Recently, traces of human life such as solar circuit boards, food, and beds were discovered in a cliff cave in Fenshui Town, Xuyong County, Luzhou, Sichuan, which attracted the attention of the local people. On September 21, local police stated that no occupants of the cave had been found yet. Multiple online videos show that there are multiple caves on the cliff of a mountain in Fenshui Town, Xuyong County. One of the caves contains two solar circuit boards, a simple bed, a hanging shirt, a pile of kiwi fruits and other items. There is still food left in the pot. Staff from Fenshui Police Station in Xuyong County told Jimu News reporters that on September 18, police from their station went to the cave and surrounding areas to conduct an investigation and found tools and traces of people living in the cave.
What exactly is going on when traces of mysterious people’s lives are found in cliff caves? Follow me and take a look.
Jimu News reporter Zhang Wanjun
Recently, solar circuit panels, food, beds and other traces of human life were discovered in a cave on a mountain cliff in Fenshui Town, Xuyong County, Luzhou, Sichuan. attracted the attention of local people. On September 21, local police stated that no occupants of the cave had been found yet.
Multiple online videos show that there are multiple caves on the cliff of a mountain in Fenshui Town, Xuyong County. One of the caves contains two solar circuit boards, a simple bed, a hanging shirt, A pile of kiwi fruits and other items, and a pot with residual food.
The video publisher said that a few days ago, when the staff of the power company used drones to photograph power lines in the mountainous area, they accidentally photographed solar circuit panels and other items in the cave on the cliff. It was suspected that someone was inside. Life inside the cave. Staff from local police, fire and other departments later came to the scene to investigate.
On September 21, the video publisher told Jimu News reporters that the incident occurred at the junction of Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province.
Mr. Hu, a local resident, said that the cave is more than 100 meters high from the ground, and the slope of the cliff is very steep, making it difficult for ordinary people to approach. On the afternoon of the 21st, he climbed into the cave from the foot of the mountain after nearly two hours of climbing. The whole process was not only difficult, but also quite dangerous. Compared with the pictures of the cave previously posted by netizens, he found that there were no kiwis in the cave. Someone may have entered in the past few days, but he found no residents at the scene.
Staff from Fenshui Police Station in Xuyong County told Jimu News reporters that on September 18, police from their station went to the cave and surrounding areas to investigate and found tools and traces of people living in the cave. . The cave is located in a very remote location with no roads accessible. It is difficult for ordinary people to get up there. They have not yet found the occupants inside.
(Source: Jimu News)
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In 2001, Hunan villagers discovered a secret cave hidden in the cliff, which exploded Looking at the cave door, the village party secretary: there is gold
Many people must have seen in martial arts novels that "the protagonist accidentally discovers a cave in the mountain, and the cave contains magical secrets or treasures left by his predecessors. The protagonist Segments such as "The magic power obtained and the wealth in the world" are exciting and exciting, making people hooked.
But what many people don’t know is that such extremely fantasy plots are not only found in novels, but also happen in reality.
Twenty years ago, a group of villagers in Hunan accidentally discovered a secret cave that had been hidden for hundreds of years in the mountains where they had lived for generations. On an unreachable cliff.
First, the village committee in action - encountering a giant python, fighting against a group of monkeys, and the difficult experience of the villager inspection team
In 2001, the development of tourism resources in Zhangjiajie, Hunan was in full swing , the villagers of Guanyin Mountain opposite the scenic Tianmen Mountain are also restless and plan to develop some tourist attractions in Guanyin Mountain to attract tourists and improve the local economy.
In view of this situation, on June 25, 2001, Wangjiazhai Village in Guanyinshan held a village committee seminar that was of particular significance to the village. The meeting was chaired by Li Cixiang, the village party secretary, and the villagers included Director Cao Yu and other leading cadres at all levels attended.
