Liye

Liye (Chinese: 里耶鎮; pinyin: lǐyē zhèn) is a town of Longshan County, Hunan Province, China. Located on the northern bank of You River (Chinese: 酉水), Liye is the southernmost town of the county, and bordered to the west by Youshuihe Town (Chinese: 酉水河鎮) and Keda Township (Chinese: 可大鄉) of Youyang County, Daxi Township (Chinese: 大溪鄉) of Xiushan County of Chongqing Municipality, to the south by Qingshuiping (Chinese: 清水坪鎮) and Bier Towns (Chinese: 比耳鎮) of Baojing County, to the east and southeast by Maoertan Town (Chinese: 苗兒灘鎮), to the southwest by Zaguo Township (Chinese: 咱果鄉). The present-day Liye was reformed on November 30， 2015.It covers an area of 259.2 square kilometres (100.1 sq mi), as of November, 2015, it has a registered population of 43,300, the seat is Liye Community.

Liye is an ancient town with a history of over 2300 years old, it was established by Chu State in the late Warring States period (403 BC - 221 BC). An archaeological site of ancient humans belonged to Longshan culture (3000 BC - 1900 BC) was found near a bridge in the northeast of the seat of the town in May 1982, lots of stone axes, stone chips and red clay potteries was discovered. The Ancient City Ruins of the Warring States period and many precious cultural relics were excavated in the schoolyard of Liye Primary School in April 2002. More than 36,000 pieces of Bamboo Slips of the Qin dynasty in the Ancient City Ruins of Liye (Chinese: 里耶古城遺址) were unearthed in June 2002, before the Liye slips were found, there were only about 2,000 slips on the Qin dynasty and fewer than 1,000 words of official Qin records. The event was considered the most important archaeological discovery of the Qin dynasty after the Qin Terracotta Army unearthed in 1973.

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