The pagoda-foundation vestiges of the Buddhist temple on the southern Yecheng city-site were discovered about 200m southwest of Zhaopengcheng village in Xiwen Township, Linzhang County. They lie some 1300m to the south of the southern wall of southern Yecheng City and to the east of the line extended from thecentral axis of the southern Yecheng City and Zhumingmen-gate Road. Judging from the stratigraphical evidence and objects unearthed, the rammed earth of the pagoda foundations goes back to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qiperiod. The vestiges revealed include remains of the pagoda body above the ground and those of the foundation ex-cavations under the ground. The pagoda body can be inferred to be square, with the sides measuring about 30m.This is the only ruined square wooden Buddhist pagoda of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi period discovered so far in China.