Li Zhishu spoke at the meeting, saying that the ancients said, "You can eat mountains if you rely on mountains, and you can eat water if you rely on water." Our Wangjiazhai Village is located in the hinterland of the Wuling Mountains, opposite the famous Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area. We should base our efforts on Due to this unique resource, tourism development is also carried out in Guanyin Mountain to develop the local economy.
Li Zhishu’s speech was unanimously approved by the comrades present, and soon the village decided to set up a "Wangjiazhai Village Tourism Resources Investigation Team" to explore the primitive jungle of Guanyin Mountain in search of characteristics Tourism resources open up new tourist attractions.
One month later, on July 20, an inspection team was successfully formed, with Party Secretary Li as the team leader, village director Cao Yu as the deputy team leader, cadre Zhang Jinchang as the general adviser, and villagers. Everyone brought machetes, dry food and water and embarked on an investigation journey deep into the vast mountains.
At that time, Guanyin Mountain had not yet been developed and was still in the state of virgin forest. The expedition team went all the way through the mountains and rivers, overcoming thorns and thorns, and encountered a wild python on the way. Fortunately, everyone worked together to kill it. , only then did the crisis turn into safety.
Shortly after encountering the python, the expedition team encountered a large group of monkeys. Seeing their intrusion, dozens of monkeys threw wild fruits at them from the trees and bared their teeth to threaten them. There was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides. The inspection team did not dare to neglect and quickly picked up the previously chopped python with a wooden fork and threw it into the group of monkeys, thus scaring the monkeys away.
In this way, the inspection team stayed in the mountains for five or six days. Relying on dry food and wild fruits, they visited most of Guanyin Mountain and found important tourist resources such as Tianmen and Guanyin Lotus Platform. , achieved good results. After that, the expedition team returned to the village to rest, and then embarked on the journey again on August 15, preparing to continue exploring areas they had not visited last time.
However, it was during this inspection that they made an astonishing discovery that they had never dreamed of.
Second, the emergence of the secret cave
After entering the mountain this time, the inspection team chose another more rugged mountain road to move forward. On the way, everyone encountered a cliff and had to climb it. In the past, the inspection team grabbed the mountain vine and climbed up little by little.
Just after walking a short distance, General Counsel Zhang Jinchang discovered something half buried in the sand on the ground. The surface was stained with rust. He didn’t know what it was.
Zhang Jinchang immediately called out to Secretary Li who was leading the team. The two immediately held hands and reached down little by little until Zhang Jinchang's hand could just reach the object. He immediately fished it out and took it out. It was pulled out of the soil.
Everyone took advantage of the sunlight to take a look and found that the object was actually a copper handle. However, it was so old that the part that was not the blade or the body of the sword had long since decayed and disappeared, leaving only the copper handle. The handle remains.
This discovery made everyone realize that although this place is deep in the mountains that is inaccessible to people, people may have been there a long time ago.
The second inspection operation lasted for 5 days. Everyone rested in the mountains when it got dark and resumed work when it got light. However, this time the inspection team seemed to be unlucky and did not find much. Tourism resources available for development.
On the fifth day, the inspection team had reached the top of the mountain. There was no point in continuing the inspection. The team members were very unwilling to accept the result. They saw that the Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area was opposite. Looking over from Tianmen Mountain, you can just see the cliffs below the top of the mountain where they are.
So the team members thought about it and proposed to climb down from the cliff on the top of the mountain. Maybe they can find some tourism resources on the cliff. If developed, tourists from the Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area opposite can just go. See.
Whenever there is a chance to get rid of poverty and become rich, these men who are accustomed to hardship in the mountains are unwilling to give up.
After a safety assessment, the inspection team finally agreed to the plan. Soon, several team members wrapped hemp ropes around their waists and lowered them vertically from the cliff at the top of the mountain. While rappelling, the team members looked around to see if there were any potential attractions for development.
While hoisting to the cliff halfway, one of the team members stepped on his foot, and a mud-like thing immediately fell off the cliff. While he was in a false alarm, he also discovered that the cliff in front of him seemed to be A bit unusual.
