Yanshan quarry and Chinese megaliths

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Near the Chinese city of Nanjing is the ancient stone Yanshan quarry, famous for the presence of a giant unfinished stele, the cutting of which was stopped during the reign of Emperor Yongle in the early 15th century. Compared to other construction projects in Yongle, such as Zheng He's Fleet and the Forbidden City, the stele was one of the most ambitious and exciting projects.

The Yanshan quarry was developed during the 6th dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang(Emperor Hongwu) v 1368 year founded the Ming dynasty, the city of Nanjing became the capital of his empire. The Yanshan Quarry has become the main source of stone for major construction projects that have changed the face of Nanjing. V 1405 year son of Hongwu, emperor Yongle allegedly ordered in the quarry to cut down a giant stele in order to put it at Xiaolin Mausoleum for his deceased father.

According to the established canons for the construction of Chinese memorial steles, three separate parts were prepared: a rectangular base (pedestal), the body of the stele, and the head of the stele (a crown decorated with dragons).

The three unfinished parts of the stele are still in Yanshan quarry … They are partially separated from the rock. The sizes and approximate weights of these fragments are as follows:

One of the megaliths - stele base reaches 16 meters in height, its length is 30.3 m, its thickness is 13 m, and its mass is about 16250 tons!

Second megalith - stele body has a length 49.4 m (this should be the height of this fragment if the stele was installed), the width - 10, 7 m, and a mass of about 8800 tons!

The third megalith - head of the stele has an oval shape and reaches 10.7 meters in height, its width - 20, 3 m, thickness - 8, 4 m, weight about 6120 tons!

According to experts, if the stele was completed, and its component parts were assembled together, then the height of the stele could be 73 meters, (which is equivalent to a modern 25-storey building), with a total mass of about 31,170 tons!

The amount of work done is simply amazing. All megaliths are carved from monolithic rock and, according to the construction method, are very similar to rock temples in Lalibelle … Only in Yanshan In the quarry, all the space around the megaliths has been cleared, and the vertical walls of the nearby rocks have been processed. If this is a quarry, why take out all the rock and work the steep cliffs with tremendous efforts?

Many megaliths are carved with images of the heads, paws and tails of dragons. All three megaliths have carved rectangular niches at the base, which are through at the two monuments. On the surface of the oval megalith there is 14 carved stone ledges.

Inappropriate official version:

According to the archaeologists, after most of the work was done, the architects suddenly realized that they could not move the giant blocks from Yanshan to the Xiaolin Mausoleum, let alone install them. As a result, the project was abandoned.

To Emperor Hongwu was built 9-meter stele - the highest in Nanjing.

While exploring the Yangshan megaliths, alternative historians have noticed interesting features. The second megalith of the complex (the body of the stele) from above has an elongated rectangular shape with an approximate aspect ratio of 1:10. It is clearly visible from space and is carved at an azimuth of 40.3 degrees. This azimuth at this particular point sets the direction to Teotihuacan … The distance from the Yanshan Plate to Teotihuacan is 13 thousand km

In addition, the Yangshan Plate - Teotihuacan line passes exactly through Angkor … And the largest monolith (the base of the stele) with its left vertical edge points to the sacred mountain of the Australian aborigines - Uluru.

Some researchers suggest that when creating megaliths Yanshan technologies related to stone softening were used.

- Megaliths were made using plastic technology, as evidence of this there are protrusions where the stone was supposedly softened and dark smudges that stand out from the stone, as a sign that the stone was melted ???

- The oval stone shows prints from a long, straight object, which may have formed as a result of indentation, like a trace from the machine that made this megalith.

It is unclear how the ancient builders were going to export the thousand-ton "blanks" for the construction of the stele to the emperor. It is hard to believe that when starting work on cutting down giant megaliths, the Chinese builders were so foolish as not to think about the methods of their transportation and installation. We worked, worked … and suddenly realized - not to raise

The emperor himself Hongwu in 1381 he began construction of a mausoleum for himself on the slope of a wooded mountain Zijinshan ("The Purple Gold Mountain") adjacent to the historic center Nanjing … (Today this mausoleum is known as the Mausoleum complex Xiaoling.) In accordance with the principles Feng ShuiThe burial site was chosen south of the main peak of the mountain. Hongwu was not the first emperor to make such a choice: the emperor was buried in almost the same place more than a thousand years before him Sun Quan.

There is a legend that when in 1398emperor Hongwudied, 13 funeral processions left the 13 city gates of Nanjing, heading to different places, so that no one would know in which of them the emperor was actually buried.