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Explore the natural mysteries of the Luya Rainforest
On the exploration and examination of the theory that the Great Wall of Northern Qi was built on the Malun Grassland
Text/Liu Lansheng
In the lush rainforest of thousands of mountains and valleys, there are countless mysteries of nature waiting to be explored and deciphered. The idea that the Great Wall of Northern Qi was built on the Malun Steppe is a controversial topic. From the vast northwestern part of the Malenya Alpine Meadow at an altitude of more than 2,700 meters, a stone row composed of rock blocks of different sizes stretches to the south, passing through The Village of Malun and the Village of Malun to the vicinity of the Village of Birch Grove, with a grand scale and a length of about 10 kilometers. Some experts believe that this is a section of the Great Wall of Northern Qi, and whether this statement is true or not needs to be discussed and explored.
The rock quality of this row of stones does not come from the hemp-shaped granite of the Luya Mountain itself, but is similar to the purple sandstone (commonly known as violet rock) in the area of Ninghua and Bamen village, which is about twenty kilometers east of Luya and is rich in stone processing. For many years, although it has been scorched by the scorching sun, the cold of the harsh winter, and the erosion of wind and rain, there is no sign of weathering and decay. This kind of stone is the best stone for local people to make mills, stone mills, tombs and other civilian use.
These stones on the stone row are all rubble, varying in size, and the larger ones are thousands or thousands of pounds. It is not known who, when, for what purpose, and with what tools they were carried to the Marlen steppe, near the top of the reed buds. But to say that the Northern Qi regime built the Great Wall here is indeed not convincing. Because the Northern Qi regime built such a great wall without the following conditions and elements:
First, there is no reason to build the Great Wall. The Luya MountainOus Area, where this stone row is located, the highest poster is 2736 meters, the cliffs are lined up, the cliffs are high and the valleys are deep, and it is the most natural barrier against enemies, and the function of the Great Wall is equal to zero compared with these natural barriers. When the Japanese invaded China, they did not dare to cross the thunder pond in the hinterland of Luya for half a step.
Second, there is no environment for building the Great Wall. During the Northern Dynasty, it began with the Eastern Wei and Western Wei dynasties, and was later replaced by Northern Zhou and Northern Qi. In other words, Northern Qi is not even a dynasty, it and the Southern Dynasty of song, Qi, Liang, Chen more than a dozen regimes of varying sizes are collectively called the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when the Northern Qi regime existed, there were still many regimes of different sizes in the North and the South, dividing each other, constantly fighting, rarely interrupted wars, and it was unimaginable to build the Great Wall.
Third, there is no time to carry this stone. The Northern Qi regime began in 550 AD and ended in 577, a total of 28 years. The harsh winter in the Luya Mountains is long, at least six months a year, the ice and snow generally can only be separated in early June, and in October, it ushers in the freezing, and the limited time to carry the stone is the rainy season of the Luya Rainforest, and the roads are slippery.
Fourth, it does not have the national strength to build the Great Wall. In the trumpet, Northern Qi has experienced six emperors in just 28 years. The war was expendable and the treasury was empty. The royal family was promiscuous, killing each other, attrition, and lacking the cost of building the Great Wall.
Fifth, there is no evidence of the Great Wall of Northern Qi. There is no historical record, there is no physical evidence, if it is really the Great Wall, why should it be determined that it is the Great Wall of Northern Qi. And this stone row has no traces of artificial repair.
In addition to what experts call the Great Wall of Northern Qi, people have several speculations:
First, historically, there may be different ethnic groups, villages, or counties that have been explicitly based on borders or border walls for grazing or other purposes, but the borders or border walls do not need to be so large.
The second is the stone prepared by the ancestors for the construction of temples or Tallinns, but in theory, it is not necessary to be so much, nor does it need to be so long.
After more than half a year, the examination of five townships and sixty villages, including Zhuoshan Township, Dongzhai Township, Ninghua Township, Ximafang Township and Shijiazhuang Town, and a large number of data verification, those stones should be moraines left over from crustal changes and glacial movements.
In the narrow sense of the Luya Mountains, excluding the surrounding mountain system, that is, the mountain system with hemp flake granite, within an area of about 500 square kilometers, there are two kinds of stones in the Malun, Heyepingya alpine meadows and surrounding woodlands. One is the same rock quality as the Luya Mountain itself, they are mainly distributed in the mountain ravines and river valleys, the scope is Malun Ditch, Gaoqiaowa Ditch, Damiao Ditch, south of Dongzhai, Ninghua, Ximafang, Shijiazhuang four townships of the ravine deep valley, and part of Wuzhai County, the stone is mainly round, no diamond horn, small hundreds or thousands of pounds, large tens of tons of huge. The second is a different violet rock from the Luya Mountain, which is bounded by the Fenhe River Valley, west to the so-called Great Wall of Northern Qi and the extension to the south, and there is a layer of angular and angular gravel on the surface and in the lower part of the soil layer, generally hundreds of pounds to thousands of pounds or even heavier. From the subalpine meadow mule horseshoe planed off the exposed places by the rain, the tourist roads leading to the attractions, the fire passages of the nature reserves and the cross-sections of the farmland are clearly visible, about one to five meters thick. What is the force that grinds the hard granite into a ball shape, and attaches the purple sandstone that the Luya Mountain itself does not have to the Luya Mountain, it can only be nature.
