The mystery of the mysterious caves of Longue

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

In 1992, Wu Anai, an incredibly curious resident of the Chinese village of Longyao, raised money with his neighbors to buy a water pump and pump water out of a pond. The pond for the inhabitants of the Longyao village was not only a place for fishing, washing, and other routine household chores, but also the object of mystical stories, because the pond, according to legend, was bottomless. But the fantastic theories did not satisfy Wu Anai, and therefore he decided to completely dry up the pond. As a result, it turned out that it was not a pond at all, but a flooded entrance to an ancient man-made cave.

To date, 24 caves have been discovered. All of them were created by human hands. Despite the fact that during the cutting of these grottoes, almost a million cubic meters of stone were removed, there is no historical evidence of these works.

Their origin is simply mysticism. There is no explanation for their existence. They are one of the largest man-made caves of antiquity.

The Chinese consider them the Ninth Wonder of the World.

In June 1992, a villager named Wu Anai decided to pump out the first cave found here. Seventeen days later, enough water was pumped out to see the cave itself and several carved columns, which confirmed his hypothesis that these caves were not natural reservoirs, but were created by man.

The area of the cave, freed from the water, was about two thousand meters, and its highest point reached thirty meters. The four columns of this first grotto are arranged symmetrically. Encouraged by this discovery, Wu proceeded to pump water out of four other caves to make sure they all had the same marks on the walls and ceiling.

A cursory assessment of the brute strength required to build these five caves is awe-inspiring. For the construction of each of them, it was necessary to cut down about thirty-six thousand cubic meters of stone. So far, twenty-four such grottoes have been found in the village of Shiyanbey, respectively, this is about nine hundred thousand cubic meters.

The carvings on the walls and ceilings of the caves are done in a certain manner, which some consider to be symbolic. The drawing is similar to pottery from a nearby museum, dating from 500-800 BC.

Seven of the discovered grottoes are said to be located like the seven stars of the Big Dipper.

In the open for tourists cave №1 you can see the images of a horse, fish and bird (Earth, Water and Air) made in a very simple manner. The bird's head is similar to the remains found during excavations at Hemudu.

Like most villages in southern China, Shiyanbei has many bodies of water, but almost all of them are rectangular and deep. Many generations of the inhabitants of this village have called them "bottomless ponds". Such reservoirs abound in fish and it is very easy to catch it. When water was pumped out of the first cave, not a single fish was found there.

This discovery attracted the attention of many experts from China, Japan, Poland, Singapore and the United States. One of the most interesting and difficult questions is how the caves could keep their integrity and purity for more than two thousand years.

When discussing the versions of the origin of these caves on the Internet, you will immediately stumble upon one. It begins like this:

“… Let's compare it with modern mines, let's say salt caves. Why saline? Because on the walls of such mines, traces of a mining machine are clearly visible. But traces of other rocks are not clear due to crumbling and partial collapse of rocks."

Salt mine in Italy

Salt mine in Kremlin, Germany, 2009

In the salt mine in Soledar

How do you like the "carving" on the rock? Do you find similarities with the carving in the Chinese grottoes? But the Chinese scientists give the age of 1700-2000 years!

So what is the work done in the rocks during the extraction of salt, when such traces remain:

Special roadheader of the Kopeysk machine-building plant "Ural"

The cutters are enough for a couple of weeks, then the victorious cutters become dull and they are changed.

"Carving" on the walls

Here are some other roadheaders that leave all the same threads:

The analogy of the "carving" in the Chinese Longyu caves and the traces of a miner in the salt mines are said to be obvious. And manual sampling of such a volume of rock in the Chinese grottoes is just titanic work. And most importantly - why? Why build such large halls? If someone planned to hide, then you can make the premises small, as in Derinkuyu (Turkey).

And what conclusion is drawn from all this: what does this oblige contemporary historians and archaeologists to do? Hide the obvious. None of them wants to state these things, because they shock the layman.

Do you agree with this version? Not? How did these caves appear then?