In the Min River in Dujiangyan City, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, many stone statues of Zhenshui have been buried, and in recent years, a mysterious stone statue has actually emerged from the water. What exactly does this stone statue look like? What secrets are hidden behind it? If you want to know, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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In Chengdu, Sichuan Province, there is a world-famous building, which is Dujiangyan. Dujiangyan was founded in the last year of King Qin Zhao (256 BC to 251 BC), its main builder was Shu County Taishou Li Bing father and son, Dujiangyan is a large-scale water conservancy project organized and built on the basis of the predecessor Turtle Spirit.
Dujiangyan is mainly composed of three parts, namely the watershed fish mouth, the flying sand weir, and the mouth of the treasure bottle. From the Qin Dynasty to the present, Dujiangyan has a history of more than 2,000 years, and its main role includes both flood control and irrigation, making the Chengdu Plain a country of heavenly capital with "water and drought from people and fertile fields". At the same time, Dujiangyan has also set a world record, that is, the world's oldest, only surviving, damless water diversion project, and still in use.
According to legend, when Li Bing's father and son built Dujiangyan, the local people cheered and came to help build the embankment. At the same time, the people also spontaneously erected the "Three Gods Stone Statue" in the water and sank into five "Zhenshui Rhinoceros", the purpose of which was to commemorate the merits of Li Bing's father and son, and also wanted to yongzhen the river water and pray that the land of Bashu would never be disturbed by floods. In 1974, during the construction of the Dujiangyan Outer River Sluice, the construction workers stumbled upon two stone statues. The two stone statues are one large and one small, the large stone statue is 2.9 meters high and weighs about 4 tons, and the stone statue is engraved with "Li FuJun Bing of the Former Shu County" at the placket of the chest of the stone statue, which means "the late Shudi County Shou Li Bing", from which it can be determined that the stone statue is the figure statue of Li Bing.
The small stone statue is 1.85 meters high, weighs about 2 tons, and its head and shoulders are extensively damaged, and there is no inscription on the whole body. The stone statue wears a robe and moves strangely, and holds a tool called "shovel" in its hand, which is obviously dressed as a laborer. However, due to insufficient evidence, archaeologists are still difficult to determine his identity, so they can only temporarily call him a "stone holder", and display it and Li Bing's stone statue in the front hall of FulongGuan in Guanxian Lidui Park. In the blink of an eye, in 2014, the Dujiangyan Administration Bureau of Sichuan Province came with heavy news, and the Feishayan Department of Dujiangyan dug up a special stone statue. At that time, Dujiangyan was undergoing the repair of water conservancy projects, a driver who controlled the excavator suddenly felt that there was a hard object under the shovel when digging, after several attempts, he relied on his driving experience, and the small heart "dug" out the obstacle weighing about 2 tons, which found that the hard object under the water turned out to be a stone statue.
After careful inspection by archaeologists, it was found that the stone statue is 2.2 meters high, carved from yellow sand stone, and its body is carved with two layers of clothing, the inner layer of clothing is a round neck, and the outer layer is a wide coat with wide sleeves and a crossed collar, although it is impossible to distinguish between men and women, but its identity is definitely not low. The emergence of the third stone statue made archaeologists suddenly think of a widely circulated legend: when the people of Shuzhong commemorated Li Bing's exploits, they not only carved the appearance of li bing with stone, but also erected two statues of virgin boys and girls behind him, and the three stone statues were collectively called "three gods stone statues" to express their worship and admiration for Li Bing. In addition to the statue of Li Bing, the second headless statue is obviously a male, most likely a legendary virgin, but for the third stone statue, because it is not known whether its gender is male or female, it is impossible to conclude that it is the so-called virgin.
However, a problem arose, Li Bing built Dujiangyan, the merit is huge, and it is right to be canonized and worshiped, but the virgin boy and virgin behind him, according to the reason, should not be called a god, right? Therefore, many experts say that the above legend of the "Three Gods Stone Statue" should be a false proposition. I have to say that the legend of the "Three Gods Stone Statue" in Dujiangyan is still a mystery that has not been solved, but Xiaobian believes that with the deepening of archaeological excavations, more cultural relics will be unearthed one after another, and the final secret of the "Three Gods Stone Statue" will be solved at that time.
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, written by: Special history writer: Changshan Zhao Zi worm