In the long geological age, the earth has experienced more than ten large ice periods, from the first Himalayan orogeny 50 million years ago to the present, Eurasia has experienced five large-scale orogeny. It can be seen from the folds, fault structures and the direction, shape and distribution of these stones that can be seen everywhere on the surface of the Luya Mountains that the Luya Mountains have undergone at least three strong geological changes and glacial movements.
About 50 million years ago, as the Indian Ocean Plate moved north and collided with the Eurasian Plate, deep into the bottom of the Eurasian Plate, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the Eurasian continent rose rapidly, and the first Himalayan orogeny began, and the Luya Mountains also rose high in the eastern Eurasian continent. At that time, the mountains in the Luya Mountains should have been much taller and more majestic than the current mountains, and later experienced a considerable long period of freezing. Because if the mountain is not tall enough, the ice sealing period is not long enough, then those flaky granites from the Luya mountain itself that cover the ravines of the Luya mountains have no possibility and conditions for forming a round ball, only on the tall mountains, the mountains retain water vapor, and constantly form solid ice, and those boulders are mixed with the ice bodies of the iceberg movement, forming moraines, moraines and basal moraines, under the action of gravity, with the movement of the glacier to the lower places, colliding with each other, polishing and corrosion of the ice body, gradually becoming the current shape. When the glaciers melt, these moraines are left behind or rolled down in river valleys and low-lying areas, completing the first geomorphological changes and glacial activity. Traces of this event can be seen everywhere. For example, Luya Mountain is a typical horn peak, Ice Mouth Depression, Dawa, Gaoqiaowa and other places are the exit of the downward movement of glaciers, Malun Ditch and Mantou Mountain Gully are the side moraines of moraines, and the location of Dawa Village is a typical ice bucket. Many V-shaped ravines and stone walls on both sides of the river valley have been polished into arcs and planes, and these ruins have maintained their original appearance to this day.
In the subsequent changes in the earth's crust, the Luya Mountains underwent a process of subsidence, and as the entire Luya Mountains subsided, the terrain outside the mountainous areas was raised, and the mountains of the Fenhe River Valley or the more distant violet mountains were in a higher position, forming a high terrain in the east and low in the west. When another glacial movement began, the glacier slid from east to west, and the ice body was mixed with a large amount of violet, and the surface moraine, middle moraine, and base moraine were formed to move to the Luya Mountains. When it reached what is now known as the Great Wall of Northern Qi, the supply and melting of glaciers were in a relatively balanced state, and the ice tongue formed in this area was accumulated above the ice tongue and the snow line below. The stones that reach here no longer go forward and gradually accumulate, and violets of this shape are rarely seen west of the ice tongue. Because these stones are angular and the rocks are tough, they form a typical horn moraine. As the earth warms and the glaciers gradually melt, the stones are deposited in situ, mixed with the round hemp granite of the last glacier movement.
After the Yanshan orogeny began, a large-scale crustal change was carried out in the vast area of northern China, and after the movement, the infrastructure of China's geological landform was formed. In this movement, the Luya Mountains were once again uplifted, and these ice stains were also uplifted, and the stones of this ice tongue also crossed the western part of the Luya Mountains, forming the appearance of the so-called Great Wall of Northern Qi.
The Great Wall is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, and a wise nation will never build the Great Wall to a subalpine area with deep mountains, an altitude of more than 2,700 meters, and sufficient natural risks. Coincidentally, nature is also a wise man, and the changes in geological landforms and the trajectory of glacier movement are accurately carved in the Luya Mountains, leaving a thick and exquisite stroke for this rainforest area known as the "National Forest Reserve" and "National Geopark".
We can proudly say that this is a living specimen of prehistoric geological evolution and glacial movement, an original reproduction of the trajectory of the earth's crustal movement, and a living textbook for the trajectory of the earth's glacier movement. After the recent Cenozoic fourth season glacier movement 2 million years ago, the appearance of the Luya rainforest was finalized. But the evolution of nature is still ongoing, and when it will change its appearance again, we do not know, only continental drift will tell the future. But there is a future and a future, until the death of the universe.
Rest assured, this is a masterpiece of nature, and the Northern Qi people certainly can't do it!
Lu Nha Shan Tourism Development Liability Co., Ltd
Marketing Planning Center
August 2021
About the Author
Liu Lansheng, born in 1962, graduated from the Han Junior College of the Chinese Department of Shanxi University, and works in the trade union of Ningwu Coal Industry Group. He has loved literature all his life, does not seek to be heard, and focuses on pleasure. Poetry, essays, novels, essays, etc. are all covered.
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