In reality, experts have been afraid to dig deep into the "nine-story demon tower" in the movie.

Speaking of the Nine-story Demon Tower, friends who have seen Tomb Raider Notes and Ghost Blowing Lights will be familiar with it, especially after watching movies such as Yunnan Insect Valley, Ghost Blowing Lights, and Nine-story Demon Tower. I believe everyone remembers the description of Ghost House and Jinbanshan vividly.

If I told you that Muye Zhang didn't invent this place, but it did exist, would you believe it?

Moreover, the legend about it has never stopped for thousands of years. ...

Laozi takes architecture as a metaphor and has nine terraces, which began with the theory of setting soil. It can be seen that there were nine terraces in the Spring and Autumn Period, but unfortunately the remains of nine terraces in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty have not been found so far.

In reality, the nine-story demon building is located in the No.1 Tomb of Hot Water and Blood Guard in Dulan, Qinghai Province, or more precisely, it is located in Hot Water Township, about 10 km southeast of Chahanwusu Town, dulan county, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province.

It is a Tuyuhun tomb in the early Tang Dynasty and the first Tuyuhun tomb discovered in China.

Now it is a national key cultural relics protection unit, and it is the most spectacular of the Tubo ancient tombs in Dulan, Qinghai.

1996, archaeologists in China discovered a large tomb group about 1000 years ago in the hot water town, about10 km southeast of Chahanwusu Town, dulan county, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province.

After excavation, archaeologists were pleasantly surprised to find that one of the tombs called "Wei Xue No.1 Tomb" was particularly spectacular.

At the same time, the archaeological team also heard many ancient legends about this ancient tomb circulated by local Tibetans. Locals call it a "high-rise building with monsters" and a "nine-story demon building".

Locals say that the ancient tomb was once a cave where demons hid. Later, King Gelsall led the heroes to fight the demons for many days, and finally drove them away.

Therefore, the locals call these ancient tombs "demon caves".

The cave is not empty, but there are countless treasures in it.

The strange thing happened shortly after the archaeologist started the project.

In the process of excavating the first and second floors of the ancient tomb, many strange things often happen during excavation, so everyone has to suspend the excavation work.

In the long run, the project stopped. The official announced that because the scale of the ancient tomb was too large and the ability to protect cultural relics was limited, archaeologists only dug two floors and never went deep into it, just like the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang.

However, only those who participated at that time knew what the truth was.

The excavation results of only the first and second layers are amazing.

Not only have a large number of ancient leather boots, ancient Tibetan wood chips, ancient Mongolian wooden slips, painted wood chips and gold ornaments, wooden dishes, wooden birds and animals, grains and silk been unearthed.

More than 700 animal remains such as horses, cows and sheep are buried.

Archaeologists found that in the corner of the first floor, there is an independent war dog burial pit with 87 horses on both sides. The animal skeleton is very complete and amazing.

In addition, there are five horse burial ditches and 13 annular yak burial pits.

The magic doesn't stop there.

On the second floor of the excavated nine-story demon tower, the tower-like structure has obviously appeared in the tomb.

Above it, about 1 m, a layer of cypress trees arranged neatly across the mound is used as a beam. Like Gai Lou today, this layout is half-day, and it covers nine floors.

These cypress trees are as high as 60 cm in diameter, and such wood will not grow in 200 years.

As we all know, in the whole Qinghai-Tibet region, cypress trees have no wood, so it is impossible to use local materials. Where do so many cypresses come from?

According to today's calculation, it should take 10,000 people more than one year to build such a large mausoleum in ancient times with low productivity, and its scale can be imagined.

When it comes to the grandeur of the mausoleum, we have to mention the world-famous Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang.

I don't know if you have the experience of sitting on the plane overlooking the Qin Mausoleum.

I once had a bird's eye view of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor with the staff of the China Institute of Archaeology.

You can clearly see a square cone, which is what Americans call the "loess pyramid."

Archaeologists told me that, in fact, Americans were wrong. The mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is not a three-story ladder-shaped bucket fence, but a China civil pyramid built on nine layers of rammed earth, which is bigger than pyramid of khufu.

Not only that, the underground palace of Qin Mausoleum is also an inverted pyramid of the same scale.

What is even more puzzling is that the nine-story rammed earth of the earth sealing platform seems to coincide with the theory of the nine-story demon tower, which is unique in the world.

Qin Shihuang built a 30-meter-high building in the underground palace, only for souls to go to the underground palace. As for the mystery of building a nine-story demon tower on the surface, it seems that archaeological discoveries should be preserved.

In the history of China, Nine is a metaphysical existence.

For example, "99 ratio 1" means that everything belongs to nature and also means unity.

9 and Qin Shihuang unified the six countries as an echo.

It also has a long-lasting meaning.

In the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, 9 represents the great achievements that Qin Shihuang will pass down from generation to generation.

Back to the ninth floor demon tower.

From the vein, it belongs to the first vein of Kunlun Mountain. Speaking of seeing Feng Shui and looking for Long Mai, Kunlun Mountain is a great place.

The three famous Long Mai galloping on the land of China are all in Kunlun.

The Qaidam Basin is backed by Long Mai.

The nine-story demon tower is at least 15600 years old.

Tuguhun people were originally a member of Xianbei nationality in Liaodong. In 329 AD, Tuguhun people migrated to Qinghai due to the war, and established their own kingdom here, with Dulan as its capital.

The nine-story demon tower faces south, with a height of 33 meters, a length of 55 meters from east to west and a width of 37 meters from north to south. The bottom is big and the top is small, which is similar to a trapezoid. From the front, it looks like "gold", so it is called "Oriental Pyramid".

The two mountains behind the tomb extend from the east and west respectively, like two dragons, while the tomb is like a pearl between the two mountains, forming the trend of "two dragons playing with pearls", with a large clearing in front.

Feng shui is excellent.

Need to add one thing. Once discovered, the nine-story demon tower caused a sensation in the global archaeological community and was named as one of the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China in 1996".

Among the unearthed cultural relics, there are not only the highest-grade silk products in the Tang Dynasty, but also 18 kinds of silk products made in Central Asia and West Asia.

Among them, a Polo script used by Persians is the only confirmed 8th century Persian script found in the world.

At the top of the tomb, that is, in the corner of the first floor, archaeologists found a tower made of rammed earth.

The side of the tower looks like a Persian with a high hat.

Is this the legendary mausoleum keeper?

This is the nine-story demon tower in reality. Whether it is mysterious or not, at least we know that it represents the wisdom of the Chinese nation, and we are deeply proud of it.