The team members immediately stuck to the mountain wall and used their hands to push aside the dead branches and thatch covering the cliff. At a glance, they could see that the cliff here was very different from other naturally formed stone walls, as if they were made of stone. It is usually made of stones and then covered with mud.
The team members couldn't believe their eyes, so they immediately broke off a "stone" from this place and squeezed it hard. The "stone" immediately broke into powder. It looked like it was made of mud and grass ash. mixture.
The team members were shocked and immediately blew the whistle to inform the people on the top of the cliff that they had made a major discovery here!
After the person above heard the whistle, he immediately pulled him back to the top of the cliff. Then the team member reported his findings under the cliff to Party Secretary Li Cixiang.
When Li Cixiang heard about such strange things, he immediately decided to go and find out personally.
After he was hung down, he began to carefully observe this strange "cliff". He found that there happened to be a protruding rock in front of the cliff here. It was not big enough for people to stand on it, like a small platform, and that special "cliff" was located just above the protruding rock.
After repeated research, Li Cixiang basically concluded that the "cliff" here is by no means natural, but a cliff hole that someone deliberately blocked with stones and mud. Look at the tightness of the cave. If you really seal the door, there will probably be a serious situation in the cave!
Third, what is in the cave?
Zhishu Li knew that their discovery was not trivial, and immediately informed all the team members to go down the mountain together and report the situation to the Yongding District Government where Wangjiazhai Village is located.
After learning the news, the Yongding District Tourism Bureau immediately realized that this was a major discovery, and quickly sent an inspection team led by deputy directors Shi Jili and Li Cizhong to Wangjiazhai Village, followed by a group of 14 people. Go to the cliff where the secret cave was found.
After everyone arrived at the top of Guanyin Mountain, comrades such as Bureau Shi Li and others tied hemp ropes and hung them to the entrance of Fengmen Cave for observation. They soon came to the same conclusion as Li Cixiang - The cave on the cliff here was intentionally blocked, and important discoveries are likely to be found in the cave.
On October 12, the "cave digging team" led by Li Cixiang was formally established. The group rushed to the top of the mountain with enough tools and hung from the cliff to perform the excavation task.
But the excavators soon discovered that after knocking off the heavily weathered layer of mud and stone on the surface of the cave door, it was extremely difficult to dig deeper. The stones and mud inside had long been destroyed over thousands of years. Mixed into one piece, it is stronger than fine iron and is difficult to knock off even with a steel hoe.
Everyone had no choice but to place a detonator and explode. After each layer was blown up, they sent people down to clean up the debris and soil. They dug in layer by layer and it took three days to completely blast the cave door. open.
After the cave door opened, Li Cixiang entered immediately. The main cave room was empty, except for a smaller ear hole exposed on the side of the cave.
Li Cixiang struck a match and entered the ear hole. By the light of the fire, he saw a stone hole in the wall of the ear hole, and inside there were things like tangled grass branches. Li Cixiang didn't know what they were, so he gently took them out with his hands. After dusting off the dust, these "branches" immediately shone with golden light. Secretary Li took a closer look and shouted excitedly: "There is gold in the cave!" "
Afterwards, Li Cixiang found 14 items in the cave, all of which were jewelry made of gold and silver. He immediately reported the situation to the Yongding District Committee and District Government. Early the next morning, Secretary Deng, then secretary of the Yongding District Party Committee, personally drove to Wangjiazhai Village to listen to a detailed report on the excavation.
Regarding this batch of treasures, the Yongding District Committee and District Government quickly made a decision to send them to Changsha, Hunan for identification, and then deal with them after the results are available.
Fourth, who hid these treasures?
On October 21, the sixth day after the treasures were unearthed in Fengmen Cave, Li Cixiang, escorted by two armed policemen arranged by the district committee, took the treasures wrapped layer by layer in red silk cloth. Set foot on the road to Changsha, the provincial capital.
