On the 6th, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology announced the research results of the Eastern Han Dynasty portrait stones in Lvliang area. These four Eastern Han portrait stones have the first appearance of the "Lishi" place name inscription, providing key evidence for revealing the migration and administrative integration of immigrants in Xihe County in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. These four portrait stones are believed to come from the same tomb, owned by Han Won Chong. Among them, one of the stone pillars has a clear Hanli inscription on its front, which reads "On the fourth day of the twelfth month of the first year of Xiping, I left Shishou Guili and made a house for millions of people". In the first year of Xiping, which is 172 AD, "Lishiguili" indicates the ancestral home and burial place of the tomb owner. This is the first direct evidence of a place name with "Lishi" found on a physical object in the Lvliang area since the discovery of Han portrait stones in 1919. Lvliang is the only known Han portrait stone unearthed in Shanxi, with nearly 300 pieces dating back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In the inscriptions found in the past, the ancestral home of the tomb owner was mostly in the present-day northern Shaanxi region. Scholars point out that this is closely related to the historical event of the Southern Xiongnu rebellion in the fifth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty (140 AD), which led to the eastward relocation of the Xihe Commandery to Lishi. After the relocation of the county government, a large number of officials and civilians from northern Shaanxi were unable to return to their hometowns due to the war, and eventually were buried away from the stone. This also explains why the artistic style of Lvliang Han Dynasty stone carvings is highly consistent with that of northern Shaanxi. The "Lishi Shougui Li" discovered this time has a clear geographical relationship with the "Pingzhou Shougui Li" that appeared on the stone pillars of the Eastern Han tombs in Mizhi, Shaanxi. This indicates that with the relocation of the county seat, all or part of the residents who originally belonged to "Shouguili" in Zhou County, Shaanxi Province, have attached their hometowns to the new seat of Lishi County, completing the reorganization of their hometowns. This physical evidence reflects the process of population migration caused by wars and changes in administrative centers. Associate Professor Zhang Liang from the School of Archaeology, Culture and Museology at Shanxi University believes that these new materials provide extremely important archaeological evidence for in-depth research on the political changes, immigration activities, and cultural exchanges in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in the western Shanxi and northern Shaanxi regions. (New Society)