The villagers dug sand to build houses, and there were dragon treasures in the soil
On the second day of February 1988, in Jiangyao Village, Handan, Hebei Province, Jiang Yanfang, an old man, found an amazing thing when he was cleaning the courtyard: he dug up a statue of a giant dragon nearly 300 meters long.
This discovery immediately caused a sensation throughout the mountain village and quickly spread throughout the country, attracting the attention and research of many experts.
After intensive research, scientists have discovered a giant dragon sculpture with a length of more than 300 meters, making it the longest dragon statue ever found. The dragon is carved out of stone and is breathtakingly spectacular.
This major discovery immediately sparked heated discussions across the country, with some believing that it might be a man-made creation as a sacred beast guarding one side, while others believed that it was a masterpiece of nature's work and a gift from nature to human society.
However, there is still no accepted conclusion.
Old Jiang's Unexpected Discovery: The Giant Dragon Stone Statue Buried Under the Old House in Jiangyao Village The old Jiang of Jiangyao Village said that he stumbled upon this astonishing discovery - a giant dragon stone statue was buried under the land where he had lived for a long time.
It turned out that on the second day of the second month of February, Lao Jiang cleaned the courtyard in front of his house as usual, but found that it was seriously damaged when tidying up the old house. In order to welcome the new year safely and smoothly, Lao Jiang decided to repair the house as soon as possible.
However, he could never have imagined that this decision would lead to such a miracle.
Lao Jiang is a brick factory worker who is familiar with the task of digging soil. As soon as the time came, he immediately took action, only to see him holding a bunch of tools and going straight to the back mountain to mine sand and stones.
Arriving at Houshan, Lao Jiang began to wander around, searching for sand and gravel suitable for repairing the house. Eventually, he found the sand he liked in Wollongong, and he immediately waved his tools and began shoveling sand.
As the sand accumulated, the pit became deeper and deeper, and the hardness buried in the soil was gradually exposed to Lao Jiang's eyes. However, Lao Jiang did not notice the abnormality and continued to dig deeper. However, it wasn't long before things started to turn awry.
Houshan is a treasure trove of surrounding villages, where families dig and build houses. Old ginger found something strange in it. During the excavation process, the sand shoveling tool encountered hard resistance, and the hard section increased with depth.
Lao Jiang stopped digging sand and moved it with his bare hands, and preliminarily judged that the hard material was similar to a stone. Although he tried to dig up the whole stone, things didn't go the way he thought.
Despite his best efforts, the stone remained hidden, which made him both surprised and puzzling. So, he decided to work with this one"Big rocks"Fighting, he immediately put down the shovel in his hand, hurried back to the village, gathered a few friends, and asked them to help go to the back mountain to dig together.
When they heard about this strange event, their friends were very interested, and they put down their work and followed Lao Jiang to Wollongong in the back mountain.
In the beginning, everyone believed that there was strength in numbers, and no matter how hard the stone was, it would one day be dug up. However, as the depth of the excavation increased, they began to have doubts about the stone.
Its unique shape, anaconda-like textures, and different colors from ordinary stones all hint at its unusualness.
On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head"This old proverb caused Lao Jiang and the others to hesitate, and they began to worry that if they were digging up a god statue, it might anger the gods.
Eventually, at the suggestion of the surrounding villagers, they paused the excavation and contacted the cultural relics protection department. After receiving the notice, the cultural relics protection department immediately rushed to the scene.
Before the experts arrived, Lao Jiang and others had dug up a stone more than 40 meters long, which surprised the experts.
With the joint efforts of everyone, four stones that are exactly the same as the boulders found by Lao Jiang were successfully excavated. The number of excavated stones, including those that have not yet been fully exposed under the sand, is about 369 meters, which is a staggering figure.
At 369 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a 123-story building, it is like a skyscraper standing in front of the villagers of Jiangyao Village. Not only is it amazing, but next to this 369-meter boulder, the experts of the antiquities department quickly discovered that there are nine other boulders of the same size, for a total of ten.
However, none of these monoliths exceeded 269 meters in length. This discovery has attracted great attention from the Hebei Provincial Geological Exploration Brigade, and has also attracted many domestic geological experts and scholars to come for exploration.
After careful investigation by experts and scholars, the shape of the ten boulders actually resembles the body of a dragon, and the ripples and folds on the surface of the stones are like the scales on the dragon's body.
Through the detection of professional instruments, the history of these dragon stone statues can be traced back to at least 30,000 years ago, when humans were in the Paleolithic Age, and stone tools were used by human beings to defend against foreign enemies or wild beasts.
Whether such a detailed stone statue of a giant dragon could be made 30,000 years ago, experts say it is unlikely. Although there are many records of dragon statues in history, most of them were found in the tombs of ancient kings after the development of material and labor production, which is enough to show the dignity of the symbol of the dragon.