Before leaving, Secretary Deng of the Yongding District Party Committee came to see him off.
He repeatedly warned Li Cixiang: "Mr. Li, you have a heavy responsibility with this batch of jewelry on you. After arriving in Changsha, you can first go to the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau for appraisal to see what they are like. baby.
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At 7 o'clock that night, Li Cixiang and his party arrived in Changsha. Early the next morning, everyone came to the Hunan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau.
According to the preliminary identification of several experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau, this is A batch of ornaments from the Yuan Dynasty. Among them, 2 golden hairpins with seventeen flowers and a golden hairpin with a bird's head are national second-level cultural relics, and 8 golden hairpins with leaves and flowers, plain gold hairpins, and silver crested hairpins are national third-level cultural relics. According to the estimated value of cultural relics at the time, the total value of this batch of jewelry was approximately 70 million yuan.
The jewelry was later handed over to the Zhangjiajie Branch of the People's Bank of China for safekeeping.
The matter was now settled. However, one question has never been answered - who hid this batch of jewelry?
The appraisal experts of the Hunan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau were relatively rigorous and did not reveal the origin of this batch of jewelry at that time. I can give any conclusion at will, but the local people in western Hunan have some speculations that this batch of jewelry is part of the treasures hidden after the defeat of King Chuang Li Zicheng.
Before I actually came into contact with the information about this batch of jewelry. Personally, I am doubtful about this statement, and the reason is simple. According to the historical material "Northern Strategy of the Ming Dynasty", Li Zicheng obtained about 75 million taels of gold and silver by torturing ministers after entering Beijing, and then he cast them into 500 taels. One ingot was shipped back to Shaanxi.
"The Northern Strategy of the Ming Dynasty" was written by Ji Liuqi, a historian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This person lived in the same era as Li Zicheng, and his records are actually relatively reliable. It’s okay to be wrong. After all, everyone knows that Li Zicheng did get a lot of wealth after entering Beijing. This is undoubtedly true.
And this is exactly where the problem lies!
Li Zicheng! No matter how you look at it, the amount of gold and silver you get is worth tens of millions of taels. If he wanted to hide treasure, would he only hide a dozen pieces of jewelry that were worth at most several thousand taels of silver at that time, and he would have to go all the way to western Hunan? Hidden in the mountains?
So the so-called "Li Zicheng treasures" is not logical at all
So is it possible that this batch of jewelry is the "Ye Fu" of Li Zicheng's men? "Where is the hidden treasure"?
It is said that Yefu is the pseudonym of Li Zicheng's general Li Guo. It is rumored that after the defeat of the Dashun Army, Li Guo took part of the Chuang Army's wealth to Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, and then He became a monk in the mountains under the pseudonym Yefu Monk, and the Chuangwang treasure he carried was also buried in the vast mountains of western Hunan.
Regarding the above statement, I carefully researched the sources with a realistic attitude. However, the final result is very surprising - it has no source at all.
In other words, this statement appeared out of thin air, without any precise historical data to support it. The whole story is vivid and full of ups and downs. Even today, there is a stone tablet called "Ye Fu Hidden Treasure" in the scenic area, but the authenticity of the story is a matter of opinion.
Later, when I traced the information on the jewelry, I actually saw them. After taking the photo, I felt that the speculation of "Ye Fu hiding treasure" was not credible.
As shown below, this is the only remaining black and white photo of that batch of jewelry. It was a screenshot from a newspaper, so the clarity is not high, but the jewelry style can still be seen clearly.
The picture above is a photograph of some of the jewelry hidden in the Guanyin Mountain Cliff Cave.
Pay attention to the piece of jewelry I marked with a red circle. This item has a specific name in history - the bridge hairpin.
According to modern archaeological discoveries, bridge hairpins only appeared on a large scale during the Song Dynasty. This style of gold hairpin was extremely popular among ladies in the Song Dynasty. It was quite rare in the Yuan Dynasty. As for the Ming Dynasty, This kind of bridge hairpin has disappeared and been replaced by other styles of gold hairpins.
