陕县

When I visited the Sanmenxia damsite in 1994, I was taken to view a local museum which was dedicated to relics of the Nation of Guo (虢国) at the time of the Warring States (战国). It was only a minor museum but it displayed a priceless treasure, the first known steel sword unearthed in China. 

Outside the museum, which was located in a park, I walked towards Yellow River's flood plain, and took this picture. It was taken on July 5, just before the arrival of the annual flood. 1994 was a high-water year, and I expected the flood plain would be inundated within a few weeks, and the planted crops - mostly soy beans - would be lost. 

Another museum displayed the remains of a chariot belonging to the Nation of Guo. (The wooden parts of the chariot had, of course, decayed, but its shape could still be reconstructed from the pigmentation it gave to the ground.)

In the neighborhood, a stone slab indicating the territorial boundary between the two lords was left there casually. (I am not sure if it is the real thing, or just something put there during the later dynasties. You know, people in the Song dynasty (宋朝) were very imaginative and they liked to invent legends, and we are stuck with many 1000-year old legends of events 3000 year old.)