Yangcheng was the first capital of the Xia dynasty, which is dated to about 2070 to 1600 BC, in China. Ancient texts say the city was founded by Yu the Great, the founder of the Xia, or was his residence, and the Bamboo Annals and the Shiben place it near Mount Song and the Wudu and Ying rivers, close to modern Gaocheng in Henan. Archaeologists think it may lie at the Wangchenggang site in Gaocheng, where a small walled city was excavated in 1977 and a larger walled city, radiocarbon dated as the earliest and largest Xia-period site there, was found in 2002 to 2005. Scholars still disagree about which of the two walled cities is Yangcheng.
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