The appearance of this iconic bridge hairpin from the Song and Yuan Dynasties is enough to prove that the jewelry in Guanyin Mountain was hidden no later than the Yuan Dynasty.
As for the rumored "Li Zicheng hiding treasure" or "Ye Fu hiding treasure", even if these treasures are true, the time of hiding the treasure should have occurred in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
The late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty were three to four hundred years apart from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. There is no match for this batch of jewelry from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Therefore, whether this batch of jewelry is "Li Zicheng's treasure treasure theory" It is still "the theory of treasure hidden in the wild brush", which is probably still far-fetched.
In fact, in my opinion, this bridge hairpin and the jewelry with obvious Song Dynasty simple style below it, as well as their hiding method, have revealed the true identity of the treasure collector. To really explain this matter clearly, we need to briefly talk about the historical background.
Fifth, who is the real owner of this batch of jewelry?
In April 1978, when members of the Longgang Brigade of Xinhe Commune in Linli County, Hunan Province were leveling the land, they discovered a cache of gold and silverware underground. This batch of gold and silverware was unearthed in a relatively hard soil layer in an old house, about 1 meter deep from the ground, and was all contained in a clay pot.
The bridge hairpin mentioned above was unearthed this time and was stored in the cave from the Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty.
In March 1983, when commune members in Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province were leveling the land, they discovered a white iron rust-covered jar about 1 meter deep from the surface. There was a batch of silverware hidden in the jar, one of which was relatively complete. There are 51 pieces.
Judging from the style, this batch of silverware belongs to the middle and late Song Dynasty. Some of them are engraved with shop words such as "Cai Jingwen Pu" and "Xingxian Wu Pu", which are obviously items used by the people in the Song Dynasty.
In 1993, a renovation project was carried out on West Street, Tianpeng Town, Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province. During construction, a migrant worker on site discovered a bluestone slab underground. When he pried open the bluestone slab, he suddenly discovered that there was a cellar underneath, with piles of Full of gold and silver products.
After the excavation, experts determined through research that the time of the hoarding here was the Southern Song Dynasty. A total of 351 gold and silverware were unearthed, of which 27 were gold and the rest were silver. Since many of these vessels are engraved with the word "Dong" inscriptions, it is inferred that these vessels belong to the cellar of a wealthy family with the surname Dong.
The discoveries in Hunan, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places listed above are only a very small part of the gold and silverware hoards of the Song Dynasty discovered across the country. There are three distinct identities for these unearthed artifacts. Distinctive features.
First, the burial time is mostly concentrated in the Southern Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty;
Second, the buried items are mostly jewelry, gold and silverware, and precious porcelain;
Third It is basically a cellar, that is, the owner intentionally buried it in the ground during his lifetime, and the purpose is not to use it for burial.
Why is this?
In fact, the age of their storage has already revealed the answer - the late Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty.
This period coincided with the Great War between Song and Mongolia. The Mongolian cavalry began to move south, and the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty resisted for more than half a century. The two sides fought repeatedly in southern China. At that time, ordinary people and even officials often buried their gold, silverware, jewelry and other items underground to hide from the scourge of war.
In some families, if someone survives, they will take out the previously buried wealth. However, in some families, the whole family will be destroyed after burying the treasures, so these hoards remain until they are discovered.
As for the jewelry treasures in the Guanyin Mountain Cliff Cave, whether it is the quantity and nature of the treasures, the age of the jewelry styles, or the hiding method, they are all consistent with the practice of wealthy people in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty to store their own treasures in their homes. Based on the historical situation of gold and silverware, it can be basically judged that the treasures here were probably left by a wealthy family near Xiangxi in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty to avoid the disaster of war.
No matter how far apart the times are, only knowledge is the correct and only way to unlock the secrets of history and seek the truth of history.
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