The reporter learned from the 2025 Inner Mongolia Archaeological Work Exchange Meeting that in 2025, the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will restart the archaeological excavation work of the Site of the Yuan Dynasty Shangdu Capital, and conduct archaeological excavation of the the Site of the Yuan Dynasty Shangdu Capital Dalong Guanghuayan Temple Site, which has achieved important results. The Site of the Yuan Dynasty Shangdu Capital, located in Zhenglan Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was included in the The World Heritage List in 2012. The archaeological excavation of the Yuan Shangdu Dalongguang Huayan Temple site is located in the northeast corner of the Yuan Shangdu Imperial City, with a rectangular plan and a triple courtyard layout as a whole. The entire building complex is connected across three courtyards, east, middle, and west, with the middle courtyard as the main body. The main area excavated this year is the foundation site of the "I-shaped" large building in the Intermediate People's Court. According to Xin Zemin, an assistant curator at the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the foundation of this large building faces north and south, with a rectangular main platform and a front corridor connected to the South Hall. There is a rectangular small platform behind, with slow lanes and treads to the east, west, and north. The building on the pedestal has a width of five bays and a depth of three bays. Inside the hall, there are altars on the east, west, and north sides to accommodate statues. It is understood that the excavated relics in this year are mainly from the collapsed deposits on the foundation site, and most of the unearthed relics are building materials, including ceramic tiles, tubular tiles, tile tiles, dripping water, roof figures, bricks, as well as stone dragon heads, railing components, etc. Ceramic building materials often include glassware, with green glassware being the most common. The patterns of tile and drip are mainly dragon patterns, followed by phoenix patterns. A large number of residual plastic parts can be seen in other relics, which should be decorations on buildings or Buddha statues. Song Guodong, Vice President and Research Curator of Inner Mongolia Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, introduced that the foundation of a large building is one of the central buildings in the courtyard of the Grand Longguang Huayan Temple in the capital city of Yuan Dynasty. It is one of the larger and better preserved building foundations in the imperial city of Yuan Dynasty. The core building site of the temple excavated this year continues and develops the traditional civil structure since the Tang and Song dynasties in terms of architectural layout and craftsmanship. The decorative themes such as dragon and phoenix patterns on the unearthed tiles are all derived from the Central Plains cultural system, providing important archaeological evidence for in-depth research on high-level religious buildings and official construction systems in the Yuan Dynasty. (New Society)