The whole palace is simple and heavy, with a dark red tone, golden tiles, carved railings and painted buildings, exquisitely carved corridors and windows, flying towers, and verandahs shaped like belts, connecting all buildings and gathering together in the wide square in front of the main hall.
There are two other waterfalls hanging on the stone walls on both sides, falling directly into the deep canyon. The agitated mist floats around the building, refracting the sunlight in front of the building, reflecting the seven-color rainbow light, just like the heavenly palace in Taoist water and land paintings. The jade palace ripples with a blur of precious light.
Under the illumination of the golden tiles on the roof of the palace, the light looks even more dazzling and charming, making people feel as if they have arrived in the realm of the Nine Heavens!
Sun Daqiao looked at the palace that was like a fairyland and said: "The Beifu Tomb was built on such a high mountain. It really seems to be suspended in the sky. It fits Liu Yu's purpose. Maybe they can really lead the souls of the dead to heaven. But, why is it such a practice? It’s not like there is no flat ground on this main peak.”
After they walked up the mountain road to the main peak, the place they came up was a slope similar to an alpine meadow. It could be flattened and a tomb built here. Now, the Beifu soldiers insisted on hanging on the cliff, which made people curious.
This is already the top of the mountain. Building a tomb here is already in line with Liu Yu's expectations. It also has to be hung on the mountain wall, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of construction.
Song Siyuan picked up the telescope, observed the tomb on the cantilever, and explained to everyone: "You still remember the Hanging Temple I mentioned. I feel that both the cantilevered temple and the tomb in front of me use stone materials on the mountain for the sake of strength. Build buildings on the walls.”
"We have also seen the decay of those villages in the Cantilever Hall Basin. If these buildings were built on flat land, the erosion of the wind and soil alone would destroy the buildings."
Speaking of this, her tone became serious: "Especially for giant buildings like this, the buildings are too tall, and ordinary loose soil cannot support them at all. These soils are close to waterfalls, and the water content is estimated to be very high, even if they are compacted The foundation, in a time span of nearly two thousand years, is destined to settle. Once settlement occurs, the foundation of the entire palace will change due to the load-bearing capacity and will not be able to play a supporting role. It is feared that it will directly collapse or even fall down. Deep in the mountains, shattered into pieces.”
"How could the craftsmen at that time choose to build a palace on a gentle slope even if they knew what the outcome would be? This is a major event related to the Yin Army's Northern Expedition, and no one dares to neglect it easily."
"If it is built on a cliff, is it safe? It will still have to withstand soil erosion and changes in load-bearing capacity."
Song Siyuan explained: "Of course, but they can use construction technology and mechanical principles to transform the environment and minimize the impact of natural factors and gravity factors on the building."
"for example?"
Yue Guanchao chewed the flower seeds.
Seeing the look in the vulgar martial artist's eyes, Song Siyuan became more serious and continued to explain: "I guess that the Beifu Yiguan Tomb and the Xuankong Temple have the same mechanical structure of half-inserted beams..."
The "L"-shaped gap halfway up the main peak is a specially created rock formation plane. Stone troughs are then built on the slightly inclined plane and run through thick wooden beams to form a solid foundation to support the main hall. The concave mountains on both sides of the plane The same mechanical structure can also be used to build pagodas.
In this way, most of the building's gravity stops backwards, forming a backward pitching force. The huge mountain bears most of the building's gravity, making the building less dependent on the rock plane, and of course avoiding foundation settlement.
At the same time, because this building is built in a gap in the mountain wall, it can be prevented from being directly eroded by most of the wind and soil by the mountains on three sides, making it difficult for the wind and soil to harm the building. The waterfalls on both sides also serve to divert water. Even Water erosion also turns into waterfalls and becomes part of the landscape.
What’s even more amazing is the way the mountains embrace each other!
Tiantong Peak has an extremely solid texture that completely confines most of the frame of the building. When the mountain cannot shake, it is difficult for water and soil erosion to occur. This means that the frame of the building will never shake due to water and soil erosion. Such a "concave" The "shaped structure also creates a wind-shielding bay. No matter how strong the wind is from outside, it cannot blow onto the building.
If these factors such as wind and sand erosion, soil erosion, running water erosion, and changes in gravity cannot affect the building, there is no problem that the Beifu Tomb can be preserved for four to five thousand years!
Speaking of this, Song Siyuan said with emotion: "Just like the Hanging Temples we have seen, they can be preserved for such a long time because they avoid the erosion of the buildings by natural factors, so that they can extend the life of the buildings as much as possible. It is enough to see the architecture of the craftsmen of the Southern and Northern Dynasties." The wisdom is far beyond that of modern people."
After that, she motioned for everyone to turn around and look into the distance. They were at the highest peak of the Guifang Basin. With the unobstructed view of the gentle slope, their field of vision was extremely wide and they could easily see the three surrounding areas. large and small basins.
In addition to the basin where the Cantilever Hall is located, the other two basins also have a panoramic view.
These two basins are the Guifang Ancient Country described by Mrs. Wei!
At this moment, the cities in the two basins looked like coals burning into ashes. They were all black and large fragments. Each fragment was a courtyard or a palace. After thousands of years of weathering, most of them did not even have ruined walls. , only by relying on the dense and dense foundation can we judge that the mounds of earth and stones above were once the residence of a certain ghost.
The entire basin looked gray, full of black marks, and even no weeds, which undoubtedly made people curious.
"Look at the Guifang people's buildings. They have been weathered for thousands of years, but the hanging tombs we see are still so strong. You should understand this better."
"only!"
Song Siyuan changed the topic: "Even if it was burned by fire, after thousands of years, vegetation should have appeared. How could it still be like this?"
I am afraid that only Old Mrs. Wei knows this question. Everyone looked at this old lady.
Mrs. Wei continued to explain: "These towns were burned by divine fire."
"Sacred fire?"
Everyone motioned for them to continue talking so as not to leave any details behind.
Mrs. Wei was obviously a little scared when she mentioned this: "The sacred fire is an eternal fire. It is said that it can not only burn the human body, but also the human soul. Once it is contaminated on the body, even water cannot extinguish it. I I heard the elders mentioned that when the Tianpu God was angry, the river in the basin suddenly ignited the divine fire, burning all the ghosts who did not escape until not even ashes were left."
"What does the divine fire look like?" Yue Guanchao became curious.
"It is a viscous liquid similar to ink. If it is contaminated with open flames, even if it is just a spark, it can burn someone to death in an instant."
