设的需要，中国社会科学院考古研究所洛阳汉魏城队在之前对太极殿遗址发掘的基础上，又对太极殿东侧的“太极东堂”遗址进行了发掘（图一）。

In July 2013 through December 2014, Archaeological Team of Han-Wei Luoyang City, IA, CASS conducted large-scale survey and excavation to the foundation of the Taiji East Hall to the east of the Taiji Hall in the palace city of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Han-Wei Luoyang City Site. The survey and excavation made clear the scale and scope, structure, preservation status and construction date of this site, and confirmed that this site was the ＂Taiji East Hall＂ , an important architecture in the palace city of the Northern Wei Dynasty recorded in the historic literatures. Together with the Taiji West Hall, it flanked the Taiji Hall on the east and west sides respectively, the main body of which covered an area as large as 8000 sq m and formed the orderly designed and compactly planned complex of the Taiji Hall. This was a brand-new palace architectural planning and one of the largest architectural complexes in the Han-Wei Luoyang City even the entire ancient China; it was started to be built in the Three-Kingdoms Period and was rebuilt and used in the Northern Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties, etc., so it was significantly meaningful for the understanding to the architectural pattern of the space of the paramount political power in China during the 2nd through the 6th centuries AD.