Taiwan continued to drought, the water level of Sun Moon Lake dropped by 13 meters, and the buildings and ruins that sank to the bottom of the water reappeared. Taiwan's "Lianhe Pao" reported that yesterday (23rd) another public found a tombstone at the bottom of the pond near the Date Shao Lighthouse, which was established for the 23rd year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, 178 years ago, and the discoverers were quite surprised.
The water level of Sun Moon Lake has dropped, and the stone monuments in the water have seen the light of day again (Image source: Taiwan media)
According to the report, the administrator of Facebook's "Sun Moon Lake First Class" fan page said in the live video that he drove a small boat near the Date Shao Lighthouse and accidentally found a tombstone on the shore, and he went ashore to check and found that the handwriting on the tombstone was clear, and the monument was erected in the "Midsummer of the 23rd Year of Daoguang" (1843), which has a history of 178 years.
The tombstone is called "Jin Pu", and is engraved with "Xianfei Yu Shushen Chen Ma Deng Shi", the inscription on the left side of the stele is relatively vague, and the 2 characters of "Filial Piety" can be faintly recognized, and the root of the tombstone should not be abandoned, but the Qing Dynasty tomb that was originally sunk into the bottom of the pond.
The handwriting on the stone tablets is still clear. (Image source: Taiwan media)
According to the report, according to the records, the term "Sun Moon Lake" was first seen in the first year of the Qing Dynasty (1821) in the first year of the Qing Dynasty (1821) In the first year of the Qing Dynasty (1821), Li Fan Tongzhi Deng Chuan'an wrote in the second part of the "Li Zhi Hui Tuo" "Li Zhi Hui Tuo" "Shui Sha Lian Ji Cheng": "... After passing through the Shuili Society, I saw the Pearl Mountain in the Sun Moon Lake; the Water Sand Lian of the Blue Deer Continent East Collection is this...".
"Lianhe Bao" said that Sun Moon Lake is a natural lake, the original area of 4.55 square kilometers, in 1934 to complete the first power station of Sun Moon Lake, the pool surface expanded to 7.73 square kilometers, then known as "Pearl Mountain" Laru Island area is also slightly reduced, originally located in the pond side of the settlement, residence and even cemetery, also sunk into the water.
Mr. Li, who found the tomb, said that the water level has receded to see the tombstone, and it is estimated that at least 10 meters above the water level can be floated out, which means that the tombstone has sunk at the bottom of the pool for many years, and now it can be seen again, still standing unshakable, feeling quite magical. Local people say the last time it surfaced could date back to a drought 30 to 40 years ago.
The Nantou County Cultural Bureau said that the tombstone has not been beaten or damaged, and whether there are still the bones of ancestors under the tombstone does not hinder the consideration of cultural resources, and if it has the value of cultural resources, it will set up a notice and demarcate the protected area.
It is worth mentioning that the drought in central Taiwan continues, the water level of Sun Moon Lake has bottomed out, showing a rare grassland scene, and many Taiwanese people have "treasured" at the edge of Sun Moon Lake and found many sunken objects at the bottom of the pool.
Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network" previously reported that some Taiwan netizens also found a stone stele suspected to be dating back to 275 years ago and during the Qianlong period on the edge of the sun and moon lake where the drought had bottomed out, and some people familiar with historiography said that this may be left by the first batch of Han People who went to Taiwan to reclaim the land.
After the picture was sent, netizens left messages saying, "I didn't expect that there are so many 'treasures' under the Sun Moon Lake", and some netizens left a message, "If it is really a monument during the Qianlong period, there is another proof that Taiwan is a part of China."
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The bottom of the Sun Moon Lake is suspected to be a tombstone during the Qianlong period! Taiwan experts: Or the first Han Chinese who came to Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty
The drought is severe, and Taiwan's well-known scenic spot Sun Moon Lake was transformed into "Sun Moon Beach" earlier, setting off a wave of "punch card" fever. In addition to various scenes of "cracked land", "potholes" and "garbage full of land", on the 18th, some people found a tombstone suspected of the Qing Dynasty here, exclaiming "digging up the treasure". Some experts on the island speculate that the ancestors on the tombstones may have been the first Han Chinese who came to Taiwan to reclaim during the Qing Dynasty.
Comprehensive Taiwan media reports show that the drought in Taiwan continues to deteriorate, and water use in the central and southern regions is particularly tight. Previously, from the monitoring footage taken by the police, it can be found that a large area of the riverbed has been exposed, and there is only mud and sand in some places, and there is no water flow.
Sun Moon Lake, a well-known attraction in Taiwan, also has a bottoming out.
On April 17, some netizens posted on social media, revealing that someone told him that when he went to Sun Moon Lake to play, he found a 275-year-old "monument".
Judging from the pictures released by it, the ancestral hall name of this monument is "Yongtun" (Guangxi Province), the left side is engraved with "Yang Man Sun Lishi", in the middle is "Cai Gong Zhen Tianpai Jiacheng", "Jiacheng" is the cemetery, canonically out of the "Xijing Miscellaneous Records", and the text on the right is indicated as "Qianlong Bingyin Nianxiu", that is, Qianlong 11 years (1746), 275 years ago.
The tombstone is placed here alone due to the fracture, without connecting the cemetery.
In this regard, Huang Jinsheng, a local historian and president of the Sun Moon Lake Land Justice Society, analyzed that the ancestors on the tombstones may be the first batch of Han People who came to Taiwan to reclaim during the Qing Dynasty, and the reclamation time is estimated to be in the Yongzheng period, because the descendants of the local Huang surname in Sun Moon Lake account for the majority, and the current information does not have the historical data of the Cai family, so it is difficult to verify the origin of the tombstone.
Taiwan folklore expert Liao Dayi believes that the word "repair" represents that the tombstone has been repaired, and the material and engraving method of the stele are all in the modern style of the Republic of China, but the old inscription method is continued, so it should be repaired in the modern era of the Republic of China, not the "historical site" as netizens say, so it is likely to be washed here by floods or mudslides.
<h4>(Original title: The water level of Sun Moon Lake dropped by about 13 meters, and netizens on the island found a tombstone during the Daoguang years).</h4>
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