Some scholars speculated that these buried dragon statues may be "fossils" or "bones" of ancient dinosaurs, but this view was quickly rejected by professionals, who pointed out that the fossils unearthed from ancient dinosaurs were far different in texture and color from those excavated in Jiangyao Village, and that the fossil bones of ancient dinosaurs were much denser than those of these dragon statues.
A new theory sparked a heated discussion in the village of Jiangyao, and the villagers began to believe that the huge stone statues were actually fossils of dragons. In Chinese culture, the dragon has always been regarded as a symbol of the Chinese nation, and the Chinese people are known as the descendants of the dragon.
However, in real life, people have never seen dragons with their own eyes, which makes dragons a myth full of legends and reverence. As this rumor spread, Jiangyao Village quickly attracted the attention of the public.
For a time, a large number of tourists and curious people flocked to this small village, hoping to see the "real dragon" fossil. They frantically took pictures, and some even wanted to step on them to get a closer look.
These behaviors have affected and interfered with the survey and research of experts and scholars to varying degrees, and may also damage the survey site. The core idea of the new copy remains: the dragon fossil in Jiangyao Village has aroused public interest and curiosity, but it has also caused interference and potential damage to the research of experts and scholars.
The relevant departments have established a museum centered on ten giant dragon stone statues in the back mountain of Jiangyao Village, named "the first dragon in the world", which not only protects these ten dragon stone statues, but also facilitates experts and scholars to conduct research.
This incident aroused the attention of the public, who no longer cared about the scientific explanation of the dragon array, but looked forward to the manifestation of the dragon statue, and even regarded the dragon statue as a religious belief, which pushed the matter to a climax.
You Chuanze, an engineer of the Hebei Provincial Geological Exploration Brigade, broke some people's belief in the giant dragon array. He pointed out that there are no real dragons in the world, and the dragon statues in the dragon array are not dragon fossils.
Through in-depth exploration of the geology around the mountain behind Jiangyao Village and the giant dragon array, You Chuanze came to the conclusion that these dragon stone statues were actually a group of giant dragon ancient stone dragons, which were naturally formed after tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.
Faced with the third explanation, many people are difficult to accept, and they firmly believe that these lifelike fossils of dragons are real dragons. They questioned the scientists' explanations, arguing that the scientists were only covering up the truth about the dragon's real existence.
You Chuanze also responded quickly, revealing that during the team's survey of the stone statues, they found some sticky materials in these grooves and ravines that resemble dragon scales.
Moreover, these dragon scales that have been "pasted" together, both in terms of size and scale orientation, seem to have been precisely calculated. Such perfection, if it is a real dragon fossil, is inevitably a little too perfect, perfect without a single flaw.
After surveying, experts found that the location of the giant dragon array was once an ancient river channel. After tens of thousands of years or even hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, the river sand in the ancient river channel has been precipitated, silted, and cemented by calcareous to form grooves and ravines similar to dragon scales.
This confirms You Chuanze's view that the dragon stone statues of the giant dragon array were indeed formed by the sedimentation, siltation, and solidification of the river sand in the ancient river channel, and under the erosion of wind and rain over the years, the river sand and silt were squeezed and stacked to varying degrees, and finally formed the appearance of a keel.
As for why ten dragons were formed, and the length of the dragon varied, the expert explained that it was because the river would be diverted, and each time it was diverted, the original river would be filled with river sand and silt, and after years of wind and rain erosion, the image and length of the dragon's body were finally formed.
The ancient legend has finally been revealed, and the village of Jiangyao in Handan, Hebei Province, has become famous all over the world because of the magical dragon array. Visitors are full of curiosity about the museum of the giant dragon array and the first dragon in the world, which has greatly promoted the economic and cultural development of this small village of Jiangyao Village.
The city of Handan took the opportunity to create and build the Dragon Cultural Scenic Area, which promoted local tourism, and also increased its own popularity, making people remember the city more deeply.
In the current world's first dragon museum, these dragons are still on display, but unfortunately, only the dragons of the five dragons can be seen in the museum, and the other dragons were artificially destroyed by some villagers who dug up without permission during the original survey.
However, under the protection of the museum, the dragon's body is still intact, both in length and in number, it amazes the visitors who visit it, and deserves the title of the first dragon in the world.
Many people still hold on to their beliefs, firmly believing that there really are real dragons in the world, and that Wollongong in the mountains behind Jiangyao Village is a manifestation of the ancient people's awe for dragons.
Some historical experts believe that the giant dragon array may have been created artificially, because the direction and position of the ten dragons all point to the tomb of King Zhao, which is the largest Warring States mausoleum found so far, and the giant dragon array may have been built for the emperor to suppress evil spirits.
However, these views have been refuted for some unreasonable reasons. Maybe the scientists' conclusions today are not the most accurate answers, and maybe one day, when our technology goes to the next level, the secrets and doubts behind the dragon array will be studied and investigated again, and there may be new answers at that time.