Speaking of the Garden of Eden, people always think that it is still a beautiful myth and legend, and because it is said in the Bible, that is the God of the Western people, and it has nothing to do with my Chinese civilization, this is a relatively autistic thought, you know, molecular genetics This science proves that human beings have a unique origin, is the ancestor, so what is impossible? Let's look at the biblical description of the Garden of Eden:
2:8 "Jehovah God set up a garden in Eden in the East, and placed the man he had created there.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
2:9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the earth, pleasing to the eye, and the fruit on them was good for food. In the garden there is the tree of life and the tree of good and evil.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 A river flowed out of Eden, nourishing the garden, and from there it divided into four lanes.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
2:11 The first word was called Bisson, which surrounded the whole land of Hafela. There's gold there,
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
2:12 And the gold of that land is good. There are pearls and red onyx again.
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
2:13 The second river is called Ji xun, which surrounds the whole earth of Gushi.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
2:14 The third river, called the West End, flows to the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates River.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
2:15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden and made him repair and guard."
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. （创世记2：8---15)
This is the main content recorded in the Bible, as well as the description of the location,
Genesis 2:8 Jehovah God set up a garden in Eden in the East and placed the people he had created.
Genesis 3:23 Then the LORD God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to cultivate the soil from which he came from.
Genesis 3:24 So he was cast out. And on the east side of the Garden of Eden, he set up a cherubim and a flaming sword on all sides, to guard the path of the tree of life.
Genesis 4:16 So Cain left the face of the Lord and went to dwell in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Judging from the results of the previous research, although there are Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the two river basins, there are two other rivers missing, and these two rivers are estimated to be named after the Bible, which can be excluded from the West Asia region. According to the description of the location, it should be somewhere in the east. The Garden of Eden is a garden on the edge of Eden, so where does Eden in the East refer to? According to the word understanding, "Eden" also refers to the "kingdom of heaven", throughout the ages, all civilizations as long as it is said to be the kingdom of heaven, then there must be mountains, ancient human cognition of geography is not what our current settled society can imagine, migration and flow is more frequent than now. In the east of the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, where the Jewish ghetto is concentrated, the mountains or mountains that can leave indelible memories for mankind are most likely the Pamir Plateau, which is difficult to overcome.
"Pamir" means "roof of the world" in Tajik, and the plateau is 4,000 to 7,700 meters above sea level and has many peaks. The plateau is the knot of two huge mountain belts on Earth (the Alps-Himalayan Belt and the Pamir-Chukchi Belt), and is also the meeting place of the main mountain ranges in the southern and central parts of the Asian continent, including the Himalayas, the Karakoram Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains, the Tianshan Mountains, and the Hindu Kush Mountains.
The highest peak of the Pamir Plateau is Chogory Peak, located at the junction of China and Pakistan, at an altitude of 8611 meters, making it the second highest peak in the world.
Therefore, the "Eden" in the Bible refers to the probability of what was called "Green Ridge" in ancient China.
According to the research of Western scholars, by extrapolating the inheritance relationship of characters in the Old Testament of the Bible, it is concluded that God created man 5,000-6,000 years ago. So what was the climate on Earth 5,000-6,000 years ago? According to archaeologists' studies of earth sediments and changes in snow lines in mountain ranges, the earth was at its warmest during this time period, and the average temperature was 2 degrees higher than it is now. That is to say, the Yellow River Basin has reached a subtropical climate, just like the yangtze River Basin today.
According to the study of ancient climatology, is it possible that the Tarim Basin in the tarim basin on the eastern side of the Pamir Plateau was probably a large lake in ancient times? It is very possible! You should know that the easternmost part of the Tarim Basin, Lop Nur also dried up in the 70s, and it used to be a big lake, so let's take a look at the map.
In ancient times, this lake was very large, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and the area may be close to the Black Sea. Because it is a basin, the cold air of Siberia cannot come in, the winter is not too cold, and the wind and waves are calm all year round. The latitude and the Yellow River Basin are at the same latitude, and it can be said that the temperature is the same as that of the current Sichuan Basin. There are fish and various water birds in the lake, the lake is full of trees, towering trees can be seen everywhere, and at the high altitude is a large grassland, with cattle and sheep. You can graze your cattle and fish and hunt as well as cultivate, paradise on earth!
In fact, the Garden of Eden does have four rivers, because the Bible says that there are rivers (i.e., the Tarim River in Xinjiang) flowing out of Eden (the Pamir Plateau, known as the "Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains" on the top of the earth) to nourish the garden (i.e., the Garden of Eden, the ancient Khotanese of Xinjiang), and from there there is divided into four ways: the first is called Bisun (which is modeled after the "discolored water river" in paradise), which surrounds the whole land of Haphra. There was gold there, and the gold of the land was good; there were pearls and red onyx. The second river, called Jixun (it is modeled after the "unscented milk river" in Paradise), is designed to surround the whole of Gushi. The third river, called Hitchhiki (modeled after the "strong wine river" in Paradise, flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Burla River (it is modeled after the "pure honey river" in Paradise).
According to the conclusions of archaeological research, there is an ancient river on the southern side of the Taklamakan Desert, which is connected to the river and the top Tarim River, which is the river that surrounds the whole territory of Taklamakan! Hafria is Taklamakan. It is divided into several different tributaries, which are from south to north and run through exactly the same as the Bible depicts, as for gold, red onyx, pearls and the like.
Are there any folk traces? Everyone should know that all myths and legends are actually folk songs at the beginning, and the more they are passed on, the more gods become myths, and the myths themselves have primitive counterparts.
A passage in the People's Daily: It is said that the Uyghurs call the Euphrates poplar "Tokla", and add "Makán" at the end, and there is a saying that the "Taklamakan" desert is the hometown of euphrates poplar. In his view, this is not far-fetched. And "Hotan" is called "Khotan" in ancient Chinese literature
By the above, Eden is the Pamir Plateau, and the probability that the Garden of Eden is near Hotan is very high. We have reason to believe that a large part of the story of the Old Testament of the Bible takes place in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang in China!