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The Yellow River runs across Sanmenxia city, looking rather magnificent, especially when it is running under the dam. The main dam is a gravity dam made from concrete, it is 713.2 meters long and 106 meters high, the auxiliary dam is a ferroconcrete core dam, it is 144 meters long and 24 meters high.
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Yangshao culture got its name from its discovering place. It is also called colored pottery culture, specializing in crude pottery. Lying on the mesa in the south of Yangshao village, the site is besides Shao Mountain in the north, with river running around in other three directions. It covers 300,000 square meters,with 2~4 meters thick of cultural modified soil. In 1951, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, discovered the four layers in the cultural modified soil, they are the middle period and later period of Yangshao culture and early period and middle period of Longshan culture from bottom up.

It is one of the earliest passes in China and also the birthplace of Classic of the Way and Virtue, the most famous book written by Laozi, the great thinker and philosopher of ancient China. The scenic spot enjoys global reputation because of its famous people, famous book and famous pass. It has a stele reads "the source of Taoism" written by the former chairman of Taoism Association.

Location: At Donghan village, 10 kilometers away from Guandaokou town in the southeast, at Lushi county of Sanmenxia city in Henan Province. It is 45 kilometers far from Lushi county and 100 kilometers from the center of Sanmenxia city.
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The tomb of Guo state, a cemetery of of Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn period, is the only neatly arrayed and perfectly conserved cemetery with large scale and all the classes of people. It measures 324,500 square meters in total. Since 1956 when it was discovered, people found out over 800 sites of various kinds and nearly 30,000 unearthed antiques. In particular the two monarches' tombs discovered in the 1990s, thanks to their large amount of unearthed antiques, high values and high status of the people in the tomb, were appraised as one of the new discoveries in China for consecutive two years and were nominated on the list of 100 new discoveries in China during the 20th century.