Longyou exit of Hangxinjing Expressway is 6 kilometers away from Longyou Grottoes.
Longyou Grottoes are 0/80km away from Hangzhou/Kloc-0, 60km away from Jinhua, 30km away from Quzhou, and 0/hour away from Qiandao Lake/Kloc-0, with developed railways, highways and water transportation. Every day from 7: 30 am to 4: 30 pm, take bus 1 or bus No.2 to Longyou Grottoes. 15 minutes every 20 minutes. The fare is 2 yuan.
Since the discovery of 1992, the underground caves in Longyou, Zhejiang Province have been covered with a mysterious color, which has attracted the attention of archaeology, tourism and related parties. Starting from Jinhua city, it takes more than an hour to drive and about 70 kilometers to reach the destination. Located in the middle of Zhejiang Province, it belongs to Yazhou, a small mountain village called Shiyanbei. This small village, facing the mountains and facing the water and facing the north and south, has been known as the "land of geomantic omen" since ancient times. Standing in front of the village, overlooking, surrounded by a Qujiang River, the vision is wide and quite charming. There is a Chikurinji by the river, which is fragrant and full of Buddhist sounds. 1June 9, 992, Wu Anai and three other villagers pumped water with four pumps 17 days and nights, and finally showed mankind another world mystery comparable to UFO. Under the leadership of Wu Anai, he entered a mysterious underground world, which was magnificent and mysterious. Amazing is amazing, but it is also puzzling. Looking for secrets for a long time is unforgettable.
A huge underground project, which has been sleeping underground for thousands of years and is rare in the world, began to be discovered by several farmers unintentionally eight years ago, just like a huge exclamation mark erected in front of historians, archaeologists, architects and tourists. This is Longyou Grottoes, which is praised by tourists as "the first grotto in the world".
Zhejiang, China, with Liangzhu and Hemudu cultural sites, has a long history and rich cultural heritage. In the upper reaches of Qiantang River, Qujiang River and Lingshan River, there is an obscure small county called Longyou. Although the county seat is small, its history can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, when it was called "Gu Mi". It has been more than 2,500 years since then, and it is the second largest ancient capital in Zhejiang. Longyou Grottoes is located on a Linjiang hill 3 kilometers north of the county seat. Locals call this mountain "Copper tan shan". Fiona Fang is only a few miles away, but there are 24 artificial caves of different sizes and exquisite layout on the mountainside. Before they were discovered, they were all buried by submerged soil, and the rock mass at the mouth of the cave collapsed, making it difficult to see the real content. The local government has now developed five such caves for tourists to visit. These caves are roughly the same in shape and scale-the area of the cave hall ranges from hundreds of square meters to more than a thousand square meters; The height of caves ranges from 20 meters to 40 meters; The holes are all rectangular; The cave wall is steep, and the roof of the cave is inclined to extend in an arc; There are 2 to 5 thick stone pillars supporting the roof in the cave. Their cross sections are all made of iron, and the largest one needs 5 people to hold it. Without exception, the top of the cave, the wall of the cave and the surface of the stone pillar are all carved with fine twill, which looks like tiger spots; There is a wide stone step from the mouth of the cave to the bottom of the cave, which is a wave manifold; At the bottom of each cave, there are one or two excavated stone pools and artificial slopes.
A large number of experts and scholars have put forward various speculations and statements about the age and use of grottoes: quarries, tombs, Tibetan soldiers stations, ice depots, boulder culture, "Taoist paradise" and "rebel miners' refuge" and so on. Longyou Grottoes was once considered as an "abandoned quarry" at the beginning of this year, so it did not cause a sensation when it was discovered, and it was silent in Wenda for six years. It was not until 1998 that it attracted the attention of all walks of life. Today, similar grottoes are found all over the north bank of Qujiang, and there are at least 50 caves in the underground of 2.88 square kilometers nearby. Under the underdeveloped level of ancient science and technology, the completion of this huge underground project really makes people today incredible. Numerous mysteries in the grottoes make the audience "full of curious seekers when they enter the grottoes, and become riddlers when they leave the grottoes".
Among many researchers, Dr. Chu Cai Liang of Zhejiang University, after 10 many times of actual investigations and various historical data searches, proposed that Longyou Grottoes were first excavated in Xuandi of the Western Han Dynasty, and its function was to store grain, goods and war preparations. It was called "Beicangguan" in previous dynasties, especially in Sui Dynasty, and was listed as "historic site" at that time. Dr. Chu also found two convincing typical caves, one is a dustpan cave not far from the upper reaches of Tongtan Mountain (recorded in the Song Dynasty, called "eternal"), and the other is a stone cave not far from the lower reaches (there are three caves with waterproof stone dikes in front). But at present, at least it can be concluded that Longyou Grottoes are the largest ancient underground man-made buildings in the world. In addition, it also provides direct and powerful evidence for the "China's fifth greatest invention-drilling holes" proposed by foreign scholars.
The fog over Longyou Grottoes is gradually dispersing, and an ancient underground work of China with great cultural relics and archaeological value is being presented to the world. It is gratifying that Longyou Grottoes have been strictly protected by relevant parties and have been included in the agenda of applying for world cultural heritage. After all, Longyou Grottoes should also be a great witness of ancient human civilization.
Longyou Grottoes is located at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, 3 kilometers north of Qujiang River in Longyou County, Quzhou City, western Zhejiang Province, 60 kilometers away from Hangzhou 180, 30 kilometers away from Jinhua, 30 kilometers away from Qiandao Lake 1h, and half an hour's drive from Daciyan, Zhuge Bagua Village and Lingqi Cave.
1992, the legendary "bottomless pond" was found in the roar of pumps of four local farmers. The reasons and uses of the dating of Longyou Grottoes are even more controversial, which has become an eternal mystery that is difficult to solve.
Longyou Grottoes is one of the highest level underground artificial buildings in ancient China, and it is also a miracle of the development and utilization of underground space in the world. It embodies the profoundness of the Chinese nation and integrates humanities, art, culture and engineering technology. Therefore, this accidental discovery is also called "the ninth wonder of the world" by local people.
Longyou Grottoes is a mysterious underground complex. On the mound of 0.38 square kilometers in Fiona Fang, it seems that there are 24 caves of different sizes regularly distributed, and the area of each cave varies from 1000-3000 square meters. Each cave starts from a rectangular hole and extends vertically downward, with a height of about 30 meters. The top is funnel-shaped, and there are 3-4 huge "fishtail-shaped" stone pillars scientifically distributed in the cave, which are connected with the top of the cave. What's even more amazing is that on the cave walls, ceilings, and stone pillars, gaps that the ancients seemed to have decorative intentions were evenly left.
Longyou Grottoes are grand, magnificent, magnificent and wonderful. Walking into the grottoes is like going back to ancient times. And its "mining age", "miner" and "use" are all mysteries.