"Is it really possible that this kind of mountain is naturally formed?"
Xu Xiake looked at the map and was full of doubts about the shape of the mountains.
Song Siyuan looked at the topography of the Inverted Peak and her tone returned to seriousness: "Foreign geographical magazines have done research and found that Hunan, Qian and Guizhou provinces belong to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. About 200 million years ago, this place was the seabed, and there was a lot of sediment deposited in the sea. There is less limestone, and when the crust in the southwest begins to move, it will lift the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, causing the seabed to emerge from the water, forming mountains, forests and land."
"As a result, the limestone on the seabed is forced to rise out of the sea. Limestone is a rock formation that can be dissolved and is extremely intolerant to water erosion. When exposed to hot and rainy weather, it is washed away over many years and is eroded away by water flow. Therefore, hundreds of millions of years of water erosion have formed many stone forests, caves, underground rivers, peak forests and sinkholes here, and it is also a typical karst landform zone."
"I guess."
Song Siyuan turned around: "This Qianyan Mountain probably did not have peaks before. The interior of the mountain cavity was continuously squeezed out of the ground during plate movements, forming a turtle shell-like raised mountain range. Under the mountain range, the rock layers fractured and collapsed. , there are also caves all over the mountains."
"During tens of millions of years of crustal movement, underground rivers have appeared in the rock formations. The rising groundwater has invaded the gaps in each cave. Under the erosion of the water flow, countless caves have been washed and connected with each other. When the limestone between the caves crosses After less and less time, the state of this inverted peak forest has been formed."
"After that, the sedimentary rock layers began to cover the vegetation, forming the inverted peaks seen inside. To be precise, these peaks and ridges drilled out of the underground river were not inserted upside down into the water, but the water flow washed away the mountain, forming the peaks above the water surface. There are countless peaks and forests, and the real top of the mountain is always the raised turtle shell on the top of the cave.”
"If the groundwater continues to grow to the top, sooner or later it will erode the top of the mountain. In this way, even if countless disconnected peaks are formed, it is likely that the sudden drop in groundwater interrupts this process and forms The state of the peak forest covered with tortoise shells.”
"I explain it this way, do you understand?"
Yue Guanchao nodded: "This explanation is reasonable, but why are there wild geese living here? Isn't it strange?"
Song Siyuan shook her head and seemed not to understand very well: "I don't particularly understand this issue. Wild geese have the habit of migration. In winter and autumn, they will fly from the north to the south to spend the winter, and then fly back after spring. Among them, is not It knows how to build a nest. After all, even if it stays, it is just looking for food temporarily, so how can it build a nest?"
She paused and continued to ask Mrs. Hu: "Old Mrs. Hu, are these wild geese here all year round?"
Mrs. Hu considered it and said, "The wild geese here don't seem to migrate. They can be seen all year round."
"you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure." Mrs. Hu glanced at them: "There is a custom of betrothal geese when getting married in Huxiang. I think the young people here can catch wild geese every year, whether in winter, spring or summer and autumn. If The wild geese here will migrate, so there must be no wild geese here in winter.”
Her eyes became mysterious: "This mountain is called Qianyan Mountain because there are thousands of wild geese living in the caves. Even in ancient times, it had such a name. I looked at the mountain marked on the map and called it Yan. Mountain, it can be seen that at least since the Song Dynasty, the geese here have not migrated."
Mrs. Hu paused and continued: "According to the old people around, the geese in Qianyan Mountain seem to be psychic and have been gathering in this place for thousands of years. Even some geese that migrated south flew by here. You will be attracted and become one of the millions of wild geese.”
"It is also because of this that even though the number of wild geese in Qianyan Mountain has been captured, there has never been a decrease. It seems that there will never be enough to catch."
"An old man said~" Mrs. Hu lowered her voice when mentioning this point: "This Qianyan Mountain is actually the courtyard of the mountain god. The wild geese were captured by the mountain god and made servants. Some people also say that this huge raised mountain is actually the courtyard of the mountain god. It is the tortoise shell of the ancient basalt god. The geese can feel the aura of the turtle's sleeping place, so they are attracted to it and are unwilling to leave. They even build nests and breed on hundreds of inverted peaks just to borrow the aura for practice."
"You also know that the villagers like to use strange powers to explain things when they encounter them. The villagers spread the news more and more, and they really regard Qianyan Mountain as a sacred mountain, because the wild geese are monogamous and live together. Whenever there is a happy event, the villagers go to Qianyan Mountain to worship the Yan Temple, so that they can get married and grow old together."
Hearing this, everyone became curious about the wild geese in Qianyan Mountain. Yue Guanchao asked: "Then, was it also for this reason that the imperial concubine's mausoleum was built here?"
Mrs. Hu nodded to them and said in acquiescence: "Yes, Confucius Chao Feng said that Qianyan Mountain can attract the geese migrating south to live and multiply, which means that the earth's energy is very abundant. The huge dome is also a basalt shell, which is regarded as a treasured place for turtles to sleep. Here It is most suitable to build a tomb. In order to prevent someone from stealing the tomb, the inverted terrain of Qianfeng provides cover. Let alone carrying tomb robbing equipment, it is inconvenient for people to walk. It is very difficult to rob the tomb. "
"When Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty returned to the country, because Emperor Gaozong's mother Wei Guifei had not yet been welcomed back from the Kingdom of Jin, the martyred Empress Zhu and Princess Hu were not only Gaozong's elders but also loyal female relatives of the Song Dynasty. Out of filial piety and dignity, Emperor Gaozong invited capable Strange people built a tomb city outside the tomb to store the burial objects."
"This imperial concubine's mausoleum has been built twice and is already very majestic. Although it cannot be compared with the emperor's mausoleum, it can still be compared with the general empress' mausoleum."
Listening to Mrs. Hu's words, Song Siyuan felt in her heart that the gathering of wild geese was definitely an unusual place.
When winter comes, Yan flies south.
Here, swallow refers not only to swallows and geese, but to all birds that need to migrate in autumn and winter. The ancients understood birds that fly south to mean that they cannot spend the winter in the north. In fact, the factor that really affects the geese's flight south is winter food.
The closer you get to the north, the more distinct winter and spring are. In summer and autumn, the vegetation is luxuriant and there are many insects. Birds will not worry about food. When autumn and winter come, the leaves will fall and all the insects will disappear, except for tits and ptarmigans that eat grains. , other insect-eating birds are facing the problem of food shortage. If they want to survive the severe cold in winter, they can only migrate to warmer places, so that they can survive the winter safely.
The south here mostly refers to the area south of the equator, including Yunnan and the Southeast Peninsula. If geese want to migrate to the southeastern outer islands, they must pass through the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which means they must also pass through Qianyan Mountain.
There must be some reason why the geese and other birds fly to the mountains and never want to leave.
She thought that in addition to the points mentioned by Chao Fengtianguan, there were probably other hidden factors that had not been revealed in choosing Qianyan Mountain for the imperial concubine's mausoleum.
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