There is a huge "QR code pattern" buried in the bottom of Dongting Lake, hundreds of meters in length and width.

Mr. Hu lives around Dongting Lake, and the bottom of the lake has never dried up in the past. Due to the continuous drought in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River this year, the water level of Dongting Lake has continued to drop. He heard that the lake here is about to bottom out, so he drove from The lakeside drove to the center of the lake for nearly two hours, the purpose is to explore the true content of the bottom of the lake.

After arriving at the center of the lake, Mr. Hu couldn't wait to start the aerial photography. It was this photo of the bottom of the lake with a huge mysterious pattern that surprised him: From the perspective of the aerial photography, there is a piece of yellow sand on the lake bed surrounded by "river channels". The light red rectangular area that rises. In the area, there are multiple large square "squares", and each "square" looks like a small maze. Around the big square, there are many small squares scattered around.

Mr. Hu hurriedly called the old man at home to inquire. It was the first time that the old man heard that there was such a secret at the bottom of the lake.

Out of curiosity, Mr. Hu posted his aerial photos on the Internet, hoping to attract the attention of knowledgeable netizens.

Some netizens speculated that this may be the site of an ancient city.

Some netizens also said that this may be an ancient tomb of some ancient dynasty.

Some netizens even joked that this regular QR code pattern is a trace left by an alien civilization?

So, what is the mysterious pattern at the bottom of Dongting Lake? How did it come about? In this article, let's speculate.

What is the mysterious pattern at the bottom of Dongting Lake?

First of all, is it an ancient city? of course not. No dynasty would build a city with a length and width of only a few hundred meters, let alone at the bottom of a lake prone to floods.

So, is this an ancient tomb? It is also impossible. When we ancients chose the site of the cemetery, we preferred to choose areas away from noisy human gatherings, and try to avoid cultivated land or even wasteland, so as not to disturb the tranquility of the ancestors when future generations open up wasteland or cultivate here. However, this kind of place is generally preferred to be on the mountainside or on the top of the mountain, and rarely choose the lower lake bottom, otherwise a big flood may push the cemetery to the ground, not to mention that there are no other ancient tomb sites such as corridors and statues in the pictures .

So, are the patterns on the bottom of the lake built by modern people? There are experts who support this statement. They speculate that the bottom of Dongting Lake has been filled with water for many years, which basically ruled out the claims of ancient remains or traces of alien civilization. These patterns are likely to be some low dams built by people in the past few years. These people probably surrounded the waters here with clods of soil. When the lake water rose, fish and shrimps entered. When the water receded, fish and shrimps, big and small, stayed in the enclosure for fishing. It's just that when Dongting Lake was being treated, the outer low dams were all removed, and the ones here were too close to the center of the lake, so they didn't have time to be removed, and the "remains" just survived.

However, this statement by experts has also aroused many doubts. For example, some netizens asked, if it is a lump of soil surrounded by modern people, why is it still so "regular" and "firm" after so many years of washing by the lake? So many low dams were built at that time, why only this one was revealed?

As for the fact that this area has been submerged by water for many years in history, it is only a vague concept, and it cannot be concluded that no human beings have gathered and lived here.

History of Dongting Lake

In fact, in history, the water level of Dongting Lake is also erratic.

For example, before the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, the Dongting Lake area was still in the stage of river network, swamp, plain, and no large lakes were formed. During this period, ancestors lived here, and this situation continued until the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The remains are also considered normal.

Dongting Lake first appeared in books in the form of a lake during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At that time, "Shui Jing Zhu" recorded that Dongting Lake "was more than five hundred miles wide." According to this figure, historians deduced that the area at that time was about 4,400 square kilometers.

In the Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of the national power also led to the explosion of the population. People began to reclaim land from the lake in this area. Coupled with sedimentation, the area of ​​Dongting Lake was reduced to less than 1,100 square kilometers. This area continued to shrink until the Song Dynasty. At least in these two dynasties, Dongting Lake dried up to the bottom.

However, in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, benefiting from the increase in precipitation and the policy of returning farmland in the Yuan Dynasty, the area of ​​Dongting Lake expanded again. Historians inferred from the "Guangyu Map" drawn by Luo Hongxian in the Ming Dynasty that the area at this time reached 5600 square meters. Square kilometers (this area exceeds Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in the world, but the estimated area from the drawn map is not a bit wrong...)

In the Qing Dynasty and modern times, the area of ​​Dongting Lake was relatively accurate. According to estimates from the "Map of Hunan Province" published during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the area of ​​Dongting Lake at that time was 5,400 to 5,600 square kilometers. Then it was reduced to 4,350 square kilometers in 1949, and only 2,691 square kilometers remained in 1983.

What does the mysterious pattern of Dongting Lake indicate?

What does the pattern on the bottom of Dongting Lake indicate? Is it a disaster or auspicious? For this, the webmaster has limited ability and cannot comment.

But what is certain is that the appearance of the lake bottom pattern at least indicates that the future of Dongting Lake is worrying.

Dongting Lake, known as Yunmeng in ancient times, is an important strategic location in Chinese history, the birthplace of traditional Chinese culture, and the birthplace of traditional Chinese agriculture. It is a famous land of fish and rice.

However, affected by global warming and extreme drought, the area of ​​Dongting Lake continues to shrink. According to satellite monitoring on November 2 this year, the water area of ​​Dongting Lake is only 390.12 square kilometers, and the corresponding Chenglingji water level is 19.34 meters, which is 14.8% of the normal situation, which is less than one-sixth. This data has been measured The lowest water level in the same period on record.

From the original "Eight Hundred Miles Dongting" to today's "Wonders at the Bottom of the Lake", if human beings don't stop it, this mother lake, which gave birth to traditional Chinese culture, may slowly die out.

In a sense, this is a warning to us from the patterns on the bottom of Dongting Lake.