Bizarre sculptures found in the deep mountains of Hunan, the scale exceeds that of the Terracotta Warriors? How did they get here?

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Guizai Mountain, just hearing the name gives people a sense of gloom and mystery. This mountain has been banned for more than 700 years. It can be said to be a high mountain and dense forest, deep and lonely. Walking into it, people will feel inexplicably fearful and peaceful. The gloomy, even more awe-inspiring and mysterious is that there are countless unnamed stone statues all over the Guizai Mountain. You can see one every few steps, and every time after the rainstorm, new stone statues will appear.

There is a legend that the villagers here took the stone statue home to provide support, but the livestock were uneasy, and the house was safe until the stone statue was returned, which added a sense of mystery and unpredictability. The local residents did not know its origin, so it was called ghost cub. .

During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, these stone statues were recorded on the monument, but only their shape and size were recorded, and the local people regarded them as gods.

Since the 1980s, Chinese cultural relic experts have conducted many investigations and researches on Zailing. There are a large number of stone statues here, and the scattered area is more than 10,000 square meters.

The height of the stone statues is about 50 cm. The specific images include civil servants, military generals, etc., and there are a large number of stone statues not only on the ground, but also buried in the ground more than 2 meters deep, and some are suspended on trees and lying in water. The total number is about 10,000.

Through further investigation, it is found that these stone statues belong to different periods, from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, the earliest can be traced back to the prehistoric period. Archaeological experts speculate that the scale of the stone statue may exceed that of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang.

At present, it is generally accepted that the origin of these stone statues is related to sacrifice. Experts believe that the entire Guizai Mountain is a large altar. Since prehistory, people have sacrificed here in every historical period, and left stone statues of the historical period. After more than 5,000 years, the Guizai Mountain was formed. A miracle of many statues and shapes.

Another speculation is that these statues are the so-called scapegoats, but there is an objection that the scapegoats should be placed in temples, not on mountains.

Either way, Guizai Mountain is a large-scale cultural site left to us by our ancestors. These huge number of stone statues can be called historical miracles comparable to the Terracotta Warriors, waiting for the development of science and technology and history to give the answer.

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